Dedicated to restoring Assange’s independence, AssangeDAO began its fundraising on February 3. Less than a week later, it has ended its efforts after managing to rake in 17,422 ether from 10,000 users.
Helping WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange
The mission of the newly formed AssangeDAO was to raise enough money to help free Julian Assange. The objective was to acquire ETH in exchange for Justice Governance tokens for bidding on 1/1 NFTs. The NFT in question was created by renowned digital artist Pak in collaboration with Assange.
The proceeds from its sale are expected to benefit the Defense Fund in terms of legal fees and a campaign to raise awareness of Assange’s extradition case. According to Juicebox figures, the money generated is now around $55 million. The website dedicated to the DAO said,
“AssangeDAO intends to raise capital to bid on Assange’s NFTs. By motivating Assange’s solidarity network, we hope to send a powerful signal that the time for inaction is over. A new era of cyberpunk organization begins.” Has gone.”
as reported by cryptopotato Previously, the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) raised over $3.8 million in ETH as of February 7 and added nearly $15 million in two more days. It also became the largest juicebox DAO in history after surpassing the now-defunct ConstitutionDAO.
Among several notable contributions, AssangeDAO also pulled around $31k, or 10 ETH, from Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin. Martin Kopelman, also co-founder and CEO at Gnosis revealed Last week contributed 10 ETH to the movement. AssangeDAO was inspired by FreeRossDAO, which was created to free the creator of the darknet market website Silk Road Ross Ulbricht, and raised $12 million.
extradition case
In 2021, the WikiLeaks founder lost a major legal battle when a British court ruled that he was extradited to the United States to face trial over the publication of hundreds of thousands of classified military documents and diplomatic cables in 2010 and 2011. can go.
In a major relief for an Australian citizen, the UK High Court has ruled that Assange will be able to challenge his decision to be extradited to the US on espionage charges, where he faces a prison sentence of 175 years. Assange can now appeal to the country’s Supreme Court.
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