🌍 This Week in Web3forGood
GG19 is live, RetroPGF Round 3
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In case you missed it… Gitcoin Grants Round 19 is happening now! From now until November 29, you have the opportunity to uplift some of the most impactful projects in Web3 and have your donations multiplied with matching funds via Quadratic Funding. Web3ForGood isn’t participating in this round, but we hope you consider supporting our friends at Crypto Altruism, GoodDollar, Giveth, Solar Foundation, and impactMarket 💛💛.
Last week we told you that Web3ForGood is participating in Optimism’s RetroPGF round. If you’re curious to learn more about how we’re supporting the ecosystem, we invite you to tune into Proof of Integrity’s RetroPGF Project Showcase #5 next Tuesday at 12:00p UTC / 7:30a EST — Web3ForGood contributor Tayyab will be sharing more our work. Link to RSVP coming soon; follow @proof_integrity for updates.
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What’s Inside
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🚀 Opportunities & Events
📡 On Our Radar
📣 Latest News
Launch of the EVM Gateway brings a new layer of interoperability between L1 and L2 chains
Former Polygon Labs President Ryan Wyatt Joins Ethereum Layer-2 Optimism
Global Blockchain Business Council Merges with U.S. Blockchain Coalition
Germany’s fourth-largest bank, Commerzbank, granted crypto custody license
IMF Managing Director says central bank digital currency (CBDC) can replace cash
Kenya Begins Pilot Program for Digital IDs Replacing the Previous Blockchain-based Huduma Number ID
📚 What We’re Thinking About
⛑ Blockchain is fast, direct, and cryptic — can it reshape international aid? (Forkast)
🔮 What Happened to the New Internet? (Bryan Lehrer)
📄 How researchers can contribute to the emerging science of DAOs and other digitally-constituted organizations. (Cornell University)
🛳 The world of international trade is undergoing a seismic shift, and Uganda is setting itself up to be at the forefront of this change. (Business Insider Africa)
🔬 Op-ed: We need to decentralize science. (Blockworks)
🌾 Shamba Network’s Kennedy Ng’ang’a on empowering farmers through data. (Topl)
🪙 How Crypto Entrepreneurs Are Experimenting With Universal Basic Income. (Forbes)
⛓ Unlocking Bitcoin’s Functionality to Drive a New, More Inclusive Global Economy. (Topl)
🏳 Yes, I am a techno-optimist. But with a few notes. (The Elysian)
🚀 The world is shaped by periods in which extraordinary upheavals in technology or infrastructure coincide, unleashing a generational step function in innovation. Think telegraphs and railroads, fiber-optic cables and the internet, or mobile phones and 3G. One belief is that the intersection of AI and blockchains represents a similarly transformative moment. (Archetype)
🚀 Opportunities & Events:
Apply: ReFi DAO Local Nodes is accepting applications from founders, entrepreneurs, and community builders for their Beta Cohort.
Support: Gitcoin Grants 19 is live. Support your favorite projects and builders. Thanks to quadratic funding, even small donations make a big difference.
Submit a Proposal: Regen Network RFP “Soliciting Engineering Implementation Scopes of Work for CosmWasm implementation on Regen Ledger” is open.
Hack: Build with Celo Hackathon BUILD MiniPay dApps WITH CELO projects are due November 19 at 02:59 AM EST.
Nominate: Applications to join Global Blockchain Business Council’s 2024 Ambassador cohort are now open. GBBC Ambassadors are an exceptional group of super-connectors, innovators, and changemakers hailing from diverse backgrounds and industries — with an emphasis on technology, governance, law, finance, civil society, and academia.
Events
Attend: Givepact’s Launch Party is happening TODAY November 17 at 8pm in NYC.
Attend: Liberland is organizing a meetup on November 29 in Manila, Philippines.
Attend: Algorand Impact Summit is happening November 30 - December 1 in New Delhi.
Attend: The Responsible Tech London meetup is happening December 5.
Attend: The Blockchain x Climate Leadership Network is hosting The Promise of Blockchain: Catalytic Scale for Climate Finance on December 6 at COP28 in Dubai.
Attend: ETHIndia is happening December 8-10 in Bengaluru, India.
Attend: Lab for Inclusive FinTech (LIFT) is hosting The Digital Future: Fintech, AI, and the Path to Financial Inclusion on December 11-12 at the Haas School of Business in Berkeley, CA.
📡 On Our Radar
Huma Finance is an on-chain credit platform where high-performing receivables meet with global capital.
Holonym is working with BlockchainGov to show how applied zero knowledge proofs can augment traditional identity and point out key areas where we can improve access and scalability.
InterPlanetary Consensus is a revolutionary blockchain technology from the minds behind Filecoin and IPFS, designed to bring planetary-scale performance to Web3.