🌍 This Week in Web3ForGood
Gitcoin results, funding public goods, and more...
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We’re all ready to welcome fall at Web3ForGood with all that is happening in the space. Particularly exciting this week - GoodDollar launches a Prosperity Grants Program, updates to Gitcoin Passport, and more about #StandWithCrypto!
Next week, we keep up with our Climate Collective Spotlight series and bring you a detailed look into Moss!
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What’s Inside
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🚀 Opportunities & Events
📡 On Our Radar
📣 Latest News
Crypto giants like Uniswap and Coinbase band together to fund public goods
Givepact joins Coinbase and 45 crypto companies on Capital Hill to #StandWithCrypto
Democracy’s Library announces more than a petabyte of data uploaded to the Filecoin network
Celo Protocol Upgrades: Gingerbread hard fork and contracts release 10
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🌐 Gitcoin Grants Round 18: Results and Recap. (Gitcoin)
🌲 Topl Spotlight #22: Activating Communities for Local Action With Green Pill Network’s Sejal Rekhan. (Topl)
🧠 New Greenpill episode with Vitalik Butterin, “Why Public Goods are Good”. (GreenPill)
🗺 The UN thinks AI can be a force for good—with the right rules. (TechBrew)
👐 Explore Topl’s partnership with a select group of projects to design Impact Tokens around the UN Sustainable Development Goals. (Topl)
📔 What comes after the blockchain? A new crop of fintech startups are tackling blockchain inspired problems without the blockchain. (Rest of World)
🔗 Hitachi's metaverse tech helps keep Japanese craftsmanship alive: Veteran workers can pass down their knowledge remotely via VR. (Nikkei Asia)
🚀 Lightspeed Democracy: What web3 organizations can learn from the history of governance. (A16zcrypto)
🪙 FTX Showed the Problems of Centralized Finance, and Proved the Need for DeFi. (CoinDesk)
📃 Building dApps for Real World Use Cases: In this workshop, Eric Nakagawa highlights Celo's tools and features, explores account abstraction w/ Thirdweb, and demos a MiniPay project built using celo-composer. (ETHGlobal)
⛑ Musée d’Orsay, the French art museum embraces NFTs in a push to reach new audiences. (Decrypt)
🗣 Celo CEO Marek Olszewski said that blockchains can provide transparency and real-time verification on the state of carbon credits. (CoinTelegraph)
🔊 Blockchain and disaster relief: How Web3 tools are revolutionalizing disaster response efforts. (CryptoAltriusm)
👁 In emerging economies like Chile, Worldcoin is seeing strong success: Having your eyeballs scanned earns you about $42—not an insignificant sum in some countries. (Decrypt)
🚀 Opportunities & Events:
Apply: Crypto Council for Innovation is hiring a CCI Protocol/Infrastructure Coalition Lead.
Join: The October Wave Pool Hackathon sponsored by GoodDollar - $5,000 in prizes.
Share: Share what applications you would like to see built to help grow the Algorand Ecosystem.
Attend (IRL): SheFi Summit in Istanbul on Nov 12.
Attend (IRL): ReFi Week: REGENERATING THE EARTH TOGETHER from Oct 27 - Nov 3 in Portugal.
📡 On Our Radar
CryptoWitchClub: Learn about Web3 with friends that value non-toxic education + collaborate and network with fellow web3 witches who care about growing the ecosystem.