32/This Week in Web3forGood

🌍Public Noun = Manifested

Oct 14, 2022

gm gm from South America,

It’s been an incredible and inspiring week here in Bogotá, and it’s not over yet. We’ve repped Web3forGood at Schelling Point/ Funding the Commons and the Sustainable Blockchain Summit. We learned about human centered design and Web3 from Endaoment and Thirsty Thirsty. We toured an amazing women-owned gallery with Arkive. AND we have met *so many* awesome people along the way. (If you are new here and we met you in Bogotá this week, hi 👋!)

The real highlight, though? After waxing poetic about our new obsession with Public Nouns last week, Abeera WON A PUBLIC NOUN. We manifested it! ✨✨. And we can’t wait to share the behind-the-scenes with you. Watch the video of the announcement at Schelling Point here.

More on Bogotá once we’re back and have had time to process it all. In the meantime, please enjoy the usual roundup of news, thought pieces, projects and opportunities. There’s *a lot* this week. Web3 doesn’t slow down.

WAGMI

xx Abeera & Sam

Bogotá from the top of Monserrate, photo by Sam

What’s Inside

🕊 Tweet of the Week
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🚀 Opportunities
📡 On Our Radar

🕊 Tweet of the Week

📣 Latest News

📚 What We’re Thinking About

Matthew Stotts (Cerulean Ventures) and Brendan O'Connell (Patch) explore how blockchain technology is revolutionizing the historical inefficiencies of carbon markets, part of a 3-part series that examines the climate crisis and the role that web3 communities might play in providing solutions. (Solana Podcast)
How leveraging technologies like remote sensing and machine learning improves the measurement and modeling of carbon quantities and the quality of carbon credits. (RMI)
Dos and Don’ts for anyone implementing blockchain technology in the humanitarian sector with several implementation examples, 6 case studies, and outlined recommendations. (OCHA)
Members of the United Kingdom’s House of Lords have introduced legislation aimed at eliminating the need for paper trade documents, increasing the likelihood of using blockchain technology to trace records. (CoinTelegraph)
More on Practical Pluralism. (Kevin Owocki)
Organizations are partnering with NFT projects and accepting crypto donations to draw attention to Breast Cancer Awareness Month. (CoinTelegraph)
Infographic: how blockchain can improve supply chains. (CryptoAltruism)
The Monuverse is taking some of the world’s most precious monuments and preserving them forever as NFTs in the digital universe. (CoinTelegraph)
Ukraine shows how crypto delivers help directly to people. (Decrypt)
Earlier this year, UNICEF’s Giga launched the Patchwork Kingdoms NFT project to connect schools in developing countries to the internet. After a rocky start, the organization has brought on a new community manager, creating new hope for what otherwise seemed like a dead project; it remains to be seen if PWK will be a model for what-not-to-do or a great example of how to rebound. (CoinTelegraph)
Four stories that span centuries, geographies, and worldviews that reveal how to shape culture and the world around us. (metalabel)
Are flashy renderings of speculative crypto cities blinding us from seeing blockchain urbanism’s human-scale potential? (Zora Zine)
Parker Jay-Pachirat on crypto and the philosophical and ideological levers that lay foundation for this political, cultural, and economic movement + understanding systems and power structures at a broad scale. (Bankless Podcast)

🚀 Opportunities:

Apply: MITRE is hiring a Web3 economist.
Apply: Topl is hiring a Full Stack Engineer, Developer Advocate, Product Marketing Manager, and Technical Product Manager.
Apply: Topl’s first-ever developer grants program is accepting applications for Round 2. Apply by November 15th.
Attend: If you’re in San Francisco for SOCAP@@, join Mercy Corps Venture, Regen Network, Climate Collective, and the Celo Community for a ReFi Happy Hour on Oct 18.
Attend: Join Protocol Labs at LabWeek22 to coordinate, innovate and build for a collective future in Lisbon, Portugal from Oct 24 - Nov 4, 2022.
Attend: The Frontiers of Digital Development Forum is taking place from November 1-2, both virtually and in person in Washington, DC.
Attend: The Blockchain and Social Impact Summit is happening in Abuja, Nigeria, on October 29. Attend virtually or watch the livestream.
Engage: Gitcoin is discussing whether to delay GR16 until Q1/Q2 to accelerate the new decentralised grants protocol. Share your thoughts here.

📡 On Our Radar

Stake your Carbon Tree NFT to accumulate carbon onchain from ToucanProtocol liquidity. These carbon tons will be transfer to the global carbon vault and the accumulated carbon will be saved on the smart contract.
Atlantis DAO provides the digital infrastructure that improves coordination and incentives for consumers & businesses to reduce/remove harmful greenhouse gases.
Re-State offers a platform to reimagine governance and politics and create an optimistic, yet attainable vision of the future. In this future, communities of people are organized and governed in a different way, with more transparent and decentralized systems, that are supported by technology, and human-centered.
Digital X is a Partnerships for Scale Programme designed to find, match, and connect ready-to-scale digital solutions with the urgent needs of UNDP Country Offices and governments in 170 countries.
Astral Giraffes are eco-enhancing giraffe NFTs inspired by a giraffe named Twiggy in Kenya, proceeds from #NFT sales support African entrepreneurs & conservation efforts.
Super Linear is an effective atrium prize platform that decentralizes prize funding in the same way FTX decentralized grant making.
$BYEBYE launched as a micro-community token, with the ability to reward its members for the eco-actions they pursue.
EaasGlobal (Energy as a Service) certifies green energy in the use of blockchain technology and allows peer-2-peer green energy exchange.

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