{"id":45517,"date":"2022-03-02T12:01:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T11:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/?p=45517"},"modified":"2023-09-12T09:44:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T09:44:11","slug":"uniswap-creates-an-interface-to-send-donations-to-the-ukrainian-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/uniswap-creates-an-interface-to-send-donations-to-the-ukrainian-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Uniswap Creates an Interface to Send Donations to the Ukrainian Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Popular decentralized Finance (DeFi) protocol <strong>Uniswap creates an interface that allows any ERC-20 token holders to send Ether (ETH) donations to a wallet set up by the Ukrainian government.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The official Twitter handle of Uniswap Labs, the developer of the <strong>Uniswap<\/strong> DeFi protocol, announced on Tuesday, March 1<sup>st<\/sup>, that the dedicated interface allows any token to be swapped with Ether (ETH). Coverted tokens will be then sent to ETH address set up the governemnt. The announcement reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1\/ To ensure that everyone who wants to donate ERC-20 tokens to the Ukrainian government \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 can do so, we built an interface that swaps any token for ETH and then sends it directly to the Ukrainian government in a single transaction.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3zuJLpmWNQ\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/3zuJLpmWNQ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Fg3HSdbNSF\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/Fg3HSdbNSF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Uniswap Labs \ud83e\udd84 (@Uniswap) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Uniswap\/status\/1498632368298541059?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>\u201c1\/ To ensure that everyone who wants to donate ERC-20 tokens to the Ukrainian government <\/em><em>\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6<\/em><em> can do so, we built an interface that swaps any token for ETH and then sends it directly to the Ukrainian government in a single transaction.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/donate.uniswap.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/donate.uniswap.org<\/a>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Uniswap Interface Enables Donation to Wallets Set up by the Government<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As traditional banking is in chaos, <strong>the Ukrainian government has set up three cryptocurrency wallets that accept crypto donations in Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), and Tether (USDT).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">On February 26<sup>th<\/sup>, Mykhailo Fedorov, Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine announced that they had launched three wallets to accept crypto donations. He announced:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Stand with the people of Ukraine<br \/>Now accepting cryptocurrency donations. Ethereum. Bitcoin and Tether (USDTtrc20)<\/p>\n<p>BTC \u2014 357a3So9CbsNfBBgFYACGvxxS6tMaDoa1P<\/p>\n<p>ETH \u2014 0x165CD37b4C644C2921454429E7F9358d18A45e14<\/p>\n<p>USDT (trc20) \u2014 TEFccmfQ38cZS1DTZVhsxKVDckA8Y6VfCy<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mykhailo Fedorov (@FedorovMykhailo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FedorovMykhailo\/status\/1497549813205848068?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>\u201cStand with the people of Ukraine<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Now accepting cryptocurrency donations. Ethereum. Bitcoin and Tether (USDTtrc20)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>BTC \u2014 357a3So9CbsNfBBgFYACGvxxS6tMaDoa1P<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>ETH \u2014 0x165CD37b4C644C2921454429E7F9358d18A45e14<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>USDT (trc20) \u2014 TEFccmfQ38cZS1DTZVhsxKVDckA8Y6VfCy\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">However, Uniswap notes that the addresses shared by the government are managed by a centralized exchange that appears to accept only <strong>Tether (USDT) and Ether (ETH)<\/strong>. But the donation interface created by Uniswap allows any ERC-20 token holders to send donations. <strong>Any selected token will be swapped with ETH and then sent to ETH address in just one click.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-40286 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ukraine-btc-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Ukraine Donations Uniswap\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Blockchain<\/strong> analysis firm Elliptic has launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elliptic.co\/blog\/live-updates-millions-in-crypto-crowdfunded-for-the-ukrainian-military\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">live update page<\/a> to track the donations to these wallets. According to the March 1<sup>st<\/sup> update, <em>\u201cthe Ukrainian government \u2013 and NGOs providing support to the military \u2013 have raised $33.8 million, through close to 30,000 crypto asset donations, since the start of the Russian invasion.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Ukrainian Government Now Accepts Polkadot (DOT) Donations<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">According to a Twitter account dedicated to Ukraine, the government has also launched a <strong>Polkadot (DOT) address to accept donations in DOT<\/strong> and has plans to set up more wallets to accept other currencies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Gavin Wood, the founder of Polkadot, is currently the largest donator to this new wallet who has donated $5.8 million. Elliptic data shows that the DOT address has received donations of more than $1 million other than Wood\u2019s $5.8 million. DOT donations now comprise 23.4% of the total raised. The <strong>majority of donations received to date have been in Bitcoin.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The people of Ukraine fighting for our freedom are forever grateful to Gavin Wood <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gavofyork?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@gavofyork<\/a> for the generous donation of $5M of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Polkadot?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Polkadot<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24DOT&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$DOT<\/a> as promised publicly. Thank you from all of us here in Ukraine working for a peaceful future \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ukraine \/ \u0423\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0457\u043d\u0430 (@Ukraine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ukraine\/status\/1498733635083587584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As Crypto Economy <a href=\"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/binance-will-donate-10-million-to-help-the-humanitarian-crisis-in-ukraine-also-launches-crypto-first-crowdfunding-platform\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> earlier, <strong>cryptocurrency Exchange Binance\u2019s charity arm has also donated $10 million for Ukraine and launched a crypto-first crowdfunding platform.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular decentralized Finance (DeFi) protocol Uniswap creates an interface that allows any ERC-20 token holders to send Ether (ETH) donations to a wallet set up by the Ukrainian government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":41713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,84,74],"tags":[4862,5344],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}