Eurovision Song Contest 2022 Winners Release NFT for Ukraine Charity Auction

Kalush Orchestra, the winners of the Eurovision Song Contest 2022, are auctioning disconnected an NFT for charity. The auction started May 25 connected MetaHistory — the authoritative Ukrainian charitable NFT depository – and volition past lone until the 28th. Bids volition beryllium accepted successful some cryptocurrency and fiat currency (via Monobank), frankincense creating a affable contention for what benignant of currency tin bring the astir donations.

Kalush Orchestra Auction NFT for Ukraine

The Eurovision Song Contest 2022 took spot connected May 14 successful Turin, Italy. The lawsuit had a tv assemblage of 161 cardinal viewers successful 34 measured markets, and 18 cardinal viewers besides watched the contention online connected YouTube and TikTok. The victor was the opus Stefania, performed by Kalush Orchestra. Now the set is auctioning an NFT of the Eurovision Glass Microphone Trophy awarded it to cod donations to assistance Ukraine.

By purchasing the NFT with cryptocurrency, the fortunate proprietor receives: A 100% unsocial integer NFT record featuring a microphone and Kalush Orchestra. An exclusive gathering and meal with members of the Kalush Orchestra. As good arsenic an accidental to person the carnal object, the Crystal Microphone, arsenic agelong arsenic the bid is higher than the fiat currency bid.

The dependable of Ukraine volition dependable arsenic large arsenic imaginable with our peculiar NFT auction Stefania wherever you volition beryllium capable to bid for a statue of Eurovision 2022 winners.
Auction starts close present and lasts till May 28th 19:00. Get your 12 points from Ukraine now!https://t.co/Boh9SvhpwE pic.twitter.com/d2t6eELq6r

— Meta History: Museum of War (@Meta_History_UA) May 25, 2022

The raffle inaugural is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy, the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the relation of broadcasters that organizes the planetary Eurovision Song Contest. All of the wealth raised volition spell to the CO Charitable Foundation of Serhiy Prytula.

Forty countries participated successful the fashionable European taste event, with Russia excluded from Eurovision this year. The Ukrainian opus won by a ample margin, and was the archetypal written wholly successful the Ukrainian language. As such, it is wide considered that voters for it supported not lone the euphony of Kalush Orchestra, but the struggles of the state successful general.

The Ukrainian people, and adjacent government, person embraced crypto donations and NFTs arsenic a means to stitchery enactment successful a mode that connected 1 could person expected earlier the events of the past 3 months. According to analytical radical Crystal, crypto donations for Ukraine during the warfare were the largest successful history. As of May 12, 2022, this amounted to much than $82 million. Considering this, it’s not that astonishing that the archetypal effort to marque the minting of the NFT trophy “Crystal Microphone” successful Europe belongs to Ukraine.

“Web3 allows to excavation funds successful unprecedented ways”, says Alona Shevchenko, co-founder of Ukraine DAO. The NFT of the Ukrainian flag, launched by Ukraine DAO, was auctioned disconnected for $6.5 cardinal successful ETH, making it the 10th astir costly NFT ever sold.

“The past 3 months of warfare has shown however almighty and originative Web3 could beryllium erstwhile it comes to warring for quality freedom”, adds Rev Miller, 1 of the founding partners of Unchain Fund. To date, Unchain raised astir $10m successful crypto crossed 15 antithetic blockchains.

“MetaHistory basal for immoderate undertakings and efforts to cod a charitable enactment for the payment of Ukraine. So, erstwhile it comes to specified a humanities trophy and the precedence of the minting, it causes lone admiration for MH and Kalush Orchestra teams” comments VK, CEO & laminitis of MetaHistory.

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