🌍 This Week in Web3forGood
A weekly roundup of the ways web3 could make the world a better place
Wow, it has been quite a week in #Web3ForGood - we have *a lot* of links to share. Reddit gets into NFTs, WoW offsets carbon emissions, cryptopolitical typology (and a quiz!), the latest GreenPill podcast, a festival in Curaçao, seven organizations hiring, and SO MANY THINGS On Our Radar that we had to split the list into categories.
Plus: You’ve seen people tweet about it… maybe you heard someone talk about it in a podcast… but do you really *get* quadratic funding? If not, this week’s Deep Dive is for you, because we are going ALL IN on all things Quadratic Funding. If you’re not already obsessed, well, prepare to be.
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Have a great weekend, everyone ~
WAGMI
Xx Abeera & Sam
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What’s Inside
🌊 What is Quadratic Funding and how does it help fund public goods?
🕊 Tweets of the Week
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🚀 Opportunities
📡 On Our Radar
🌊 What is Quadratic Funding and how does it help fund public goods?
What is common to the greatest number gets the least amount of care. Men pay most attention to what is their own; they care less for what is common; or at any rate they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned. - Aristotle
The above quote by Aristotle represents the fundamental idea behind the tragedy of commons, a phenomenon that often occurs with the consumption of public goods.
To start of our deep dive in to public, we begin with the four types of goods: private, common/shared, public, and club. Any resource (goods) may be distinguished in economics based on the principles of Rivalry and Excludability.
Continue Reading…
🕊 Tweets of the Week
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📣 Latest News
Ethics Watchdog Bars US Gov Employees From Writing Crypto Policy if Invested
Web3 activists fight for reproductive rights with NFTs, DAOs and protests
Pussy Riot Launches Proof of Protest NFT Against Roe Vs Wade Ruling
📚 What We’re Thinking About
A fascinating, refreshing discussion about reimagining institutions. (GreenPill podcast)
A new round of DeFi has to aim to do better. (Andy Singleton, Medium)
Can stablecoins keep dollar peg after the Terra debacle? (Yahoo)
Web3 in the world this week: Central African Republic plans its own digital currency for Q3, and the Chinese Central Bank might apply smart contract tech to the Digital Yuan. (Bloomberg, Cryptonews)
All things SCIENCE & Web3: A midyear recap of DeSci articles. (Future)
World of Women has offset their entire historical carbon footprint and promised to donate a portion of funds from all sales to climate justice. (Wow, Medium)
What actually are digital wallets? Why are they gaining importance in migration contexts? Research brief from Cambridge fellow Dr. Margie Cheesman highlights takeaways, case studies. (Dialogue on Tech and Migration)
Bitcoin’s infamous energy criticism is misguided as mounting research shows the exact opposite of those claims are true. (Bitcoin Magazine)
A U.S. company created a crypto community in Venezuela. Now it has thousands of volunteers fighting for financial autonomy in their country. But their community isn’t as decentralized as they think. (Rest of the World)
How to start a crypto political party: a look at governance and concentration of power. (Dr. Ellie Rennie, Medium)
AND FINALLY
Results from the Cryptopolitical Typology Quiz, which analyzes the political-economic inclinations of the crypto community. Results are no longer being studied, but you can still take the quiz here. (Dr. Joshua Tan, Medium)
🚀 Opportunities
Apply: Goldfinch needs community managers and moderators.
Apply: Chia Network is hiring across BizDev, Marketing, Engineering, & more.
Apply: Foundation is hiring a Head of Marketing and a Lead Recruiter.
Apply: Open Earth Foundation is hiring a DLT & Web3 Engineer.
Apply: Agoric is hiring a Community Technical Support Manager.
Apply: HUG is hiring a Social Media Manager and a Partnerships Manager.
Apply: Variant is hiring a DeFi intern, & more.
Apply: The Metagovernance Project is hiring Research Engineers, Community Research Fellows, and more.
Attend: The Kolektivo Festival is a two-day Innovation Festival focused on Impact, Technology, and Impact taking place Oct 21-22 in Curaçao. Early bird ticket prices last until July 14. Applications to speak and/or volunteer are open.
📡 On Our Radar
There’s a lot on our radar this week, so we split it into categories:
GOVERNANCE
Crypto Council for Innovation is a global alliance of industry leaders dedicated to unlocking the promise of crypto.
ThreeOh DAO is helping advance Web3 and decentralization policymaking in DC and around the world.
ENVIRONMENT
Sacreage tokenizes land for conservation & reclamation with Proof of Support NFTs.
CommonShare is a protocol for sustainable, transparent, resilient supply chains.
Spirals Protocol allows anyone to stake Celo with 100% of profits directed toward climate impact.
Nori is a blockchain-backed carbon removal marketplace.
CODEX is disrupting the voluntary carbon offset market by tokenizing carbon offsets for environmentally conscious individuals and enterprises.
SOCIAL
Queer Friends NFT is a Women-led and Queer NFT collection that celebrates the “beautiful queerness in all of us”. Their mission is to “amplify the voices of women, gender queer, and LGBTQ+ friends and provide them with the community, education, representation, and opportunity in web3”. They will be donating a portion of proceeds to LGBTIQ non-profit partners and reinvesting a portion in women, non-binary, and LGBTQ+ led NFT projects.
Metalabels are release clubs where groups of people who share the same interests collaboratively make, support, and release projects.
HERSTORY is an on//offline art collective dedicated to preserving and incubating the stories of marginalized crypto creators.
PaisanoDAO is a social impact DAO with a mission to foster and promote inclusivity and diversity in the Web3 ecosystem.
ARTXV is a community for neurodivergent NFTs.
Nothing contained in this newsletter should be construed as financial or investment advice. This newsletter is for informational educational purposes only.