This Week in Web3forGood
🌍Merge FAQ, Rhodes Academy, women in web3, SXSW
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Have you been *kind of* following The Merge but *not really*? Fear not, because our nontechnical Merge Q&A guide (with links!) has everything you need to impress your friends at brunch this weekend.
Plus: news from the DRC, Buenos Aires, and Colombia; updates from the Fed; an engineering school in the Metaverse; thoughts on web3 ethics; and more.
We’re heavy on podcasts this week. Let us know what you love / hate / think -- we love to hear it.
WAGMI
Xx Abeera & Sam
(P.S. Congrats to Abeera for being selected as a KERNEL Fellow for the upcoming cohort!)
What’s Inside
🌊 The Impact Professional’s Guide to The Merge
🕊 Tweet of the Week
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🚀 Opportunities
📡 On Our Radar
🌊 The Impact Professional’s Guide to The Merge
Much has been written about The Merge, aka the Ethereum blockchain’s impending transition from Proof of Work (PoW) to Proof of Stake (PoS). Generally speaking, sentiments are positive and excitement is high, especially surrounding the anticipated 99% reduction in energy usage. Whatever one’s opinion of the coming event (currently slated to occur mid September), one thing is certain: The Merge is one of the most important events to happen in the history of web3, and it will impact all aspects of Ethereum, including how Ethereum impacts the world.
Still wondering what The Merge is and why it matters? We’ve compiled answers to some of the most common Merge questions and simplified them as best as we can for a nontechnical, impact-conscious audience.
Read more.
🕊 Tweet of the Week
Tweet from @TheMiamiApe.
📣 Latest News
DR Congo opens oil and gas auction round to carbon credit and crypto groups
US Fed Opens Pathway for Crypto Banks to Tap Central Banking System
The Giving Block Goes Beyond Crypto, Expands Donation Options
Crypto community leads in sustaining vital support to Ukraine humanitarian efforts
📚 What We’re Thinking About
Women in the metaverse want to make Web3 more diverse and safer for all (Globe and Mail)
What is a DAO and how can you find the best one for you? Alexis Miller, Strategic Partnerships Lead at Endaoment explains how a beginner can get involved. (Women in NFTs & Web3 PODCAST)
Female Web3 professionals are generally more active career-wise than their male counterparts, and 27% have started Web3-related projects or businesses. Still, female trailblazers in Web 3.0 face unique challenges with the “bro” culture described by 33% as the biggest impediment to women. (CoinGeek)
Glen Weyl of the RadicalxChange Foundation Founder and Puja Ohlhaver, Strategist at Flashbots, discuss “soulbound tokens” and their implications for collaboration and social organization. (Unchained PODCAST)
“It’s high time for technologists, and I don’t mean just in crypto but crypto included, to take themselves more seriously.” Privacy researcher Anastasia Uglova discusses context collapse, quantifying harm, and the need for ethical standards in tech. (On The Other Side PODCAST)
Pseudonymous writer, investor, and crypto researcher Polynya shares a refreshingly practical crypto thesis, including why traditional finance could still win in the end. (Bankless PODCAST)
Meet Madison, the 19-Year Old founder building Dream DAO from scratch. (Crypto Good)
Rahul Gupta-Iwasaki explains how to make crypto donations seamless and social. (Crypto Philanthropy Club)
Itsuki Daito is offering a web3 twist on brick-and-mortar retail: a store owned and operated by a decentralized autonomous organization.(Bloomberg CityLab)
The Royals has made history as the first major NFT collection showcasing African Culture to ever mint out. (@TheRoyalsNFT)
Everything you need to know about the Round Structure for Gitcoin’s GR 15 which will run from Sept 7-22. (Gitcoin)
🚀 Opportunities
Apply: Filecoin Foundation is hiring a Solutions Architect for Social Impact.
Apply: Memex.Garden is hiring a Senior Software Engineer.
Apply: Gitcoin is hiring a Backend Engineer (Bounties & Hacks Team).
Apply: Metagood is hiring a Social Media Manager.
Apply: Techstars Crypto is hiring a Program Manager (Boston).
Apply: Mercy Corp Ventures is looking for an organization to support an emerging talent program which will enable them to work with 2-3 investment analysts at a time to help them gain experience in VC.
Apply: The DeFi Education Fund (DEF) seeks grant applicants to join its DeFi Fellows Program
Attend: The Inaugural Alogrand Foundation Blockchain Law for Social Good Conference is happening October 20-21 in San Francisco.
Vote: Support a proposed panel discussion on the “The Future of Social Good: Web3” at SXSW with Coinbase, Nifty's and Florcy Morisset, MBA/MA, CSM of Crypto Flossing.
Vote: Support a workshop “Launchpad for Web3 Social Impact” at SXSW with David Ali and Kelsey Driscoll of ChangeDAO.
Just for fun: Celo's ReFi Summer Book Club kicks off August 26.
📡 On Our Radar
The DeFi Education Fund is a nonpartisan research and advocacy group working to explain the benefits of DeFi, achieve regulatory clarity for the future of the global digital economy, and help realize the transformative potential of DeFi for everyone.
Umoja is a blockchain-based payments suite designed specifically to empower people across the Global South to gain access to digital financial services.
Thousand Faces is an iInvestment club that uses carbon-negative art NFTs to finance female-led projects.
COLDS Collective is a decentralized, digital-native community of African creators helping creators, companies, and everyday people navigate Web3 and other emerging technologies.