🌍 41/This Week in Web3forGood

Building a Peer-to-Peer Network for Clean Water Access

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When it comes to Web3forGood, use cases are really important. The potential of the tech is there, but how is it really being used? What is the true impact? Who is being impacted? This is why we have been following different projects, particularly pilots by Mercy Corps Ventures. Abeera is currently working as a pilot manager and directly involved with one of these pilots where Atlantis DAO is testing whether a decentalized peer-to-peer (P2P) water network enables the coordination and incentive structure to increase access to clean, safe water.

This week, we’re excited to share an introduction to the pilot, the problem it is trying to solve, and an explanation of how it hopes to do so. 

Let us know what you think!

WAGMI (we are going to make an impact)

xx Abeera & Sam

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What’s Inside

• 🌊 Pilot Launch | Building a Peer-to-Peer Network for Clean Water Access in India

• 🕊 Tweets of the Week

• 📣 Latest News

• 📚 What We’re Thinking About

• 🚀 Opportunities & Events

• 📡 On Our Radar

• ✨ And one more thing

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🌊 Pilot Launch | Building a Peer-to-Peer Network for Clean Water Access in India

Image courtesy of Mercy Corps.

Mercy Corps Ventures and Atlantis DAO, with the help of local partners, launch a new pilot in rural India building a decentralized peer-to-peer water network for underserved groups to access clean water resources while increasing earning opportunities.

A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) is a collectively-owned, blockchain-governed organization working towards a shared mission. Atlantis DAO aims to create a system where communities and businesses are rewarded to reduce emissions and achieve self-sustainability (through access to essential resources, like water), by making it easy to create new energy and carbon and impact credits that help users earn while having a positive impact on the environment.

Through the pilot, Atlantis DAO will build and test a decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) network that supports users to access clean water and earn tokens on the Citizen App through conservation methods, such as water recycling, or harvesting rainwater or local freshwater sources. Pilot participants will be able to buy and sell water from the Citizen App through a secure online wallet with an open auditable blockchain-based ledger and the water will then be delivered by contracted service providers.

Read more.

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🕊 Tweets of the Week

Ξwocki (🤖,💚) @owocki

in physical systems, massive objects warp spacetime. in cryptoeconomics systems, what if we could warp incentives landscapes to create a more regenerative web3? 🌎🌱

jE ❤️ Regeneration @climateXcrypto

Super excited to announce refigratitude.xyz! Mint one for you, and one for a friend as a token of gratitude. Proceeds go to: - 50% donation to @BlackArtistFND - 50% retiring $NCT Greenlist now open! 🎉 Minting begins Dec 17 😍

Chase Chapman @chaserchapman

The real alpha in crypto is just following your natural curiosity Not optimizing for money or clout ‒ just do what makes you feel fired up inside That type of authentic excitement is contagious

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📣 Latest News

• BlockTower Credit and MakerDAO to Fund $220 Million of Real-World Assets through Centrifuge

• CoinDesk’s Inaugural MetaGala Raised $160,000 for Blockchain Education Charities

• The Giving Block Kicks Off Impact Week with $700K in Crypto and Stock Donation Matches

• Climate Collective Announces Third Round Grant Recipients

• MetaMask Launches PayPal Integration for Ethereum Purchases

• SBF Charged With Conspiracy, Wire Fraud, Money Laundering by Justice Department, Securities Violations by SEC

• UNHCR launches pilot Cash-Based Intervention Using Blockchain Technology for Humanitarian Payments to People Displaced and Impacted by the War in Ukraine

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📚 What We’re Thinking About

• The year in review, according to Celo Foundation President Rene Reinsberg (Celo)

• The DuneAnalytics Dashboard is tracking donations for the ongoing UNICEFxGitcoin pilot. (Dune)

• Pakistani entrepreneur’s Web3 Metaschool has had over 120,000 developer enrollments in just 11 months. (ProPakistani)

• Azeem Khan and Scott Moore of Gitcoin on the revolutionary implications for philanthropy of the Gitcoin UNICEF round. (Bankless DAO)

• Philip Sheldrake and Kevin Owocki critique the current web3 identity dynamic, explaining it’s flawed compared to how we actually act in the world. (GreenPill podcast)

• Amid Lebanon’s crumbling infrastructure and socio-economic decay a cottage industry of crypto miners has found razor-thin profits using hydroelectric power in the mountains putting them into direct competition with local residents over one of the country's most prized resources: electricity. (Rest of the World)

• A critical take on cryptocurrency and financial inclusion. (Brookings)

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🚀 Opportunities & Events: 

• Apply: The Dream DAO Season 3 Builder application is now open, apply by December 18.

• Apply: Bonfire is hiring several engineering positions. 

• Attend: A ReFi event in 2023. This crowd-sourced calendar started by LOA Labs and Regen Network lists events around the world for the #ReFi, #Climate x Crypto community.

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📡 On Our Radar

• The Land of Milk & Honey Collection thematically explores the cosmos, the context of language, consciousness and belonging. 10% of proceeds from the collection will benefit UNRWA, which provides mental health services to Palestinian refugee children.

• theVERSEverse is a poetry NFT gallery where poem = work of art.

• Bonfire lets anyone create unique digital spaces to share exclusive content, curate intimate experiences, and engage directly with fans.

• Speak on Liberty is an NFT by Keith Haring + City Kids now being auctioned by Sotheby’s. Proceeds will benefit The CityKids Foundation to fund new art-inspired, youth-driven programming on the issues most important to their lives building upon Keith Haring’s legacy.

• Arkive published the first edition of Arkive Magazine, and it looks beautiful. 

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