{"id":5011,"date":"2025-01-02T03:18:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T03:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=5011"},"modified":"2025-01-02T03:18:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T03:18:40","slug":"ethereum-co-founder-vitalik-buterin-adopts-viral-hippo-moo-deng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=5011","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum Co-founder Vitalik Buterin &#8216;Adopts&#8217; Viral Hippo Moo Deng"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Stalled bitcoin (BTC) and crypto prices may not be bringing festive cheer to traders, but some with money are trying to spread the goodwill around.<\/p>\n<p>Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said he&#8217;d accepted an invitation to be the \u201cadoptive father\u201d of pygmy hippo Moo Deng when she grows up. He is also donating 10 million Thai baht ($300,000) to the Khao Kheow Open Zoo near Bangkok where the five-month-old lives, he said in a Thursday posting on X.<\/p>\n<p>The donations, made in Moo Deng\u2019s name, will be used to upgrade general zoo operations and create a dedicated pygmy hippo habitat within the premises.<\/p>\n<p>Buterin said the donations came on the back of the \u201cwonderful hospitality of Thailand\u201d during November\u2019s annual Ethereum developer conference, and were a \u201cgesture of friendship and respect\u201d to all of the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat better way to do that than through a Christmas present to someone who is dear to all Thai people, Moo Deng, and who has become one of the most unexpected and important Thai celebrities on the world stage,&#8221; Buterin said in a letter to the zoo.<\/p>\n<p>Moo Deng, or bouncy pork in Thai, became a popular internet meme earlier this year after images of her went viral online. She has two siblings, brother Moo Toon (stewed pork) and sister Moo Waan (sweet pork).<\/p>\n<p>A memecoin she inspired, MOODENG on Solana, went similarly viral and hit a market capitalization of above $600 million in November after bagging listings on influential exchanges such as Binance and Coinbase. <\/p>\n<p>MOODENG was the first token themed on an animal other than a dog or cat to garner massive trading volumes and is considered by some to be the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2024\/09\/26\/crypto-inspired-by-moo-deng-zooms-to-100m-as-hippo-meme-takes-over-internet\" target=\"_blank\">first Thai memecoin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Token prices are down 60% from peak, however, as much of Moo Deng\u2019s popularity remains focused within Thailand and neighboring markets. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stalled bitcoin (BTC) and crypto prices may not be bringing festive cheer to traders, but some with money are trying to spread the goodwill around. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said he&#8217;d accepted an invitation to be the \u201cadoptive father\u201d of pygmy hippo Moo Deng when she grows up. He is also donating 10 million Thai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-5011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}