This Week in Web3forGood
🌍 GR15 is ON, Partial Common Ownership Tokens, Jay-Z's Bitcoin Academy
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At Web3forGood, we are huge fans of quadratic funding and public goods so naturally, this week is particularly exciting because its Gitcoin Grants time again! GR15 began this week, and you can now browse to find projects that tickle your fancy.
As someone from a developing country, I grew up with limited access to public goods, or let’s say not the best version of public goods. Like roads exist but the condition can be questionable - it’s the government jobs to provide public goods, the government says citizens do not pay taxes so how can we provide what is needed? And the little dance goes on.
Quadratic funding gives me hope - like all things in Web3, it’s still evolving but the experiments are exciting and we’re already seeing elements of success. Gitcoin Grants is a perfect example of the power of Web3 to fund and advance public-goods causes. Looking at the evolution of the Gitcoin grants themselves - larger matching pools, better Sybil resistance mechanisms (Go Gitcoin Passports!), and also just a lot more brilliant projects to choose from!
Check out the new GreenPill podcast talking about Gitcoin Grants Round 15 and donate away! Not sure how to get started? Here’s a guide on how to donate.
xx Abeera (& Sam)
What’s Inside
🕊 Tweets of the Week
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🚀 Opportunities
📡 On Our Radar
🕊 Tweets of the Week
📣 Latest News
ConsenSys to Launch 'Sustainable' NFTs Celebrating the Ethereum Merge
DeFi Platform Credix Raises $11.25M to Connect Institutional Lenders With Emerging Market Fintechs
UK forces crypto exchanges to report suspected sanction breaches
White House Suggests Banning Proof-of-Work Mining Used by Bitcoin
The Celo Foundation’s New Africa Web3 Fund Helps African Startups Scale
One Year In, El Salvador’s Bitcoin Bonds Could Be Right Around the Corner
📚 What We’re Thinking About
On reimagining public goods in the age of Ethereum: public goods, community participation, and the tools we need to build the future we want to inhabit. (Crypto, Culture, & Society Journal)
The Web3 ecosystem in India is growing fast and will retain the country’s tech dominance in the world. (Analytics Insight)
PactDAO works to provide visibility and financial/volunteer support to grassroots groups, and their Season Zero recap is great for anyone looking to learn more about their work and the lessons learned along the way. (PactDAO)
Camilla Hodgson explores whether Web3 tech actually helps fight climate change or if supporters are just in it for their own benefit. (Financial Times)
The digital yuan offers China a way to dodge the dollar. (Economist)
Blockchain and crypto find a use case in community powered weather forecasting. (CoinTelegraph)
This report “Damage Limitation: Cryptocurrencies and Climate Change” is insightful for those interested in the impact of the merge and the switch to proof of stake. (Imperial College London)
Stefan Rust, CEO of Laguna Labs, comments on Maker DAO’s proposals to unpeg DAI entirely from the US dollar. (Analytics Insight)
Y Combinator is doubling down on crypto founders despite market volatility with 30 startups in this batch. (TechCrunch)
Web2 platforms trap users and communities in digital spaces; Web3 introduces a new paradigm into the digital landscape. (Metropolis)
Venezuela’s gamers see esports as a way to escape crisis. (Rest of the World)
Kids in the Philippines earned hundreds from a play-to-earn Minecraft game, until new rules sent the community into a tailspin. (Rest of the World)
BanklessDAO turns their attention this week to ImpactDAOs and the opportunity they present to revolutionize social impact. (BanklessDAO)
How Jay-Z and Jack Dorsey's Bitcoin Academy provides financial inclusion and breaks down barriers of inequity. (Insider)
🚀 Opportunities
Apply: Roote is hiring a Head of Fundraising.
Apply: Join the All Tech is Human Responsible Tech Talent Pool.
Funding: Boys Club launched a grants program. Members can apply here.
Attend: The Academic Web3 Conference is happening virtually Sept 24-25.
Contribute: Design the NFT for HumanDAO’s pocket assistant. Ends 9/25.
📡 On Our Radar
Partial Common Ownership (PCO) is a new system of property ownership inspired by the ideas in Radical Markets that is both ethically fairer and economically more efficient than the systems of property espoused by capitalism (private-ownership) and communism (public-ownership).
a16z released free Can’t Be Evil NFT Licenses, designed specifically for NFTs and inspired by the work of Creative Commons.
Cherubs DAO is an NFT funded and governed global impact collective with a mission to fund causes to achieve impact outcomes. Each day, new Cherub NFTs ("Cherubs") are born and auctioned to the highest bidders.
Factland DAO is a token-based platform that incentivizes fact-finding, critical reasoning, and emergent truth.
DeSciWorld is a global hub for the #DeSci Community & #ScienceNFTs.
All for Climate DAO is building a 21st century movement of citizens taking action in the social and ecological crisis.
10 projects working at the intersection of Web3 and mental health.
Metavists is a game designed to solve real world problems in the philanthropy industry.
Common Stack is helping communities to deploy regenerative microeconomies through our open-source Web3 toolkits.