PANews reported on December 26 that Vitalik Buterin posted on the X platform: "I am very happy to be Moo Deng's adoptive father. In the next two years, she will grow up and I will donate 10 million baht to support her, and maybe more, because I have set aside 88 ETH for Moo Deng and her relatives. May they live long and prosperously."

Earlier today, it was reported that Vitalik adopted the Thai internet celebrity hippopotamus Moo Deng and donated approximately $290,000 to the zoo where he lives .