🌍 This Week in Web3forGood
Earth Day every month
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Are you heading out to Denver for ETHDenver at the end of the month? We’ll be there. We’re finalizing our schedules and plans for side events, so if you’re going to be there and/or are hosting an event Web3ForGood should attend, let us know! We can’t wait to meet you IRL 🎉.
This week: we’re highlighting a community project started @HighlyArtistic that was recently brought to our attention by @civilmonkey. Are you working on something cool that you’d like to share with the Web3ForGood community? DM us or reply to this email to tell us more about it 💛💛.
WAGMI (we are going to make an impact!)
xx Abeera & Sam
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What’s Inside
🔦 Community Project Spotlight: Monthly Earth Day
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🔈 Podcasts
🚀 Opportunities & Events
📡 On Our Radar
✨ And one more thing
🔦 Community Project Spotlight: Monthly Earth Day
This spotlight was written by @HighlyArtistic. Want to highlight a project that you or someone you know is working on in Web3ForGood? Reply to this email or send us a DM on X @w3b3forgood.
Founded on Sept 22, 2022, Monthly Earth day is a global event that happens on the 22nd every month, not just once a year. This movement brings people together from around the world, to go out and take positive action and leave their world better than they found it. These actions can be as simple as using reusable shopping bags instead of plastic, to as big as planting new trees. Every participant posts a picture of their action in the thread created on X to show the global community that collectively, we CAN make this world a better place. Whether for our environment, animals, mental health, or other human beings, we all have the ability to create a positive impact today!
In the first year, I have been able to build a community that consists of over a hundred people, businesses and projects from around the globe that are creating a positive impact. Collectively, we were able to plant over 30,000 trees, clean up 2,000+ pounds of trash from beaches, trails, parks and neighborhoods, help educate on composting and how to live more sustainably overall, while also earning tokens and crypto, plus so much more.
We are passionately looking to grow our community each month. It is free to join and will inspire you to go out month after month, and take action, big or small, to help make this world a better place today. Message me (@HighlyArtistic) if you want more information or would like to join.
Are you very passionate about doing your part in making this world better? Ask about becoming a Node Leader to help grow the global movement.
Find more info about the Monthly Earth Day movement reach out to @HighlyArtistic on X,visit www.highlyartistic.xyz, or contact highly.artistic2022@gmail.com.
📣 Latest News
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen calls on Congress to pass crypto legislation
US AI safety consortium revealed with the biggest names in tech
India to look at offline solutions to aid CBDC adoption in rural areas
Announcing the Blockchain Founders Group X Algorand Accelerator Program
El Salvador's Bitcoin-Friendly President Nayib Bukele Wins Re-Election
Circle Contributes USDC to Support Scholarship for Emerging Market Regulators
Project Updates
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🔴 RetroPGF101. (@RetroPGF)
👥 Farcaster is marrying social media and Web3 to onboard the masses. (Blockworks)
💭 On Speculation and Optimism's Recent $100m Retroactive Public Goods Grants. (Scenes with Simon)
🌐 The Impact Web of Trust will change everything about Web3-era capital allocation. (Gitcoin)
🌱 How Mercy Corps Ventures built their Climate Venture Platform & Venture Lab. (Mercy Corps Ventures)
🔗 No matter how much the scale of public goods expands, it's important to design protocols that can continuously produce positive externalities to maintain a positive sum game. Crypto enables that. (Fracton Ventures Research)
🔲 The Future is Frames: “What we have in Frames is a new Web 3 primitive that Web 2 could never really power: an easy way to run app X while a user is still inside app Y, with little coordination between X and Y.” (Syndicate)
🤖 How AI is finding its way onchain. (jacob.energy)
👤 ENS Meets DNS: A power surge for Decentralized Digital Identities? (HackerNoon)
👎 Not good: An underground website can use AI to generate fake IDs to get around identity security measures. (Unchained)
📚 Training AI models on copyrighted material either infringes the copyright or doesn’t. And the two possible outcomes point toward very different future worlds. (RadicalxChange Foundation)
🏠 What & How We Own: Different ways of thinking about a new direction for property and ownership in the 21st century. (RadicalxChange Foundation, Dark Matter Labs, Stanford University)
🪙 The Polish town of Mińsk Mazowiecki is launching a stablecoin that users can spend at local businesses. (Blockworks)
💻 Ethereum Name Service domains can now be tied to traditional web domains with no fees, adding more functionality in the process. (Decrypt)
🔈 Podcasts:
Crypto Altruism Podcast Episode 140 - Concordium - Trust and privacy powered by blockchain and zero-knowledge proofs
The Web3 Nonprofit Episode 9 - Outright International
GreenPill Season 3 - Ep. 10 - Greenpill.Network in 2024
GreenPill Season 3 - Ep. 11 - GreenPill S3 Wrap Up Episode
ReFi Podcast Season 3 - Ep. 21: Building a Solar Flywheel with William Skinner
🚀 Opportunities & Events:
Apply: Dune is hiring a Content Marketing Manager.
Apply: ReFi DAO Local Nodes are accepting applications for Beta Cohort.
Help: Gitcoin is seeking volunteers to help create an unforgettable Ecosystem Growth Summit in Denver.
Accelerate: Green Accountability Tech Accelerator applications are now open.
Accelerate: The Consumer Crypto Accelerator is a 3 month program that brings together founders of weird, novel, and socially-ambitious consumer crypto projects.
Enter to Win: Boys Club is bringing 3 creators to Austin during SXSW to experience the /brandnew creators conference, courtesy of PayPal PYUSD.
Learn: The Ethereum Protocol Fellowship study group is for anyone that is interested in learning more about the inner workings of the Ethereum Protocol.
Learn: SheFi empowers female and non-binary professionals and entrepreneurs to succeed in frontier industries. Season 10 enrollment is open now.
Build: #BUIDL is a call to blockchain enthusiasts to build and contribute to the advancement of the blockchain ecosystem. At ETHDenver 2024, #BUIDLers will form teams of 2 to 4 and spend up to 9 days #BUIDLing to their unique Web3 visions.
Events
Attend: ReFi Local Nodes 2024 Kickoff - Beta Incubator and Collaboration Circles is happening February 12 online.
Attend: Africa Tech Summit Nairobi is happening February 14-15.
Attend: The Regen Data Bootcamp Intro Call is happening February 15 online.
Attend: The GoodDollar Community Call for February is happening February 15 online.
Attend: A New Digital Finance Paradigm is happening February 20 in Brussels.
Attend: Social Impact Summit 2024 by Blockchain Law for Social Good Center is happening February 27 in San Francisco.
Attend: Funding the Commons is happening April 13-14 in Berkeley, CA.
ETHDenver Events (ordered by date; all happening IRL in Denver)
Attend: ETHDenver is happening February 23 - March 3 in Denver.
Attending ETHDenver? Here’s a complete and regularly updated list of side ETH Denver events.
Attend: DeSciSummit2024 is happening February 25 - March 1.
Attend: Edge City Denver is happening February 26th to March 3rd.
Attend: Web3 Grants Summit w/Meta Gov and Gitcoin is happening February 27.
Attend: DE:PIN SUMMIT is happening February 27.
Attend: SheFi Summit is happening February 28 .
Attend: Flowcarbon CarbonSmart: ETHDenver Summit is happening February 28.
Attend: ACJR and the Crypto Communications Collective’s TechTalks: Exploring Tomorrow's Trends is happening February 29.
Attend: FIL Dev Summit - ETHDenver is happening February 29.
Attend: Schelling Point Session: Impact Reporting at Gitcoin House is happening March 2.
Attend: REGENERATION (A Regen Network + CCN Event) is happening Saturday March 2.
📡 On Our Radar
Edge City convenes people working at the frontier of tech, science, and society in popup villages across the globe. We aspire to be a ‘society incubator’— a lab of experimentation for new ideas, tech, culture, and organizations, all dedicated to accelerating human flourishing.
✨ And one three more thing(s)
Interested in building something on Celo, but hate writing boilerplate code? Check out Celo Composer; it's a starter kit that gets you going with your choice of frameworks.
New to Giveth? Check out Giveth’s onboarding guide: A step-by-step beginner’s guide to the Future of Giving.
Farcaster channels to follow for folks into social impact Web3 / regenerative finance / blockchain for good, curated by @civilmonkey.