Buterin, Nailwal double down on funding Covid-19 research
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal have joined forces to support additional Covid-19 research projects through Nailwal’s Crypto Relief fund. In pursuit of this objective, Buterin has been awarded a generous $90 million grant by Nailwal on Thursday. Crypto Relief was started by Nailwal in April 2021 after India experienced its second Covid-19 wave. Buterin is perhaps the largest contributor to the fund, donating $1 billion worth of shiba inu (SHIB) in May 2021. The fund has since disbursed hundreds of millions of dollars, most of that money being from Buterin. In January 2022, the fund gave a $100 million grant to Buterin so he could put that money toward his preferred projects. Crypto Relief is now doubling down, with Nailwal announcing he’s giving Buterin 90 million USDC from his original SHIB donation. Buterin said he’ll also kick in $10 million of his own money. Nailwal took to Twitter on Thursday to let people in on Buterin’s humanita...