This Week in Web3forGood
🌍 Tokenomics 101, ReFi and emerging markets, the impact of UBI, and an appeal for the those affected by the floods in Pakistan
gm everyone,
Hope your week was calmer than ours at Web3forGood but let’s keep pushing forward. As summer is wrapping up, we have been diving deeper into understanding the voluntary carbon market, so keep your eyes out for something soon 👀.
On a more somber note, it has also been a heavy week. The floods in Pakistan have left over a 1000 people dead and more than 33 million people displaced, and things are expected to get worse. Pakistan is home to more glaciers than anywhere in the world outside the polar regions, but as the climate warms, it's becoming more vulnerable to sudden outbursts of melting glacier water that has brought widespread destruction to its people. As someone who grew up in Pakistan and still have most of my family living there, this has hit too close to home. For anyone looking to donate to help those affected by the floods, here is a list of verified fundraisers.
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What’s Inside
🕊 Tweet of the Week
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🚀 Opportunities
📡 On Our Radar
🕊 Tweet of the Week
Tweet from @chaserchapman.
📣 Latest News
EMURGO Ventures Invests in AID:Tech to Advance Web3 Solutions for Onchain Reputation & Rewards
Argentine Province Allows Millions to Pay Taxes Using Stablecoins
YML Launches First-Of-Its-Kind NFT Project To Restore California Forests
📚 What We’re Thinking About
Can Web3 help get us to net zero? New tech ventures want to use blockchain to clean up a messy carbon market, but critics fear more greenwashing. (Financial Times)
Been thinking about ImpactDAOs? Listen to this Twitter Space about defining ImpactDAOs and share your definition here. (ImpactDAO Research) And while you’re at it - check out ImpactDAO media’s Gitcoin grant.
On bringing real-world asset ownership to Web3. (Bitcoinist)
How to transform Web3 applications into real-world use cases and bring them to the global market. (Coindesk - Webinar)
A great tokenomics 101 thread by Tokenomics DAO. (@tokenomicsdao)
Web3 provides the perfect opportunity to reframe how we identify, assess, finance, & incentivize regenerative land practices; more on forestation, emerging markets, and voluntary carbon market opportunity. (Open Forest Protocol and Mercy Corps Ventures)
Fighting Climate Change With Web3: Opportunities At Hand (NearWeek)
From Brazil to Nigeria, global crypto adoption is on the rise despite market uncertainty. Which countries are leaning into crypto? (Coinbase Bytes)
A piece in defence of stablecoins. (The Financial Times)
An insightful piece on the Climate Collective’ s role in increasing Liquidity, Transparency, and the Integrity of Carbon Credit Markets (Celo)
An impactMarket Afghanistan Community Manager on how UBI and the blockchain have changed lives in the country. (impactMarket)
Alex Wilson, Co-Founder of The Giving Block, shares questions he receives most from nonprofits curious about accepting crypto donations. (The Giving Block)
Despite its development being in its early stages, there are cities across the world that are already embracing the metaverse and also aiming from a government strategic level to be future global metaverse hubs. (The Fintech Times)
Etoro’s Yoni Assia on how the GoodDollar Project could leverage digital finance to bridge the next big wealth gap. (World Economic Forum)
How to rethink community design to build better communities. (Forefront)
Beijing will regulate “digital humans” in the metaverse. Analysts say the significance of the plan is that it exists at all. (Rest of the World)
🚀 Opportunities
Apply: Babb is hiring a Head of Finance and Treasury / Crypto / Stable Coins.
Apply: Frequency Crypto is a free, virtual founder bootcamp for web3 builders hosted by Pillar VC & the melon.
Attend: MIT Media Lab is hosting DeSci Boston, a 1-day event to bring together web3 developers, DeSci leaders, and funders in the DeSci ecosystem, on September 18.
Attend: Sustainable Blockchain Summit LATAM will take place October 12 in Bogotá, Colombia.
Attend: The Great Gitcoin Grant Eligibility hunt aims to hear the voice of the community to help them better understand what grants qualify for grants rounds, what grants are public goods, and which ones shouldn't even be allowed on the platform.
RSVP: Mercy Corps Ventures, Celo, Regen Network, Climate Collective and friends are hosting a ReFi focused happy hour on October 18th in San Francisco and spots are limited.
Host: Devcon and Ethereum Foundation are funding The Merge meetups & watch parties around the globe with support up to $1000. Anyone, anywhere can host an event.
Hack: #BuildWithCelo is a global hackathon hosted by The Celo Foundation that invites value-aligned founders and builders to design and ship their best ideas on the Celo blockchain. There will be five categories for the hackathon: ReFi, DAOs, NFTs, SocialFi, and GameFi, and more than 125,000 $cUSD in prizes.
📡 On Our Radar
Jasmine is a decentralized market for climate assets that makes it easy to claim, trade, and redeem renewable energy certificates (RECs). Accelerating the net-zero transition by building climate asset markets that are accessible and transparent for everyone.
Dreaming of a Better World from Mirage Gallery is a monthly, cause-focused, AI-generated art competition.
R Planet is an interactive brand where tokens + community create actual impact in the real world.
ReFi Calendar 2022 from CyberBox enables anyones to mint an NFT to offset 1 tCO2 every month and regenerate nature.
humanDAO is a social impact project that created the Pocket Assistant program to help those at the top of the economic ladder and those at the bottom through a unique service facilitated by NFTs/Web3.