🌍 This Week in Web3forGood

Celo says Crypto is Useless*

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Happy 16 years of Bitcoin 🎂! The cryptocurrency space has evolved quite a bit since Satoshi Nakamoto shared the OG Bitcoin whitepaper with a cryptography mailing list back in 2008.

But crypto is useless*, right? No, take it from Celo: “Crypto isn’t useless — you just haven’t needed it yet.” (NFT sold out ⬛).

Of course, the US election is next week ✅, and while we are more than single issue voters, we’d be amiss if we didn’t mention that it could impact crypto.

Don’t forget to donate to your favorite projects participating in GG22 🌱. You have until November 6.

WAGMI (we are going to make an impact!)

xx Abeera & Sam

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What’s Inside

• 📣 Latest News

• 📚 What We’re Thinking About

• 🔈 Podcasts & Spaces

• 🚀 Opportunities

• 🎪 Events

• 📡 On Our Radar

• ✨ And one more thing

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📣 Latest News

• Shift4 leverages The Giving Block for global payment service rollout

• Fault proofs are now live on Base Mainnet

• World’s First Marine Biodiversity Credit from SeaTrees On Sale at COP16

• Coinbase Commits Another $25 Million to Crypto Super PAC in Drive for Bipartisan Policy Reform

• Crypto Council for Innovation Expands Global Reach With New Partnerships

• Stripe Acquires Bridge

• DeCharge expands to Singapore as network sees month-over-month growth

Global Policy, Regulation, and Adoption News

• Over 60% of crypto investors in Indonesia are under 30

• Kazakhstan CBDC pilot drastically reduces VAT refund wait

• The Global Digital Asset & Cryptocurrency Association Announces Proposed Information Guidelines for Certain Tokens Made Available in the United States

• Pennsylvania passes Bitcoin rights bill to protect BTC holders

• Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing to Launch Crypto Index in November

Project Updates

• Celo Community Weekly Highlights

• DeFi Education Fund Weekly Update

• State of Filecoin Q3 2024

• The State of DeStor 2024

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📚 What We’re Thinking About

• 🚀 In just 16 years, Bitcoin has grown to become the world’s 10th largest asset. (Cointelegraph)

• 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Less than 5% of the global population is invested in crypto. (@WatcherGuru)

• 📒 The Web3 Grants Report. (@arlery)

• 💾 Bridging Filecoin with Scientific and Academic Research: Seal’s Role in the Ecosystem. (Filecoin)

• 🫶 Digital Public Goods State of the Community Report. (Code for GovTech)

• 👩‍⚖️ The International Journal of Blockchain Law Volume 10. (Global Blockchain Business Council)

• 🔮 Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 5: The Purge. (vitalik.eth)

• ✅ Stand With Crypto Is Grading Politicians on a Scorecard. But How Is It Determined? (Unchained)

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🔈 Podcasts & Spaces

• ReFi Podcast - Season 4 The Regeneration Nexus - Episode 6 - Regenerative Investing with Ebru Kaya

• Crypto Altruism Podcast - Episode 178 - Gnosis 3.0 - Building Inclusive Crypto Solutions for Real-World Financial Use Cases

• Green Pill - Season 6 - Episode 8 - Legal Considerations for Grant Programs W/ Gabe Shapiro

• The Giving Block - Episode 23- This Week in Crypto Philanthropy Podcast.

Upcming spaces to join:

• ReFi Podcast- S4 Ep6 Community Discussion- Regenerative Investing is happening TODAY November 1. Episode discussions will happen every week on Fridays at the same time.

• Climate Coordination Network X Spaces happen weekly, every Thursday. Learn more and join.

• @civilmonkey’s Curated X Spaces focus on using Web3 for positive impact in the real world (+ recordings). Learn more and join.

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🚀 Opportunities & Calls to Act

• pply: Uniswap is hiring an Executive Assistant.

• Hack: Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of open source projects, their maintainers, and the entire community of contributors. The Digital Public Goods Alliance seeks to accelerate the attainment of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) by facilitating the discovery, development, use of, and investment in digital public goods (DPGs).

• Donate: NFT.Storage needs you, the NFT community, to help remain operational. They’re seeking donations so that they can continue their mission of preserving all NFTs as timeless assets—so that NFTs don't become "dead" because linked images and metadata are not accessible.

• Learn: The Metagov Seminar invites individuals working in online governance to present their work to a community of other researchers and practitioners. Seminar topics include, but are not limited to, computational tools for governance, governance incidents and case studies from online communities, topics in cryptoeconomics, and the design of digital constitutions.

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🎪 Events

🆕= New to the roundup this week

Virtual

• Raising Funds for Web3 Workshop is happening November 7.

• Metagovernance Seminar: Change Is in the Cards: Governance Transitions in Open Source Communities is happening November 13. 🆕

IRL

• NYU Blockchain Conference is happening November 1 in New York.

• Singapore Fintech Festival is happening November 6-8 in Singapore. 🆕

• FIL Dev Summit 5 is happening November 6-8 in Bangkok. 

• Funding the Commons Hackathon In-Person Build Sessions are happening November 6-7 in Bangkok.

• Funding the Commons Design Jam is happening November 6-7 in Bangkok.

• LabWeek Web3 is happening November 7-13 in Bangkok.

• LabWeek Opening Party is happening November 7 in Bangkok.

• Funding the Commons x Earth Commons Bangkok is happening November 8-9 in Bangkok.

• Settlement Day is hosted by Celo Foundation happening November 11 in Bangkok.

• FIL Bangkok: DePIN Meets AI is happening November 11 in Bangkok. 

• Fintech Is Femme Leadership Summit is happening November 12 in San Francisco. 🆕

• Code n' Corgi: Filecoin Builders Night is happening November 13 in Bangkok.

• ETHGlobal Bangkok is happening November 15-17 in Bangkok.

• Boston Institutional Digital Assets Forum 2024 is happening December 3 in Boston.

• Oasis Oncahin is happening January 30 - February 2 in Nassau, Bahamas. 

• ETHDenver is happening February 23 - March 2 in Denver.

Recurring

• Monthly Earth Day is a global event that happens on the 22nd every month, not just once a year. Get involved on November 22 and share on X to @HighlyArtistic with the hashtag #MonthlyEarthDay.

Hosting an event that you’d like to see listed? Reply here or send us a DM.

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📡 On Our Radar

• Seal Storage is a decentralized cloud storage platform that focuses on the needs of the scientific and academic communities. 

• ETH Investors Club is a new magazine with essays from across the ecosystem.

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✨ And One More Thing

@Crypto_Altruism shared some great tips for onboarding impact builders to Web3 🔥🔥.

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