- AssangeDAO raises around 12,569 ETH or $38 million at current prices in donations to help free WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange. The funds will be used for “legal fees and campaigning to raise awareness about Julian’s extradition case.”
- In December, a U.S high court overruled a British court ruling barring extradition that Assange is currently fighting. He is currently imprisoned in London’s Belmarsh prison. He has been locked up there since 2019.
- AssangeDAO is a “collective of cypherpunks” fighting for Julian Assange’s release. On Twitter, AssangeDAO noted that it has now become the largest JuiceBox Ethereum raised in history.
WikiLeaks Founder In Prison Since 3 Years Now
A DAO or decentralized autonomous organization established for supporting the liberation of Julian Assange, WikiLeaks Founder, has raised funds worth around $38.8 million or 12,569 ETH at current prices
The funds will be used to help with the legal fees of Assange and spread public awareness about his case.
As per the reports of December 2021, Julian Assange was asked to present in the US over the matter of publication of classified documents in 2010 and 2011. The High court gave its ruling that Wikileaks Founder can be extradited from the UK to the US. At the moment, he is locked up in London’s Belmarsh prison where he has been for 3 years. He is currently fighting this extradition.
According to the official website, Assange will face 175 years in prison for publishing truthful information if extradited to the United States.
According to JuiceBox, the community funding platform hosting the campaign, donations started coming in on February 4. The funding doubled in the past 24 hours and it accelerated over the weekend.
AssangeDAO Becomes The Largest JuiceBox Ethereum
AssangeDAO claimed on Twitter that it is now the largest JuiceBox Ethereum ever raised. It even exceeded the funds raised by Constitution DAO in November for purchasing an original copy of the United States Constitution.
The comparison is derived on ETH terms, whose value was priced much higher in November.
At that time, the dollar value raised by ConstitutionDAO was approximately $49 million.
AssageDAO is described as a “collective of cyberpunks” that aims to raise ETH in return for JUSTICE governance tokens. They will then be used to bid “Censored”, an NFT collection by Pak, a digital artist, in partnership with Julian Assange.
The concept was inspired by the FreeRossDAO which raised $12 million to free Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road, the dark web marketplace.
Julian Assange has been held previously for seven years in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, protected by asylum status.
