Vitalik Donates 256 ETH to Support Privacy-First Messaging Apps

Published at 2025-11-27 07:45:08

Vitalik Buterin has donated 128 ETH to Session and another 128 ETH to SimpleX Chat, a combined contribution of 256 ETH (roughly $768,000). The gifts are explicitly aimed at strengthening privacy-first messaging platforms, with Buterin framing secure, private communication as a core component of a resilient decentralized ecosystem.

The funding can accelerate development work, security audits, and user-growth efforts for both projects, while signalling to the broader crypto community that private messaging remains a strategic priority. Beyond immediate development boosts, the donations may draw more attention from builders and investors and help preserve user choice as regulators and platforms shape the future of online communication.

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