Millions in Crypto Donations Pour Into Turkey Following Devastating Earthquakes

The Web3 community is again raising millions within hours to help those in need.

• 2023-02-08
• Avalanche Foundation Turkey Avalanche crypto community earthquake relief efforts Avalanche disaster relief Changpeng Zhao

Over $2.6 million in crypto donated to Turkey earthquake victims. But experts have a warning.

The morning after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Turkey and Syria, Haluk Levent, a popular musician in Turkey, met with the country’s financial watchdog to allow the set up of crypto wallets to collect donations. Within hours, Levent managed to tweet the addresses of three new crypto wallets that people can donate to, which accept donations for one week. One account in question was using the same name and logo as the NGO that Levent runs called AHBAP, which helps victims on the ground in Tu

• 2023-02-08
• Haluk Levent crypto wallets tweet Turkey crypto security