🌍 53/This Week in Web3ForGood
It's our birthday 🥳️🥳️
gm gm,
One year ago today… we pressed send and put out the first ever edition of the Web3ForGood newsletter! Remember this?? Wow, we have come a long way, and not just in terms of formatting and content.
What started out as a fun side project for us to share how emerging Web3 tech could be used for good with each other has since grown beyond anything we ever imagined. TBH we weren’t sure if anyone else would care… but it turns out people do care, a lot! Web3ForGood began as a media project, but if we’ve learned anything in the past year of publishing *every week*, it’s this: Web3ForGood is a COMMUNITY, and it wouldn’t exist without all of you.
So what’s next?! We’re going all in — on media, on community, and on making sure your stories and projects are known to the world. In the next few weeks, we’ll be unveiling the new Web3ForGood logo and visual brand. Then, stay tuned for the launch of our first website. You asked for a permanent home for job postings, events, and content, and we heard you. We’re forming big partnerships, planning future events, and finalizing the details on our editorial calendar to bring you more of the original content you’ve come to love.
Most importantly, we’re not going to stop pressing send here every week, delivering everything you need to know about what’s happening at the intersection of Web3 and social impact right to your inbox. Just like you’ve come to expect for one year straight. Thank you for being here / opening / reading / responding.
Here’s to the next year, and beyond 🚀🌕
WAGMI (we are going to make an impact)
xx Abeera & Sam
What’s Inside
🕊 Tweets of the Week
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🚀 Opportunities & Events
📡 On Our Radar
✨ And one more thing
🕊 Tweets of the Week
📣 Latest News
Chainlink’s new platform connects Web3 projects to Web 2 systems
Celo Community Approves a Regional DAO in Africa with Projects to Support Grassroots Builders
Algorand Foundation Announces Broad-Reaching Partnerships in India
Gitcoin x Metalabel partner with Vitalik Buterin to launch open edition Quadratic Funding Collection
Vitalik Buterin’s Fund Donates $15M in USDC to Airborne Pathogen Research
Global Regulation Updates:
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🌍 WEF Report: Recommendations for the Digital Voluntary and Regulated Carbon Markets. (World Economic Forum)
🏵 Ethereum Foundation Fellow Marcus on DeFi’s potential to drive more financial inclusion in Guatemala. (marcus.mirror.xyz)
🌱 How crypto can regenerate the world, summarized. (@owocki)
🪚 Amidst the madness of ETHDenver, Jeff Benson explores how the builders are building during the bear market. (Culture3)
💦 Why the climate finance market needs Web3: From tokenized carbon credits to parametric insurance, blockchain and oracle tech are fundamental for climate action initiatives. (Chainlink)
🌻 The state of the regen web3 ecosystem— a breakdown of top organizations & 2023 predictions for the regen ecosystem. (Gitcoin)
🏞 The potential of blockchain to transform land protection and management. (Crypto Altruism)
🧕 Women in Web3 advocate for increased diversity in the ecosystem: Education and grassroots training could be effective tools in promoting diversity within the Web3 ecosystem. (Cointelegraph)
🔮 Myths vs Realities of Web3 Infographic. Spoiler: Web3 is good. (Crypto Altruism)
⚖️ Colombia has positioned itself at the forefront of innovative ways to conduct legal proceedings after recently hosting a trial in the metaverse. (Cointelegraph)
🏛 Paul Grewal, Chief Legal Officer at Coinbase, spoke on Capitol Hill about the need for a workable crypto regulatory framework. (@iampaulgrewal)
🪖 The first crypto war? Assessing the illicit blockchain ecosystem one year into Russia's invasion of Ukraine (TRM Labs)
💛 Ethereum’s Regens Tend to Ethereum’s Public Goods: How to build a community that won't "overgraze" open source tools available for all. (CoinDesk)
🎨 NFTs are coming to the Louvre. (CoinDesk)
🛒 Amazon is laying the groundwork for its NFT marketplace. What will this mean for mainstream acceptability and adoption? (Blockworks)
⛑ Cryptocurrencies are proving useful in facilitating fast and unencumbered donations during crises, as recently seen during earthquake relief efforts in Turkey and Syria. (Cointelegraph)
🗳 The Democratic Metaverse: Building an Extended Reality Safe for Citizens, Workers, and Consumers. (IEET, UMass Boston Applied Ethics Center)
🦸♀️ The Women Building a Better World in Web3: Women in crypto make up one in three crypto holders and are leading the way in social impact. (Givepact)
🚀 Opportunities & Events:
Apply: DClimate DAO is hiring a Projects Market and Origination Lead.
Apply: Center for Democracy and Technology is hiring a Policy Counsel/Senior Policy Counsel, Equity in Civic Technology (not specifically Web3 related, but adjacent).
Apply: The Algorand Foundation is hiring multiple positions.
Apply: Backdrop Labs is hiring a Head of Growth & Community.
Apply: TRM Labs is hiring multiple positions.
Join: Real Mamas of Crypto is a community of mothers in crypto.
Attend: Ethereum Guatemala is happening March 11.
Attend: OpenSea's is hosting a Women in Web3 Event on March 14.
Attend: ReFi Summit is happening in Seattle May 24-25.
Accelerate: Celo Camp is an 8-week virtual acceleration and mentorship program that supports decentralized technology founders in building sustainable businesses on Celo. Apply by March 13.
Hack: Scaling Ethereum 2023 is happening March 10-29.
Launch: A GreenPill chapter in your city.
Steward: Celo is building a community of 4096 Stewards to re-envision climate impact. Apply to claim your chance to own a unique piece of art.
📡 On Our Radar
Tigray DAO is creating awareness and fundraising for people impacted by the widespread violence, displacement, sexual violence, extrajudicial killings, and mass atrocities in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.
From Algorand with Love is a collection of 25 Algorand NFT projects raising funds for Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity.
Neutral is building a specialized order book and matching engine to improve pricing and liquidity for green assets.
Trusted Seed is a value-driven community advancing regen economies.
The Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) is a runtime environment for smart contracts on the Filecoin network.
United Species DAO is an international cooperation reimagined, made up of former international servants, former ministers who experienced the failures of the international cooperation system. They are experts in climate science merging the Web3 ecosystem to help local communities thrive.
✨ And one more thing…
Ok, two. Two roundups of great, timely causes to donate crypto this week: