Assange’s NFT Clock Sale Rides a Wave of DAO Crowdfunding

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Assange’s NFT Clock Sale Rides a Wave of DAO Crowdfunding
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The WikiLeaks founder raised $50 million for legal fees, making him the latest public figure to benefit from decentralized autonomous organizations.

raised $5.4 million in April 2021 by selling an NFT featuring his own face made from pages of a US appeals court decision. So AssangeDAO agreed on a simple mission: raise as much crypto as it could and funnel it into Pak and Assange’s NFT auction, in an attempt to either secure the clock NFT or at least raise its price floor.on crypto crowdfunding platform Juicebox, eventually raising some $52 million.

In the lead-up to the auction, the group debated whether it should bid less for the project and keep cryptocurrency aside for other Assange-focused projects, but it ended up going all in: AssangeDAO’s winning offer—16,593 ETH—was $40 million higher than

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