🌍 This Week in Web3forGood
Good News
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Forward this newsletter to your colleague / friend / mom, who only wants to talk to you about the SBF sentencing that’s all over the news this week. There’s so much more than fraud and bad news to talk about, and we have proof!
Public Goods Funding. Economic Inclusion. Carbon Markets. Onchain Survivor.
That’s all from us for this week. Happy Spring Break to all who celebrate 💐.
WAGMI (we are going to make an impact!)
What’s Inside
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🔈 Podcasts
🚀 Opportunities & Events
📡 On Our Radar
✨ And one more thing
📣 Latest News
Optimism unveils “new era of clarity for Retro Funding;” announces 850 million fund
The Optimism Collective introduces the Superchain Developer Console
London Stock Exchange Will Start Market for Bitcoin and Ether ETNs May 28
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🪴 Tórónet and the mystery of capital: Unlocking economic inclusion and breaking the cycle of intergenerational poverty using technology. (Bolaji Akinboro)
🚺 Despite progress, only 13% of Web3 founding teams include women, highlighting a gender gap that funding alone can’t fix. (CryptoSlate)
👩💻 From glass ceiling to digital frontier: Women in Web3 and AI are essential. (Forbes)
👩⚖️ The DeFi Education Fund is clapping back at U.S. regulators with a pre-emptive lawsuit against the SEC, spotlighting its aggressive enforcement of securities law. (Decrypt)
👾 It's been just under two weeks since Ethereum’s Dencun upgrade brought down gas fees for layer 2 networks with blob carrying transactions, but a new protocol called Ethscriptions is reversing much of that effect. (Unchained)
📘 The International Journal of Blockchain Law, Volume 8. (Global Blockchain Business Council)
🌳 Building trust in carbon markets through atmos-pheric-based greenhouse gas monitoring and verification. (Hyphen)
🔈 Podcasts:
Crypto Altruism Podcast Episode 147 - Dimitra - Empowering smallholder farmers with AI & blockchain-based AgTech solutions
GreenPill Season 4 - Ep. 3 - The unlikely shared origins of bluegrass and blockchains W/ Justin Holmes
GreenPill Season 4 - Ep. 4 - Grant Ships - An Evolutionary Grants Game
GreenPill Season 4 - Ep. 5 - Gift Circles & Coordinape with Zach
ReFi Podcast Season 3 - Ep. 24 - Regenerative Leadership with Dom Francks from VIVIFY
Unchained - Ep. 624 - How Gitcoin 2.0 Could Someday Help Reward People for Doing Good
🚀 Opportunities & Events:
Apply: New-internet is hiring a junior operations human.
Apply: Risk Labs is hiring for multiple positions across protocols.
Funding: Gitcoin Grants Round 20 is take place April 2-16.
Win: Claim $10, $5 or $1 directly into your MiniPay Wallet.
Events
Attend: D-Web Co-Working happens every Friday (today!) at the Internet Archive Headquarters in San Francisco. RSVP required.
Attend: Paris Blockchain Week is happening April 9-11 in Paris.
Attend: LabWeek Public Goods Conference is happening from April 11-16 in San Francisco.
Attend: Building at the Edge tech summit is happening April 13 in San Francisco.
Attend: Harvard Blockchain Conference (HBC) 2024 is happening April 13-14 in Cambridge, MA.
Attend: Funding the Commons is happening April 13-14 in Berkeley, CA.
Attend: ReFI UNCONFERENCE April 21-25 in Barcelona.
Attend: Good Tech Fest is happening May 1-2 online.
Attend: Decipher 2024, a retreat for teams actively building on Algorand, is happening June 26-27 in Barcelona.
Attend: EthCC[7] is happening July 8-11 in Brussels.
Attend: DWeb Camp is happening August 7-11 in Camp Navarro, CA.
Attend: REBOOT: THE NEW REALITY is happening September 4-5 in San Francisco
And don’t forget to set reminders for these upcoming fairly aligned X spaces focusing on using Web3 for positive impact in the real world (+ some recordings), curated weekly by @civilmonkey.*
📡 On Our Radar
Degen Chain is an L3 for the $DEGEN token community. The chain’s native gas token is $DEGEN, making it one of the first community tokens with its own L3.
Casa Inheritance allows investors to give access to their crypto vaults to a designated family member, trustee, or estate executor in the event they pass away.
Seed Club's SC07: Consumer Crypto cohort includes eight companies building category-defining consumer crypto products.
KlimaDAO has a brand new Klima Protocol Dashboard.
✨ And one more thing
You can now donate to Make-a-Wish Foundation with crypto.
