Vitalik Buterin has donated $15 million in cryptocurrency to the University of California San Diego to fund research into airborne pathogens like COVID-19. The Balvi Filanthropic Fund is the actual source of the donation, but it is directed entirely by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. It was founded in 2022 to handle another of Buterin’s donations, […]
In April 2021, Vitalik Buterin, 27, became the world’s youngest crypto billionaire when the price of several ‘meme’ cryptocurrencies rose sharply in response to coordinated grassroots trading efforts. Buterin, who founded the crypto platform Ethereum, previously held hundreds of thousands of NFT tokens from SHIB (Shiba Inu coin), ELON (Dogelon), and AKITA (Akita Inu), mostly […]