Aid for Ukraine (with Anatoly from Solana and Sergey from Everstake)

Like so many, we’ve been both heartbroken and inspired by what’s happening Ukraine. Our friends at Solana and FTX are announcing today that they’ve helped Everstake — a Ukrainian company and the largest Solana validator in the world — set up a DAO called Aid for Ukraine that can 1) accept crypto donations, and 2) directly offramp them into the Ukrainian central bank (in fiat currency) via FTX’s rails. This is — as far as we know — the first project of its kind anywhere in the world, and an incredibly ambitious response to a terrible human crisis. We recorded a brief conversation with Solana Labs CEO Anatoly Yakavenko and Everstake CEO Sergey Vasylchuk, who has spearheaded this project and who as you’ll hear is currently on the ground in Ukraine amidst fighting and bombing. You can follow and donate to Aid for Ukraine, and/or other non-cypto projects via the links below: Links: Aid for Ukraine: https://nation.io/dao/ukraine Aid for Ukraine’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/_AidForUkraine Sergey’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/sergattic Packy’s piece and resources: https://www.notboring.co/p/ukraine-fc5? Come Back Alive: https://savelife.in.ua/en/donate/ Direct link to the Ukrainian Central Bank (in Ukrainian): https://bank.gov.ua/ua/news/all/natsionalniy-bank-vidkriv-spetsrahunok-dlya-zboru-koshtiv-na-potrebi-armiyi