迷因币也能改变世界！SpaceX 官方吉祥物 Asteroid 的暖心慈善故事。 2024 年，Asteroid 社群向 @StJude 儿童研究医院捐赠了 21 亿枚 $ASTEROID 代币。2026年，医院将这些代币卖出，获得了大约 67 万美元的慈善捐款。 为了在保护并不伤害社群的情况下，医院实时监控代币健康度，并小心地分成 12 笔出售这些代币，最终兑换成 290 ETH。这些资金将用来支持正在接受癌症治疗的儿童。 这个捐赠故事要从 2021 年 9 月说起。@inspiration4x 第一次全平民太空任务 @rookisaacman 设定了为 St. Jude 筹集 2 亿美元的目标。@elonmusk 随即承诺捐赠 5000 万美元，帮助这次任务超额完成目标。 三年后 2024 年 9 月，由 Jared Isaacman 再次领导的 @PolarisProgram 执行了第二次全平民太空任务。 这次任务还完成了史上首次商业太空行走，并打破了自 1972 年阿波罗计划以来，人类远离地球的最远距离纪录。而 SpaceX 的吉祥物 Asteroid 也在那次的任务中登上了太空船。 Asteroid 是一只零重力指示物，当太空船进入零重力，它就会漂浮出来。是由 @rebeccaperrotto 的女儿 Liv 设计。当时 Liv 正与癌症对抗，她一直梦想成为第一个进入太空的孩子。 她特别希望能激励 St. Jude 的孩子，看到 Asteroid 也可以上到太空，那这些孩子也都能勇敢地追逐自己的梦想。 @SpaceX 和 Polaris Program 也在官网卖这个可爱的 Asteroid 绒毛玩具。按照 Liv 的要求，这些绒毛玩具的所有销售收益全部捐赠给 St. Jude，用来帮助正经历同样病痛的癌症儿童。 这也正是 $ASTEROID 社群决定捐赠给 St. Jude 的原因。从 2021 年至今，许多人都在帮助 St. Jude，而 Asteroid 将这一切串联在一起。这是一个非常感动的慈善故事。 我们社区受到 @VitalikButerin 的启发，他曾说：「我真的更希望你们直接捐给慈善机构。我认为迷因币最好的发展方向，就是能为世界带来最大程度的正向价值。」 因此在 2024 年，我们呼吁社群捐出 21 亿枚 $ASTEROID 代币，并联系了 St. Jude 负责 Web3 捐款的 @sometimesMarc 在 Asteroid 成为 SpaceX 官方吉祥物后，这笔捐款代币价值迅速上升，最高达到近 100 万美元的价值。 这也是迷因币第一次真正对现实世界产生正面影响。我们实现了 Vitalik 的愿景。希望大家能继续将这份慈善行动延续下去。 感谢每一位阅读这个故事的人。愿儿童们生活的世界不再有癌症 🙏 我们将永远爱 Liv 和这个可爱的 SpaceX 吉祥物 Asteroid！ ASTEROID 社区 ❤️

During Consensus, I was asked several times about the story of ethereum:0xf280b16ef293d8e534e370794ef26bf312694126 as far as we were aware. Many people were pleasantly surprised by how we managed to exit our position without damaging the community. This is the summary. When we set up the process for accepting crypto donations at @stjude, we set the criteria that we would convert the assets donated as soon as reasonably possible. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is focused on leading the way that the world understands, treats, and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. While we (the crypto industry) may wish the world would leap forward and be more on-chain, that isn't how it currently exists and we need dollar denoted currencies to run the hospital. Nearly 2 years ago, .5% of ASTEROID was sent to the St. Jude ETH wallet. We didn't have a way to readily convert it into US Dollars, so we left it in the wallet. Due to external factors, the token went from a market cap of ~$20k to over $150M. Our position fluctuated between $500k and $1M in valuation. I had several messages asking if what we were going to do, and I responded to a few that we were figuring it out. The next 48 hours were a whirlwind of approvals, but I knew two things. We would need to go to a DEX (a first for our mission) and that we would need to avoid hurting the community. Leadership understood and gave approval for the approach and we proceeded. Some people may disagree with how we did it, but I believe it to be the best option out of the ones that we had. Over 2 days, we proceeded to exit the position in 12 varying sized tranches. During the entire process, we kept an eye on liquidity of the token and did our best to ensure it never dropped below $3.5M and that the Net Buy pressure didn't exceed $75k. We exited the position with over 290 ETH valued at ~$676k. Thank you to the ethereum:0xf280b16ef293d8e534e370794ef26bf312694126 community that came together on this asset. These monies will go a long way in support of the life saving mission of St. Jude. Disclaimer: Discussion of a token is not an endorsement of the token, do your own research. Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer. For media outlets, please reach out directly.