THELOGICALINDIAN - After the crypto association donated millions of dollars account of Bitcoin and Ethereum to Ukraine to advice armamentarium its war efforts the government has now acquaint a appeal for Polkadot and hinted at a accessible airdrop
Polkadot’s Gavin Wood apprenticed to accord $5 actor account of DOT over the weekend.
Ukraine Now Accepting Polkadot Donations
Ukraine isn’t aloof attractive for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tether to armamentarium its aegis adjoin Russia—the government is now accepting Polkadot donations too.
Ukraine’s official Twitter annual acquaint an amend on its crypto campaign Tuesday with a articulation to a Polkadot address. “The bodies of Ukraine are beholden for the abutment and donations from the all-around crypto association as we assure our freedom. We are now accepting Polkadot donations too,” the column read. The annual additionally accepted that it would anon acquire added cryptocurrency donations. Subscan data shows that the abode has accustomed 11,372 DOT account about $214,035 at columnist time.
The amend comes afterwards Polkadot architect Gavin Wood acquaint a tweet in acknowledgment to Ukraine’s recent plea for Bitcoin and Ethereum donations. “If you column a DOT abode I’ll alone accord $5m,” he wrote Sunday, bidding a backfire from abounding crypto enthusiasts, who accused him of indulging in self-promotion. Ukraine abashed the crypto apple Saturday back it announced that it was accepting cryptocurrency donations with a articulation to a Bitcoin and Ethereum address. Donations abounding in anon after. By the end of the weekend, the addresses had accustomed over $10 million, best of it in Ethereum’s ETH currency. Now, the government has accustomed afterpiece to $17 actor in crypto assets beyond the Bitcoin, Ethereum, and TRON networks (TRON’s Justin Sun rushed to accompany in with the fundraising efforts afterward Ukraine’s Saturday post).
Interestingly, Ukraine acquaint a cryptic aftereffect tweet to its antecedent appeal for DOT tokens, hinting at a accessible airdrop. “An airdrop has not been accepted yet,” the bulletin read. Three Arrows Capital co-founder Su Zhu responded by suggesting that the nation could be advancing to bead crypto tokens to its citizens, agnate to how El Salvador airdropped $30 in Bitcoin to Salvadorans afterwards it fabricated Bitcoin acknowledged breakable aftermost year. “Making history actuality if it does end up happening, the aboriginal conception of digitally built-in civic value,” he wrote. Crypto Briefing accomplished out to the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine to ask for added capacity on its affairs but had not accustomed a acknowledgment at columnist time.
The cryptocurrency association has rallied to abutment Ukraine afterwards Vladimir Putin ordered a Russian aggressive bang aftermost week. Data aggregate by Slowmist says that about $34.5 actor has been donated to the government and added fundraisers, and that doesn’t agency for the assorted NFT initiatives that accept been launched over the aftermost few days. Countless NFT artists accept apprenticed to accord profits from their sales to Ukrainian abatement efforts, while the RELI3F campaign saw a host of the space’s arch abstracts get calm to adapt an NFT accumulating with funds activity to Ukraine. It awash out in 30 abnormal aboriginal Saturday, adopting $1 actor in the process.
16:53 UTC update: The Polkadot abode accepting donations has now accustomed $5.8 million. One wallet sent 298,367 DOT account $5.5 actor in one transaction.
Disclosure: At the time of writing, the columnist of this affection endemic ETH and several added cryptocurrencies.
