Bored Ape Yacht Club community donates $1 million to Ukraine

On March 8, the team behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) donated $1 million in Ethereum ot the Ukraine government's ether wallet. The BAYC team donated the funds to match BAYC community members that raised nearly $1 million in donations to Ukraine. 

Bored Ape Yacht Club community donates $1 million to Ukraine

Seven different crypto donation programs indicate that $40.58 million worth of Ethereum based digital assets have been donated to Ukraine. The Ukraine crypto donations tracker hosted on Dube Analytics has recorded donations that are being sent to government addresses, the Ukraine DAO, the RELI3F.xyz NFT sale, Endaoment, Unchain Fund, Come Back Alive, and Ukrainedao.eth donations. 

Ukraine crypto donations tracker, powered by Merkie Science, has recorded $90.55 billion in aggregate crypto donations to date. The Merkie Science tracker shows donations in tokens like Bitcoin (BTC) Dogecoin (DOGE), polygon (MATIC), BNB, SOL, DOT, and NEAR. 

The official Twitter account of Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) tweeted that it donated $1 million in Ethereum to the Ukraine government's ether address. also shared the blockchain explorer (etherscan.io) link that shows the transaction.

Bored Ape Yacht Club is a popular NFT project that has seen significant demand during the last 12 months. All-time statistics from dappradar.com indicate that BAYC is the fifth largest NFT project by sales volume with $1.4 billion to date.

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