🌍 48/This Week in Web3forGood
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This week in #web3forgood: news from UNICEF, Givepact, The Giving Block, and more. The White House and Britain outline roadmaps for crypto regulation. Celo Camp applications are open, and the most exciting projects in DeFi, ReFi, social impact, education, and corporate innovation.
Plus, jobs at Mercy Corps Ventures, Smith + Crown, and World Coin; volunteer at ETHDenver to get your hotel covered; 90% off Consensus; *two events hapenning today.*
It’s all in this week’s edition.
WAGMI (we are going to make an impact)
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What’s Inside
🕊 Tweets of the Week
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🚀 Opportunities & Events
📡 On Our Radar
🕊 Tweets of the Week
📣 Latest News
Longevity Startup VitaDAO Raises $4.1m, Backed By Pfizer, Balaji Srinivasan
Givepact rebrands in preparation for launch of crypto-to-cash platform this spring
Britain sets out plans to regulate crypto industry in wake of FTX collapse
The White House Releases Roadmap to Mitigate Cryptocurrencies’ Risks
Historic First Edition of INATBA Awards Honours Blockchain Excellence with Groundbreaking NFT Awards
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🌱 Decoding Impact DAOs: how coordination mechanisms can create public goods, reward contributors, and empower communities with tools for sustainable shared management of resources. (General Magic)
🍲 Food Banks are using cryptocurrency to get new donors. (Food Bank News)
🚘 California is putting car titles on the Tezos blockchain. What’s next? ($$ Fortune Crypto)
🪙 2022 was the year that the tokenized community was truly born. Tokenized Communities Year in Review — From individual to collective creation. (Forefront)
🏛 The Free Republic of Liberland launched a Representative Office in Mexico City this week. (Liberland)
🦁 A cautionary tale: National Geographic NFT launch heavily criticized for technical difficulties, sloppy launch. (NFT Evening)
📽 An NFT-funded film, Calladita, has won the top prize at Sundance film festival. (NFT Plazas)
🌸 Burning Man’s Mayan Warrior community, which operates as a 501(c)(3), is exploring the possibilities of blockchain for better fundraising. (EDM.com)
🔈 Listen: Decentralized Journalism: Can Blockchain Combat Misinformation? (BFF)
🌱 The current resistance towards voluntary carbon offsets around the world is a very privileged view that needs to change - this article is one of the most compelling and positive articulations of climate and community action from an expert on the front line. (VNV Advisory)
🚀 Opportunities & Events:
Apply: Mercy Corps Ventures is hiring an Innovation Project Manager to work closely on their Web3 pilots.
Apply: Smith + Crown is hiring a Research Director.
Apply: World Coin has several open positions across Product, Security, Customer Experience, Finance, Legal, Data Science, Software, and more.
Apply: Celo Camp, an eight-week virtual accelerator and mentorship program, is now open for Batch 7 applicants.
Enter to Win: Showcase your Solarpunk vision for a chance to win $1000 in weekly prizes in Future Quest’s AI Image Contest.
Discount: Women in crypto and Web3 can get 90% off 2+ passes to Consensus.
Volunteer: ETH Denver Crew applications are open. MetaSteward roles include a stipend or expenses for lodging.
Attend: The Definitive ETH Denver Side Events List -- because ETH Denver isn’t the only thing happening during ETH Denver.
Attend: CarbonPath is hosting a public methodology workshop forum on February 16 to disucss their methodology for validating the shutdown of marginally producing oil and gas wells.
Attend: *TODAY Feb 3 - 9am EST* ReFiDAO and Mercy Corps Ventures are hosting a regenerative capital roundtable with investors and entrepreneurs working in the Global South.
Attend: *TODAY Feb 3 - 4pm EST* BFF is hosting a Twitter Space How Web3 Is Advancing Sustainability and Climate Initiatives with Ecosapiens, SISU, and Open Earth Foundation.
📡 On Our Radar
Infinite Garden Coloring Book celebrates the natural evolution of web3 and its cyclical seasons. We are all stewards of this vast digital landscape; let us nurture the ecosystem to improve it for everyone.
ixo’s proposal for Alphabonds for decentralised outcomes-based digital financing of Quality Primary Education in India has been shortlisted by the Outcomes Accelerator.
GoodGhosting launched a new Save2Save pool with impactMarket.
FUND THE PLANET is creating a platform that will bridge the gaps between technology, humanity and nature, to achieve the crucial goal of conserving our planet's ecosystem by protecting endangered rainforests while concurrently offsetting the impact of our daily lives on the planet.