🌍 47/This Week in Web3forGood
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The Gitcoin Alpha Round is still ongoing - so keep those supporting public goods through your donations!
We’ve personally been diving into understanding hypercerts, and the challenges and opportunities around them - so be on the lookout 👀
With the Guardian article on carbon offsets last week, the ReFi space has definitely been sent into a spin of discussions, and read more of the different responses below!
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What’s Inside
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🚀 Opportunities
📡 On Our Radar
Tweet of the Week
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
How does blockchain technology provide a path to greater credibility for carbon markets? Climate Collective has great insights in lieu of the Guardian article. (Climate Collective)
Sylvera’s response to the Guardian’s analysis of rainforest offsets. (Sylvera)
What is DeSci? A 60-second explainer! (Protocol Labs)
Making crypto more usable, inclusive, and responsible for last mile users: What Last Mile Money is learning from design reviews with founders building on Celo on how to make Web3 better for last mile users. (Last Mile Money)
Instead of slowing innovation, regulation may drive demand for ReFi: At the intersection of crypto and climate activism, the business community is seeking the power of regulation to spur adoption and action. (CoinDesk)
The results are out from the first Gitcoin Round with UNICEF, follow the recap here as penned by Azeem Khan. (Gitcoin)
Interested in a BioTech DAO playbook? Check out the (Git)book by Molecule and Vita DAO. (VitaDAO)
Using on-chain data to determine how to fund projects on the new Gitcoin grants protocol - learn about Carl Cervone (Startup Operator, Protocol Labs) process. (Carl Cervone)
Great podcast from Bankless Africa featuring Kotani Pay discussing the unique needs for blockchain in Africa, especially in reducing costs of remittances. (Bankless Africa)
In this video, Girl Gone Crypto guides you through Valora App and explores some of the built-on-Celo dapp options available. (Girl Gone Crypto)
Exploring hypercerts for beach cleanups (and more): What if people doing beach and ocean cleanups, planting trees, recycling, etc could create impact certificates for these actions and later be rewarded based on their work and impact? (Supermodularxyz)
New GreenPill episode features Erik Voorhess, and founder of the exchange, Shapeshift. In this episode, Kevin and Erik find common ground between their separate but compatible political ideologies as they move forward toward collective goals. (GreenPill)
Elementary school kids earning crypto as their in-class rewards system *for the last 3 years*!! (CoinTelegraph)
A Bitcoin mining project in a remote corner of Malawi connects more families to the grid while delivering economic empowerment to an impoverished region. (CoinTelegraph)
In collaboration with the Climate Collective, CarbonPath has embarked upon a public commentary period as a new climate impact registry for industrial solutions. Learnings from this first process will ultimately help to bring other climate action methodologies directly to Web3 and the people. (CarbonPath)
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📡 On Our Radar
MRV Foundation is on a mission to come out with a public good in form of an open-source research tool to make the Measurement, Reporting & Verification (MRV) of regenerative practices viable for small scale farms.
Always love this round up! Big thanks. Wanted to share a cool digital platform from UNDP - web for 2030 https://undp.db.team/web3/ from Rowan Yeoman and based on a paper written by Rowan and Kate Sutton p.org/publications/web3for2030-how-can-web3-help-achieve-sustainable-development-goals
Thanks for considering!