🌍 This Week in Web3forGood
Crypto for a cause
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Thank you so much to everyone who supported Web3ForGood in our first Optimism Retroactive Public Goods Funding (RetroPGF) Round, especially to all the badgeholders who cast their ballot for us. For those unfamiliar with how RetroPGF works, we needed to appear on at least 17 badgeholder ballots (quorum) to be eligible to receive funds, and we received 31, which means… we did it! We can’t say enough how much we appreciate the support, and we can’t wait to report back to you about what happens next.
This week, we’re sharing a special campaign from our friends at The Life You Can Save. Check out how it works and learn more about getting involved, below.
What’s Inside
💗 Campaign Spotlight: The Life You Can Save
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🚀 Opportunities & Events
📡 On Our Radar
✨ And one more thing
💗 Campaign Spotlight: The Life You Can Save
The Life You Can Save identifies and raises funds for cost-effective and evidence-backed nonprofits that serve the global poor. Throughout December, our friends there are running a Gitcoin Grant round to raise money for its six cause funds, each of which supports multiple outstanding nonprofits with similar missions. A $25,000 matching pool will be allocated across these funds using the quadratic funding algorithm. Donate ETH or DAI to your favorite fund, and help steer the match pool to the cause you think is most important.
The Life You Can Save’s cause funds are a great way to support multiple nonprofits that help people living in extreme poverty with a single donation. Your donation can Save Lives, Transform Lives, Help Women & Girls, Create Economic Opportunity, Tackle Climate Changes, or promote Education for All. In each case, the fund will disperse your gift to highly impactful nonprofits that have strong evidence that their programs really make a difference.
Want to learn more? Drew at Crypto Altruism recently sat down with Jon Behar, Strategic Advisor of The Life You Can Save, to talk about how their using quadratic funding and Gitcoin Grants stack to advance their mission. Listen to the episode here.
US donors who would like to receive a tax-receipt for their donation should email omar@freewillimpact.org prior to giving, and include the amount of their donation and the wallet address it will be coming from in the message.
📣 Latest News
ValuesCo & TIME Announce GENZERO, a Climate Action Campaign Built on Celo
Celo Developer Proposes Mid-January Timeline for Evaluating Closely Watched Layer-2 Move
United Nations agency to upskill thousands of staff in blockchain tech
Circle and Nubank Partner to Increase Digital Dollar Access in Brazil
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🔮 Vitalik’s take on techno-optimism. (Vitalki Buterin)
🧱 Google DeepMind’s new AI tool helped create more than 700 new materials that can be used to make better solar cells, batteries, computer chips, and more. (MIT Technology Review)
⛓ The Benefits of Building Apps On-Chain: Blockchain networks are information networks, which can be leveraged to build new types of tools and experiences, Variant's Alana Levin writes. (CoinDesk)
🏛 Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong believes that by providing an alternative to the reserve currency, Bitcoin "may be the key to extending western civilization." (Decrypt)
🌴 El Salvador’s bitcoin bet is paying off. (Blockworks)
🏛 From Thailand to the Eastern Caribbean, the CBDC experience has been one of government waste. So why do financial authorities keep pushing them? (CoinDesk)
🧑🏫 Educator Loch Gallagher on creating powerful Web3 narratives. (Topl)
🪙 Why Stablecoins Matter Now More Than Ever. (Boys Club)
🗳 What if Optimism’s approach to public goods funding could improve participation in offline democracy? (Insights by Stanford Business)
📒 State of Crypto 2023: Spotlight on crypto policy. (a16zcrypto)
💰 Should VC-backed projects receive public goods funding? Optimism’s community is split. (Blockworks)
🔊 Podcast - All In For Sport - Empowering community-driven sports initiatives with Web3. (Crypto Altruism)
🚀 Opportunities & Events:
Create an immutable memory: Inspired by the American Cancer QF round that is live until Dec 12, Gitcoin is launching an onchain record of “Immutable Memories.” Your memory will get turned into an onchain record that will be distributed to all eligible wallet addresses after the ACS round is complete.
Apply: The Giving Block is hiring a Senior Fundraising Strategist, Head of Growth, and Web/PHP Developer.
Apply: New_Pulblic is hiring a Senior Fundraising Manager, Chief of Staff, Head of Fundraising, and Head of Communications.
Speak: Good Tech Fest's Virtual Conference is happening May 1-2, 2024, and speaker applications are now open.
Events
Attend: Emerging Topics in Blockchain Law is happening online TODAY December 8.
Attend: ETHIndia is happening December 8-10 in Bengaluru, India.
Attend: The ESG Digital Assets meeting is happening during COP28 in Dubai on December 10.
Attend: The Lab for Inclusive Fintech (LIFT) at the University of California, Berkeley and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) are hosting The Digital Future: Fintech, AI, and the Path to Financial Inclusion in Berkeley, CA, on December 11-12.
Attend: ReFi DAO Global is hosting A New Chapter - What's Next? | ReFi DAO Forum #4 online on December 12.
Attend: Celo is hosting The Crypto Holiday Party in San Francisco on December 13.
Attend: Good Tech Fest is hosting Who the TECH should do the tech? The incredible benefits of empowering a digital driver in a nonprofit online on December 13.
Attend: Creative Crypto Philanthropy, hosted by NiftyKit & The Giving Block, is happening online on December 14.
Attend: Greenpill NYC’s holiday meetup (the final meetup of the year) is happening in NYC on December 19th.
Attend: Global Blockchain Business Council's 7th Annual Blockchain Central Davos is happening in Davos January 14-18.
Attend: The Filecoin Sanctuary is happening January 15–18 in Davos, Switzerland.
📡 On Our Radar
PotLock enables public goods funding on NEAR Protocol.
RemittDAO is an Outreach DAO focused on digital remittance inclusion for unbanked migrant workers & asylum seekers.
Chimpzee empowers you to make a positive impact on the environment and save animals while earning income.
GENZERO is a coalition-based climate action campaign and community to address the environmental challenges of our time through collective action.