{"id":60825,"date":"2022-04-30T15:50:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T12:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=60825"},"modified":"2025-09-05T05:35:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T02:35:31","slug":"ftx-to-launch-a-1-billion-environmental-fund-to-prevent-a-future-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/ftx-to-launch-a-1-billion-environmental-fund-to-prevent-a-future-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"FTX to launch a $1 billion environmental fund to prevent a future pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the Crypto Bahamas 2022 conference, FTX, the cryptocurrency exchange, announced plans to create a $1 billion charitable environmental fund. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/amyshoenthal\/2022\/04\/28\/gisele-bndchen-partners-with-ftx-ceo-sam-bankman-fried-to-address-cryptos-sustainability-challenges\/\">Forbes<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cIt is crucial that as the industry grows we remember energy efficiency. We can achieve this by migrating the majority of transactions to blockchains that do not harm the environment,\u201d Bankman-Fried said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to him, FTX monitors its climate impact and is considering ways to become carbon-neutral. Bankman-Fried named the prevention of a future pandemic as the fund&#8217;s top priority, <a href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/98890\/ftx-announces-1-billion-charity-fund-first-print-ad-campaign-starring-gisele-bundchen\">Decrypt<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative will be led by partner and advisor Brazilian supermodel Gisele B\u00fcndchen, who has participated in United Nations charitable environmental programs.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2022, Bankman-Fried described Ukraine aid in cryptocurrency as a \u201clifesaver\u201d from the world. The head of FTX saw in this an illustration of expanding financial opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Crypto Bahamas 2022 conference, FTX chief Sam Bankman-Fried spoke about plans by the Bitcoin exchange to launch a $1 billion charitable environmental fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[306,1259,1236,1403],"class_list":["post-60825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-charity","tag-ecology","tag-ftx","tag-sam-bankman-fried"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60827,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60825\/revisions\/60827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}