This Week in Web3ForGood
🌍Merge date, DAOs vs ImpactDAOs, ReFi jobs board, P2E to save the world
GM friends,
”Wen merge?” We might finally have an answer… If all goes according to plan, we’re looking at a September 15/16ish transition. And if you have no idea what we’re talking about, we’re working on an explainer roundup, but in the meantime, this post is for you.
Lots of news this week featuring: BlackRock, Bank of America, USDA Forest Service, Iran, Goldfinch, and more. Plus, as we approach the one year anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, we’re revisiting a post on how crypto can both help and hurt the globally displaced.
As always, we love to hear your thoughts. Thanks for being a part of Web3ForGood.
WAGMI
What’s Inside
🌊 Cryptocurrency for Refugees: Great Hopes & Deep Concerns
🕊 Tweet of the Week
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🚀 Opportunities
📡 On Our Radar
🌊 Cryptocurrency for Refugees: Great Hopes & Deep Concerns
Earlier this year, in the wake of record-setting crypto donations to Ukrainian refugees, we published this post on the opportunities and dangers that cryptocurrency presents for displaced people across the globe. Today, as we approach the one year anniversary of the United States’ chaotic withdrawl from Afghanistan with many Afghans still stuck in limbo as they attempt to build a new life abroad, it feels appropriate to reshare.
Read Cryptocurrency for Refugees.
🕊 Tweet of the Week
Tweet from @BanklessHQ.
📣 Latest News
Ethereum Cofounder Says He Used Now-Blacklisted Tornado Cash to Donate to Ukraine
ESG DAO is out of stealth: we’re on a mission to re-think ESG ratings and accelerate ReFi
BlackRock Partners With Coinbase To Offer Crypto To Institutional Investors
Bank of America Says Blockchains Have Intrinsic Value, Citing Transaction Fees
📚 What We’re Thinking About
The difference between DAOs and ImpactDAOs, and more on how ImpactDAOs will shape the future of regenerative organizations. (sardius.eth)
Ops Lead and early contributor Kris shares details with the ImpactDAO research project about Gitcoin’s evolution and operating a team of 150+ contributors. (Crypto Good)
This week’s Green Pill podcast with Chase Chapman on Evolutionary DAOs. (Green Pill)
UBI is helping impactMarket communities in Sao Paulo, Brazil, achieve a better life for themselves and their families. (impactMarket)
A deep dive into the long term future of the Gitcoin grants program that is open to feedback from DAO contributors, funders, and grantees. (Gitcoin)
Jessica Salama of GoodDollar on why Web3 enabled impact could bring on the next wave of users, investors, and builders. (Medium - Jessica Salama)
More organizations are considering blockchain technology to reduce carbon emissions, remove carbon from the atmosphere, and improve the environment. (Cointelegraph)
Gregory Landua, co-founder of Regen Network, on pioneering ecological assets for the ReFi economy. (Disruptors for Good)
Opinion - ReFi is the New DeFi: Credit Backed by Goods, Skills, and Services. (BEINCRYPTO)
Through regenerative economic principles and game theory based coordination, we have the potential to recalibrate the incentives used to produce and verify new knowledge. Philipp Koellinger explains how to use Impact Certificates to fund science as a public good. (DeSci Labs)
How can fintech help improve financial well-being? With Celo, Fiserv, Token and more. (The Fintech Times)
Australia and Thailand are exploring central bank digital currencies. (Bloomberg, Coindesk)
Toucan Protocol, a crypto trading platform, is the world’s largest buyer of carbon offsets by far according to a new Bloomberg analysis of data from Verra, the largest offset brokerage. (Quartz)
The supply of engineering and information technology talent within the blockchain industry is not meeting demand. (Blockworks)
A guide to comparing centralized and decentralised finance. (The Defiant)
A Czech noble family used the sale of NFTs to fund the restoration of 50+ historical works of art in the Czech Republic. NFT holders are receiving NFTs of the artwork post-restoration as thanks for their support. (NFTevening)
🚀 Opportunities
Apply: Ava Labs is hiring a Research Analyst - Culture.
Apply: We3’s talent matching program connects with Web3 companies hiring diverse and exceptional talent.
Learn: Want to get onboarded to the Lens Protocol? Check out the quest on Rabbithole to learn how to own your own social graph with on-chain social media and get an NFT.
📡 On Our Radar
Vosbor is a blockchain-based marketplace for bulk agricultural commodities to improve food securoty, unveiled its flagship trading platform and announced a $7M seed round led by Lux Capital.
ReFi Jobs is a jobs board for the regenerative finance industry.
Future Quest is a play-and-earn ecosystem committed to fixing our future that is part game, part launch pad for public good quests for our planet.
Mi Primer Bitcoin (“My First Bitcoin” in English) is an NGO that offers free Bitcoin education to Salvadorans. It targets teenagers and the examination for the Bitcoin Diploma takes place over 10 weeks.