ETH-Based Developer Crowdfunding Platform Joins Fight Against Coronavirus

On March 14, Gitcoin tweeted that its fifth round of grants already has $50,000 committed toward “public health” initiatives. Funding for Gitcoin’s fifth grants round will begin on March 23 — having been delayed by one week from March 16 as a result of last week’s extreme market volatility.

Crypto projects rally behind ‘Folding at Home’ On March 14, blockchain-based decentralized computing network, Golem, advocated that people divert their spare computational resources to Folding at Home — an initiative that pools excess computation power towards research into COVID-19, including potential drugs and therapies. Other crypto projects have offered up their technology for free to assist in coronavirus relief efforts, with blockchain-based education platform, Odem, freely offering its platform to educational institutions facing curriculum disruptions as a result of the pandemic.

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