🌍 This Week in Web3forGood
Next stop: Denver
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This time next week, we’ll be in Denver AND we will have published the 100th edition of This Week in Web3forGood — that’s right! This is the 99th newsletter. Can you believe it?
Since we’ll be in Denver together when 100 goes live, you bet we’re going to celebrate IRL with cake. Want to join in on the fun? Reply here or drop into our DMs.
Keep sending us your news, ideas, opportunities, and projects, so we can keep sharing them with the world 💛💛💛.
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What’s Inside
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🔈 Podcasts
🚀 Opportunities & Events
📡 On Our Radar
📣 Latest News
ETHBerlin is going sponsorless this year with the help of RPGF
Stellar smart contract layer Soroban is online after years of development
Circle is discontinuing support for USDC on the TRON blockchain
Plateau State Government and Algorand Foundation Explore Blockchain Programs in Nigeria
Worldcoin Surpasses 1M Daily User Milestone As WLD Rally Continues
Geo Web, Superfluid, and Allo Protocol announce first-ever Streaming Quadratic Funding Round
UK to release new crypto and stablecoin legislation within the next 6 months
Turkey’s upcoming crypto rules will protect users while fostering innovation
📚 What We’re Thinking About
📲 Mobile-First Building is the future of Web3. (@marek_)
🚀 BGD Labs, the core contributor to liquidity protocol Aave, published their findings about Celo’s network infrastructure and readiness to deploy Aave v3. (BGD Labs)
🆘 Blockchain & Web3 tools will be game changers in supporting those impacted by natural & human caused disasters. (@Crypto_Altruism)
🏦 India banned crypto exchanges that didn’t comply with FIU guidelines, but lack of regulatory clarity and high taxation has pushed traders to rush to foreign exchanges. (Cointelegraph)
🪙 CBDCs: User privacy problem or currency of the future? (Cointelegraph)
🧑⚖️ Crypto action in the US Senate remains on back burner; a key committee is so far holding off. (CoinDesk)
✨ Y Combinator wants more stablecoin startups. (Blockworks)
🥂 European regulators are jockeying to attract crypto ventures before MiCA goes live. (DL News)
📰 Digital archives: a time machine for the web. (Project Liberty)
👷♀️ AI offers us the opportunity to extend expertise to a larger set of workers. (Noema)
🎯 Crypto: The Game. Lessons from crypto’s latest consumer sensation. (Double Down Dispatch)
🧠 Partial Common Ownership. (RadicalXChange)
🔈 Podcasts:
Crypto Altruism Podcast Episode 142 - Cardano - Reimagining power in a new age of globally-distributed innovation
ReFi Podcast - Vision for a New $EARTH
Boys Club Podcast Ep: 122 - 1) Sora by OpenAI 2) Feelings on giving and being given career support
🚀 Opportunities & Events:
Apply: Optimism is hiring a Social Manager.
Apply: Token Engineering Commons is hiring an Ecosystem Development Lead.
Apply: Giveth is hiring a QF Round Product Manager.
Apply: Toucan Protocol is hiring a Business Operations Associate.
Apply: School of Humanity is hiring Industry Mentors.
Events
Attend: Social Impact Summit 2024 by Blockchain Law for Social Good Center is happening February 27 in San Francisco.
Attend: ReFi Local Node Incubator: Session 1 - Uniting for Regeneration is happening March 5 online.
Attend: Glen Weyl: Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy seminar is happening March 11 online and IRL at Stanford.
Attend: ETHLatam is happening March 13-14 in San Pedrosula, Honduras
Attend: Paris Blockchain Week is happening April 9-11 in Paris.
Attend: Funding the Commons is happening April 13-14 in Berkeley, CA.
ETHDenver Events (ordered by date; all happening IRL in Denver)
Attend: ETHDenver is happening February 23 - March 3 in Denver.
Attending ETHDenver? Here’s a complete and regularly updated list of side ETH Denver events.
Save: Denver Pack is a collection of perks to enjoy your time in Denver.
Attend: DeSciSummit2024 is happening February 25 - March 1.
Attend: Convergence AI Summit: Forging New Realities at the Intersection of AI and Web3 is happening February 26.
Attend: Web3 Grants Summit w/Meta Gov and Gitcoin is happening February 27.
Attend: DE:PIN SUMMIT is happening February 27.
Attend: SheFi Summit is happening February 28 .
Attend: Flowcarbon CarbonSmart: ETHDenver Summit is happening February 28.
Attend: ACJR and the Crypto Communications Collective’s TechTalks: Exploring Tomorrow's Trends is happening February 29.
Attend: FIL Dev Summit - ETHDenver is happening February 29.
Attend: Greenpill Governinit Summit is happening February 29.
Attend: FIL Dev Summit - ETHDenver is happening February 29.
Attend: Stand with Crypto: Founders Uniting for Policy Progress is happening March 1 at the Base Booth inside Spork Castle.
Attend: Schelling Point Session: Impact Reporting at Gitcoin House is happening March 2.
Attend: REGENERATION (A Regen Network + CCN Event) is happening Saturday March 2.
📡 On Our Radar
The Worldcoin project bug bounty program provides a way for experts to report and be rewarded for their efforts to keep all parts of the Worldcoin protocol secure.
Teleport is a DePIN platform that aims to “free rideshare market.”
Hivemapper uses DePIN tech to provide world's freshest map data.
NadaBot is a sybil contract aggregator on NEAR Protocol powering PotLock.
Fundpublicgoods.ai is an AI agent that supercharges public goods funding.