🌍 This Week in Web3ForGood
how to web3 this summer
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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Summer is here and so is the Web3ForGood summer break 🔆. After today, we’ll be pausing publication and touching lots of grass for the next month. We hope you do the same!
However, if you’re really missing your weekly Web3ForGood fix, we recommend the following:
Attend the Regenerative Technology Playshop ~ Governance & Collaboration by the Regenerative Technology Project next week. We haven’t been yet, but we heard the last one was great, and it’s on our list.
Subscribe to Funding the Commons events on Luma and show up at the next Town Hall. Great event, always!
Fund Web3 public goods via Octant’s Epoch 12. You have until June 30. For the first time, you can back projects even if you haven’t previously staked Octant’s native token, which means, its a great way to experiment with the platform and learn more about the community. Maybe your project could be featured in a future round??
Listen to the Crypto Altruists podcast. Catch up on past ones and/or subscribe for new episodes weekly. This is our favorite way to learn what people are building right now.
But seriously, don’t forget to touch some grass too. We’ll miss you and we’ll see you in August 💚💚
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🧭 EthLabs and Ethereum’s New Chapter
This week, five well-respected researchers left the Ethereum Foundation to launch EthLabs, an independent nonprofit dedicated to Ethereum’s core research and development. The founding team includes some of the most cited protocol researchers of the last decade. Their mission? To make Ethereum the settlement layer of the global economy. EthLabs describes itself as “one node in a much larger network of stewards,” which is decentralization at its finest, built into the core.
EthLabs did not appear out of nowhere. It launched the same week the Ethereum Foundation announced a major restructuring, trimming roughly 40% of its budget and around 54 roles. That is a real loss, and Ethereum supporters have been honest about it, while being quick to point out what the cuts will actually enable. The Foundation is deliberately becoming leaner and more endowment-like so it can fund Ethereum’s core values through any market cycle, rather than chasing price or spreading itself thin. Its work now centers on a tight set of priorities, keeping Ethereum censorship-resistant, open, private, and secure.
The shift is moving away from one big foundation trying to do everything and toward independent teams like EthLabs spread across the ecosystem. That is healthier, more resilient, and it mirrors the very thing that makes Ethereum valuable for social change: power and responsibility distributed instead of concentrated in one place. If you want to get involved or support the lab, you can reach the EthLabs team at join@ethlabs.org.
We’re excited to see where this is going. Ethereum has proven itself a real tool for social good over and over again, from getting aid directly to people in collapsing economies to giving activists and journalists rails they can trust. The way we see it, a sharper foundation and a new independent lab is not stepping back, but rather, a mission-driven ecosystem growing up.
Plus:
🪙 Africa spent a decade banning crypto. Now Nigeria, South Africa, and Kenya are licensing it, building the world’s first regulated stablecoin economy: “The shift in sentiment and action taken by governments is the answer to a change in what crypto has become on the ground, where it’s become less of an investment and more of a payment system that millions of people already use for remittances, savings, and cross-border trade.“ (CryptoSlate)
🌱 Greenpilled Thesis: In Retrospect: “the deeper miss is subtler. i was too technology-forward. i believed that if you shipped better mechanisms, better coordination would follow. but mechanisms don’t coordinate people. culture does. narrative does. institutions, status, trust, and social structure do. sustained revenue and cashflow is required to put wood behyind the arrow. i built the basement (the game theory, the smart contracts, the funding rails) and skipped parts of the superstructure (the human layer sitting on top of all of it).“ (@owocki)
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MoneyGram Becomes Solana Validator, Joins Institutional Developer Platform
Anthropic Announces Program to Teach Nonprofits to Use AI More Effectively
Global Policy, Regulation, and Adoption News
Reports & Project Updates
🔈 Watch & Listen
Crypto Altruists - Episode 1, Building for Good with G$ - A Blueprint for Ecosystem Funding: GoodBuilders, FlowState, and the Power of Streaming Funds
🚀 Opportunities & Calls to Act
Apply: The AI Access Initiative (2AI) is hiring a Chief Program Officer.
🎪 Events
Virtual
Regenerative Technology Playshop ~ Governance & Collaboration is happening June 30.
Nature Tech Demo Day - Measuring Biodiversity Across the Value Chain is happening July 2.
SheFi Philippines Official Launch is happening July 11 in Santa Rosa. 🆕
Community Call: Deliberative & Democratic Tech hosted by Metagov x CrownShy is happening July 14. 🆕
Regenerative Technology Mutual Aid Innovation Gathering is happening July 15.
IRL
European DAO Workshop 2026 is happening July 6-7 in Winterthur, Switzerland.
DWeb Camp 2026 is happening July 8–12 in Alte Hölle - Brandenburg, Germany.
ETHGlobal Lisbon is happening July 24-26 in Lisbon.
DWeb Camp Cascadia is happening July 30 - August 3 on Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada.
FW:B Fest 5 is happening July 31-August 2 in Idyllwild, CA.
Liberpulco 2026 is happening August 13-23 in Liberland Ark Village, Serbia.
Crypto Commons Gathering is happening August 16-22 in Reichenau an der Rax, Austria.
Valley of the Commons is happening August 24 - September 20 in the Austrian Alps.
Boston Blockchain Week is happening September 8-10 in Quincy, MA.
The Gathering is happening September 11-15 in Portugal.
The Technoprogressive Opportunity is happening September 19-20 in London.
Freedom Tech DC is happening September 22-23 in Washington, DC. 🆕
ETHGlobal Tokyo 2026 is happening September 25-27 in Tokyo.
TOKEN2049 is happening October 7-8 in Singapore.
Progress Conference 2026 is happening October 8-11 in Berkeley, CA.
Responsible Tech Summit: Embedding Accountability in the AI Era is happening October 29 in NYC.
Devcon 8 is happening November 3-6 in Mumbai, India.
Foresight Institute’s Vision Weekend USA 2026 is happening November 13-15 in San Francisco.
ETHWomen is happening November 17-18 in Florida.
The Africa Bitcoin Conference is happening December 2-5 in Blantyre, Malawi.
Recurring
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