Ukrainian government sells NFTs combining art and tweets to fund army

Image caption: The second NFT work in the drop includes an image by the artist Ivan Ponomarchuk and a tweet from Ukraine’s minister of foreign affairs. Article by Sophia Kishkovsky. The Art Newspaper – March 31, 2022.

The drop comes from the Meta History Museum of War, the official collection of Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation

Ukraine dropped a series of NFTs yesterday to raise funds in support of the country’s army and civilians. Ukraine’s powerful and prolific social media communications (while under Russian attack)—the result of a very young and technically savvy government—are reflected in the NFTs, which are made up of wartime tweets and artist’s images. Each work costs 0.15ETH (£390). […]

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