🌍 This Week in Web3forGood
GG19 is coming
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Save the date: Gitcoin Grants Round 19 is coming November 15. Will you be participating? Send us a DM @w3bforgood. We’ll be featuring some of our favorite projects throughout the round.
In the meantime: checkout this week’s roundup of news, ideas, events, jobs, and more below.
WAGMI (we are going to make an impact!)
P.S. A note from Abeera: Applications for Kernel Season 8 are open until November 24. As a Kernel Fellow myself, I would recommend applying for anyone interested in finding a community within Web3 and engaging in communication with others.
What’s Inside
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🚀 Opportunities & Events
📡 On Our Radar
✨ And one more thing
📣 Latest News
UK to Regulate Crypto & Stablecoins with Finalized Stringent Rules
Biden signs AI executive order, the most expansive regulatory attempt yet
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🪙 Tokenizing Securities on the Stellar Network. (Stellar)
🛣 Celo’s CEL2 Roadmap update: Guiding principles, roadmap, more. (Celo)
🪟 How carbon prices are taking over the world: A quarter of global emissions are now covered, and the share is rising fast. (The Economist)
👐 IMF director urges ‘financial inclusion’ via digitalization: Digitalization is “the most important way” to scale up financial inclusion. (Cointelegraph)
🛂 How you can take advantage of Gitcoin Passport. (Gitcoin)
🚀 How to fund innovation: a guide to Web3 grants. (BeInCrypto)
📑 Blockchain provides several game-changing benefits for intellectual property licensing and management. (Cointelegraph)
📤 Crypto remittances are a lifeline for many people who need to send money to their loved ones, but still face challenges to adoption. (Cointelegraph)
🔗 Blockchain improves charity transparency. (Cointelegraph)
🎨 Maliha Abidi, founder of the Women Rise NFTs, on art, advocacy, and her latest exhibition “Shifting Shadows: A New Horizon.” (NFT Now)
📈 Lower-middle income countries lead in crypto adoption, but not volume. (Cointelegraph)
💛 10 reasons nonprofits should dive into crypto philanthropy. (Crypto Altruism)
⚖️ Recently published: Volume VII of the International Journal of Blockchain Law. (Global Blockchain Business Council)
🏛 Watch: Analyzing the Role of Blockchain Technology in Strengthening Democratic Institutions. (Center for Strategic & International Studies)
🚀 Opportunities & Events:
Apply: GivePact is hiring a Chief Technology Officer.
Apply: The U.S. Google Public Policy Fellowship is offered year round to students passionate about the internet and technology policy.
Apply: New_Public is hiring a Chief of Staff.
Apply: Global Blockchain Business Council is hiring an Analyst.
Apply: Kernel Season 8 applications are open.
Nominate: Applications to join Global Blockchain Business Council’s 2024 Ambassador cohort are now open. GBBC Ambassadors are an exceptional group of super-connectors, innovators, and changemakers hailing from diverse backgrounds and industries — with an emphasis on technology, governance, law, finance, civil society, and academia.
IRL Events
Attend: GBBC's Tech for Impact Day is happening November 9 in DC at the U.S. Senate.
Attend: Crypto Friday's with HaloFi and friends and Celo Nigeria is happening November 10 in Lagos.
Attend: SheFi Summit is happening on November 12 in Istanbul.
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.
Attend: The DeSci Community Conference is happening November 13 in Istanbul as part of LabWeek23.Attend: Devconnect IST: Blockchain for International Development by ImpactPlus is happening November 14 in Istanbul.
Attend: D:pact is a one-day conference at the heart of Istanbul during DevConnect happening on November 15.Attend: The Responsible Tech Mixer + Youth, Tech, and Wellbeing panel is happening on November 15 in NYC.
Attend: The Responsible Tech London meetup is happening December 5.
Attend IRL: Algorand Impact Summit is happening November 30 - December 1 in New Delhi.
Virtual Events
Attend: Preserving the Singleness of Money in a Future Digital Currency Ecosystem is happening November 7.
Attend: Tax Tips for Crypto Giving with CoinTracker and Endaoment is happening on November 8.
Attend: Building an AI Analyst for Government and Nonprofits: Early Lessons in Working with GenAI for Social Good is happening on November 14.
Attend: Empowering Human-Centered Tech in Community-Based Organizations is happening November 15.
📡 On Our Radar
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✨ And one more thing…
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