Large Donations From Crypto Industry to Fight COVID-19

TimeBit
2 min readApr 28, 2020

In the digital money industry, organizations, for example, BitMEX, Binance, and the Stellar Foundation have been standing out as truly newsworthy without fail for being at the front line
trying to make sizable gifts to COVID-19 alleviation reserves.

Binance: As early as Jan. 25, Changpeng Zhao, the CEO of a top-ranking crypto exchange
Binance announced in a tweet that his company has pledged to donate $1.5 million to help the victims of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China.
Ripple: Ripple Labs reported its donation of $200,000 on March 25. The organization has given $100,000 to the Tipping Point Community, a philanthropic association situated in San
Francisco, which later raised the all out donation to $1.1 million for survivors of the coronavirus in the U.S.

The Giving Block: The Giving Block, an organization that enables not-for-profit charitable associations to acknowledge crypto donations, reported the beginning of the #cryptoCOVID19 collusion. The activity needs to join the crypto network in the battle against the coronavirus. Gitcoin, one of the accomplices in the battle, commenced the donation by coordinating $100,000 in Ether (ETH) on the Dai stage. The Giving Block has additionally banded together with any semblance of Brave, Gemini and Axiom Finance to
bring $500,000 up in crypto donations.

Golem: Golem, a computing system, is another donor from the crypto segment to join the
battle against COVID-19 through the Folding@Homes venture. Golem and blockchain stage Tezos have put aside several Tezos coins (XTZ) that will be given to the greatest F@H benefactor before the finish of April.
Stellar Foundation: Reports showed that Stellar Development Foundation is set to coordinate donation to a sum of $79,300, which indicates about 1.9 million XLM tokens.

Jack Dorsey: On April 7, Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter and the organizer of Square installment arrangement, reported that he had moved $1 billion to his recently began organization called Start Small LLC, which as of now means to battle COVID-19.
Outstandingly, the reserve is around 28% of his riches. Dorsey guaranteed that the assets will be worked straightforwardly with a #startsmall tracker.

Real Items: In a marginally extraordinary utilization of figuring power, blockchain organization Real Items reported that it would be working with microfiber producer Tricol Group’s manufacturing plants in Seattle and China to follow the genuineness of their creation of KN95 covers utilizing blockchain innovation. The United States Food and Drug Administration had as of late endorsed the utilization of KN95 covers for social insurance
laborers, which are fabricated as per Chinese instead of American gauges, as N95 covers are getting progressively elusive.

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