🌍 This Week in Web3ForGood
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Web3forGood is a weekly publication that celebrates and critically analyzes how emerging web3 technology could be used to make the world a better place.
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Bitcoin is down again, just in time for Thanksgiving dinner in the US next week. If you find yourself cornered at the table trying to explain that this space is actually about what the tech can enable, feel free to slide them this newsletter. May it save you from at least one circular conversation. Godspeed.
WAGMI (we are going to make an impact!)
xx Abeera & Sam
P.S. Don’t forget to celebrate Monthly Earth Day this weekend!
What’s Inside
📚 What We’re Thinking About
📣 Latest News
🔈 Watch & Listen
🚀 Opportunities & Calls to Act
🎪 Events
📡 On Our Radar
✨ And One More Thing
📚 What We’re Thinking About
⚡ The Ethereum Interop Layer
Ethereum shared new details this week about the Ethereum Interop Layer, a 2026 upgrade designed to make the entire ecosystem feel like one unified network. Currently, Ethereum is made up of many smaller chains called L2s. They exist to make transactions cheaper and faster, but they often feel like separate worlds. Moving money or identity between them usually requires bridges or specialized wallets, which creates friction and risk.
The new interop layer changes that story. Users will sign once and move across L2s without relying on trusted middlemen. Liquidity providers with deposits on multiple chains will handle the movement in the background, so the whole experience feels seamless. Every app will live on its own chain while still acting like part of a single system.
For social impact work, this unlocks a lot. A unified Ethereum makes it easier to deliver aid, run identity tools, coordinate communities, and move value across borders without confusing technical steps. It lowers the barrier to entry for people and organizations who simply need reliable rails that work anywhere. This is the type of infrastructure shift that brings the ecosystem closer to being useful at real human scale.
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🚀 The common thread of progress: “[A]ctually, there is something we have in common: A vision of the bold, ambitious technological future. A restless energy, dissatisfied with stagnation and sclerosis. A techno-humanist philosophy that holds human life and well-being as its north star.” (Big Think)
🔦 When Tanzania’s internet went dark, Bitcoin bridged a family across the border: “It was an improvised fix for a problem that most fintech founders are reluctant to discuss: what happens when the internet disappears.” (Tech Cabal)
🏺 Archeologists discover ancient blockchain: “Blockchains are a public display of information, designed to allow anyone to verify who owns and controls what unit of exchange. Monte Sierpe was a public display of information that allowed anyone to verify who had paid what tribute to whom.” (Blockworks)
🪙 Stablecoins, Tokens, and Global Dominance. “In a world where stablecoins, particularly those pegged to the dollar, become an important global payment tool, we must brace ourselves for substantial consequences.“ (International Monetary Fund)
📣 Latest News
Global Policy, Regulation, and Adoption News
New Hampshire Unveils $100 Million Bitcoin Collateralized Municipal Bond
El Salvador buys the dip defying IMF demands: Over $100M in BTC added as price wobbles
Reports and Project Updates
🔈 Watch & Listen
Crypto Altruists - Episode 227 - Sostento’s Crypto Advisory Board - Bringing Blockchain Into the Fight for Healthcare Equity
Green Pill Podcast - Book Launch: The Network Firm, Rethinking Capital Allocation in the Age of Blockchain & AI
🚀 Opportunities & Calls to Act
Apply: Uniswap is hiring for several positions.
Funding: The Bioregional Reforestation Grants Round by Silvi is the largest blockchain-native, outcomes-based reforestation grant round yet.
Learn: All Tech Is Human has launched five dynamic Responsible AI courses designed for aspiring RAI practitioners and AI Governance professionals, as well as those preparing to build AI Governance programs within an organization.
Learn: The Stablecoin Story is a free report, available for download, that breaks down the past, present, and future of digital money.
Speak: ETHDenver speaker applications (wave 2) are open through today. Wave 3 begins next week.
🎪 Events
🆕= New to the roundup this week
Virtual
Real-World DeFi: Lessons from MCV’s Pilots Driving Financial Access is happening November 25. 🆕
Human Rights Foundation’s Bitcoin Financial Freedom Webinar is happening December 15-17.
IRL
Brunch - Dev3pack x Celo & GoodDollar is happening November 21 in Buenos Aires.
The DeFi Report Dublin: Inaugural Meetup is happening November 26 in Dublin.
NFT.MIAMI @ BitBasel Miami Art Week is happening December 5 in Miami. 🆕
Vision Weekend USA 2025 is happening December 5-7 in San Francisco.
All Tech Is Human’s Responsible Tech Mixer is happening December 8 in NYC. 🆕
ACJR’s Crypto Winter Mixer is happening December 9 in NYC. 🆕
Holiday Mixer with Seattle Stand W Crypto Highlighting Small Biz’s is happening December 9 in Seattle. 🆕
ETHDenver is happening February 17-21 in Denver. 🆕
The Oslo Freedom Forum is happening June 1-3 in Oslo, Norway.
ETHBoulder is coming in 2026…
Recurring
Monthly Earth Day is a global event that happens on the 22nd every month, not just once a year. Get involved next on November 22 (Tomorrow!!)
📡 On Our Radar
My First Bitcoin provides open source Bitcoin education for the world and is built around a core concept: that independent, impartial, community-led Bitcoin education will change the world.
Bitizenship is an international fintech and advisory firm building compliant, Bitcoin-aligned residency and citizenship pathways.
Tando helps anyone easily spend Bitcoin anywhere in Kenya.
Filosign provides trustless document signing for the modern web.
Geo Browser is a web3 browser and knowledge graph app.
Filecoin Onchain Cloud lets you build applications that own their data, payments, and logic.
B-Tech is led by UN Human Rights to provide an authoritative and broadly accepted roadmap for applying the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) to the development and use of digital technologies.
✨ And One More Thing
Taschen’s new book On NFTs is catching audiences up on the misconstrued idea of non-fungible tokens 🎨.