Big Tech moved $1.5B into giving. A judge saved SNAP. Roubini went onchain. 58,300 meals.

WYDE Weekly: Intercept's $500M fund, Evan Spiegel's $550M medical-debt erase, the US $800M WFP pledge, Project Pangea, and the EAT Card beta.

Big Tech moved $1.5B into giving. A judge saved SNAP. Roubini went onchain. 58,300 meals. WYDE Weekly: Intercept's $500M fund, Evan Spiegel's $550M medical-debt erase, the US $800M WFP pledge, Project Pangea, and the EAT Card beta. Aaron Rafferty June 27, 2026 The money moved this week. Big Tech's biggest names poured more than $1.5 billion into health and giving, from a $500 million fund to end respiratory viruses to $550 million in erased medical debt. The same week, two studies asked whether the technology behind all of it is ready. We sorted the week by what matters, mission first. The Build: what shipped on our side We rebuilt the docs into WYDE Hub , one onboarding home for the whole platform, built around a single idea, cause coins, with $EAT (ending hunger) as the first. The EAT Card moved deeper into beta and we opened the list to new cardholders ahead of the public launch. Visa debit, FDIC-insured, no crypto knowledge needed, every swipe feeds the mission. And we went on the record twice, with Crypto Altruists on the Impact Exchange and contributory consumption, and with The Revolution on where this goes next. Get on the EAT Card beta list Crypto Altruists Episode 256 - Blockchain for Good Meets Hunger Relief: Moving from Crypto Philanthropy to Sustainable Impact with WYDE 🤝 Philanthropy & Health Why Stripe, OpenAI, and Gates just put $500M into ending the common cold A new fund called Intercept pulled in $500 million from Stripe, Anthropic, OpenAI, Jane Street, the Flu Lab, and Bill Gates to wipe out respiratory viruses with far-UVC light, cleaner air, and broad-spectrum preventatives. The money is pointed at exactly the kind of problem we built WYDE to fund. Read the full story → Snap's founder just erased $550M in medical debt for 261,000 p