🌍 60/This Week in Web3forGood
Our favorite Gitcoin Grants projects
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Gitcoin Grants Beta Round is 🔥right now. With hundreds of public goods projects across 16 different categories, we know it can be overwhelming selecting who to support. The good news is, small donations go a long way! So even if you don’t have a lot to give, it’s still totally worth taking the time to set up a wallet and Gitcoin Passport to donate. It’s a great way to dive into Web3 and learn by doing (in addition to supporting some incredible projects with big social impact potential).
This Grants Round, we are supporting Atlantis DAO, Crypto Altruism, GainForest, ImpactDAO Media, Internet Archive, and Regens Unite. Each organization has inspired us in different ways, so we reached out to each to learn more about their current Beta Round grants and why they believe in Web3 tech as a social impact solution. Learn more from those who responded here (plus why we’re supporting). We hope you’ll join us in helping these projects succeed!
Don’t forget, Web3ForGood is participating in the Gitcoin Grants Beta Round too. If you find value in the work we do, please donate. Thanks to quadratic funding, just $1 will go a long way!
Gitcoin Grants Beta Round runs until Tuesday May 9 at 23:59 UTC. In the meantime…
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What’s Inside
🌊5 Questions with 3 Gitcoin Grants Beta Round Projects We Love
🕊 Tweets of the Week
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🚀 Opportunities & Events
📡 On Our Radar
🌊5 Questions with 3 Gitcoin Grants Beta Round Projects We Love
If you have the time and the means, we hope you will join us at Web3ForGood in participating in the Gitcoin Grants Beta Round, which runs until May 9, by funding your favorite public goods projects. Beta Round features 16 different categories and hundreds of public goods projects across software development, education, climate solutions, and more. Whatever cause you are passionate about, there is something for you. Remember, thanks to quadratic funding, your small donation can make a big difference for a team with a big idea!
At Web3ForGood, we are supporting a handful of projects, whose work in the ecosystem has really stood out to us. They include: Crypto Altruism, GainForest, and Impact DAO Media. We reached out to the team at each organization to learn more about their projects, why they matter, and why Web3.
Read more about what they are working on in their own words (plus: why they have our support).
🕊 Tweets of the Week
📣 Latest News
Celo governance proposal to direct offset funds into on-chain carbon assets passes
GoodDollar Celebrates Expansion to Celo With 5X Invite Rewards for Inviting Friends
Coinbase Launches International Exchange with Bitcoin and Ethereum Perpetual Futures
New ‘Waterlily’ service offers AI image generation that pays royalties to artists
📚 What We’re Thinking About
👐 Bitcoin Ordinals: What they are and how they can help nonprofit fundraising. (Givepact)
🔈 GitHub’s Kasia Sitkiewicz and Protocol Labs’ Petar Maymounkov are teaming up to make open-source collaborative work better. (Microsoft Research Podcast)
🎥 Video: One in four people in South Africa is unbanked. Crypto is helping increase economic freedom. (Coinbase)
🚗 Ethereum Foundation Fellow, Marcus used DeFi to buy a car and showcase the power of DeFi in Latin America to bring forth more financial freedom in the region. (marcus.mirror.xyz)
🏭 Carbon Credits: Permission to Pollute, or Pivotal for Progress? There’s a common belief that companies purchase carbon credits or ‘offsets’ in order to avoid taking real action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, but this report argues otherwise. (Sylvera)
🪙 Crypto Philanthropy 101: What Donors and Organizations Need to Know. (CoinDesk)
👩🚀 A report revealed that nearly 70% of Indian execs plan to integrate the metaverse into their business. Meanwhile, 63% of companies actively engaged with the metaverse expect to fully embed it in their operations within a year. (NFTevening)
💰 46% of millennials across major economies own crypto. (Cointelegraph)
🌻 The climate industry is warming up to Web3 startups who are using blockchain technology to improve the carbon-credit markets. (Insider)
🏛 Quadratic Voting IRL: Examples from Colorado. (RadicalxChange)
📚 A primer on augmented bonding curves in the context of public goods funding. (@AtlantisDAO1)
✉️ The Crypto Council for Innovation submitted a letter and call for evidence in response to the UK’s future regulatory regime for cryptoassets. (Crypto Council for Innovation)
👩💻 Good news: The ReFi industry is world-class when it comes to women representation in leadership. Of the 60+ ReFi organizations interviewed and surveyed during research for the World Economic Forum Economic Forum, 45% had women in leadership positions. (Anna Lerner Nesbit)
🔗 The African Blockchain Report provides insights into the funding of blockchain companies in Africa and the blockchain sector on the African continent as a whole. (CV VC)
💛 Africa fell in love with crypto. Now, it’s complicated. (Rest of the World)
🚰 Tayaba, a non-profit organization in Lahore, Pakistan, improves access to clean water and sanitation for marginalized communities. In collaboration with Rumsan-Rahat, a Nepalese blockchain company focused on social impact, Tayaba has launched the first-ever tokenization of philanthropy in Pakistan. (Pakistan Today)
🚀 Opportunities & Events:
Apply: Climate Collective is hiring summer interns.
Apply: Foundation is hiring a Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure; Product Design Manager; and Senior Product Designer (Contract).
Apply: The Celo Foundation is hiring a Business Development Operations Partner; Business Development, Web3 Partnerships; and an Office Coordinator, San Francisco.
Attend: Crypto Commons is happening from May 22-28 in Vienna, Austria.
Attend: The Inaugural GreenPill NYC Chapter Meetup in Brooklyn is happening on May 5.
Attend: DWeb Camp 2023 is happening June 21-25 in Camp Navarro, CA.
Attend: Ethereum Community Conference 6 is happening July 17-20 in Paris.
Accelerate: The inaugural Consumer Crypto Accelerator by Seed Club is happening June-August. Apply by May 15.
Participate: The Gitcoin CoordiNATION Game (a four-day game from local communities across the globe to onboard new donors, match funders and projects into the Gitcoin ecosystem during the Beta round and beyond) is hosting events IRL and online through May 6.
📡 On Our Radar
CRISP by Solid World is a Carbon Risk Identification and Scoring Principles framework that aims to revolutionize the evaluation of forward carbon credit deals in the rapidly expanding Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM).
PlantGang is building a virtual herbarium onchain, a platform to view, upload and collect real-world scientific scans of 3D model plant specimens.
Climate Action Data Trust is a decentralised metadata platform that links, aggregates and harmonises carbon credit data from all major registries.
The Impact DAO Beginners Course from Impact DAO Media is a step-by-step course on how to build Impact DAO. It’s the first course on DAOs created in collaboration with Impact DAOs.
UrbanChange Protocol is a dual-token model promoting economic and social sustainability in local communities.