FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WISeKey’s WISe.ART, Digital Platform Powered with Cyber Security, and CryptoVerse Island, Announce Their Support for the Maiti Nepal Foundation with an Exclusive Sale of NFT Art by Ylan Anoufa to Raise Funds for Young Ladies’ University Scholarships in Nepal
Geneva, SWITZERLAND – September 10, 2024 – WISeKey International Holding Ltd. (“WISeKey”) (SIX: WIHN, NASDAQ: WKEY), a leader in cybersecurity, AI, Blockchain, and IoT operating as a holding company, that its subsidiary WISe.ART will support efforts of the Maiti Nepal Foundation (Maiti Nepal) to sponsor students who are pursuing higher secondary degrees, through funds raised from the sale of select NFTs donated by artists and made available on the WISe.ART platform. WISe.ART, which focuses on trusted blockchain NFTs and operates the WISe.ART marketplace for secure NFT transactions, will participate in the Digital Art Day at the Carmen Bornemisza Thyssen Foundation in Malaga in the presence of Georg Bak of Art Meta.
Maiti Foundation currently sponsors twenty-one students to pursue higher secondary degree once graduated from Teresa Academy.
Another forty-three students have been able to find a sponsor to pursue their Bachelor´s degree in 2022 and seven more are pursuing a higher diploma in technical engineering, civil engineering, IT engineering, pharmacy, fashion designing and physiotherapy.
Each of the specially selected NFTs bought from the WISe.ART platform on this occasion will provide one full term for a child to pursue their higher secondary degree. The artists donated their works to the Foundation because they believe that it is vectors like CryptoVerse Island, WISe.ART and Maiti Nepal which will raise awareness about forgotten or ignored drastic situations around the world.
