Cryptocurrency Funds Disease Research

Siqi Chen shares how he raised funds for research on his daughter's rare brain tumor through both traditional and crypto channels.

"My daughter was diagnosed with a rare brain tumor last September. For Christmas, I had a plan to start a GoFundMe for the Hankison Lab at the University of Colorado. They're the only lab in North America that researches this particular tumor called craniopharyngioma, and the treatment we're on, they found. I thought it would be great to do a GoFundMe, use my network and raise some money for this lab.

I tweeted this thread with the GoFundMe link, and we ended up raising about a quarter million dollars for the lab, which I think is the biggest donation up to that point.

But what happened is some people started asking, 'Hey, can I donate crypto?' So I posted my ENS (Ethereum Name System) address, and people started donating a little bit of ETH. Then some other people said, 'Hey, do you have a SOL address because we're on Solana?' I didn't have a SOL address - I was aware what Solana is, but I never touched it. So the next day once I landed, I created my first Solana wallet and tweeted out the address."