Boxing Legend Wladimir Klitschko Releases NFT Collection to Raise Funds for Ukraine

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The for­mer heavy­weight box­ing cham­pi­on – Wladimir Klitschko – launched a non-fun­gi­ble token col­lec­tion to aid his war-hit home­land Ukraine. The ini­tia­tive comes after a part­ner­ship with the artist WhIs­Be as all pro­ceeds will go to Red Cross Ukraine and UNICEF.

NFTs Supporting Ukraine’s Defense

Vladimir Putin’s “spe­cial mil­i­tary oper­a­tion” in Ukraine seems nowhere near its end, which caused many coun­tries to declare eco­nom­ic war on Rus­sia. At the same time, promi­nent indi­vid­u­als intro­duced ini­tia­tives that could sup­port the Ukrain­ian resis­tance, with the lat­est exam­ple com­ing from the Olympic cham­pi­on and box­ing icon – Wladimir Klitschko.

The 45-year-old Ukrain­ian, nick­named “Dr. Steel­ham­mer,” released an NFT col­lec­tion through a col­lab­o­ra­tion with the artist WhIs­Be. The dig­i­tal col­lectibles will be avail­able to mint in a tiered pric­ing mod­el of $100, $1,000, and $10,000 as funds from the sales will go direct­ly to Ukraine in its cur­rent defense against the Russ­ian troops.

The NFT mar­ket­place to host the drop will be the leader in the field – OpenSea, while the sale will last for three weeks, start­ing today (March 9).

Klitschko described the devel­op­ment as a “superb sup­port at the ser­vice of peo­ple who suf­fer.” He also added that “art can be beau­ti­ful on many lev­els when used to serve humanity. “

“Dr. Steel­ham­mer” is one of the longest-reign­ing heavy­weight world cham­pi­ons in the his­to­ry of box­ing. He and his old­er broth­er Vitali (anoth­er leg­endary box­er and the may­or of Kyiv) are cur­rent­ly part of the capital’s defense against the sur­round­ing Russ­ian forces.

Wladimir Klitschko
Wladimir Klitschko, Source: DW

Crypto Donations Are Pouring to Ukraine

Dig­i­tal assets have become a key fea­ture in the con­flict between Rus­sia and Ukraine as numer­ous com­pa­nies, exchanges, and indi­vid­u­als donat­ed cryp­tocur­ren­cies to the invad­ed country.

Such con­tri­bu­tions have already sur­passed $50 mil­lion as ini­tial­ly, the accept­ed assets were Bit­coin, Ether, and Teth­er. Short­ly after, Polkadot’s Founder – Gavin Wood – sent $5 mil­lion worth of DOT and thus added the native token of his cryp­to project to the initiative.

Last week, Mykhai­lo Fedorov – Vice PM and Min­is­ter of Dig­i­tal Trans­for­ma­tion of Ukraine – announced that peo­ple could also sup­port the country’s defense by mak­ing Doge­coin and Solana donations.

The politi­cian even urged Elon Musk (arguably the most promi­nent DOGE own­er) to aid his nation’s efforts.

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