🌍 This Week in Web3forGood
Spotlight: The Climate Collective
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It’s Climate Week in NYC, and Web3 has been on the agenda. Events are ongoing through Sunday (including The Transformative Impact Summit and GreenPilling NYC), so hit one up if you’re in town.
With all the important talk about climate change this week, we’re calling attention to the important work of the Climate Collective. Now through the end of the year, we will be spotlighting the impact of Climate Collective members. Details below.
Plus news from the UN, impactMarket, Optimism, and more. It’s all inside this week’s edition of #ThisWeekinWeb3ForGood.
WAGMI (we are going to make an impact!)
P.S. Are you following @w3b3forgood on X (Twitter)? We know we haven’t tweeted much in the past, but we are now 🙂.
What’s Inside
💚 Spotlight: The Climate Collective
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🚀 Opportunities & Events
📡 On Our Radar
✨ And one more thing
💚 Spotlight: The Climate Collective
Blockchains can facilitate coordinated action among large groups of distributed people by delivering transparency, efficiency, and trust. This is a big part of why combating climate change remains one of the most discussed and most promising applications of Web3 technology. Many of the brightest minds in the world are actively building Web3 climate-action solutions that could help preserve our planet's natural resources for generations to come. To succeed, they need connections, attention, and funding -- both within the Web3 community and beyond.
Enter, Climate Collective, a community of entrepreneurs, investors, nonprofits and scientists developing digital infrastructure (blockchain, AI/ML, geospatial tech) and services for climate action. They are organized around three verticals that offer an outsized impact towards our global climate goals: Biodiversity & Nature; Carbon Markets & Accounting; and Communities & Green Accountability. The goal? To accelerate innovation and deployment of digital tech in service of climate action at scale.
An active member of the World Economic Forum, IETA, the CIFAR Alliance, and other leading ecosystem coalitions, Climate Collective has deployed $4M in grant funding to early stage start-ups implementing more than 58 climate projects across 19 countries to date and has built a network of 38 member organizations, each with their own unique approach to impact creation.
Over the next several weeks, Web3ForGood will be celebrating the innovators that make up the Climate Collective innovation network within a new “Spotlight” section of our weekly roundup. Each week, we’ll introduce a new Climate Collective member, along with a short summary of the real-world impact they have achieved to date and a vision for the impact they are working towards in the future. Interested in what you learn? We’ll be including details on how you personally can support and get involved with each organization, too.
The Web3ForGood / Climate Collective Member Spotlight series kicks off next week! In the meantime, we invite you to learn more about Climate Collective and get involved.
Follow The Climate Collective on Twitter.
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[*Web3ForGood is a Climate Collective Grant Recipient. We appreciate The Climate Collective’s partnership and support in connecting us with member organizations for this series. All opinions remain our own.]
📣 Latest News
Optimism announces Round 3 of Retroactive Public Goods Funding
Request Finance introduces crypto to fiat invoice payments for businesses
PlanetPlay and Lockwood Publishing collaborate for an eco-friendly metaverse
Fintech Veteran Ivar Wiersma Joins Thallo as Chief Commercial Officer
Telegram adds self-custodial crypto wallet worldwide, excluding the US
Citi debuts deposit and trade services on blockchains for institutional clients
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🚀 On Web3’s potential with ReFi Japan’s Kazuya Murakami. (Topl)
🌱 How the Gitcoin Grants Stack enables ecosystem builders to replicate the success of Gitcoin Grants and enable a more people-powered process of funding public goods. (@grantsstack)
🎆 Blockchain is unleashing a governance revolution. (GreenPill Podcast)
🍴 Understanding the Nouns Fork: “In a public and permissionless environment, forking is a mechanism that allows for transparent and open competition between competing versions of similar visions. This is a great thing for everyone because it means the speed of evolution is faster and we should see more innovation and progress as a result.” (jacob)
🗳 Technology can realize greatly intensified forms of democratic participation, but such applications must be openly developed and publicly owned. (Noema)
⚒️ Report: Proof of Work & Enabling the Energy Transition. Bitcoin mining is an important part of the renewable energy puzzle. (Crypto Council for Innovation)
🚀 Opportunities & Events:
Apply: Applications for the a16z Crypto Startup School Spring 2024 in London are open.
Apply: The Roote Fellowship is a 10-week program, designed to bring ambitious frontier people together to connect over a series of digital gatherings.
Speak, Volunteer, Sponsor: The next Funding the Commons is happening November 15 in Istanbul. Applications to get involved are open.
Funding: Optimism Retroactive Public Goods Round 3 applications are open.
Contribute: Share your feedback on the new Gitcoin Grants Stack homepage.
Donate: The Giving Block’s Libya Emergency Response Fund supports flood victims in Libya.
Donate: Giveth’s Morocco Earthquake fund will provide aid to those affected by the Morocco Earthquake.
IRL Events
Attend: The Transformative Impact Summit is happening September 22-24, alongside Climate Week NYC.
Attend: GreenPilling NYC @ETHGlobal is happening September 23.
Attend: The next FIL Dev Summit is happening September 25-26 in Iceland.
Attend: The Africa Money and DeFi Summit is happening Oct 3-4 in Ghana.
Attend: FIL Vegas, the first major Filecoin community event in North America in 2023, is happening October 3-5 in Las Vegas.
Attend: All Tech Is Human's monthly Responsible Tech Mixer is happening October 9 in NYC.
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: LabWeek23, a decentralized conference by Protocol Labs Network, is happening November 13-17 in Istanbul.
Virtual Events
Attend: The Giving Block is hosting a Twitter Space about Alzheimer's research and how crypto donations can support it TODAY September 22.
Attend: ResearchHub’s SciCon 2023 is happening September 23-24.
Attend: The next UrbanChange Protocol Community Call is happening on September 27.
Attend: The next Algorand Assembly Global Community Call is happening on September 27.
Attend: Topl is hosting a Women In Web3 panel on September 28.
Attend: Good Tech Fest in partnership with Splunk is hosting Building Digital Resilience in the Social Sector is happening on October 4.
📡 On Our Radar
Members of the Glo Consortium embed philanthropy in different ways in their work and support the growth of Glo Dollar.
MetaMask Snaps allows users to add features and functionality to their MetaMask wallet. Individual snaps are features created by third-party developers that MetaMask users can install directly into their wallet.
✨ And one more thing…
The Gitcoin Grantee Marketing Toolkit helps builders make sense of all the marketing pieces needed to support a successful Quadratic Funding grants round.