🧬 Vitalik Buterin Donates $1 Billion in Crypto to Fight COVID in India
In May 2021, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin shocked the world by donating over $1 billion worth of crypto to India’s COVID relief efforts — one of the largest individual donations in history.
🐶 Interestingly, much of the donation came in the form of Shiba Inu (SHIB) tokens, which Buterin had been gifted without consent by the meme coin’s creators. In a legendary move, he sold a portion of the tokens and sent them to India’s CryptoRelief fund.
💡 The act sparked both admiration and panic — SHIB’s price crashed temporarily, and the crypto world saw the real-world power of blockchain-based philanthropy.
🌍 Vitalik’s donation wasn’t just historic in value — it proved how crypto could be used for global impact, transparency, and humanitarian aid.
