🌍 This Week in Web3forGood
Your weekly dose of positive news
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Gitcoin Grants are coming back, RetroPGF is happening now, DevConnect is happening next month, and so much more! Check out the details in this week’s edition of the newsletter.
Also: our Climate Collective Member Spotlight returns in November with an even deeper look at Climate Collective Members’ real world impact. Stay tuned.
WAGMI (we are going to make an impact!)
What’s Inside
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🚀 Opportunities & Events
📡 On Our Radar
✨ And one more thing
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
♀️ World of Women is demonstrating the far-reaching potential of NFT projects. (The Giving Block)
📈 Infographic: Quadratic Funding. (Crypto Altruism)
🪙 How stablecoins are accelerating dollarization in the Global South—and why financial inclusion needs Web3 solutions. (Fortune Crypto)
🏞 Nubank’s Vélez discusses fintech’s rise in emerging markets and how Brazil is 5 years ahead of the U.S. (Fortune Crypto)
🎒 Venezuela and Argentina stand out as examples of Crypto’s unique utility. (Chainalysis)
🎆 The Techno-Optimist Manifesto. (a16z)
🗣 Lessons from interviewings 135+ pioneering Web3 changemakers. (Crypto Altruism)
📄 Social Security for Web3 Work: A preliminary specification of the design and deployment of solidarity primitives for DAO contributors. (SSRN)
🚀 Opportunities & Events:
Apply: Cronos Accelerator us an expert-led 3-month program for teams building the internet of the future.
Hack: Algorand Global Hackathon is happening October 18 - November 15.
IRL Events
Attend: Plan B Forum (which brings together world leaders, technologists, and entrepreneurs to discuss nation-state Bitcoin adoption, economics, financial freedom, and freedom of speech) is happening October 20-21 in Lugano.
Attend: A Tech for Impact Happy Hour is happening in San Francisco during SOCAP on October 23.
Attend: ReFi Week: Regenerating Earth Together is happening in Abela, Portugal from October 27 - November 3.
Attend: SheFi Summit is happening in Istanbul on Nov 12.
Attend: Devconnect is happening in Istanbul from November 13 - 19.
Attend: LabWeek23, a decentralized conference by Protocol Labs Network, is happening November 13-17 in Istanbul.
Virtual Events
Attend: The Global Blockchain Business Council is hosting Real-World Use Cases: Transforming Supply Chains virtually on October 26.
📡 On Our Radar
Gov4Git is a decentralized protocol for governing open-source communities based on git.
Octant is championing sustainable public goods funding & amplifying Web3 influence to reshape the world.
Bitcoin Ordinals are digital assets inscribed directly onto a satoshi, the smallest unit of Bitcoin.
✨ And one more thing…
Everything you need to know about Quadratic Funding.