British MP Matt Hancock launches NFT charity project for Ukraine

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British MP Matt Hancock is continuous his mission to help blockchain expertise by way of a brand new NFT assortment referred to as “From Ukrain with Love,” in response to a press release given to Crypto.

From Ukraine with Love

The NFT assortment contains works painted by Ukranian artist Oleg Mischenko earlier than the battle and will likely be bought at The NFT Gallery in London’s Mayfair on Monday, twenty seventh February. Funds from gross sales will go towards CARE Worldwide UK’s Ukraine Humanitarian Attraction. The gathering, “From Ukraine with Love,” was curated by Irina Korobkina, who fled Kyiv along with her 5-year-old daughter following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Hancock’s involvement stems from internet hosting Korobkina within the UK since April 2022. Mischenko remained in Ukraine portray as “shells rained down round him” earlier than becoming a member of his household in December.

“My husband’s work and this NFT assortment offers my household and my nation hope. Every bit depicts nature in our great Ukraine. It was a fantastic, flourishing, peaceable nation till Putin waged this unlawful and barbaric battle.”

Matt Hancock champions crypto

Concerning the NFT assortment, Hancock commented;

“I’m extremely pleased with Irina and Oleg, and I’m honoured to help the household with their charity NFT assortment[…] Oleg is an extremely proficient artist, and his ‘From Ukraine, With Love’ assortment is really beautiful.”

Hancock has been vocal in supporting the blockchain business with calls to make the UK a “crypto hub.” The MP for West Suffolk has beforehand centered on advocating for a “growth-maximizing view the place revenues sooner or later will likely be far larger” in relation to crypto tax and regulation.

Nonetheless, the launch of this new NFT assortment showcases Hancock’s want to not solely champion blockchain as a expertise but additionally to advertise its use circumstances.

Talking at Zebu Stay in London on Sept. 23, 2022, Hancock revealed that he didn’t maintain any crypto property, together with Bitcoin. The MP argued that by not holding crypto personally, he was extra capable of be goal about its future.

Nonetheless, this method is rare throughout the area as a complete, with the vast majority of influential figures within the crypto area personally investing giant sums into digital property.

Hancock has been bullish on blockchain for a while. In 2016, when he was the Paymaster Normal, he acknowledged,

“The federal government can not bury its head within the sand and ignore new applied sciences as they emerge[…] That’s partly what occurred prior to now in authorities with the net … We can not let (that) occur once more by standing nonetheless.”

Whereas most of Hancock’s efforts to advertise crypto throughout the UK happened earlier than 2020, he reemerged because the political face of crypto throughout the British authorities in 2022, with quite a few appearances endorsing UK crypto.

The NFT assortment is hosted on Coinbase’s NFT market and launches on Feb. 27.