🌍 This Week in Web3forGood
HBD ETH 🥳
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Happy Birthday to Ethereum and Abeera 🥳🎂🎈🎉! And that’s not all we have to celebrate this week.
ETH ETFs were officially approved and started trading. However you feel about the aftermath, one thing’s for sure: it’s a positive sign for mainstream adoption, ever-elusive as it may seem.
The agricultural real world assets (RWA) platform AgriDex completed its first agricultural trade on the Solana blockchain, moving over 200 olive oil bottles and several wine cases from South Africa to London. Talk about a real-world use-case.
Then there’s the initial results from Sam Altman’s universal basic income (UBI) study… they’re incredibly promising and speak directly to the major potential benefit of crypto UBI. (Shoutout to GoodDollar).
And we have 6 (yes, 6!) funding opportunities to share this week, including Celo grants from Prezenti that you can use to get your idea off the ground.
Get inspired: the trailer (you can mint it) for the upcoming Vitalik/ Ethereum documentary is ❤️🔥❤️🔥; we’re building a new, better world!
There’s a lot to feel bullish about this week 🚀🚀
WAGMI (we are going to make an impact!)
What’s Inside
📣 Latest News
🔍 TLDR
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🔈 Podcasts & Spaces
🚀 Opportunities
🎪 Events
📡 On Our Radar
✨ And one more thing
📣 Latest News
Announcing: Real world builders and local coordination round on Celo
The Stellar Development Foundation joins Glo as Founding Organization
Global Policy, Regulation, and Adoption News
India to Release Its Crypto Policy Stance by September After Stakeholder Consultations
Colombia’s Largest Bank Taps Chainlink Proof of Reserves For COPW Stablecoin
🔍TLDR: Decentralized Social
New to Web3? Welcome! TLDR is where we offer a simplifed explanation of a term used often in this newsletter. If there's anything you're curious about, reply and let us know.
Imagine if your social media account, like Facebook or Twitter, wasn't controlled by a single company but by everyone who uses it. That's the idea behind decentralized social media on the blockchain. Instead of one company owning and controlling your data and the platform, decentralized social media spreads the control among all its users worldwide. You connect directly with your friends and share information without needing a middleman. This makes it harder for anyone to control or censor what you share and helps keep your data more private and secure. It's like having a social network that's truly by the people, for the people.
So, how does this happen? When you post something on a decentralized social platform, it gets added to a blockchain, making it almost impossible for anyone to mess with or delete your content.
Many decentralized social platforms have their own digital tokens. You can earn these tokens by creating great content, engaging with others, or helping out in the community. It's like getting rewards for being social. It’s a new, exciting way to connect online, driven by the power of blockchain, giving you more control, privacy, and even some cool rewards along the way.
Examples of decentralized social tools include the Farcaster protocol and the Warpcast app that runs on it and the Lens protocol and its Orb app.
TLDR: Decentralized social media is a type of social networking platform that operates on a decentralized network, such as a blockchain, rather than being controlled by a single, centralized entity. In decentralized social media, data and content are distributed across multiple nodes or computers around the world, ensuring greater transparency, security, and user control. Users have ownership of their data, enhanced privacy, and are often able to earn rewards through platform-specific tokens for their contributions and engagement. This model aims to reduce censorship, increase freedom of expression, and create a more democratic and user-driven social media experience.
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🌱 Key findings from pilot testing the use of blockchain-powered smart contracts to deliver anticipatory cash transfers to pastoralists in Kenya. (Mercy Corps Ventures)
🌻 Latvia’s minister of economics shares insights on the country’s vision for a tech-driven future and new crypto laws and blockchain initiatives aimed at transforming its economy. (Cointelegraph)
🔗 Why Nigeria’s blockchain success hinges on private sector expertise. (Cointelegraph)
💥 Understanding Web3 and Its Impact on the Internet And Society. (Forbes)
🏞 The Source of Source: A Vision for ReFi. This community story, written by Lee Rael, introduces Lee’s personal journey into ReFi, his founding of a new media organization, and an exciting vision for growing the ecosystem in partnership with ReFi DAO (ReFi DAO)
👐 Philanthropy's Blockchain Uptake Is Slow, But Future Is Bright. (CoinDesk)
🧫 We Need An FDA For Artificial Intelligence: What AI regulators can learn from the history of the FDA. (Noema)
🤝 Crypto is nonpartisan. (@jchervinsky)
🪙 The OpenResearch team releases the first result from their UBI study (@sama) and from the perspective of decentralized UBI, the results of Sam Atlman’s UBI study are incredibly promising. (Bloomberg)
🧑⚖️ The International Journal of Blockchain Law, Volume 9. (Global Blockchain Business Council)
💛 Haraka's Borrowers Spotlight: Agnes. (@Haraka_xyz)
🔈 Podcasts & Spaces
Crypto Altruism Podcast - Episode 164 - Funding the Commons - Blockchain-based infrastructure for Public Goods funding mechanisms
@MentoLabs X Space: Mento x Celo: Stablecoin Summer
@Gitcoin X Space: GG21 Rounds Announced 🎉
🚀 Opportunities
Apply: The Optimism Collective is hiring a Product Manager, Retro Funding.
Apply: The Ethereum Foundation is hiring Protocol Support - General Application.
Apply: Edge City is hiring part time socials and content support.
Funding: To support writer communities, t2.world is awarding $250 Summer Writing Grants to eligible community projects.
Funding: Retroactive Public Goods Funding (Retro Funding) 5 will reward contributors to the OP Stack.
Funding: ArtizenFund is awarding $1M in matching funds for groundbreaking projects in art, science, tech, culture.
Funding: The Real World Builders program supports teams working on use cases of blockchain technology that positively impact physical communities and environments, such as financial inclusion, ecological credits, Real World Assets (RWA), Decentralized Physical Infrastructure (DePIN), and more.
Funding: The Regen Coordi-Nation GG21 Genesis Round is now open to applications from ReFi DAO Local Nodes, GreenPill Local Chapters, and Celo Regional DAOs.
Funding: Prezenti’s “Apricot Round’ provides Celo grant funding, for Celo builders.
Contribute: Open opportunities to contribute to Optimism Collective governance.
Grow: Des Femmes Mentorship Program for New Moms is designed to support new moms as they strive to achieve a healthy work-life balance.
Learn: Explore Gitcoin's whitepaper for insights into democratic capital allocation and Ethereum ecosystem growth with Gitcoin 2.0 essentials from Bankless Academy.
Support and Mint: Help bring Vitalik: An Ethereum Story and the full Ethereum Stories series to the world by minting the trailer.
🎪 Events
🆕= New to the roundup this week
Virtual
Regen Coordi-Nation Kickoff is happening July 29. 🆕
Celo Governance Call #50 is happening August 1. 🆕
Veiovia Mindshare Series 2 is happening August 2.
Onchain Giving Summit is happening August 13-16.
IRL
Our Networks 2024 is happening July 27 in Vancouver.
Celo Nigeria CodeJam is happening July 27 in Ogun state, Nigeria. 🆕
BaseCamp is happening July 31 - August 4 in Idyllwild-Pine Cove, CA.
FWB FEST is happening August 1-3 in Idyllwild, CA.
DWeb Camp is happening August 7-11 in Camp Navarro, CA.
REBOOT: THE NEW REALITY is happening September 4-5 in San Francisco.
SheFi Summit Singapore (Web3 & AI) is happening September 17 in Singapore. 🆕
Funding the Commons and Earth Commons are hosting a month-long Public Goods x Climate Builder Residency this October in Chiang Mai.
Network Society Camp is happening October 11-14 in Austin, Texas.
The SolarPunk Summit is happening October 17-21 in Kingsbury, Texas.
Recurring
Climate Coordination Network X Spaces happen weekly, every Thursday.
Upcoming X spaces focusing on using Web3 for positive impact in the real world (+ recordings), curated by @civilmonkey.
Monthly Earth Day is a global event that happens on the 22nd every month, not just once a year. Get involved on August 22 and share on X to @HighlyArtistic with the hashtag #MonthlyEarthDay.
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📡 On Our Radar
Inverter is a modular protocol for Primary Issuance Markets, enabling maximal value capture from token economies. Its collective vision expresses an infrastructure to orchestrate policy and incentive design for positive-sum economies.
The Regen Coordi-Nation – a pioneering collaboration between GreenPill Network, ReFi DAO, and Celo Public Goods aiming to support a global movement of regenerative communities leveraging Web3 technology to address local needs and create real-world impact.
Glimmers are micro-moments of joy and connection that are accessible to anyone who is present and curious enough to find them.
Accelerating Good is a newsletter about AI & tech accelerating social good.
Unbound Fund is the first Web3 Golden Visa eligible fund.
The Blockchain Microbond Project (BMB) from USF School of Law is a cutting-edge 24 month pilot project to research, design, and implement a community microbond built on the Stellar blockchain.
✨ And one more thing
