Vitalik Buterin Donates $152,000 in ETH to Earthquake Victims

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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has recently sent 99 ETH to Ahbap, a non-profit organization that raises money to help earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria.

The wallet, which is labeled Ahbap Yardım / Earthquake Support by Etherscan, accepts donations in ERC-20 tokens. At the moment it ha received about $2.2 million in assets.

Most of the proceeds have been sent in USDT, Ethereum and USDC.

According to Ahbap’s official site, the organization has raised more than $4.2 million in cryptocurrencies. According to Nansen, more than $1.2 million was received from transfers on the Avalanche network, about $892,000 on BNB Chain.