🌍 63/This Week in Web3forGood
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🌍 63/This Week in Web3forGood
ReFi is more than carbon
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For those who attended ReFi Summit in Seattle this week, we hope you had a blast (we hope there are recordings coming!).
This week, we’re sharing news and conversations around AI, regulation, security, and more; it seems these things are on everyone’s mind lately.
Plus: work with Celo<>GoodDollar, Dream DAO intership program, $100,000 grants from OpenAI, and more.
WAGMI (we are going to make an impact)
What’s Inside
🕊 Tweets of the Week
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🚀 Opportunities & Events
🕊 Tweets of the Week
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
☕️ From farm to cup: How blockchain is used in the coffee supply chain. (Cointelegraph)
✖️ impactMarket’s multiplier effect means support can make a lasting difference to break the cycle of poverty while unlocking human empowerment. (impactMarket)
🔒 Sybil attacks are the Achilles' heel of decentralized networks. What if there's a way to make it costly for attackers to create fake identities? (Gitcoin)
🔗 Blockchain for changemakers: 3 questions to answer before bringing your business on chain. (Topl)
🌱 Sweetgum Labs’ Michael Guan on Web3 and the race to net zero. (Topl)
🧠 Gitcoin co-founder Scott Moore on collective intelligence and remaking the world. (Zora Zine)
🌲 A comprehensive guide to accessing carbon credit data. (GigaHierz)
🌎 4 Blockchain projects that have a real-world impact. (Toucan Protocol)
💰 Can carbon removal become a trillion-dollar business? (The Economist)
⛑ 8 blockchain donation projects improving humanitarian aid. (LOA Labs)
👩🏫 Learnings and reflections on what the Collective learned from Round 2 and how they’ll continue experimenting with RetroPGF to grow the Optimism ecosystem. (Optimism)
🪙 Amidst major funding, a different perspective on Worldcoin: “What at first appeared to be a dystopian attempt to create a global currency with privacy violating hardware was actually something else altogether: an entirely privacy preserving solution to an increasingly pervasive problem.” (Blockchain Capital)
🛍 Brands keep launching NFTs, even though the hype has died down. Why? It’s all about superfans. (MarketWatch)
🏛 Governance of superintelligence: AI is an incredibly powerful technology. We could have a dramatically more prosperous future… but we have to manage risk *now* to get there. (OpenAI)
🚀 Onchain is the next online. (jacob.energy)
🚀 Opportunities & Events:
Apply: Celo <> GoodDollar is hiring a Grants Manager (part-time).
Apply: The Dream DAO Explorers Program is a two-month internship program for Dream DAO Builders who are looking to explore their interests in Web3 and how Web3 can be used to address social challenges. The pilot program will select 10-15 Explorers and run from mid-May to mid-August 2022.
Attend: The Giving Block is hosting a webinar "How Can Your Nonprofit Prepare for the Future of Philanthropy?” on June 13.
Attend: Trusted Seed is hosting a digital WEB3 + AI Unconference from June 14-28 to discuss how decentralized AI can offer greater accountability and accessibility.
Attend: Africa Tech Summit is happening June 23 at the London Stock Exchange.
Submit a Proposal: UNICEF’s GIGA has launched a new open source blockchain RFP; apply by 13 June.
Funding: OpenAI will fund ten $100,000 grants for building prototypes of a democratic process for steering AI.
📡 On Our Radar
Hyphen is accelerating climate action through digital MRV and Chainlink oracles.
Stakely, a leading staking platform, has offset 1,000 tonnes of digital carbon to address its operational emissions, showcasing its climate leadership in the blockchain industry.
STEWARD, launching in June, will: connect eight global artists with the eight major ecosystems of our natural world to fund eight climate nonprofits.