🌍 This Week in Web3ForGood
Funding the Commons
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In just over two weeks, the 6th edition of Funding the Commons will be taking place in PARIS at the historic Sorbonne Université, and we are thrilled to offer Web3ForGood readers a special discount on tickets (thank you, Protocol Labs!).
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Sam learned so much at Funding the Commons in Bogotá last year, and we can’t recommend the event enough. Hope to see you there!
WAGMI (we are going to make an impact!)
What’s Inside
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🚀 Opportunities & Events
📡 On Our Radar
✨ And one more thing
📣 Latest News
Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative Launches Claims Code of Practice
Warner Music, Polygon Labs Launch Blockchain Music Accelerator
Crypto Sustainability Coalition’s latest publication focuses on Impact DAOs
“Sign in with Worldcoin” now available on Okta’s Auth0 Marketplace
UK passes bill to recognize crypto as regulated financial activity in the country
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🏞 An explainer on the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative’s Claim Code of Practice. (Sylvera)
💛 DAOs are a community centric model for the future of work. (Friends of Impact DAOs)
🔊 Marek Olswezwski, Co-Founder of Celo and Valora, on how Celo and Valora are distinguishing themselves in the blockchain ecosystem, the impact they are having on people’s lives in the global south, and what’s next. (Marcus.lens)
🏛 SEC vs. Coinbase update. (MetaverseLawyer)
🪙 CBDCs—if well designed—could lower remittances’ costs and improve financial inclusion, but they should be regulated. (International Monetary Fund)
🗺 Attitudes on crypto are geographically divided; of those surveyed, Nigerians had the most positive outlook. (Blockworks)
🏕 Zuzalu, the two month Montenegro meetup brought to life from the vision of Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin, was “more like an ancient Greece town square than a seaside crypto conference.” (Decrypt)
🧸️ Teaming up with fundraising platform JustGiving, Teddy DAO will hold a daily auction of teddy bear NFTs, allowing the buyer to donate proceeds to a charity of their choosing. (CoinDesk)
🎟 Loyalty, Memberships and Ticketing: How NFTs will bring about mass adoption. (CoinDesk)
📔 Guidelines for grants rounds, based on best practices learned over the last four years of growing the Gitcoin Grants Program. (Gitcoin)
💛 Want a masterclass in Quadratic Funding? Look no further! (Kevin Owocki)
🚀 Opportunities & Events:
Apply: Foundation is hiring a Marketing Manager.
Attend: The AI for Good Global Summit is happening July 6-7 in Geneva.
Attend: Protocol Labs Launchpad Summit is happening July 16-21 in Paris.
Attend: Co:OPERATE à Paris is happening July 17-19 in Paris.
Contribute: Clr.fund funding is open. This fundraiser rewards projects with the most unique demand, not just those with the wealthiest backers.
Apply: Public Goods Builder Residency is happening September 1-30 in Berlin.
Apply: The Devconnect Scholars Program will provide talented and values-aligned individuals from communities currently geographically and demographically underrepresented in Ethereum with financial support to attend Devconnect in Istanbul this November.
Nominate: Nominate a talented individual to the Devconnect Scholars Program and give them a chance for full sponsorship at Devconnect Istanbul.
Participate: Haptics DAO is conducting a mixed-methods research study to assess the current state of accessibility within the realm of distributed ledger technology and blockchain.
📡 On Our Radar
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