Vitalik Buterin urged the community to send the memecoin token funds they want to send him directly to charities.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin revealed that he had donated all the animal-themed memecoins he received last year to a charity focused on animal welfare.
On Aug. 15, Buterin posted on X that he had finished donating animal coins to charity. The Ethereum co-founder shared a receipt for the donation to the Effective Altruism Funds’ Animal Welfare Fund.
The receipt shows that on Aug. 14, Buterin sent 200 Ether (ETH), worth $532,398, to the charity fund.