🌍 This Week in Web3forGood
Tokenized Carbon Credits
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Below, this week: Learn about tokenized carbon credits. Optimism's Retro Funding Round 5 is kicking off. Trusted Seed has a mentorship program. Mercy Corps Ventures is piloting stable coin transfers to reach local partners on the ground in conflict zones. Web3 and Water podcast starter pack. And lots more.
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What’s Inside
📣 Latest News
🔍 TLDR: Tokenized Carbon Credits
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🔈 Podcasts & Spaces
🚀 Opportunities
🎪 Events
📡 On Our Radar
✨ And one more thing
📣 Latest News
Stabila Foundation launches to drive stablecoin adoption on Celo
With Bancor integration, Arb Fast Lane & Carbon DeFi are now live on Celo
Frequency Blockchain Celebrates Over 1 Million Users in Partnership with MeWe
MakerDAO Rebrands To "Sky" and Schedules USDS Stablecoin Launch
Optimism Plans To Unlock Superchain Interoperability Next Year
Global Policy, Regulation, and Adoption News
Russia to start using crypto for international transactions next week
California lawmakers push through controversial AI bill opposed by OpenAI
Project Updates
🔍TLDR: Tokenized Carbon Credits
New to Web3? Welcome! TLDR is where we offer a simplifed explanation of a term used often in this newsletter. If there's anything you're curious about, reply and let us know.
Tokenized carbon credits on the blockchain are a high-tech twist on a classic idea: reducing carbon emissions to fight climate change. Carbon credits are essentially like a reward system where companies earn points (credits) for reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. If they cut more emissions than required, they get to keep the extra credits or sell them to companies that need to catch up on their environmental goals. Now, with tokenization, these credits are visible on a blockchain, making them easier to trade and track in a super secure and transparent way.
A blockchain like a digital ledger. Think of it like a really secure, decentralized spreadsheet that everyone can see but no one can mess with. When carbon credits are tokenized and put on the blockchain, it means every transaction is recorded for everyone to see, ensuring that everything is legit and preventing any funny business. Plus, buying, selling, and using these tokenized credits becomes faster and cheaper since it cuts out the middleman. And when a company uses a carbon credit to offset its emissions, that token is "retired," or taken out of circulation, making sure the environmental benefit is genuine and counted only once.
The best part? This new system makes carbon markets more open and accessible to more people, not just the big players. It brings more transparency, security, and efficiency into the game, which is a win for everyone and the planet. So, whether you’re a business looking to offset emissions or someone interested in investing in greener initiatives, tokenized carbon credits on the blockchain offer a fresh, innovative way to be part of the climate solution. It’s all about making sustainability a smoother, more engaging experience for everyone.
TLDR: Tokenized carbon credits on the blockchain are digital certificates representing carbon emissions reductions that can be securely traded and tracked on a transparent, decentralized ledger.
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🤝 In the context of conflict, it’s increasingly difficult to ensure unimpeded humanitarian access and the delivery of aid. MCV is piloting stable coin transfers to reach local partners on the ground with funds. (Mercy Corps Ventures)
🩺 Crypto-Fueled Healthcare Access in America: Aiming to raise $500,000 in crypto donations to fuel 20,000 health access rides for people in need. (Sostento)
🥾 5 lessons for bootstrapping protocol communities. (Nick Martitsch)
🦺 Navigating Web3 safely: 10 essential tips for nonprofits. (Crypto Altruism)
🔮 Manifesting Collective Action in an Onchain World. (owocki)
🌱 Market Research Report: Demand for Ecological Assets in 2024. (Sunflower EcoTech)
♿ Generative AI bridges the gap for people with disabilities. (Accelerating Good)
💡 Decentralized energy: A reading list of resources. (a16z crypto)
🌳 Ecological Institutions: Protocols to Grow Autonomous and Convivial Ecological Actors. (Regen Foundation)
🤖 The AI Safety Debate Is All Wrong. Since any technology can be used for good or bad, what ultimately matters is who controls it, what their objectives are, and what kind of regulations they are subjected to. (Project Syndicate)
🚨 Has Telegram violated EU laws, and why has its founder been charged in France? (Cointelegraph)
🔎 Blockchain ‘conjuring’ fails to improve humanitarian aid. Margie Cheesman investigated a blockchain charity project for more than a year but found that the technology seemed to cause more problems than it solved. (Cointelegraph)
✨ Why defi? (Andre Cronje)
🔈 Podcasts & Spaces
Crypto Altruism Podcast - Impact on Optimism Episode 2 - growthepie - Scaling Ethereum L2s and The Superchain as a Positive Sum Game
Crypto Altruism Podcast - Starter Pack - Web3 Water Solutions
Green Pill Season 5 - Episode 1 - Filecoin's Retroactive Funding Round 1: Lessons and Insights
Green Pill Season 5 - Episode 2 - MACI And EasyRetroPGF With Hodlon & Alessandro
Green Pill Season 5 - Episode 3 -Retroactive Funding W/ Pocket Ecosystem
🚀 Opportunities
Contribute: Participated in GG21 as a donor? Please fill in this survey to help the team improve the next round.
Funding: Optimism Retro Funding 5 will reward OP Stack contributions. This includes direct contributions to the OP Stack, as well as its key dependencies.
Funding: The Do Good Challenge funds creative public goods projects.
Learn: The Trusted Seed Mentorship Program is a dynamic platform designed to foster one-on-one mentorships, promoting a collaborative learning environment. Through this initiative, mentors help mentees develop specific skills and knowledge, contributing to the advancement of regenerative economies and impactful DAO governance.
Accelerate: The Cabin Neighborhood Accelerator is a 10-week program that helps people build a sense of community in their neighborhoods.
Nominate: The Blockchain4Her Awards is a unique celebration of women's achievements and contributions within the blockchain industry.
Play: Good Empire is launching an ambitious new pilot, an impact tournament where teams and individuals compete and collaborate to fund and support some incredible impact projects across the 17 global goals. They’re seeking impact projects, organizations, and individuals to help save the world.
🎪 Events
🆕= New to the roundup this week
Virtual
ChangeCode’s Community Call #3: Opening up Impact Bonds with Web3 is happening September 4. 🆕
Global Blockchain Business Council’s Blockchain Central at UNGA will have a virtual program for the event on September 23.
Escaping the Memory Hole: Internet Archive’s annual VIRTUAL celebration is happening October 23. 🆕
IRL
Korea Blockchain Week is happening September 1-7 in Seoul.
REBOOT: THE NEW REALITY is happening September 4-5 in San Francisco.
ETHWarsaw is happening September 5-8. 🆕
Gray Area Festival is happening September 12-15 in San Francisco.
SheFi Summit Singapore (Web3 & AI) is happening September 17 in Singapore.
Stablecoin Summit 2024 is happening September 20 in Singapore.
Global Blockchain Business Council is co-hosting the Sustainability Summit alongside Microsoft and Blockchain x Climate (BxC) as part of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), UN Foundation Global Goals partner and NY Climate Week events on September 24 in NYC.
ETHMilan is happening September 26-27.
Funding the Commons and Earth Commons are hosting a month-long Public Goods x Climate Builder Residency this October in Chiang Mai.
The Global DPI (Digital Public Infrastructure) Summit is happening October 1-3 in Cairo, Egypt.
Network Society Camp is happening October 11-14 in Austin, Texas.
The SolarPunk Summit is happening October 17-21 in Kingsbury, Texas.
Escaping the Memory Hole: Internet Archive’s annual celebration is happening October 23 in San Francisco. 🆕
FIL Dev Summit 5 is happening November 6-8 in Bangkok.
LabWeek Web3 is happening November 7-13 in Bangkok.
FIL Bangkok: DePIN Meets AI is happening November 11 in Bangkok.
Oasis Oncahin is happening January 30 - February 2 in Nassau, Bahamas. 🆕
Recurring
Upcoming X spaces focusing on using Web3 for positive impact in the real world (+ recordings), curated by @civilmonkey.
Climate Coordination Network X Spaces happen weekly, every Thursday.
Monthly Earth Day is a global event that happens on the 22nd every month, not just once a year. Get involved on September 22 and share on X to @HighlyArtistic with the hashtag #MonthlyEarthDay.
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📡 On Our Radar
Stabila Foundation is a community-funded entity driving real-world adoption of Celo-native stablecoins.
The Celo Camp Batch 9: The Minipay Launchpad awards recipients.
Good Empire is building the on-chain future of giving and impact via a gamified platform for individuals and organisations to engage in impact across the 17 Global Goals.
✨ And one more thing
Ethereum Stories released a new short film about ConstitutionDAO. Watch/ mint the trailer.