American Express Registers Trademarks for NFTs and the Metaverse

The largest US payment system has filed an application for registration of seven new trademarks related to non-fungible tokens and Web3. Metaverse Trademark Attorney Michael Kondoudis tweeted today that one of the largest credit card companies, American Express, has filed seven new trademark applications. The corporation has registered several names and logos, including AMEX, MEMBERSHIP REWARDS and SHOP SMALL. Kondoudis said that everything indicates that the company plans to take its place in the metaverse…

Developers Diem raised $200 million to launch a new Aptos project

Former Meta employees working on the now-defunct Diem stablecoin project have raised $200 million to attract developers to Aptos, a new cryptocurrency project. Aptos was founded by Novi’s former Head of Strategic Partnerships, Mo Shaikh, and the same company’s CTO, Avery Ching. At Aptos, they hold the positions of CEO and CTO, respectively. Bloomberg reports that the Aptos development team is working on a first-level blockchain using the Move programming language created for Diem. The…