AssangeDAO freed Julian Assange by all means necessary! Mission accomplished?

In late 2021, while Julian Assange bravely endured the harsh conditions of England’s supermax Belmarsh prison, with his health and legal situation rapidly deteriorating, a group of crypto-native cypherpunks united to fight for his freedom. Harnessing crypto’s most powerful tools for coordination and capital formation, we raised more than 17k ETH by forming a DAO with one goal: to free Assange by any means necessary. The AssangeDAO funds were used to cover all of Assange's legal costs and support many campaigns.

Within 2 years, Assange was freed from prison. AssangeDAO became the first DAO in history to achieve a tangible, high-stakes, real-world goal: freeing Assange. His freedom today would not have been possible without the contributions of the 10,000 anons behind this effort. Yet, while the world celebrates Assange’s lawyers and digital rights groups, the contribution of AssangeDAO has remained largely unrecognized. Its story is still untold.

This is a small attempt to do justice to AssangeDAO, its extraordinary achievement, and the ongoing challenges it continues to face.