🌍 This Week in Web3forGood
A weekly roundup of the ways web3 could make the world a better place
Happy Thursday! Yes, that’s right - you’re receiving this email on a Thursday this week. What do you think? It may be a day earlier, but we have no shortage of news and ideas to share - including a special Q&A with Dottyland Co-Founder & CEO Ketly Freirik. Dottyland is pioneering an Impact2Earn model that makes sustainable choices attainable for all by rewarding people for buying less.
Plus: Adam Neumann’s latest venture (it’s ReFi), Davos, Permissionless, Maine lobsters, and more.
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What’s Inside
🌊 Social Impact Startup Dottyland Makes Sustainable Choices Accessible to All With Impact2Earn Model
🕊 Tweet of the Week
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🚀 Opportunities
📡 On Our Radar
🌊Social Impact Startup Dottyland Makes Sustainable Choices Accessible to All With Impact2Earn Model
When Dottyland Co-Founder and CEO Ketly Freirik quit her job in 2020, she didn’t know exactly what she would build. But, she had a mission.
After nearly a decade working in fintech, Ketly and cofounder Kärri Brewster-Palts could no longer sit with the consumerism their work promoted, so the Estonian duo decided to start over from scratch. “We had spent our careers up until that point making people buy more,” notes Ketly. “Naturally the next question was Can we make people buy less?”
Ketly spoke to Web3ForGood about what it’s like to build a mission-driven company in web3, including how the team is using NFTs to build community and validate ideas. Their vision? A completely data-driven, Impact2Earn platform.
Read our full conversation on Medium.
(P.S. Dottyland is hiring.)
🕊 Tweet of the Week
While we still have our fair share of not-so-great web3 news taking over the airwaves, it's always heartwarming to see stories about those directly connecting with the community when it comes to web3 and social impact. Michael Littig from Hug posted about his experience onboarding refugees onto web3. Refugees who participated in the workshop were given a certificate of participation as a NFT. As Micheal shared "Refugees thrive off of certificates - as it is often the only proof of their education. The blockchain proves to be an incredible technology, in this scenario, to create a permanent record of reputation." It create a verifiable form of identity for the refugees on the blockchain and shows what promise is held when it comes to those who often have to leave without documents that can provide evidence of who they are and and their qualifications.
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
Adam Neumann’s latest venture Flowcarbon, is backed by a16z and has received $70 million for its carbon credit trading platform enabled on the blockchain. The company wants to capitalize on the carbon credits that companies buy in order to offset their greenhouse gas emissions. Flowcarbon has plans to sell its Goddess Nature Token, which is backed by certified carbon credits. (TechCrunch)
Web3 and NFT trends and takeaways from Permissionless. (Blockworks)
An open letter to the White House Office of Science and Technology on blockchain and the voluntary carbon market from Flowcarbon, Climate Collective, and Celo. (@weareflowcarbon)
Common web3 critiques and how ReFi responds to the skeptics. (Curve Labs)
Packy McCormick shares great insights into token design - a go-to resource for people designing DAOs and protocols and building new worlds. (Not Boring)
Only 3% of US adults reported using crypto for purchases or money transfers, and they are most often lower income earners or unbanked. Higher income earners are more likely to use crypto as an investment tool. (Blockworks)
Kenya boasts one of Africa’s most vibrant crypto communities. Many local traders trying to ‘buy the dip’ got burned. (Quartz)
A former North Korean propaganda artist, who defected in the late 90s and now lives in South Korea, is releasing a collection of NFTs. (NFT Evening)
🚀 Opportunities
Apply: Toucan Protocol is hiring a Policy and Impact Lead (Remote, Zurich)
Apply: Regen Network is hiring a Product Manager - Ecological Data (Remote, US)
Attend: A conversation on Fintech, Crypto, and Financial Inclusion in Africa on 1st June on 8am PT/ 11am ET led by Impact Alpha, with speakers from Mercy Corps Ventures, Oui Capital , and Ejara App.
Attend: Refi NYC is taking place on June 24th in New York. It’s free, so go ahead and register (especially if you’re already in town for NFT.NYC).
📡 On Our Radar
StaTwig uses blockchain technology to improve the efficiency of food and vaccine supply chains. With AI and IoT tech to track all products in the supply chain, they can decrease the percentage of food and vaccines that go to waste, currently 30% and 50-60%.
NABU is an established creative lab with a mission to disrupt the cycle of poverty through literacy. They are building an NFT collection to sponsor, author, illustrate, and publish children's books in mother tongue languages.
The Sporagers is a Solana-based project that is gamifying climate action to drive real-world impact.
Haddie’s Bay Club is a collection of 7777 Haddie the 1-in-100-million Cotton Candy Lobster NFTs created in partnership with Get Maine Lobster to raise money for marine conservation.
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