{"id":389357,"date":"2022-01-04T12:46:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T09:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/blockchain-gaming-community-raises-1-4m-to-help-typhoon-victims\/"},"modified":"2022-01-04T12:46:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T09:46:40","slug":"blockchain-gaming-community-raises-1-4m-to-help-typhoon-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/blockchain-gaming-community-raises-1-4m-to-help-typhoon-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"# Blockchain gaming community raises $1.4M to help typhoon victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong># Blockchain gaming community raises $1.4M to help typhoon victims <\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjItMDEvMjVkZjFlN2EtMjJmYi00YmExLTk2YzMtMGYzNDI1ZWZkYzJjLmpwZw==.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content\" data-v-128018ef>The Philippines, a country that\u2019s already been struggling to get back on its feet because of COVID-19, has been hit by a catastrophic super typhoon. Back on Dec. 16, 2021, the typhoon hit landfall and went on a rampage for four days, leaving 334 cities and municipalities in a state of calamity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As of <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/1534767\/typhoon-odette-death-toll-climbs-to-407-as-of-jan-1-ndrrmc\">Jan<\/a>.\u00a01, more than 4 million individuals were either displaced or injured, with 407 dead and 88 still missing, according to the Philippines\u2019 National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.<\/p>\n<p>A day after the typhoon hit the country, play-to-earn gaming group Yield Guild <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Game<\/a>s (YGG) organized a donation drive to help the victims get relief and rebuild.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today, with the help of our YGG communities, managers, and friends, we are organizing relief efforts for Typhoon Odette (Rai) victims. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/YGGTyphoonOdette?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#YGGTyphoonOdette<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Check out the full details to support <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TPt3pKfzXJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/TPt3pKfzXJ<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fy4HnORpUh\">pic.twitter.com\/fy4HnORpUh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Yield Guild Games (@YieldGuild) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YieldGuild\/status\/1471768625849634817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 17, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThe response was overwhelmingly positive. Gamers paused and saved to take a moment to contribute. Leading the relief efforts, YGG Philippines country manager Luis Buenaventura told Cointelegraph that with the help of the community, donations reached $1.4 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithin the first hour we had exceeded $100k, and within the first day, we were at $300k. It&#8217;s now been three weeks and donations continue to come in. As of yesterday, we&#8217;ve raised over $1.4M purely from community crypto donations,\u201d said Buenaventura.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Related: <\/strong><strong>NFT gaming generated $2.32B in Q3 \u2014 BGA report<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to Buenaventura, their team will devote the funds to relief efforts, with groups on the ground going into affected areas to distribute food, drinking water, medicine, solar lights and power generators, as well as rebuilding.<\/p>\n<p>The rebuilding initiative consists of a direct cash assistance program where the team sends fiat directly to affected households.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Buenaventura said that they were able to reach 1,600 households and have enough resources to cover at least another 3,000. \u201cAlthough that may sound like a lot, initial estimates indicate that over 55,000 homes were destroyed by the typhoon so we still have a long way to go,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><template data-name=\"subscription_form\" data-type=\"defi_newsletter\"><\/template><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Back on Dec. 16, 2021, the typhoon hit landfall and went on a rampage for four days, leaving 334&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":389358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/1200_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjItMDEvMjVkZjFlN2EtMjJmYi00YmExLTk2YzMtMGYzNDI1ZWZkYzJjLmpwZw==.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74894,80,10751],"class_list":["post-389357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-blockchain","tag-games","tag-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}