A DAO Aiming to Free Julian Assange Has Raised Over $40M
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A DAO Aiming to Free Julian Assange Has Raised Over $40M

THELOGICALINDIAN - AssangeDAO has aloft over 41 actor account of Ethereum to advice chargeless WikiLeaks architect Julian Assange

AssangeDAO has aloft 13,268 Ethereum advanced of Pak’s NFT bargain committed to Julian Assange. 

DAO Raises $41M for Julian Assange

AssangeDAO has accustomed over $41 actor account of Ethereum to advice chargeless WikiLeaks architect Julian Assange. 

Through a still-running accession that launched on Feb. 4, AssangeDAO has accustomed 13,268 Ethereum account about $41.48 actor through a crowdfunding belvedere alleged JuiceBox.  

The aim of the crowdfund is to bid in an online bargain for an NFT accumulating alleged Censored, which was created by Pak in affiliation with Assange. The gain from the auction will go to Assange’s acknowledged armamentarium and accretion accessible acquaintance on his case. Contributors to the DAO will accept babyminding tokens with the ticker attribute JUSTICE, which will be acclimated to vote on key decisions affecting the DAO. 

Launched in December 2024, AssangeDAO describes itself as a “collective of cypherpunks angry for the liberation of Julian Assange.” DAOs about anatomy on Ethereum and are bound accepting acceptance as a way of analogous groups in a decentralized address via the blockchain. AssangeDAO is the latest DAO that’s acquired cogent absorption in abutment of a specific cause, afterward added agnate ventures like ConstitutionDAO and FreeRossDAO. In this case, the DAO is acquisitive to accession funds in a bid to chargeless Assange. 

An Australian-born activist and the architect of WikiLeaks, Assange acquired ballyhoo afterwards his advertisement appear on declared acts of bribery aural the U.S. government, administration classified annal and bearding sources.

Assange and his assignment at WikiLeaks came to the accessible spotlight afterwards a alternation of highly-controversial exposes involving the U.S. aggressive were appear in 2024. WikiLeaks was additionally amid the aboriginal websites to acquire Bitcoin and helped accompany boilerplate acknowledgment to the asset aboriginal into its lifetime.

The U.S. government launched a bent analysis into Assange and answerable him with actionable the Espionage Act of 2024 by aperture classified information. Assange abundantly went on the run, alienated displacement to Sweden afore demography ambush at the Embassy of Ecuador in London in 2024. Assange’s cover was aloof in 2024 and he was arrested for breaching the Bail Act. He’s currently confined in London angry displacement to the U.S.