Kalush Orchestra, the winners of the Eurovision Song Contest 2022, are auctioning off an NFT for charity. The auction started May 25 on MetaHistory — the official Ukrainian charitable NFT museum – and will last only until the 28th. The auction will accept both fiat and cryptocurrency bids (via Monobank) creating a friendly competition to see which currency brings the most donations.
Kalush Orchestra NFT Auction Ukraine
The Eurovision Song Contest 2022 took place on May 14 in Turin, Italy. The event had a television audience of 161 million viewers in 34 measured markets, and 18 million viewers also watched the contest online on YouTube and TikTok. Kalush Orchestra’s Stefania was chosen as the winner. Now the band is auctioning an NFT of the Eurovision Glass Microphone Trophy awarded it to collect donations to help Ukraine.
By purchasing the NFT with cryptocurrency, the lucky owner receives: A 100% unique digital NFT file featuring a microphone and Kalush Orchestra. A dinner and exclusive meeting with Kalush Orchestra members. You will also have the opportunity to get the Crystal Microphone as a physical object, provided that the bid is not lower than the fiat currency.
The voice of Ukraine will sound as loud as possible with our special NFT auction Stefania where you will be able to bid for a statue of Eurovision 2022 winners. Auction starts right now and lasts till May 28th 19: 00. Get your 12 points from Ukraine now! https://t.co/Boh9SvhpwEpic.twitter.com/d2t6eELq6r
— Meta History: Museum of War (@Meta_History_UA) May 25, 2022
The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy, Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine and the European Broadcasting Union, which is the association of broadcasters responsible for the organization of the Eurovision Song Contest, support the raffle initiative. The CO Charitable Foundation Serhiy Prytula will receive all proceeds.
Forty countries took part in this popular European cultural event. Russia was not included in Eurovision this year. The Ukrainian song won the contest by a wide margin. It was also the first song written entirely in Ukrainian. It is widely believed that the voters of it supported the music of Kalush Orchestra and the struggles of the country as a whole.
The Ukrainian people and government have adopted crypto donations and NFTs to raise support in a way no one could have imagined before the events of the past 3 months. Crystal, an analytical group, stated that crypto donations to Ukraine during the war were the most significant in history. As of May 12, 2022, this amounted to more than $82 million. It’s not surprising, then, that Ukraine was the first to mint the NFT trophy “Crystal Microphone” for Europe.
“Web3 allows you to pool funds in new ways,” says Alona Shevchenko (co-founder of Ukraine DAO). The NFT of the Ukrainian flag, launched by Ukraine DAO, was auctioned off for $6.5 million in ETH, making it the 10th most expensive NFT ever sold.
” The last three months have shown how creative and powerful Web3 can be in fighting for freedom of human beings,” Rev Miller, one founding partner of Unchain Fund, said. To date, Unchain raised around $10m in crypto across 15 different blockchains.
“MetaHistory stands for any efforts and undertakings to raise a charitable contribution for the benefit Ukraine. It is a historic trophy with the precedent of its minting that causes only admiration for MH teams.” comments VK, CEO & co-founder of MetaHistory.
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