AssangeDAO raises $38M in donations to help free WikiLeaks founder

A decentralized autonomous enactment (DAO) acceptable up to enactment the liberation of WikiLeaks laminitis Julian Assange from situation has raised 12,569 ETH oregon astir $38.8 cardinal astatine existent prices.

Assange is presently warring extradition to the United States pursuing a tribunal ruling successful December that overruled a British tribunal ruling barring extradition. He is presently locked up successful a London situation wherever helium has been since 2019.

Donations started rolling successful connected Feb. 4 according to JuiceBox, the assemblage backing level hosting the campaign. Funding accelerated implicit the weekend, doubling implicit the past 24 hours to the existent level.

According to the AssangeDAO Twitter feed, it is present the largest JuiceBox Ethereum rise successful history, exceeding that of ConstitutionDAO which raised funds successful November to acquisition an archetypal transcript of the United States Constitution.

The examination has been made successful ETH terms, which was priced overmuch higher successful November. Back then, the dollar worth raised by ConstitutionDAO was astir $49 million.

AssangeDAO is described arsenic a “collective of cypherpunks” aiming to rise ETH successful instrumentality for JUSTICE governance tokens. These volition beryllium utilized to bid connected a NFT postulation called “Censored” by integer creator Pak successful collaboration with Julian Assange.

The proceeds from the merchantability volition spell towards Assange's defence money for “legal fees and campaigning to rise consciousness astir Julian's extradition case.”

The @AssangeDAO has present breached US $30 cardinal obstruction successful little than 3 days for its fundraising which volition spell to support #WikiLeaks steadfast Julian Assange - facing a 175 twelvemonth condemnation for revealing warfare crimes
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The genesis of AssangeDAO began successful a Telegram radical successful mid-December connected the time that the U.S. authorities won its entreaty of a U.K. tribunal ruling that barred Assange’s extradition. The authoritative website states “if extradited to the United States, Assange faces 175 years successful situation for publishing truthful information.”

The conception was inspired by the FreeRossDAO which raised $12 cardinal to escaped Ross Ulbricht, laminitis of the acheronian web marketplace Silk Road.

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Julian Assange has been held successful London's Belmarsh situation wherever helium has been for the past 3 years. He had antecedently spent astir 7 years holed up successful the Ecuadorian Embassy successful London, protected by asylum status.