🌍 51/This Week in Web3ForGood
Launches, Hypercerts Foundation, ETHDenver
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ETHDenver kicks off this weekend (complete with an Impact and Public Goods stage 😍), and even though it might feel like that’s all people are talking about, there’s still a lot of other things happening outside of Denver in Web3ForGood this week.
Can’t make the conference IRL? No need to have FOMO. Jump into SBS’s virtual hackathon, catch up on your #Web3ForGood reading, submit some artwork to ARTQUAKE to help raise money for earthquake relief, or dive deep into one of the many new product launches this week. Or just read a book -- because sometimes it’s nice to take a break from the internet too :).
Wherever you are in the world, remember:
WAGMI (we are going to make an impact)
xx Abeera & Sam
What’s Inside
🕊 Tweets of the Week
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🚀 Opportunities & Events
📡 On Our Radar
🕊 Tweets of the Week
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🍬 What categories do ImpactDAOs generally fall into? Crypto Good reviewed the mission statements of 70+ Impact DAOs to find out. (Crypto Good)
🌱 Anna Lerner of The Climate Collective’s take on Puro.earth’s 2023 Market Map of the “New” Voluntary Carbon Market. (Anna Lerner, The Climate Collective)
👐 What can Web3 Do for Turkey and Syria? Web3’s response to this tragedy is cause for the appreciation of what blockchain-based communities can be when they’re at their best. (nft now)
📑 The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) released a research report arguing for tougher crypto regulation, including six recommendations to close regulatory gaps. (Blockworks)
🪙 In Taiwan, certain types of property owned by public servants are subject to disclosure — but not currently crypto. As the country moves forward with crypto regulation, that could soon change. (Blockworks)
🚢 Topl CEO Chris Georgen on how blockchain can facilitate the supply chain transparency that consumers want. (Cointelegraph)
🛣 Crypto and impact: 2023 is widely expected to be the year ReFi goes mainstream. (Esther Val)
🧑💻 Leading up to FVM launch, Impact Evaluator rounds are empowering devs & rewarding the most valuable projects within the ecosystem, while giving investors, builders & peer ecosystems a way to keep an enhanced pulse on projects going into mainnet launch. (Protocol Labs)
💃 Crypto is now the second most widely-owned asset class for young women aged 18-34, second only to cash. (Cointelegraph)
🏝 The best Bitcoin wallets for slow internet regions, tested in rural Zimbabwe with low and erratic internet connectivity on mobile data. (Bitcoin Magazine)
🧑💻 A review of Celo’s ReFi stack and some of the many projects building on Celo. (Boyd Cohen)
🌲 Improving the quality & integrity of forest carbon & restoration projects is key to their future. Mercy Corps Venture launched a data transparency pilot with Forest Carbon that will bring high-quality forest restoration data on-chain for the voluntary carbon market, driving positive impact for rural communities in Indonesia. (Mercy Corps Ventures)
🚀 Opportunities & Events:
Apply: Smith and Crown is hiring a Research Director (cryptoeconomics).
Hack: The Sustainable Blockchain Summit Boston Hackathon is happening now through April 2. Finalists will be invited to show off their projects at SBS Boston either in-person or remotely.
Submit: Artists can submit artwork to ARTQUAKE until February 28 for consideration to be included in the final NFT Collection, which will raise money for Syria and Turkey.
Attend: DAO Harvard is happening April 2-4.
ETHDenver events:
Attend: Impact Happy DAOr (hosted by Endaoment, LexDAO, & GoodDollar) is happening March 2.
Attend: Solid World, Toucan, and Climate Collective are hosting an exclusive Climate Crunch Investor Breakfast for high-net-worth individuals, angel investors, family offices, VC funds, crypto funds, institutional investors, and sovereign wealth fund managers on March 3.
Volunteer to Earn: Volunteer at a local community center in Denver to earn a Lens Protocol handle + be entered to win a dinner invite.
Attend: Federated Futures is a public goods hackathon, civic innovation micro-summit, and collaborative ecosystem launch event for OpenCivics happening February 28 - March 1 in Denver. This two-day event and collaborative open space / mini-hackathon will bring together leaders, innovators, change agents, and public servants as a civic innovation ecosystem.
Attend: Endaoment is hosting a Programmatic On Chain Philanthropy Workshop for developers & builders on February 25. Learn about how to find contract addresses for organizations, format donation transactions, and deploy new contracts for nonprofits.
Attend: ETHDenver Climate Summit is happening March 1.
Attend: ETHDenver CryptoEconDay by CryptoEconLab @ Protocol Lab is happening March 1.
📡 On Our Radar
DIVA Protocol enables event-driven conditional donations via smart contract based operating systems that financially assist farmers in adverse moments such as crop or livestock loss caused by natural disasters such as drought and floods.
The Natural Calendar, a RADAR FUTURETHON idea, is a time-keeping dApp that connects you to nature’s cycles.
Digital Gaia is igniting a regenerative revolution from the bottom-up, by using Open Science to empower farmers and land stewards.