Cannabis


Finance

Blockticity Mints Hemp and Cannabis Certifications on Avalanche

The process works by Blockticity printing a QR code on a product and the QR code then links to a Certificate of Analysis minted as an Avalanche NFT.

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Videos

Could Crypto Save the Cannabis Industry?

As part of CoinDesk's Sin Week, U.S. Regulatory Reporter Cheyenne Ligon joins "The Hash" hosts to discuss the parallels between the cannabis and crypto industry and their legal and cultural implications.

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Can Crypto Save the Cannabis Industry?

The legal cannabis industry’s problems go much deeper than a lack of access to banking. This piece is part of CoinDesk's Sin Week.

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Videos

Involuntarily Unbanked: How the Cannabis Industry Makes the Case for Crypto

Khurshid Khoja, CEO & Founder of Greenbridge Corporate Counsel joins Wasserman's Senior Director Mary Pryor at Consensus 2022 to discuss the experiences of the state-legal U.S. cannabis industry operating under federal prohibition, and how these experiences illustrate the many use cases for cryptocurrency and other blockchain-enabled technologies. Moderator: Stephanie Izquieta, Head of Web3 Content, Events Programming, CoinDesk

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Opinion

Crypto, Cannabis and SAFE Banking

Better banking regulation must pass, but why wait for banks to protect cannabis when crypto offers solutions today? This post is part of Payments Week.

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Policy

UK Police Raid Suspected Cannabis Factory, Find Bitcoin Mining Operation

"It's certainly not what we were expecting!" one of the officers said.

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Finance

A Former Beauty Queen Raised $12M to 'Revolutionize' Cannabis. The Courts Can't Find Her

Here's how a weed-smoking model raised millions of dollars with a 2017 token sale in California, then disappeared during an ongoing lawsuit.

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Finance

Cannabis and Lending Firm Seeks SEC Permission to Raise $50M in Crypto Sale

Ceres, started by graduates of the U.S. Military Academy, recently filed paperwork with the SEC seeking permission to sell its digital token and Ceres coin.

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Finance

Cannabis Shops Are Using Zap's Lightning App During Coronavirus Cash Crunch

The Lightning Network startup now offers fiat-friendly bitcoin payment tools. Cannabis dispensaries in Colorado are an early proving ground.

Zap founder Jack Mallers speaks at the 2019 Lightning Conference in Berlin. (Photo by Will Foxley for CoinDesk)

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