🌍 This Week in Web3ForGood

Worldcoin launch, US crypto regulations, EthCC talks...

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Another exciting week in Web3?! Good news if you’re following the US crypto regulations, L2’s, and UBI…?! The WorldCoin launch has people divided, UBI and crypto make perfect sense but there are concerns around the orbs and how the data will be used.

If you’re working in Web3 x social impact, reach out to us - we will be sharing more conversations with individuals in the space, with a focus on their impact and stories.

WAGMI (we are going to make an impact!)

xx Abeera & Sam

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What’s Inside

• 📣 Latest News

• 🕊 Tweet of the Week

• 📚 What We’re Thinking About

• 🚀 Opportunities

• 📡 On Our Radar

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📣 Latest News

• Celo Camp announces the winners of Batch 7

• Public Goods Network is live on mainnet and open for building

• Worldcoin launch!

• Celo Governance Proposal #116: Celo Transition to an Ethereum L2 is live

• Telefónica partners with Celo Foundation' to expand its mobile-first infrastructure

• Drips is a decentralized toolkit for funding public goods, that builds on the interdependence of software projects & people - the next iteration is here

• House financial services committee votes in favor of crypto

• White House derailed negotiation on U.S. House stablecoin bill

• Gitcoin Passport has integrated with Galxe’s community engagement campaign platform, further enhancing our collective efforts against bots and Sybils

• Yield HQ is live on Arbitrum 

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🕊 Tweet of the Week

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📚 What We’re Thinking About

• 🌎 An Introduction to RegenBuild: Fostering regeneration in the built environment. (Gvish.eth) 

• 👐 Griff Green of Giveth talks about the market for public goods at EthCC. (EthCC)

• 🧠 What does Vitalik think about the biometric proof of personhood? (Vitalik.eth)

• 🪙 Want to learn more about Worldcoin? Read the whitepaper here. (Worldcoin)

• 👩‍🏫 Chief Legal Policy Officer at Polygon talks about Blockchain social impact use cases. (Polygon Labs)

• Let’s talk about Gitcoin - the silence around open source funding is deafening. (CryptoSlate)

• ⛑ Blockchain Technology: A compass for Sustainable Waste Management. (Africa Blockchain Institute)

• 🌲 Grassroots crypto initiatives can close the “climate funding gap”, incentivize a new generation of climate projects and help finance the optimistic ideas for fighting climate that governments and institutions have not. (CoinDesk)

• 🔗 Optimism had some great talks at EthCC that covered retroactive public goods funding, Optimism's bi-cameral governance system, and the OP Stack’s modular Fault Proof System - find their links here. (EthCC)

• 🚀 Gitcoin announced the launch of Allo: a protocol for communities to build novel funding mechanisms - this talk shares 5 ways in which communities are funding their shared needs. (EthCC)

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🚀 Opportunities & Events 

• Suggest: Share who else you would like to see building on PGN by submitting a suggestion on Jokerace.

• Apply: Five days left to submit your B_WC Series 3 x Wave Pool Hackathon projects.

• Apply: Giveth is hiring a Project Delivery Manager. (Spain)

• Apply: Mercy Corps Ventures is looking for an investment officer. (Kenya)

• Apply: Gitcoin is hiring a Data Scientist - Gitcoin Passport. 

• Attend: Join ImpactMarket’s community talk on microcredit in Uganda on 2 Aug.

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📡 On Our Radar

• Open Earth Foundation: A not for profit harnessing emerging digital technologies & radical collaboration to innovate, deploy & scale concrete systemic solutions at a planetary level.

• Arkreen: A Web3-powered infrastructure for globally-distributed renewable energy resources, and carbon-reduction applications.

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