🌍 This Week in Web3forGood
Not a Black Friday Sale
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To our readers in the United States: Happy Thanksgiving weekend! We hope you’ve been enjoying time with family and, of course, good food. This season, as we approach the end of another year, we’re feeling extra nostalgic for how far this industry has come and full of gratitude for the opportunity to put this newsletter together for you, our readers, every week. We know there are so many things commanding your attention. Thank you for being here.
Last year, we called out some specific individuals and groups that we’re extra thankful for, and we’d like to make that a tradition.
Here’s who/what we’re extra thankful for in 2023:
Petar for designing our beautiful, new logo and visual brand.
Crypto Altruism for consistently creating great content that we love to share with our readers.
Angelo at Celo for your support, ideas, introductions, and friendship.
Anna, Michael, Alison, Ana, and team at the Climate Collective for believing in Web3ForGood and working with us to bring the Climate Collective member spotlight to life.
Tayyab for your technical expertise, for your contributions to Web3ForGood, and for representing us virtually and IRL.
The Sustainable Blockchain Summit for continuing to host great events that bring the community together and for giving us a platform to share our ideas about Web3, communications, and impact.
Public good funding! Especially Gitcoin Grants and RetroPGF for giving us hands-on experience <3.
THANK YOU 💛💛
WAGMI (we are going to make an impact!)
xx Abeera & Sam
P.S. Web3ForGood is currently a part of Optimism’s RetroPGF funding round, and we would love your support. You can learn more about how we’re supporting the ecosystem, by listening to this recording of Proof of Integrity’s RetroPGF Project Showcase. Not a Badge holder? Even if you can’t vote, you can help by posting on social media about why you love Web3ForGood (or reply here!).
What’s Inside
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🚀 Opportunities & Events
📡 On Our Radar
📣 Latest News
OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources say
UW’s Wyo BEE Curriculum to Enhance Blockchain and Digital Literacy in High Schools
Argentina's new president could 'supercharge' nation's use of crypto
📚 What We’re Thinking About
📄 Report: 2024 Crypto Outlook for Nonprofits. (The Giving Block)
🪙 The Potential of DeFi Lending for African MSMEs: Pilot insights on stablecoin “buy now pay later” products for informal vendors. (Mercy Corps Ventures)
⛰ Connecting Tradition and Innovation: A Journey to Cochas Bajo, in the Peruvian Andes. (impactMarket)
🚀 A Deep Dive Into Blockchain for Social Impact With Topl’s Erin Murphy. (Topl)
🔊 Podcast: No Impunity - Defending human rights through decentralized impact litigation. (Crypto Altruism)
💛 cLabs CTO Marek Olszewski on why Celo wants to 'come home' to Ethereum. (The Block)
🚀 Opportunities & Events:
Apply: ReFi DAO Local Nodes is accepting applications from founders, entrepreneurs, and community builders for their Beta Cohort.
Support: Gitcoin Grants 19 is live. Support your favorite projects and builders. Thanks to quadratic funding, even small donations make a big difference.
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.
Events
Attend: Liberland is organizing a meetup on November 29 in Manila, Philippines.
Attend: Algorand Impact Summit is happening November 30 - December 1 in New Delhi.
Attend: The Digital Assets Summit 2023 is happening November 30 in London and online.
Attend: The Responsible Tech London meetup is happening December 5.
Attend: Aspen Digital is hosting Talk Better About Artificial Intelligence: How to Have Informed & Productive Conversations on December 5.
Attend: The Blockchain x Climate Leadership Network is hosting The Promise of Blockchain: Catalytic Scale for Climate Finance on December 6 at COP28 in Dubai.
Attend: ETHIndia is happening December 8-10 in Bengaluru, India.
Attend: Lab for Inclusive FinTech (LIFT) is hosting The Digital Future: Fintech, AI, and the Path to Financial Inclusion on December 11-12 at the Haas School of Business in Berkeley, CA.
📡 On Our Radar
The Foundation for American Innovation’s mission is to develop technology, talent, and ideas that support a better, freer, and more abundant future.
Meta Queens is an NFT project that supports two nonprofits supporting LGBTIQ inclusion.