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Did you catch Sam in this week’s Topl Spotlight? Thanks to Topl for highlighting what we are building at Web3ForGood! Read a summary on LinkedIn, here.
There may only be a few weeks left in 2023, but Web3 builders aren’t slowing down. Lots of launches this week + anticipation for what’s to come in 2024 (like the just announced Social Impact Summit at USF!). Read all of it, below.
What’s Inside
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🚀 Opportunities & Events
📡 On Our Radar
✨ And one more thing
📣 Latest News
Taga-Crypto Debuts as a Pioneering Web3 Technology Platform for Social Impact and Education
Octant partners to fund builders and founders in the SheFi community
Polygon Labs partners with Celo to provide testimonials from Celo ecosystem founders
Arbitrum throws hat in ring for Celo's migration to Layer-2 blockchain
Basel Committee suggests introducing maturity limits for stablecoin reserve assets
Coinbase introduces spot crypto trading for institutional investors outside US
📚 What We’re Thinking About
👩🎓 Web3 in Education: Pioneering a new era of learning and technology. (Crypto Altruism)
🎮 Levels of the game: the psychology of RetroPGF and how to build a better game. (Carl Cervone)
🐧 NFTs are not all bad: glimpses of hope from some progressive projects indicate that NFTs could eventually find their place in society. (Forbes)
🗣 Which world leaders have made big promises on crypto? From Nayib Bukele to Donald Trump, many current and former heads of state across the globe have used crypto and blockchain as political tools. (Cointelegraph)
💰 Is El Salvador’s Bitcoin gambit finally paying off? The rise in El Salvador’s bond prices “almost defies gravity,” and it may soon have access to Eurobond markets, said Santander Bank. (Cointelegraph)
⛓ Creating NFTs for Social Impact: How Nonprofits Are Leveraging Blockchain Technology. (Blockchain Magazine)
🏛 How Binance Will Open All Its Activity to the U.S. Government: Experts Dorothy DeWitt and Michael Dawson discuss the implications, challenges, and potential outcomes of Binance's compliance monitorship. (CoinDesk)
🎉 Year-in-Review: Celo 2023 Highlights (Celo)
🏞 ReFi: What could future financial systems look like, and how would they work? (HackerNoon)
👐 Brazil looks to digital currency to broaden financial inclusion. (Al Jazeera)
🪙 Fintech firms in Latin America are rapidly embracing digital finance solutions, fueled by an increase in crypto adoption among citizens. (Cryptonews)
🖼 2023's big moments for women in Web3 in fashion, art, healthcare. (BFF)
🚀 Opportunities & Events:
Apply: Gitcoin is hiring for a Full-Stack Software Engineer, a Content & Social Specialist, and a Technical Product Marketing Manager - Gitcoin Passport.
Apply: The Giving Block is hiring a Senior Fundraising Strategist, Head of Growth, and Web/PHP Developer.
Apply: New_Pulblic is hiring a Senior Fundraising Manager, Chief of Staff, Head of Fundraising, and Head of Communications.
Speak: Good Tech Fest's Virtual Conference is happening May 1-2, 2024, and speaker applications are now open.
Share: Have a genius idea? Drop it in Mission Requests, for someone to build it while being supported by OP.
Events
Attend: Greenpill NYC’s holiday meetup (the final meetup of the year) is happening in NYC on December 19th.
Attend: Topl’s December Community Call is happening December 20.
Attend: Global Blockchain Business Council's 7th Annual Blockchain Central Davos is happening in Davos January 14-18.
Attend: The Filecoin Sanctuary is happening January 15–18 in Davos, Switzerland.
Attend: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web, together with Blockchain Law for Social Good Center are hosting Social Impact Summit 2024 in San Francisco on February 27.
📡 On Our Radar
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