🌍 This Week in Web3forGood
How to support the IRC
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As we write out this week’s newsletter, the situation in Gaza is still incredibly dire, with significant humanitarian crises unfolding. Civilians are facing relentless bombardments, resulting in a high death toll, mass destruction of homes, and critical shortages of fuel, food, and water. Gaza's health system is on the brink of collapse, with hospitals running low on essential supplies and medical care becoming increasingly challenging to provide. The situation is further complicated by limited refuge options for Palestinians in Gaza, with a large percentage of the population displaced and facing severe restrictions on movement.
Efforts by humanitarian aid organizations are ongoing to provide assistance amidst the escalating crisis, and for those interested, you can donate crypto to IRC through these options:
IRC is using ENS for easy crypto donations without complex addresses. Donate via irc.eth.
Donate via Endaoment for low-fee crypto donations on platforms like Optimism and Base. IRC also accepts traditional assets like stocks and cash, which are tax-deductible, allowing everyone to contribute.
Another place to donate is ethevacuations.xyz. Hear here from Kat who is taking donations to help Palestinians families to get out of Gaza through the Rafah crossing.
If you know of any other ways to support those in need in Gaza, please let us know, and we will highlight those campaigns here.
WAGMI (we are going to make an impact!)
What’s Inside
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🔈 Podcasts
🚀 Opportunities & Events
📡 On Our Radar
✨ And one more thing
📣 Latest News
Kraken Unveils Qualified Custody for Institutions in Crypto-Friendly Wyoming
Ethereum Foundation Faces Inquiry From a Government; Fortune Says SEC Investigating ETH
UK regulator to tighten measures against crypto market abuse
Crypto and lobbying groups file briefs supporting Coinbase's push for SEC to write rules
Artificial Intelligence Act: Members of European Parliament adopt landmark law
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🌱 Breaking down "The State of ReFi" 2024 Report. (ReFiDAO)
⏰ This interactive timeline of events that shaped the future of money allows users to explore every significant development across the crypto industry. (Cointelegraph)
🤖 The global competition for AI supremacy intensifies as companies consider relocating and countries offer incentives to attract AI talent. (Cointelegraph)
🔗 The expansion of the blockchain ecosystem calls for better scalability solutions to prevent performance degradation caused by the influx of new users. (Cointelegraph)
🥧 Bitcoin's halving may be here sooner than you know (again). (CoinDesk)
🧠 Understanding the biggest upgrade to Ethereum since The Merge. (web3 letter from a16zcrypto)
🏭 The tokenization of industrial processes will produce a revolution in competition between companies of different sizes, says Paul Brody, Head of Blockchain at EY. (CoinDesk)
💼 CFTC Digital Assets Taxonomy: Comparing the EU and US Approaches. (Global Blockchain Business Council and ValueVerse)
📚 Publisher-Exchanges: Consumer Applications and the Attention Theory of Value. (Multicoin)
🔴 Optimism Finally Starts Testing 'Fault Proofs' at Heart of Design – and of Criticism. (CoinDesk)
🌳 Greenpeace released a very critical Bitcoin mining report, connecting mining to corporate interests and climate deniers. The report, however, has been met with criticism. (Greenpeace; Decrypt)
❓ What is crypto good for, anyway? (Coinbase)
🔈 Podcasts:
Crypto Altruism Podcast Episode 146 - $Earth - Redesigning money to power the Solarpunk revolution
GreenPill Season 4 - Ep. 1 - Lean, Mean, Capital Allocation Machines
GreenPill Season 4 - Ep. 2 - Direct-to-Contract Incentives W/ Brian Flynn
GreenPill Season 4 - Ep. 3 - Vowel Sounds W/ Justin Holmes
CoinDesk Money Reimagined - Drawing from Web History: Blockchains' Purpose and Stellar's Commitment
The Blockchain Socialist - Fund evacuations from Gaza with ETH
🚀 Opportunities & Events:
Apply: GoodDollar’s GoodDAO is hiring a Community Moderator.
Accelerate: Open Campus Accelerator is 6-week accelerator programme is designed to provide tailored support and growth opportunities for education-focused startups.
Fellowship: The DWeb Fellowship program is seeking “outstanding individuals who are creating or employing technologies in ways that uplift communities facing systemic inequality and help bring about autonomy, resilience, justice and social equity through network technologies.” Those who are awarded the Fellowship will receive funding to cover the costs of travel and food, in addition to free registration and accommodations at DWeb’s Camp Navarro.
Funding: The Women in Digital Economy Fund (WIDEF) will award grant funding for solutions working to close the gender digital divide.
Funding: The Flowverse Microbounty Fund supports community initiatives within the Flowverse community.
Funding: Mercy Corps Ventures Crypto For Good Fund III: crypto for climate and financial resilience in emerging markets applications are open through March 31.
Funding: Mercy Corps Ventures Crypto For Good Fund III: crypto for climate and financial resilience in emerging markets applications are open through March 31.
Earn: Celebrate 1 year of G$ UBI on Celo with a 500G$ bonus for signing up or a 1000G$ bonus for referrals.
Events
Attend: D-Web Co-Working happens every Friday (today!) at the Internet Archive Headquarters in San Francisco. RSVP required.
Attend: Causal Islands Los Angeles is happening March 23 in LA.
Attend: Paris Blockchain Week is happening April 9-11 in Paris.
Attend: Building at the Edge tech summit is happening April 13 in San Francisco.
Attend: Harvard Blockchain Conference (HBC) 2024 is happening April 13-14 in Cambridge, MA.
Attend: Funding the Commons is happening April 13-14 in Berkeley, CA.
Attend: ReFI UNCONFERENCE April 21-25 in Barcelona.
Attend: Good Tech Fest is happening May 1-2 online.
Attend: Decipher 2024, a retreat for teams actively building on Algorand, is happening June 26-27 in Barcelona.
Attend: EthCC[7] is happening July 8-11 in Brussels.
Attend: DWeb Camp is happening August 7-11 in Camp Navarro, CA.
Attend: REBOOT: THE NEW REALITY is happening September 4-5 in San Francisco
*Plus, don’t forget to set reminders for these upcoming fairly aligned X spaces focusing on using web3 for positive impact in the real world (+ some recordings), curated weekly by @civilmonkey.*
📡 On Our Radar
Veiovia Mindshare delivers the latest scientific research in Web3 technology from world-class academics in a TL:DR format directly from the researchers themselves.
Genii DAO is raising $5 million to disrupt education and unlock the power of WEb3 for self-directed learning.
Powerledger xGrid 2.0 redefines the way renewable energy is traded and traced.
✨ And one more thing
