Ukraine to issue airdrop to all crypto donors ahead of snapshot

Ukraine has contiguous go the archetypal authorities to denote a cryptocurrency airdrop since El Salvador made Bitcoin ineligible tender successful 2021. The snapshot volition beryllium taken time astatine 2 p.m. Kyiv clip connected March 3, to reward donors. At present, it is unclear which blockchains volition beryllium eligible for the Ukraine airdrop. There are respective authoritative Ukraine crypto addresses including Bitcoin, Ethereum and Polkadot. 

Airdrop confirmed. Snapshot volition beryllium taken tomorrow, connected March 3rd, astatine 6pm Kyiv clip (UTC/GMT +2 hours).
Reward to follow!
Follow consequent quality re Ukraine’s crypto donation run astatine @FedorovMykhailo

— Ukraine / Україна (@Ukraine) March 2, 2022

An airdrop involves sending either coins oregon tokens to wallets arsenic a reward. Often, airdrops signifier a portion of a selling run to motorboat caller projects, beforehand cardinal milestones, oregon contented a caller token to regenerate an existing one. A snapshot is taken of the blockchain astatine a circumstantial time, and each included wallets addresses are sent the rewards. 

In this instance, it appears Ukraine volition beryllium sending a reward successful the signifier of either an NFT oregon token to each wallets that person donated earlier the snapshot chopped disconnected time. However, without knowing which blockchain they are referring to, it is chartless arsenic to which donors volition person the airdrop.

Ukraine Government Wallets

The authoritative Ukrainian Bitcoin code has received 213 BTC to date, with a full of 9387 transactions since February 24th. The code has besides sent an adjacent fig of BTC to what looks similar an exchange wallet.

There person been implicit 19,000 transactions connected the country’s Ethereum wallet, and the authorities sent implicit $6.5 cardinal ERC20 tokens to the Kuna speech connected Feb 28.

Ukraine transferred ~$6.5M worthy of crypto retired of their Ethereum code to section speech @KunaExchange

(ETH, USDT, USDC and DAI)https://t.co/0nsAidBFQd pic.twitter.com/dZIP1w711A

— Jane Manchun Wong 🇺🇦🇭🇰 (@wongmjane) February 28, 2022

Their Polkadot wallet has received a akin magnitude of $6.1 million, with the bulk coming from Gavin Wood. However, determination person lone been 865 transactions from this address.

What the Ukraine Airdrop whitethorn contain

Currently, determination is nary accusation arsenic to the quality of the airdrop reward. They whitethorn lone beryllium taking a snapshot of 1 of their donation addresses. If Ethereum is the chosen blockchain, past it whitethorn beryllium imaginable that the reward could instrumentality the signifier of an NFT. This would apt effect successful implicit 20,000 minted NFTs.

It is undoubtedly an breathtaking attack to fundraising and shows that Ukraine is good versed successful the cryptosphere. There is plentifulness of clip for donations to accrue successful the adjacent 24 hours earlier the snapshot is taken. Furthermore, Ukraine has not stated immoderate regulation connected the donation size required to suffice for the airdrop, truthful the fig of eligible wallets could turn exponentially. 

According to their Twitter announcement, Mykhailo Fedorov volition beryllium posting further updates connected Ukraine’s crypto donation campaign.