GNOME and GIMP Receive $400K from Handshake Decentralized Certificate Authority

After receiving an annonymous donation of $1 million earlier this year, GNOME Foundation announced today that they received a generous donation from Handshake, a recently launched decentralized certificate authority and experimental peer-to-peer root DNS service. 

The Handshake organization apparently launched today at handshake.org, and they already donated $10.2 million US dollars that they’ve collected from various project sponsors to several Free and Open Source Software projects, including GNOME Foundation, which received $300,000, and the GIMP project, which received the rest of $100,000 USD.

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