Coinbase unveiled a new product offering pre-IPO perpetual futures contracts, allowing traders to speculate on private companies before they go public. The first offering is tied to SpaceX and is available to non-U.S. traders, aiming to provide trading opportunities even in down crypto markets.
Coinbase has launched pre-IPO markets, starting with SpaceX, offering perpetual futures contracts tied to private companies' estimated pre-listing prices to users outside the US. This move intensifies competition among crypto exchanges in tokenizing real-world assets.
A study by Beyond Plastics tracked 53 Starbucks plastic cups labeled as 'widely recyclable' and found none reached a recycling facility, instead ending up in landfills, incinerators, or transfer stations.
Polymarket is launching prediction markets for private companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, allowing traders to bet on milestones such as IPO timing and valuations. Nasdaq Private Market will provide resolution data.
Polymarket has launched new prediction markets for private companies, partnering with Nasdaq Private Market to allow trading on pre-IPO company events like fundraising and valuation changes. This move aims to increase price discovery in opaque private markets and broaden Polymarket's appeal to financially oriented users.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket's upper stage, drifting since January 2021, is set to impact the Moon's Einstein crater on August 5, posing no immediate danger but underscoring the need for lunar debris management regulations as space activity increases.
Live facial recognition technology is being used to fight crime, but raises concerns about surveillance and accuracy.
The invisible force behind all of this is no mystery to anyone paying attention to the city's tech economy. San Francisco is home to some of the most valuable private companies in the world, and their employees have been quietly accumulating — and, increasingly, cashing out — fortunes.
Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Janice Tse Siu-wa has emerged as the biggest landlord among Hong Kong ministers after declaring that she has 25 properties in her name in the city, mainland China and the UK. The 61-year-old constitutional affairs chief also revealed that she or her family held shareholdings of more than 1 per cent in eight private companies, including two food-ingredient firms, more than any other principal official has declared. Tse’s portfolio comprises 23...
Research reveals private firms providing services to the NHS have made £1.6bn in profits over the last two years from contracts worth £12bn, sparking calls for profit caps.
Plans to erect over a hundred giant wind turbines in Wales's Cambrian Mountains, a landscape of significant wildness, are facing strong opposition due to environmental concerns and the industrialization of a pristine area, despite the push for renewable energy.
