🌍 54/This Week in Web3ForGood
Blockchain > Banks?
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This week has been a rollercoaster for so many of our friends in the tech and nonprofit worlds, thanks to the Silicon Valley Bank collapse and subsequent uncertainty. While we’re grateful the Fed stepped in, it’s clear that the financial sytem as-is isn’t working. Something needs to change. Could the decentralized, transparent blockchain ecosystem be the solution? Of course, we know it’s not that black-and-white, but we do believe it’s absolutely worth continuing to build and explore.
In the meantime, good things are already happening in Web3 every day, especially this week. GoodDollar is live on Celo, DAO Drops is now allocating public goods funding retroactively, and even Sesame Street is getting into NFTs to further their mission. It’s all in this week’s edition of Web3ForGood — plus so much more.
WAGMI (we are going to make an impact)
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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
GoodDollar protocol and the ability to claim G$ UBI daily is now live on Celo
Worldcoin’s new digital identity, World ID, is live on Ethereum
European Parliament votes to form final law on EU digital wallet
ImpactMarket and Talent Protocol launch new Learn & Earn course
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🏦 What the Silicon Valley Bank Collapse Means for Nonprofits. (Givepact)
🎮 Multiplayer Futures: Toward an emergence economy. A new theory of change, one that relies on interconnected emergence rather than individual innovation; one that believes mass adoption can occur much more rapidly under these circumstances; one that’s supercharged by new behaviors & new technology. (RADAR)
🚢 Is there a use case for NFTs in our global supply chain, or are they a passing fad with limited applicability outside of the digital art world? (Forbes)
📚 The current global regulatory landscape for crypto: developments and implications. (Finance Magnates)
🪙 The central bank of Ukraine sees crypto as a threat to macro-financial stability and a promising opportunity for better payments at the same time. (Cointelegraph)
⚖️ Recognizing that increased scrutiny is likely to push Congress to regulate, The National Law Review tackles blockchain, ESG, and AI. (The National Law Review)
🧕 “It's time to normalize women in Web3 by expecting and demanding the same level of professionalism and authority given to men for decades, while addressing honestly barriers that perpetuate toxicity and demeaning norms.” (BFF)
🔬 The Future Of Medicine Is Tokens: Crypto capital and blockchain infrastructure are now powering Decentralized Science. (Zee Prime Capital)
💰 Cathie Wood says cryptocurrencies acted as a safe haven amid the ongoing banking crisis in the United States, current banking crisis would not have been possible in the decentralized, transparent, auditable and overcollateralized crypto asset ecosystem. (Cointelegraph)
👐 Quadratic funding: what it is at the core + how it can empower communities and revolutionize crowdfunding via Gitcoin’s Connor O’Day. (Crypto Altruism Podcast)
🏞 Why Gold Standard’s plan to tokenize carbon credits on its platform is a big deal for climate finance. (Climate Collective)
⛑ In Ukraine, crypto finds a purpose: The UN’s refugee agency has partnered with blockchain and money transfer companies to get vital aid to people displaced by conflict. (Wired)
🚀 Opportunities & Events:
Apply: Next Billion Fellowship cohort 3 begins in June 2023. Those working to make a difference in the world using Ethereum should apply by April 28, 2023.
Join: The ReFi Event Organizers Guild coordinates to build local communities, define priorities, raise funds, and set standards for ReFi events.
Submit a Project: Season 2 of the Artizen Prize is now open for art, science, technology, and design. Apply to receive $50,000 by March 31st.Attend: Algorand Foundation Community Assembly Call is happening March 29.
Attend: Good Tech Fest is happening May 1-4; sessions are now online
Attend: ReFi Summit includes a special hybrid event, “In Conversation with Benoit Clement, Director of Financial Innovation at Verra Standards”
Collect: Mint General Magic’s NFT representing the latest and greatest Impact DAOs driving positive change in Web3.
Vote: DAO Drops allocation phase is live. Ethereum users can vote to distribute retroactive public goods funding between 57 different projects.
📡 On Our Radar
Artifact Labs builds Web3 products and platforms that unlock the power of historical NFTs. (Like preserving history from the RMS Titanic).
ReFi DAO is building a network state to regenerate the earth—rooted in local startup communities all over the world.
Embody is building a privacy-forward period tracker.
Reneum is a transparent ecosystem to accelerate and fund the much needed energy transition whilst reaching Net-Zero.
Edition 01 of The New Internet Zine by Boys Club documents what’s happening with Web3 technology, and more importantly, how this technology will impact our actual lives.