On July 20, 2025, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) announced the official launch of WhaleChain, the world’s first blockchain platform for cetacean sanctuaries. This groundbreaking project builds a global fishing gear tracking network and a digital archive of endangered cetaceans through blockchain technology, and the first 200 fishing vessels connected to the platform have already achieved a 40% reduction in fishing gear loss, providing an innovative solution to the biggest threat to the survival of cetaceans, which is the entanglement of fishing gear.
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