🌍 This Week in Web3forGood
Stablecoins for Public Goods, NFTs for Good, Crypto Survivor
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Lots of big launches this week 🚀: Celo has a new NFT marketplace. Glo has a stablecoin. Crypto: The Game S2 sold out within 15 minutes, but more importantly, Abeera is playing (!!).
We’re just about two weeks away from the Bitcoin halving, the SEC is seeking comments on an Ethereum ETF… let’s just say things are happening.
See you at Funding the Commons next weekend? Let us know.
WAGMI (we are going to make an impact!)
What’s Inside
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🔈 Podcasts
🚀 Opportunities & Events
📡 On Our Radar
✨ And one more thing
📣 Latest News
Crypto: The Game’s Second Installment Maxes Out Player Roster in 15 Minutes
PayPal opens PYUSD stablecoin to U.S. dollar conversions for cross-border transfers
Nvidia eyes Indonesia for $200M AI center amid global AI scramble
Project Updates
impactMarket - March in Summary
Potlock - March Madness (Public Goods Update)
GoodDollar - GoodUpdate — March 2024
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🥽 Women Rise champions girls’ education by bringing VR to Pakistan schools. (OpenSea)
💿 What is censorship resistance in blockchain technology? (Cointelegraph)
🔴 DAOs Beware: Neo-imperialism is on the rise in cryptoland. (CoinDesk)
👤 Metaverse Identity: Defining the Self in a Blended Reality. (World Economic Forum)
📃 Chile now has a FinTech law that creates a category for “crypto-assets.” (The Defiant)
🌱 Degen communism: the only correct political ideology. (vitalik.eth)
🌐 Khori Whittaker, Executive Director of ENS Labs, on ENS, decentralized identity, and the Next Billion. (HackerNoon)
🎨 OpenSea enabled support for ERC-721C programmable earnings standard, allowing creators to implement programmable and enforceable creator earnings on-chain. (Cointelegraph)
🦺 Thanks to regulation and innovation, crypto is safer than ever for investors. (Harvard Business Review)
🤖 How your conversation with ChatGPT contributes to climate change. (New America)
🧠 What else could memecoins be? (vitalik.eth)
🪀 When, who and how to determine the best interests of the child in the digital environment? (5Rights Foundation)
🎓 A beginner’s guide to Solana’s Proof of History. (Unchained)
❌ The renaming of Optimism’s retroactive funding round from “Retroactive Public Goods Funding” to just “Retro Funding” has drawn criticism from some for dropping the emphasis on public goods. (Unchained)
📑 Experiments in Proof of Personhood have increasingly been touted as a mechanism for tracing information provenance, distributing Universal Basic Income, and facilitating democratic governance over systems of artificial intelligence. This paper chronicles Idena’s experiment in Proof of Personhood from launch in August 2019 to a crisis in May 2022. (SSRN)
🔈 Podcasts:
Crypto Altruism Podcast Ep. 148 - Sensay - Revolutionizing dementia care with AI and blockchain
The Web3 Nonprofit Ep. 10 - Sostento
GreenPill Season 4 - Ep. 6 - Revnets With Jango
GreenPill Season 4 - Ep. 7 - Plural Capital Allocation With Audrey Tang
ReFi Podcast Season 3 - neoslife with Vincent Daranyi | BONUS Episode
The Blockchain Socialist - Obol Network – How DVT helps decentralize Ethereum and incentivize collectivism
Boys Club Ep. 128 - Unraveling the Binance Saga in Nigeria with Stefen Deleveaux
Public Goods Podcast - Funding Investigative Journalism & Coordinating Billions in A Treasury w/ Devansh Mehta of VoiceDeck DAO
🚀 Opportunities & Events:
Apply: The Ethereum Foundation is hiring People Operations Support.
Apply: Mercy Corps Ventures is hiring an Investment Associate, Ventures.
Apply: Uniswap Labs is hiring a PhD Research Fellow.
Apply: The Algorand Foundation is hiring for multiple positions, including summer internships.
Apply: DeFi Education Fund is hiring a Director of Development, Legal Intern, and Policy Intern.
Funding: Gitcoin Grants Round 20 takes place April 2-16.
Funding: OpenCivics Consortium Round 02 is live.
Funding: The Celo Creators Fund incentivizes artists, creators, and individuals to build impactful NFT collections on Celo, with grants and creative programs totaling 150,000 USDC.
Funding: The Token Engineering QF Grants Round: Spring 2024 GG20 is now accepting applications.
Funding: The Hypercerts Ecosystem Round GG20 is now accepting applications.
Learn: Summer of Protocols 2024 is now accepting applications for three tracks.
Lead: The Responsible Tech University Network connects leaders of All Tech Is Human clubs across the country.
Own: Mint an inaugural limited-edition NFT for the launch of the Celosphere.
Events
Attend: Upcoming fairly aligned X spaces focusing on using Web3 for positive impact in the real world (+ some recordings), curated weekly by @civilmonkey.
Attend: Bitcoin Policy Summit is happening April 9 in Washington, DC.
Attend: Paris Blockchain Week is happening April 9-11 in Paris.
Attend: LabWeek Public Goods Conference is happening from April 11-16 in San Francisco.
Attend: Building at the Edge tech summit is happening April 13 in San Francisco.
Attend: Harvard Blockchain Conference (HBC) 2024 is happening April 13-14 in Cambridge, MA.
Attend: Funding the Commons and Earth Commons are happening April 13-14 in Berkeley, CA.
Attend: Responsible Tech ATX: All Tech Is Human Meetup is happening April 17 in Austin.
Attend: ReFI UNCONFERENCE April 21-25 in Barcelona.
Attend: Cornell Blockchain Conference 2024: Building For Billions is happening April 26 in NYC.
Attend: Good Tech Fest is happening May 1-2 online.
Attend: IslandDAO is happening May 17 - June 14 on the island of Crete.
Attend: Decipher 2024, a retreat for teams actively building on Algorand, is happening June 26-27 in Barcelona.
Attend: EthCC[7] is happening July 8-11 in Brussels.
Attend: DWeb Camp is happening August 7-11 in Camp Navarro, CA.
Attend: REBOOT: THE NEW REALITY is happening September 4-5 in San Francisco.
📡 On Our Radar
Celosphere, powered by RaribleX, is an NFT marketplace for access and impact, empowering ownership and prosperity for all.
Easy RetroPGF is a user-friendly tool designed to make it simple and straightforward to run RPGF rounds, particularly in the style of Optimism.
DeCleanup is incentivizing cleanup efforts and engaging Web3 solutions to inspire the positive impact.
Mint Forest is an on-chain social product with a green & environmentally friendly theme, developed by Mint Blockchain
The Decentralized Social Networking Protocol establishes a shared social graph that is no longer dependent on a specific application or a centralized platform.
THIRTY SIX is a poetry book containing 44 poems. Each poem is based on data extracted from anonymized interviews with members of the crypto community conducted with the author.
Breadchain is a network of cooperatives projects building solidarity primitives.
✨ And one more thing
GoodDollar teamed up with Blocksurvey to ask 5,000 community members to share their thoughts about Web3. The results provide a picture of how real people in emerging markets are using DeFI and crypto as part of their financial empowerment journey.
Last month, to celebrate International Women's Day, GoodDollar shared insights from the survey about how are women around the world using Web3.
