🌍 This Week in Web3forGood
GG20, CTG Finale, Glo backed credit cards
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Crypto: The Game is over (Abeera made it all the way to Day 9 of 10!) and what an ending it had. The winner, Player #733, was a coalition funding the legal defense of the Tornado Cash’s, Alexey Roman and Roman Storm. This was the largest single donation to their legal defense fund, and it was just brilliant to witness. The privacy aficionados in Web3 were jubilant. For a recap of all things CTG, check this out.
For 10 days, 800 individuals from all over the world committed themselves to the game: solving puzzles, forming relationships, strategizing, putting everything else on hold. Imagine channeling that kind of focus and engagement to solving some of the world’s biggest problems. With permissionless, blockchain tech, it’s possible.
WAGMI (we are going to make an impact!)
xx Abeera & Sam
P.S. Sam was at Funding the Commons Berkeley last weekend and had a great time. Thanks to the Funding the Commons, Earth Commons, & Protocol Labs teams for the engaging, thoughtful event 💚.
What’s Inside
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🔈 Podcasts
🚀 Opportunities & Events
📡 On Our Radar
✨ And one more thing
📣 Latest News
Optimism Retro Funding Round 4 will allocate 10M OP to reward Superchain builders
Huma Finance and Arf Merge to Transform Global Finance Through Real World Asset Tokenization
Gitcoin concludes Citizens Retro #3, most successful to date
Hypercerts will run their first ever community round on Gitcoin
Kraken launches self-custodial mobile wallet and releases its open-source code
Global Policy, Regulation, and Adoption News
Senate Banking Committee chair wants to combine stablecoin bill to boost chance of passage
U.S. Senators Lummis, Gillibrand Take on Stablecoin Legislation With New Bill
London Stock Exchange Will Start Market for Bitcoin and Ether ETNs May 28
Aruba Launches Digital Heritage Portal, Preserving Its History and Culture for Global Access
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🌱 Report: Improving Access to Savings for Low-Income Individuals through Blockchain Technology. (Mercy Corps Ventures)
🌟 Web3 Is the Opportunity We Have Had All Along: Innovation Amnesia and Economic Democracy. (MediArXiv)
💬 Carbon credit market fantasy and feud: a dialogue that should have happened. (0xfDoublePrime)
👤 Telegram founder Durov believes crypto-like communication devices could break gov’t surveillance. (Cointelegraph)
🙋 ETF fund flows and why they matter. (Cointelegraph)
📝 Circle responded to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. (Circle)
🪙 Adding new players to the stablecoin landscape is crucial to increasing legitimacy in the eyes of regulators. (Cointelegraph)
🥊 The SEC has chosen Uniswap, rather than a fraudulent actor, as its latest target. The commission faces stiff odds of success, according to lawyers. (Cointelegraph)
🌸 Recordings are available from Global Blockchain Business Council’s Tech for Impact Day at the U.S House of Representatives on March 19. (GBBC)
🟡 Prices for PAX Gold (PAXG), a gold-backed digital asset, surged as escalating geopolitical tensions catalyzed demand for haven assets. (CoinDesk)
🌈 What will humans do if technology solves everything? (The Economist $)
🤖 As with social media, the incentives around AI are aligned for rent extraction, where large companies amass profits at others’ expense. Governments must ensure that the tech is designed and brought to market in ways that will serve the common good. (Project Syndicate)
💼 EY revealed an enterprise contract management service that would let clients put contracts on a public blockchain while keeping business information private through zero-knowledge circuits. (Blockworks)
🔲 The Responsible AI Governance Maturity Model is a framework for evaluating the social responsibility of AI governance in organizations that develop or use AI systems, based on the NIST AI Risk Management Framework. (All Tech is Human)
🔗 Onchain is what we thought "the cloud" was. (@lay2000lbs)
🔈 Podcasts:
Crypto Altruism Podcast Ep. 150 - Vechain - Blockchain for a better world
GreenPill Season 4 - Ep. 10 - Future of On-Chain Capital Allocation W/ Austin Griffith
The Blockchain Socialist - Platformization: The platform organizational form is eating the world and we can do better
🚀 Opportunities & Events:
Apply: Gitcoin is hiring for a Senior Product Manager.
Apply: Mercy Corps Ventures is hiring an Investment Associate - Ventures, Mexico and Central America.
Apply: Crypto Council for Innovation is hiring a Communications Intern.
Apply: The Morph Grants Program is open for any builder on Morph to apply.
Support: Gitcoin Grants Round 20 opens for donations April 23.
Contribute: The Breadchain Cooperative, a collective federation of decentralized cooperative projects looking to advance a post-capitalist vision for blockchain and its effect on society, is seeking contributors.
Events
🆕= New to the roundup this week
Celebrate: National AI Literacy Day is TODAY April 19 🎉🆕
Attend: ReFI UNCONFERENCE April 21-25 in Barcelona.
Attend: Scaling Carbon Markets: Breaking Down the New Market Blueprint for 2024 is happening April 24 online. 🆕
Attend: Cornell Blockchain Conference 2024: Building For Billions is happening April 26 in NYC.
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: EthCC[7] is happening July 8-11 in Brussels.
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
CUDIS ring is a Web3 Oura ring competitor and Solana-based wearable that privately monitors physical well-being to access biometric insights, paired with a personal AI coach that dynamically customizes itself for the individual user.
Nightshade is a tool that turns any image into a data sample that is unsuitable for AI model training. More precisely, Nightshade transforms images into "poison" samples, so that models training on them without consent will see their models learn unpredictable behaviors that deviate from expected norms.
Homium, a real-estate equity mortgage lender and securitization platform, startd tokenizing home equity loans on avalanche.
✨ And one more thing
Throughout 2024, Rest of World is publicly tracking the most noteworthy incidents of AI-generated election content globally with the 2024 AI Election Tracker.