Mark Cuban says he is locking $50k in tokenized carbon offsets every 10 days
The billionaire investor believes DeFi degeneracy can be harnessed for the purpose of environmental social governance. Famed billionaire and reality TV star, Mark Cuban, has revealed he is using blockchain technology to lock up carbon offsets on the Polygon network.In a Nov. 13 Twitter thread sharing a Cointelegraph story on KlimaDAO, the billionaire blockchain enthusiast stated that he has been buying $50,000 worth of carbon offsets and placing them on-chain as Base Carbon Tonnes (BCT) roughly every 10 days since the launch of KlimaDAO. BCTs are digital assets bridged onto the Polygon....
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