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Re:Decentralized Naming and Certificate Authority by troquerre on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @01:21PM (#22311210)
Handshake didn't do an ICO. They raised $10.2m from institutional investors like A16Z, Sequoia, Greylock, and Founders Fund, and then donated all the money they raised to non-profits and open-source projects. Here's a notice from the free software foundation when they received $1m from Handshake https://www.fsf.org/news/free-software-foundation-receives-1...
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Re:Decentralized Naming and Certificate Authority by jlgaddis on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @02:37PM (#22312010)
Another:

> Handshake donates $300,000 USD to Debian [0]

[0]: https://www.debian.org/News/2019/20190329

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Re:Decentralized Naming and Certificate Authority by Foxboron on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @04:33PM (#22313022)
Arch Linux also received 300k USD. We didn't publish any news about this as this was a "no-strings attached" donation.

You can however see it as part of the monthly SPI reports;

http://spi-inc.org/treasurer/reports/201808/#index3h4

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