{"id":568977,"date":"2022-03-19T12:03:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T09:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/?p=568977"},"modified":"2022-03-19T12:38:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T09:38:46","slug":"gitcoin-grants-aims-to-raise-1m-in-ethereum-towards-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/gitcoin-grants-aims-to-raise-1m-in-ethereum-towards-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Gitcoin Grants Aims to Raise $1M+ in Ethereum Towards Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quick take:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gitcoin is hosting a fundraising campaign to benefit the humanitarian effort in Ukraine<\/li>\n<li>The fundraising campaign will run from the 9th to the 23rd of March<\/li>\n<li>$700k has been set aside by Gitcoin Grants to match individual donations<\/li>\n<li>According to Slowmist, $84.939 million in crypto has been donated to Ukraine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gitcoin, the platform known for rewarding coders with cryptocurrencies, is hosting a fundraising campaign called GR13. The funds drive is a pool of grants that will run from the 9th to the 23rd of this month.<\/p>\n<p>To accomplish its latest funds drive, <a href=\"https:\/\/gitcoin.co\/grants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gitcoin<\/a> has partnered with the following crypto projects:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/category\/news\/latest-ethereum-eth-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ethereum<\/a> Foundation, GnosisDAO, Polygon, Nouns DAO, Yearn Finance, ENS domains, Momus.ETH, Uniswap, ZK Validator, OxPARC, Vita DAO, OpenSea, DYDX, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/category\/news\/chainlink-link-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chainlink<\/a>, EPNS Project, Game 7, Stakefish, Radiacal, Anoma Network, Figment, OP Games, Algorand Foundation, Olympus DAI, Rainbow Rolls, Filecoin, Real Mask Network<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of its initiatives is to support the humanitarian effort in Ukraine. Gitcoin and its partners in the fundraising campaign have thus set aside $700,000 in various Ethereum based digital assets, to match individual donations through the platform.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_568980\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-568980\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Gitcoin-Ukraine-effort.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-568980 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Gitcoin-Ukraine-effort-1024x351.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Gitcoin-Ukraine-effort-1024x351.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Gitcoin-Ukraine-effort-300x103.jpg 300w, https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Gitcoin-Ukraine-effort-770x264.jpg 770w, https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Gitcoin-Ukraine-effort-500x172.jpg 500w, https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Gitcoin-Ukraine-effort-269x92.jpg 269w, https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Gitcoin-Ukraine-effort-746x256.jpg 746w, https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Gitcoin-Ukraine-effort.jpg 1344w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-568980\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gitcoin Grants page geared towards fundraising humanitarian efforts in Ukraine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/videos\/interviews\/2dXboFy0\/gitcoins-scott-moore-talks-ukraine-fundraising-grant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">In an interview<\/a> earlier this week, Gitcoin Co-founder, Scott Moore, explained that the fundraising towards the humanitarian effort was being held in a democratic way and according to the will of many versus that of a few.\u00a0 He said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The goal is essentially&#8230;you have a pool of say twenty guarantees. You have a two-week period in which anyone can donate to those guarantees. Which is actually the period we are in now up until March 24th.<\/p>\n<p>And the goal would be to use&#8230;basically that signal to distribute the matching pool from our larger funders&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gitcoin&#8217;s funds drive comes at a time when crypto donations towards the humanitarian and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/ukraine-buys-5-5k-bulletproof-vests-500-helmets-using-crypto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">war effort<\/a> in Ukraine, have been reported to have raised close to $100 million.\u00a0According to the team at <a href=\"https:\/\/aml.slowmist.com\/cases\/ukraine_crypto_donations_statistics_2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Slowmist<\/a>, the exact figure of crypto donations towards Ukraine is currently at $84.939 million.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ukraine-donations-84m-March-19th.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-568983\" src=\"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ukraine-donations-84m-March-19th-1024x396.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ukraine-donations-84m-March-19th-1024x396.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ukraine-donations-84m-March-19th-300x116.jpg 300w, https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ukraine-donations-84m-March-19th-770x297.jpg 770w, https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ukraine-donations-84m-March-19th-500x193.jpg 500w, https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ukraine-donations-84m-March-19th-269x104.jpg 269w, https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ukraine-donations-84m-March-19th-746x288.jpg 746w, https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ukraine-donations-84m-March-19th.jpg 1266w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick take: Gitcoin is hosting a fundraising campaign to benefit the humanitarian effort in Ukraine The fundraising campaign will run from the 9th to the 23rd of March $700k has been set aside by Gitcoin Grants to match individual donations According to Slowmist, $84.939 million in crypto has been donated to Ukraine Gitcoin, the platform known for rewarding coders with cryptocurrencies, is hosting a fundraising campaign called GR13. The funds drive is a pool of grants that will run from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":568981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[823],"tags":[1322,108395,108345],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}