The Ukrainian government has raised over $10 million in cryptocurrencies

The Ukrainian government has raised more than $10 million in cryptocurrencies after calling on people to donate bitcoin and other digital tokens to support them on social media, blockchain analysis firm Elliptic said.

The official Ukrainian Twitter account on Saturday called on people to donate cryptocurrencies after Russia began its attack on Ukraine, posting digital wallet addresses for coins such as bitcoin and ether.

As of Sunday, the wallet address had received $10.2 million worth of cryptocurrency donations, of which roughly $1.86 million came from the sale of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), Elliptic said. Elliptic tracks the movement of digital currencies on the blockchain, the public ledger that records encrypted transactions.