Ukraine has canceled a much-talked-about “airdrop” to individuals who have donated crypto to the nation, with non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that assist Ukraine’s Armed Forces now being deliberate as an alternative, the nation’s Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, said on Twitter.
“After cautious consideration we determined to cancel airdrop. Every single day there are increasingly more folks prepared to assist Ukraine to combat again the aggression. As a substitute, we’ll announce NFTs to assist Ukrainian Armed Forces quickly. We DO NOT HAVE any plans to situation any fungible tokens,” Fedorov wrote on Twitter at present.
The deliberate airdrop, which the Ukrainian authorities first stated was “confirmed” on March 2, induced crypto donations to the nation to spike, with hundreds of small donations starting from ETH 0.0001 to ETH 0.01 flooding the Ethereum blockchain.
As reported, knowledge from Dune Analytics confirmed that the variety of distinctive wallets that donated crypto after the airdrop announcement has already exceeded the variety of distinctive wallets that had donated previous to the announcement.
Regardless of the promised airdrop now being canceled, nonetheless, some members of the crypto group who’ve donated didn’t seem too disillusioned.
“I do not thoughts getting rugged like that,” one person wrote in response to Fedorov’s tweet, whereas the favored crypto influencer Cobie called it “the perfect rug ever.”
Others weren’t so comfortable.
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