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World Bank Affiliate IFC Backs Blockchain-Based Platform for Carbon Offsets
The Carbon Opportunities Fund aims to push investments for tokenized trading of carbon credits.
작성자 Jamie Crawley
International Finance Corporation (IFC), a World Bank Group member focused on investment in less-developed countries, is teaming with energy-focused blockchain platform Chia Network on the Carbon Opportunities Fund.
- Also involved are sustainability finance company Aspiration and biodiversity investor Cultivo, and the fund will provide blockchain-based carbon credits purchased from projects chosen by those two companies.
- Carbon offsets are a means for companies to compensate for their emissions by purchasing credits that fund projects in tree planting or renewable energy.
- "This new framework that will use new blockchain technologies is an innovative way for capital markets to fully engage in carbon credit trading in a transparent, secure, fair and beneficial manner," said Paulo de Bolle, senior global director at IFC.
- Reuters reports the fund as being seeded with $10 million.
- Blockchain technology would appear to be a natural medium for carbon offset-related projects due to this transparency offered. However, for many blockchain is tainted by its association with the energy-heavy mining involved in cryptocurrency mining, the process by which new coins are released into the network.
Read more: Crypto Carbon Credits: Slapping Lipstick on a Pig
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The service will allow customers to buy and sell BTC, ETH, SOL, and USDC through a separate digital asset account managed by Hexarq.
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- French banking group BPCE will start offering crypto trading services to 2 million retail customers through its Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Épargne apps, with plans to expand to 12 million customers by 2026.
- The service will allow customers to buy and sell BTC, ETH, SOL, and USDC through a separate digital asset account managed by Hexarq, with a €2.99 monthly fee and 1.5% transaction commission.
- The move follows similar initiatives by other European banks, such as BBVA, Santander, and Raiffeisen Bank, which have already started offering crypto trading services to their customers.
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