UNICEF News

Blockchain technology is being hailed as the solution to promoting global financial inclusion. As such, the global children’s charity UNICEF is contributing to these efforts through a venture fund that will give up to $100,000 to blockchain start-ups working on…

The UNICEF Cryptocurrency Fund recently announced its largest-ever investment — to the tune of 125 Ether (ETH) – to help eight promising technology startups from seven countries expand their work to mitigate the hardships brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic…

Ubisoft, the international game publisher and development studio, announced Thursday the launch of “Rabbids” Token on Ethereum. The latter is meant to work in the popular Rabbids franchise to ultimately benefit the humanitarian efforts of UNICEF. Rabbids Coming to Ethereum…

Ethereum Classic Labs (ETC Labs), an incubator that claims to be focused on accelerating innovative projects powered by the Ethereum Classic (ETC) blockchain network, has announced a $1 million donation to the UNICEF Innovation Fund. The money will enable Unicef…

UNICEF announced, in New York City, that they are rolling out the ‘UNICEF Crypto Fund’ in order to use cryptocurrency donations received to disburse grants to projects around the world that are trying to improve the quality of infrastructure, education,…

In a bid to enhance global delivery of life-saving vaccines and eliminate wastage, Siddarth Chakravarty, a former Cisco employee and entrepreneur is developing a distributed ledger technology (DLT) based solution that enables end-to-end tracking of vaccines, reports Times of India…

In a bid to make it easier for innovators in emerging economies to solve real-life problems with distributed ledger technology (DLT ), the UNICEF Innovation Fund, has announced a move to invest heavily in six blockchain startups in developing and…

UNICEF, a humanitarian and development agency that aims to protect the safety and inclusion of all disadvantaged children globally through voluntary donations, is catching onto the benefits of cryptocurrency. The organization is making use of monero mining to fulfill their…