🌍 This Week in Web3forGood
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GG20 (that’s Gitcoin Grants Round 20) is going on right now through May 7. Show your support for your favorite builders in Web3 with a donation, if you can.
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WAGMI (we are going to make an impact!)
What’s Inside
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🔈 Podcasts
🚀 Opportunities & Events
📡 On Our Radar
✨ And one more thing
📣 Latest News
Endaoment successfully completes first fiscal audit as a nonprofit
‘Buy Bitcoin’ sign that photobombed Janet Yellen sells for $1M
Bybit launches Blockchain for Good Alliance to drive social impact
Tether partners with Telegram to bring crypto payments to 900 million users
Global Policy, Regulation, and Adoption News
Stablecoin Bill Could Be Ready for the U.S. House Soon Says Top Democrat Maxine Waters: Bloomberg
Hong Kong Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs to begin trading April 30th
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🪙 World Chain’s Mounting Advantage. (Auditless)
✅ How blockchain-based voting can restore trust in the electoral process, according to Brian Rose, an independent mayoral candidate in London. (Cointelegraph)
💽 Understanding Web3 and its impact on the Internet and Society. (Forbes)
🌱 Web3 and sustainability: Benefits and risks. (TechTarget)
🤝 Blockchain is transforming philanthropy and humanitarian aid. (Irish Tech News)
🥼 Funding Hope: Crypto’s Impact on the Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation. (The Giving Block)
🐕 Bad policy favors meme over matter. (a16zcrypto)
👤 The need for safe, secure digital identities. (Blockworks)
🧫 LabWeek Public Goods recap. (LabWeek Public Goods)
🌿 The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists. (Noema Magazine)
👾 Why the 'Crypto: The Game' winner donated the $200K prize to support Tornado Cash devs. (Decrypt)
📄 Reflections on the 43-page IMF paper on cross border flows in Bitcoin. (@Matt_Hougan)
🏡 DePin tech is being used to incentivize community building in the real world. (Blockworks)
🔈 Podcasts:
Crypto Altruism Podcast Ep. 151 - Glo Dollar - Unlocking billions in public goods funding with stablecoins
Crypto Altruism Podcast Playlist - GG20 Grantees
Crypto Altruism Podcast Starter Pack - Web3 Climate Solutions
Unchained - The US vs. Crypto: Jake Chervinsky on Crypto's Legal and Regulatory Status
🚀 Opportunities & Events:
Share: The GreenPill writers guild is looking to create a followup edition for the ImpactDAO book. Share data and insights to help write the updated version.
Support: Gitcoin Grants Round 20 are open for donations through May 7.
Events
🆕= New to the roundup this week
Attend: ETHBoston 2024 is happening April 26-28 at Boston University.
Attend: Good Tech Fest is happening May 1-2 online.
Attend: IslandDAO is happening May 17 - June 14 on the island of Crete.
Attend: Decipher 2024, a retreat for teams actively building on Algorand, is happening June 26-27 in Barcelona.
Attend: Responsible Tech London: A Better Tech Future for Youth is happening June 27 in London. Application required.
Attend: SheFi Summit is happening on July 7 in Brussels. 🆕
Attend: EthCC[7] is happening July 8-11 in Brussels.
Attend: Funding the Commons is happening July 24-25 in Tokyo. 🆕
Attend: DWeb Camp is happening August 7-11 in Camp Navarro, CA.
Attend: REBOOT: THE NEW REALITY is happening September 4-5 in San Francisco
Attend: This week’s upcoming X spaces focusing on using Web3 for positive impact in the real world (+ some recordings), curated by @civilmonkey. 🆕
📡 On Our Radar
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