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Stalled bitcoin (BTC) and crypto prices whitethorn not beryllium bringing festive cheer to traders, but immoderate with wealth are trying to dispersed the goodwill around.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said he'd accepted an invitation to beryllium the “adoptive father” of pygmy hippo Moo Deng erstwhile she grows up. He is besides donating 10 cardinal Thai baht ($300,000) to the Khao Kheow Open Zoo adjacent Bangkok wherever the five-month-old lives, helium said successful a Thursday posting connected X.
The donations, made successful Moo Deng’s name, volition beryllium utilized to upgrade wide zoo operations and make a dedicated pygmy hippo situation wrong the premises.
Buterin said the donations came connected the backmost of the “wonderful hospitality of Thailand” during November’s yearly Ethereum developer conference, and were a “gesture of relationship and respect” to each of the country.
“What amended mode to bash that than done a Christmas contiguous to idiosyncratic who is beloved to each Thai people, Moo Deng, and who has go 1 of the astir unexpected and important Thai celebrities connected the satellite stage," Buterin said successful a missive to the zoo.
Moo Deng, oregon bouncy pork successful Thai, became a fashionable net meme earlier this twelvemonth aft images of her went viral online. She has 2 siblings, member Moo Toon (stewed pork) and sister Moo Waan (sweet pork).
A memecoin she inspired, MOODENG connected Solana, went likewise viral and deed a marketplace capitalization of supra $600 cardinal successful November aft bagging listings connected influential exchanges specified arsenic Binance and Coinbase.
MOODENG was the archetypal token themed connected an carnal different than a canine oregon feline to garner monolithic trading volumes and is considered by immoderate to beryllium the first Thai memecoin.
Token prices are down 60% from peak, however, arsenic overmuch of Moo Deng’s popularity remains focused wrong Thailand and neighboring markets.
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