🌍 58/This Week in Web3ForGood
SBS talks, Gitcoin Impact, 1 year of The Climate Collective
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Lots of new subscribers this week — welcome! For those of you who are new here, Web3ForGood is a media community that highlights all the ways Web3 technology could be used to make the world a better place. Each week, we deliver a roundup of the latest news, what we’re thinking about, opportunities, and projects on our radar right to your inbox.
Our scope is intentionally broad; we’re not just focused on ReFi, DeFi, or any specific movement. Here we talk climate, impact certificates, NFTs, global regulation, novel use cases, education, governance, equal access, and more. If it’s related to the potential of Web3 to create a positive impact in real people’s lives, you’ll find it here.
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What’s Inside
🕊 Tweets of the Week
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🚀 Opportunities & Events
📡 On Our Radar
✨ And one more thing
🕊 Tweets of the Week
📣 Latest News
HUG Closes $5M USD Seed Round and Wants to Democratize Access to Artist Discovery
EU Lauds 'Comprehensive Regulation' as MiCA Crypto Law Passes
Sotheby’s Glitch Art Auction Relaunched With Diverse Artist Representation
📚 What We’re Thinking About
📻 Camilia Rioja of Celo on the importance of building systems driven by regeneration, why LatAm is ready for mass-adoption, and leading use-cases. (Last Mile DeFi podcast)
🏞 How Web3 is helping combat climate change. (Givepact)
🏛 Momentum is building for the first major U.S. crypto legislation to have a realistic shot at becoming law. (The Block)
👯 A new way to think about DAOs: a proto-DAO is the middle-point between a loose community, and a full fledged DAO. “Whatever we call them, whatever they call themselves, let’s spend more time bringing people together and helping them to organize into communities.” (Govrn)
🗳 How blockchain can empower democracies. (Crypto Altruism)
👐 Nonprofits should take note of three key innovations at the horizon of Web 3: cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and artificial intelligence. (HackerNoon)
🚛 Web3 projects are rebuilding carbon offsets’ architecture of trust. (Forbes)
📚 Miami Dade College has launched a “digital twin” campus in the metaverse. (MDC News)
🚢 Brian Armstrong, the CEO of Coinbase, warns that regulatory ambiguity in the US could force crypto-focused businesses to relocate offshore. (Bitcoinist)
🌍 10 key insights on the 'crypto for good' movement. (@glodollar)
💰 Case Study: impactMarket’s first microcredit pilot in Favela do Coroadinho, Brazil, has been a success. (impactMarket)
🌱 The co-founders of Regens Unite, Xavier Damman and Leen Schelfhout, on the necessary steps to take to evolve the culture and to how to participate IRL. (GreenPill podcast)
🗽Josh aka The Blockchain Socialist on imagining alternatives to Balaji's concept of The Network State. (On the Other Side podcast)
🚀 Opportunities & Events:
Apply: Techstars is hiring a Managing Director, Techstars Filecoin Accelerator.
Apply: The Giving Block is hiring a Senior Product Designer and a Web Developer.Participate: WheelCoin Ultragreen Move-a-Thon runs through April 22. The goal is to save 10,000kg of CO2 with the global WheelCoin community. Download the app and track your movement to take part.
Apply: Gitcoin Grants Beta Round is accepting applications until TODAY April 21 at 23:59 UTC.
Attend: Celo’s Earth Day Block Party is happening *today* April 21.
Attend: Crypto’s Environmental Conundrum: How Can Blockchain Accelerate ESG and Protect the Planet?” is happening during Consensus on April 27 in Austin.
Attend: ETHBoston is happening April 28-30 (Use code FILECOIN10 for a discount).
Attend: Regens Unite Brussels is happening May 19-20.
Attend: Devconnect is planned for November 13-19 in Istanbul.
Donate: ReFi DAO is raising $12,500 through Giveth for a Gitcoin match funding pool to support ReFi DAO Local Nodes. For every dollar donated through Giveth, ReFi DAO will donate one dollar to the pool.
Donate: Celo UltraGreen Fundraiser is an Earth Day campaign collaboration from Celo and The Giving Block. By donating $CELO, your donation will go to supporting nonprofits working to protect, conserve, and restore the environment. Additionally, for each POAP NFT minted by April 28th, 1 cUSD will be donated to The Giving Block’s ReFi Index, up to 10,000 cUSD.
Join: The Celo Africa DAO has launched. Participate via Telegram, Slack, and Snapshot.
Mint: The Gitcoin Impact Report is free to mint and collect.
📡 On Our Radar
Reseed partners with small farmers to help them unlock a new revenue stream from carbon they store, which can then be purchased as asset-backed tokens.
Energy Web builds open-source Web3 technologies that help companies navigate the energy transition.
SBS.VC is an invite-only virtual demo day featuring top #ReFi startups affiliated with the Sustainable Blockchain Summit, the premier forum at the intersection of web3 and the environment.
WheelCoin is a free app that rewards you for traveling more sustainably.
Neutral allows users to trade tokenized carbon credits, renewable energy credits, and carbon forward contracts.
Takataka Plastics, an award winning plastics recycling social enterprise in Uganda, and ImpactScope are collaborating to show how dynamic proof of impact NFTs can be an effective tool for social enterprises to record, verify, and communicate impact.
✨ And one more thing…
Sam’s talk at SBS Boston last week “How to Talk to Non-Tech Audiences and Why the Fate of the WorldDepends on It” is now available to watch online.
Watch all the talks from SBS Boston here (Main Stage) and here (Greenway Stage).