{"id":17586,"date":"2024-10-07T17:38:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T14:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/buterin-sells-moodeng-memecoins-and-donates-proceeds-to-charity\/"},"modified":"2024-10-07T17:38:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T14:38:39","slug":"buterin-sells-moodeng-memecoins-and-donates-proceeds-to-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/buterin-sells-moodeng-memecoins-and-donates-proceeds-to-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Buterin Sells MOODENG Memecoins and Donates Proceeds to Charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin sold 10 billion MOODENG memecoins for 308.7 ETH (approximately $765,576 at current rates) using Cow Swap and transferred 260.15 ETH to charity.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXeabpPIS_PTK_kJ-t4DnEA2YPRxIIiD0p_9gFHbz98UtPqghNvfRp3RBcoNAh3lCHl9A8aYDSbaSzcc4JArJW36urN1a28z8ferQ3NyG-xo0ZHTHgMN58Ll9TVU3zSWYKl5JKMYrexFMPY5uJVtdeGcQJo?key=WIOg2scmo1LQ6r4VeNJ6-w\" alt=\"Buterin sells MOODENG memecoins and donates proceeds to charity\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sale of 10 billion MOODENG by Vitalik Buterin. Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/etherscan.io\/token\/0x28561b8a2360f463011c16b6cc0b0cbef8dbbcad?a=0xd8da6bf26964af9d7eed9e03e53415d37aa96045\">Etherscan<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He still holds 40 billion MOODENG (approximately $4.32 million).<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the developer exchanged several memecoins, including:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>70.71 million Neiro;<\/li>\n<li>11.76 billion MOODENG;<\/li>\n<li>7.8 million DEGEN;<\/li>\n<li>16.03 billion KABOSU.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just In: Vitalik exchanged some Memecoins into his wallet for about 140.6 ETH in 30 minutes, worth about $340k, including: 100,000 USDT (donated by CATE project); 70.71 million Neiro; 11.76 billion MOODENG; 7.8 million DEGEN; 16.03 billion KABOSU. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EmberCN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@EmberCN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IxiJpOrtXZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/IxiJpOrtXZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WuBlockchain\/status\/1842516705203089463?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 5, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Buterin noted his appreciation for memecoin creators who donate part of their tokens to charity.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I appreciate all the memecoins that donate portions of their supply directly to charity.<\/p>\n<p>(eg. I saw ebull sent a bunch to various groups last month)<\/p>\n<p>Anything that gets sent to me gets donated to charity too (thanks moodeng! The 10B from today is going to anti-airborne-disease\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VitalikButerin\/status\/1843260976206082216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cAnything sent to me gets donated to charity too (thanks moodeng! Today&#8217;s 10 billion will go towards technology to combat airborne diseases). Though I would prefer if you guys sent money directly. Maybe even create a DAO and involve your community in decision-making and the process,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In October, Buterin donated 100 ETH (~$242,000) to the legal defense fund for Tornado Cash developers Alexey Pertsev and Roman Storm.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in September, he suggested developing a set of metrics to measure how well projects align with Ethereum&#8217;s values.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin sold 10 billion MOODENG memecoins for 308.7 ETH (approximately $765,576 at current rates) using Cow Swap and transferred 260.15 ETH to charity. Sale of 10 billion MOODENG by Vitalik Buterin. Data: Etherscan. He still holds 40 billion MOODENG (approximately $4.32 million). Previously, the developer exchanged several memecoins, including: 70.71 million Neiro; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[306,200],"class_list":["post-17586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-charity","tag-vitalik-buterin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"23","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}