This Week in Web3forGood
🌍 Pandas & Cake
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The long awaited Ethereum Merge finally happened this week on September 15 at 6:42 am UTC (2:42 am for us on the East Coast).
Some people celebrated with watch parties. Did you stay awake to watch it live? Abeera did… and saw the pandas appear!
Sam did NOT stay awake, but she made a cake.
However you celebrated, Happy Merge to all!
For those who still have questions about what is even going on and why it matters, check our non-technical explainer to the merge. This move will reduce worldwide electricity consumption by more than .2% and fundamentally change the environmental impact of the Ethereum blockchain. It’s truly one of the biggest events in internet history. To quote the Crypto Council for Innovation: “The fact that a decentralized group of actors worked together to manage a major upgrade of a live network is testament to the power of blockchains to incentivize trustless social coordination.” We are excited to see what comes next.
WAGMI
xx Abeera & Sam
What’s Inside
🕊Tweets of the Week
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🚀 Opportunities
📡 On Our Radar
🕊 Tweets of the Week
📣 Latest News
Ethereum’s Merge Could Bring a 'Billion Users' to Web3, Polygon Co-Founder Says
Coinbase Now Lets Users Check Which Politicians Are Crypto-Friendly
📚 What We’re Thinking About
Can Blockchain Build Resilience in the Underbanked? Matt Schaar of AccionVenture Labs discusses with the team at Mercy Corps Venture. (Fintech for the People)
Bottoms-up organizing around public goods is among the most promising use cases for DAOs; decentralized digital coordination tools like tokens also provide a step function improvement on public goods funding. (iamirina.eth)
While few funders have fully realized the regenerative finance vision, a growing community of financial activists is applying its core practices in initiatives that show how we can use capital as a flexible, purpose-driven tool to create healthy and equitable social and environmental systems. (Sustainable Brands)
Community grant-making is a perfect Web3 use case. Building in Web3 drives innovation in philanthropy. (Mark Johnson, Stand Together)
The pluriverse is a collective storytelling project whose content and contours will be shaped by its community. Written works, art, and other media explore the relationships between humans, regenerative cryptoeconomic mechanisms, virtual worlds, and the full spectrum in between. (Kevin Owocki)
Ethereum’s Big Day: How the Merge Will Impact Web3 Developers. (Newsstack)
How far along are we with Web3 adoption? An overview of Web3 adoption and the reasons behind it. (Blockster)
A report on the impact of UX on new user onboarding and continuous use of crypto. (Crypto Research and Design Lab)
Kevin Owocki summarizes Sybil Resistance in this talk. (dAppCon)
Bank of America says The Merge may lead to greater institutional adoption of Ether. (CoinDesk)
WTF is Trust Bonus? Everything you need to know fom Gitcoin, including how Gitcoin established one for grants. (Gitcoin)
Rewarding artists for their work is a common Web3 ethos. Yet creator royalties are not hard-coded into smart contracts or enforceable on the blockchain every time an item sells. When this hard truth entered the public discussion several weeks ago, Web3 leaders came out en masse advocating for royalties, with many emphasizing that zero royalties will hurt diverse creators most. (BFF)
🚀 Opportunities
Apply: Toucan Protocol is hiring a Product/Senior Product Designer
Apply: Protocol Labs is hiring a Publics Goods Funding Software Engineer
Apply: Praxis is hiring multiple roles across membership, marketing, growth, governance, real estate, finance, engineering, and more.
Apply: Hedera is hiring a Compliance Manager.
Apply: cLabs is hiring a Brand Marketing Manager.
Apply: Climate tech focused founders, apply to the Antler US residency.
Attend: NFT Day is happening September 20, and meetups are taking place all over the world.
Attend: Financial Inclusion Week, hosted by Accion’s Center for Financial Inclusion, takes place October 17-20.
Attend: The 2022 Crypto Sustainability Summit will happen October 18 in Silicon Valley.
Hack: Futurethon is a public, regen twist on a hackathon for non-technical and technical buildings and dreamers to create a better future with RADAR happening October 17-24.
Claim: Excited about the merge? Claim a free NFT by Consensus here for 72 hours after the merge.
📡 On Our Radar
Impacta is a hub focused on Discovering, Tracking & Developing the Next-Generation of digital impact assets.
TaterDAO is developing the legal and technical primitives to bring real estate on-chain.
Moments of Space is building a community-powered meditation platform to support wellbeing in Web3.
Kotani Pay is a technology stack that connects blockchain protocols, blockchain dapps, and Fintech companies to local payment channels in Africa.
Afropolitan is creating a digital nation to enable all Africans to build abundant lives.
Neighbor is an NFT designed to distribute rewards to make housing more affordable, particularly for minimum wage workers who cannot afford to rent a one-bedroom apartment in every county in the US.
Tapuya curates NFTs to decentralize cultural expression, preserve ancestral heritage, and empower ethnic communities worldwide.
💛And one more thing
Save Pakistan.Crypto’s has a #GR15 Climate Solutions campaign and desperately needs your help. Any support you can give will go a long way.