🌍 57/This Week in Web3ForGood
See you in Boston
gm gm,
Happy 48th birthday, Satoshi Nakumoto! No, we still don’t know who the mysterious creator of Bitcoin is, but they have a birthday that happened this week 🎉.
You’ll notice that this week’s newsletter has A LOT of events. ‘Tis the season! If you’re in Boston next week, make sure to stop by the Sustainable Blockchain Summit. In addition to being one of our *favorite* Web3 events, Sam will be speaking about why it’s so important to talk to non-tech audiences about the potential of Web3 and how to do so. If you’re there, please say hi 😄.
We are verrrrrrrry close to revealing two big announcements. In the meantime…
WAGMI (we are going to make an impact)
xx Abeera & Sam
P.S. As governments across the world weigh in on crypto, keep track of all the latest in crypto regulations with this very useful tool.
What’s Inside
🕊 Tweets of the Week
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🚀 Opportunities & Events
📡 On Our Radar
✨ And one more thing
🕊 Tweets of the Week
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
👐 In May 2021, Vitalik Buterin donated $1 billion worth SHIB coins to India's Crypto Relief Fund, making it one of the largest public health funds in India. Now, the fund is transforming. (Crypto Good)
⛺️ Celo Camp unveiled the newest participants of its highly-anticipated Batch 7 cohort. (Celo Foundation)
🪙 The stablecoin USDC offers greater transparency than competitors like USDT, but that proved of little value when it depegged during the recent banking crisis. (CoinDesk)
📈 7 New Form Factors for Quadratic Funding (@owocki)
📄 Funding for Impact, Not Intention: Why the predominant model of rewarding impact is broken and how funders can use hypercerts to have more impact. (Hypercerts.eth)
🏞 Understanding ReFi’s alternative economic system. (@ToucanProtocol)
🌻 Real-world examples of the positive impact ReFi projects are already making on both the economy and environment. (Quantsatmp)
⛑ The shifting demographics in philanthropy and the impact on charitable organizations. (The Giving Block)
🔗 From remittances to peer-to-peer lending, blockchain is driving financial inclusion for the billions of unbanked around the world. (Givepact)
💰 Jackie Bona from Valora on the critical role wallets play in onboarding the masses, design challenges present in wallets, and how to build a wallet accessible to all. (Last Mile DeFi Podcast)
💛 Data collected by the crypto charity platform The Giving Block predicts crypto donations will surpass $10B in a decade. (CoinTelegraph)
🚗 7 real-world NFT use cases to keep on your radar. (Blockworks)
☀️ Beyond Ethereum: Top ReFi projects in the Solana ecosystem. (ReFi DAO)
🏛 A report from Treasury signaled that it is trying to encourage industry and developers to integrate AML compliance into DeFi services. (Crypto Council for Innovation)
🏘 Blockchain is democratizing the real estate market. (Algorand Foundation)
✈️ Low-cost Argentinian carrier Flybondi offers airline tickets as NFTs on the Algorand blockchain. (CoinDesk)
🌱 The 2022 Grantee Report from Regen Network Development highlights the diverse work of 45 grantees and projects. (Regen Network)
⚖️ Common misconceptions: What regulators still don't get about crypto. (Bankless)
📗 Gnosis Guild’s Q1 2023 report. (Gnosis Guild)
📘 impactMarket’s March Recap. (impactMarket)
📒 GoodDollar’s March GoodUpdate. (GoodDollar)
🚀 Opportunities & Events:
Apply: Flowcarbon is hiring multiple positions (marketing, sales, finance, tokenization, more).
Attend: The Inaugural Blockchain Education Conference is happening April 11 in Washington DC.
Attend: Define the Relationship: NFTs and Climate, a conversation hosted by Boys Club and Celo, is happening in NYC on April 12th.
Attend: The Nonprofit Technology Conference is happening in Denver and virtually April 12-14.
Attend: The Sustainable Blockchain Summit is happening April 13 in Boston. (*come hear Sam speak about Web3ForGood and the importance of communicating to non-tech audiences!)
Attend: Navigating the World of Crypto-Philanthropy is a virtual program happening April 14.
Attend: Elevate, a virtual conference exploring AI, media, and Web3’s role in the integrity of the Web is happening online April 14-16th.
Attend: Plurality Tokyo, a side event of ETH Global Tokyo, is happening April 12.
Attend: ETH Boston is happening in (surprise) Boston April 29-30.
Attend: The Good Tech Fest is happening in Washington DC May 1-3 and virtually May 4.
Attend: The next Funding the Commons will take place in Paris from July 15-16.
Mint: A gratitude hypercert with Supermodular’s new tool to mint hypercerts.
Sign up: Dottyland’s waitlist is open. Get on the list to own your impact identity.
📡 On Our Radar
Co2 Bitcoin is the world's first cryptocurrency to fight climate change.
Betterverse is building the world's charity aggregator on Web3.
The Digital Euro Association is a think tank specializing in crypto assets, stablecoins, central bank digital currencies, and other forms of digital money.
R3WILD is a decentralized platform for rewilding and restoring biodiversity.
✨ And one more thing…
ReFi DAO’s Solana dashboard tracks organizations building in the Solana ecosystem, events, content, and more.