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| 2020 || March || || Emergency relief (COVID-19) || Campaign launch || Binance Charity announces a new fundraising project aimed at tackling the COVID-19 pandemic globally, through a project titled Crypto Against COVID, which aims to raise US$5 million in cryptocurrencies (BNB, BTC, BUSD and XRP) to be spent primarily on buying medical supplies for the countries worst affected by the virus at the time, such as {{w|Italy}}, {{w|Germany}}, {{w|Spain}}, {{w|South Korea}}, {{w|Iran}}, {{w|Turkey}}, {{w|United States}}, and the {{w|United Kingdom}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Binance Charity Initiates $5 Million Coronavirus Relief Campaign with Donation Matching Commitment |url=https://www.binance.com/en/blog/all/binance-charity-initiates-$5-million-coronavirus-relief-campaign-with-donation-matching-commitment-421499824684900478 |website=Binance Blog |access-date=1 January 2022 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Frost |first1=Decrypt / Liam |title=Binance starts $5 million campaign to fight coronavirus |url=https://decrypt.co/23541/binance-starts-5-million-campaign-to-fight-coronavirus |website=Decrypt |access-date=15 January 2022 |date=25 March 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Crypto Against COVID – Binance Charity, with Operations in Africa, Initiates $5 Million Coronavirus Relief Campaign |url=https://bitcoinke.io/2020/03/crypto-against-covid/ |website=BitcoinKE |access-date=15 January 2022 |date=26 March 2020}}</ref>
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| 2020 || March || Bitcoin || Research ({{w|artificial intelligence}}) || Donation || {{w|Jaan Tallinn}} donates 50 Bitcoin (about US$316,000) to [[w:Faculty (company)|Faculty]].<ref name="sfgh"/> Tallinn says he donates in crypto because he keeps most of his personal wealth in that form, and converting it into cash would result in an unnecessary capital gains tax bill, reducing the amount he could give.<ref name="sifted.eu"/>
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| 2020 || April || Stellar Lumens || || Program launch || The Stellar Development Foundation launches a program to match public donations to a number of non–profits, given in Stellar Lumens (XLM) up to a maximum of 1.9 million XLM (roughly $79,300 at the time).<ref>{{cite web |title=tweet |url=https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1246101014480109570 |website=Twitter |access-date=2 December 2021 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Stellar to Match XLM Donations to Six Non-Profits During April |url=https://cointelegraph.com/news/stellar-to-match-xlm-donations-to-six-non-profits-during-april |website=Cointelegraph |access-date=2 December 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
