🌍 57/This Week in Web3ForGood
WEF Whitepaper, Gitcoin dates, Polygon Labs database, Sam at SBS!!
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It has been an exciting week in so many ways!
To start off, World Economic Forum released a whitepaper on, “Guidelines for Improving Blockchain’s Environmental, Social and Economic Impact” which crafts valuable insights and a comprehensive roadmap to unlock the true potential of blockchain technology. This is an essential resource for companies, regulators, and start-ups looking to make a positive impact and transform the industry.
Along with this, Gitcoin announced the dates of its beta round (April 25 - May 9), and Polygon Labs has started a database collecting various use cases across a number of verticals (and across any and all networks!), that they plan to make it public for anyone to use and consult.
Over this week, Web3 enthusiasts descended upon NYC for NFT NYC (we know it’s all about side events 😉), and in Boston for the Sustainable Blockchain Summit. Our very own, Sam presented at SBS(!!) and will be sharing more about her experience next week!
Also expect some announcements from us in the coming weeks…
WAGMI (we are going to make an impact)
What’s Inside
🕊 Tweets of the Week
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🚀 Opportunities & Events
📡 On Our Radar
✨ And one more thing
🕊 Tweets of the Week
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
📈 How Blockchain is enabling the energy transition: To fully leverage blockchain’s ability to enable more flexible and resilient energy systems and prepare for new ESG regulations, the blockchain sector will have to demonstrate real-life evidence of sustainable social impact at scale. (The Innovator)
🏘 Robert Heilberg, Head of Growth at DClimate presents at ETH Denver on the importance of Digital MRV. (dClimate)
📄 GainForest & Open Forest Protocol highlight the ways in which decentralized Monitoring, Reporting and Verification systems can rebuild carbon offsets' current "architecture of trust." (Forbes)
🌱 For the first time ever, a forest project will be validated by multiple different verifiers using crypto-graphic rules through Open Forest Protocol: Meet the Validators. (Open Forest Protocol)
☀️ “Bitcoin uses a lot of electricity – 0.5% of total US energy consumption in fact. Does this matter? Yes. Is shutting down Bitcoin mining the key to solving climate change? Absolutely not.” The Climate Collective’s Anna Lerner responds to criticisms of Bitcoin’s energy consumption. (Anna Lerner, LinkedIn)
👐 If the goal is to help working families and fight corruption in big finance, Elizabeth Warren’s war of crypto makes no sense. (Bankless)
🏛 New approaches to the restitution of cultural heritage: Blockchain tech can be used to disincentivize the sale of looted objects and to manage shared stewardship, ownership, and exhibition of contested artifacts taken though war or colonialism. ($ - International Journal of Cultural Policy)
💰 The stablecoin is an essential part of the crypto ecosystem, a favorite asset of cryptocurrency donors, and a hot topic of conversation in philanthropy. So what do nonprofits need to know about stablecoins? (The Giving Block)
🪙 Everything you need to know about Ethereum’s Shapella update. (Bankless)
📈 A recent BCG study found that women founders of Web3 companies are at a staggering low of 7%. Why? (CoinGeek)
📄 The 2023 State of Crypto Report: DeFi use is rising, developers have held steady, blockchains are scaling, and more. The future isn’t bleak. (a16z)
💰 ImpactMarket explains how blockchain-based microcredit is a game-changer for financial empowerment, offering more efficiency, lower costs, and greater access for those who are financially underserved. (ImpactMarket)
🏘 What crypto is for. (Peter Olivier)
⛑ Rene Reinsberg talks ReFi, funding public goods and more on the GreenPill podcast. (GreenPill)
🔗 Crypto and Giving: Use cases and the revolutionary potential of blockchain philanthropy (Glo Dollar)
🚀 Opportunities & Events:
Apply: Project Liberty is hiring a Director of Decentralized Social Networking Protocol and Governance.
Apply: Superfluid is giving $20,000 in grants for projects building with Superfluid on Celo.
Attend: re:build Global Summit is taking place virtually April 14-16 (that’s this weekend!)
Learn: DAO Leadership is a 6 week workshop challenging the conventional wisdom of money and currency. Registration is open for the upcoming May 18 cohort.
Contribute: Other Internet’s new research journey will explore work and social security in DAOs. If you are a DAO contributor, you can help.
Nominate: Nominate your favourite builder and their project for a Celo Builder award.
Attend: ETH Boston is happening in (surprise) Boston April 29-30.
Attend: The Good Tech Fest is happening in Washington DC May 1-3 and virtually May 4.
Attend: The next Funding the Commons will take place in Paris from July 15-16.
📡 On Our Radar
Menthol Protocol is the first multi-chain decentralized regeneration protocol that will automatically offset carbon emissions.
Regens Unite launched a newsletter. Subscribe for the latest updates on Regens Unite and the wider regen community.
CeloLocal, a new, locally-driven event series, launched in Nairobi last week.
Block Green is a Bitcoin-first ecosystem accelerating the transition to a fair and accessible economy.
✨ And one more thing…
Collaborative Regen Calendar, powered by the Regens Unite community, is a roundup of events happening all around the world that focus on ReFi. (Hosting an event? Add it to the list!)