🌍 This Week in Web3forGood
Positive News
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It has been a hard week around the world — from the lives lost to the earthquake in Afghanistan to the events in Gaza, there is heartbreaking conflict and tragedy at this moment. While there may be conflicting emotions, most of us are united in our shock and sadness for those who are suffering.
We hope the positive stories in this edition of the newsletter offer a glimmer of hope even as we grasp with the happenings of the world.
WAGMI (we are going to make an impact)
xx Abeera & Sam
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What’s Inside
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🚀 Opportunities & Events
📡 On Our Radar
📣 Latest News
GoodDollar and GloDollar have joined forces in the Glo consortium
Gitcoin announces the launch of round managers training pilot cohort
Japanese yen-backed digital currency, DCJPY, to go live in July 2024
US lawmakers urge IRS to implement crypto tax reporting requirements
Gitcoin piloting Direct Grants with PowerPool for their Builder Grants Program
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🚀 Scaling Gitcoin’s Impact from $50mm GMV to $500m GMV. (Kevin Owocki)
🪙 impactMarket’s Microcredit Report — April to September 2023. (impactMarket)
🍃 Voluntary Carbon Markets in turmoil: What must be done to make carbon offsetting work? (Energypost)
✨ Quick reflection on Gitcoin’s experience innovating with Fantom. (Gitcoin)
📈 Celo's Lifetime Net Carbon Footprint: the Ultragreen Money Dashboard & how on-chain offsets are making off-chain impact. (Celo)
📻 Blockchain for Good: Deforestation, “NFTtrees”, GainForest, and the Celo Foundation. (Blockchain.com)
🚀 Opportunities & Events:
Apply: Long Term Future Fund is looking for a full-time fund chair.
Funding: Gitcoin Citizen’s Round 2 is happening now through October 24.
Attend: Plan B Forum (which brings together world leaders, technologists, and entrepreneurs to discuss nation-state Bitcoin adoption, economics, financial freedom, and freedom of speech) is happening October 20-21 in Lugano.
Attend: The Global Blockchain Business Council is hosting Real-World Use Cases: Transforming Supply Chains virtually on October 26.
Attend: ReFi Week: Regenerating Earth Together is happening in Abela, Portugal from October 27 - November 3.
Attend: LabWeek23, a decentralized conference by Protocol Labs Network, is happening November 13-17 in Istanbul.
📡 On Our Radar
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