🌍 This Week in Web3ForGood
EthCC events, Ripple wins, and more...
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It seems everyone is heading to Paris for EthCC next week - check out our rundown of events!
For those attending the 6th edition of Funding the Commons, enter the code WEB3FORGOOD when registering to receive 35% off.
Definitely an interesting end to the week with Ripple winning its case against the SEC yesterday and, we already see the impact of this news (especially all across Web3 Twitter!!)!
WAGMI (we are going to make an impact!)
What’s Inside
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🚀 Opportunities
📡 On Our Radar
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Latest News
Ripple wins case against SEC as judge rules XRP is not a security
Endaoment has new styled React component for interacting with their Developer Kit
Introducing Mento Labs - dedicated to revolutionizing stablecoin and digital asset solutions
Thallo gets accepted into the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA)
Worldcoin passes 2 million world Id sign-ups as demand increases
Tweet of the Week
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🚀 Maximizing the impact of RetroPGF: A review of RPGF2 and ideas for how data can improve future iterations. (Carl Cervone)
🤚 Have a look at the winners of the ETH Barcelona Endaoment hackathon!
🌐 The crypto industry often says it values and prioritizes underserved communities, but our actions have failed to rise to the occasion and often display prejudice. (CoinDesk)
🪙 Crypto Markets ‘Highly Dependent’ on Stablecoins Lacking Transparency: The rapidly growing TUSD, favored by crypto exchange Binance, poses risk to the market, according to the crypto research firm. (CoinDesk)
👁 The Digital Ruble: Russia’s CBDC Journey Continues As Key Bill Passes Duma. (CryptoMode)
👩💻 Jing Wang shares her journey co-founding Optimism – one of Ethereum’s most popular L2 scaling solutions – and learnings on transitioning from engineer to CEO. (A16z crypto)
🏞 Tokenized carbon is the digital representation of real-world carbon credits on the blockchain - learn how tokenization works, look at risks, benefits, and the potential of this novel technology for climate solutions. (Toucan Protocol)
🏕 Criteria for High-Quality Carbon Dioxide Removal: The 2023 Edition of the Criteria incorporates both the latest science and equity considerations to advance the common definitions for high-quality carbon dioxide removal solutions and expand on the practical applications of environmental justice. (Carbon Direct)
🚀 Opportunities & Events
Attend: The Giving Block and Tax990 are hosting a webinar designed exclusively for nonprofits, delving into the world of crypto philanthropy and non-cash asset giving on July 18.
Attend: Events in Paris to look out for:
Funding the Commons from July 15 - 16.
Want to meet the GoodDollar team - here is a list of events that they will be at!
Schelling Point Sessions from July 17 - 19.
Interested in Gitcoin - these are the events to attend!
For th UBI enthusiasts, here is where to find the ImpactMarket team!
Carbon credit enthusiasts - here’s where to find Toucan Protocol.
GreenPill Meetup at EthCC on July 17.
Join: A Public Goods hackathon to build a decentralized funding ecosystem by fostering the development of innovative funding tooling within the web3 ecosystem taking place virtually from August 11 - September 1!
Apply: Celo is supporting 10 Web3 organizations in Berlin, apply here!
📡 On Our Radar
PLANET is leveraging Blockchain to address pressing social and sustainability challenges, paving the way for a more transparent and sustainable future.
Public Works is an open source ecosystem fund focused on constructing essential public infrastructure. We fundamentally believe that the code we create can be sustainable while being generative to the broader communities it serves.
And one more thing…
Our guest contributor, Tayyab Hussain built a product that allows you to sign a pdf with your wallet, check it out!