In episode 99, we’re excited to welcome Karen Shidlo, CMO of Fiat24, an award-winning, Swiss licensed fintech company dedicated to bringing crypto spending to the world. We discuss the exciting world of decentralized digital identity and Soulbound tokens, the recent challenges facing centralized exchanges, the importance of self-custody, financial inclusion, and much more.

In episode 97, we’re excited to welcome Victor Texeira, Lead Crypto Economist from Canza Finance, “an Open Finance Portal enabling access to unlimited financial services for emerging markets.” We discuss how Web3 and DeFi can bridge the gap to financial services for small businesses in emerging economies, some of the barriers to financial inclusion for the unbanked and financially underserved, why Africa is at the frontier of the Decentralized Finance movement, and much more.

In episode 93, we’re excited to welcome Garm Lucassen and Jasper Driessens from Glo, a stablecoin with a mission to generate basic income and lift people out of extreme poverty. We discuss why Web3-enabled basic income is such a powerful force for fighting poverty, the mechanics behind the Glo Dollar, how crypto can drive financial inclusion, and much more.

In episode 90, we’re excited to welcome Gabriela Change, Co-Founder and CSO of EthicHub, the First regenerative finance protocol connecting people & unbanked smallholder farmers globally using Web3. We discuss how Web3 can support smallholder farmers, EthicHub’s innovative crowdlending model, blockchain as an important tool for building trust, the regenerative finance movement, and much more.

Decentralized blockchain-based identification can be a powerful tool for the estimated one billion people around the world who lack access to basic identification, by providing a secure, immutable, and accessible form of digital identification.

In episode 81, we’re excited to welcome Aly Marguerite Neumann, Founder of Fourth Wave DAO, a Decentralized Autonomous Organization that will facilitate easy access to decentralized finance protocols so that users can grow their wealth, while also supporting women who are seeking safe reproductive health services, by connecting them with a decentralized network of helpers. We discuss how blockchain can be used to help protect reproductive rights, how they’re using web3 tools to build a decentralized network of support for women in need, their innovative governance model, and why web3 is much better than web2 for building movements of change.

In episode 80 we’re excited to welcome Alejandro Adon, Founder of Kokonut Network, a regenerative finance project building the infrastructure to connect web3 with sustainable agriculture. In this episode we discuss how web3 can empower smallholder farmers and communities, the role of DAOs in sustainable community projects, the exciting world of regenerative finance, and much more.

During times of crisis, it is common for humanity to look to new technologies as a way to help vulnerable communities most at risk and in need of urgent help. Over the past couple of years, some of the most surprising technological developments have been the innovative ways that cryptocurrency and blockchain have been used to help those in crisis.

In this podcast starter pack, we’ve bundled together five episodes highlighting five incredible projects using the power of web3 to advance financial inclusion for the unbanked and for marginalized populations. This starter pack includes renowned guests from ImpactMarket, AgUnity, GoodDollar, Celo Foundation, and RemittDAO

For Episode 71, we’re excited to welcome Craig Schuster, Founder of RemittDAO, a social impact DAO focused on building wealth in migrant & refugee families, worldwide. They do this through teaching web3 skills & enabling digital remittance payments; especially for those who are unbanked. In this episode we discuss how crypto can build a fairer remittance system for migrant workers and those who are unbanked, how crypto and web3 can lead to financial inclusion for the unbanked, and much more.

With the growth of web3 technology, new and innovative solutions are being developed that have the potential to greatly improve the lives of smallholder farmers all over the world by giving them access to new technologies and financial support to improve their businesses and livelihoods. In this blog post, we highlight 7 projects using web3 technology to support smallholder farmers around the world.

For Ep. 64, we have the pleasure of welcoming Xochitl Cazador, Head of Ecosystem Growth at the Celo Foundation. Celo is a proof-of-stake layer-1 protocol that, to date, has had over 150M transactions, and has an amazing ecosystem built around the vision of “Prosperity for All”. In this episode we chat about the Regenerative Finance, or ReFi movement, how blockchain can help alleviate poverty and build prosperity for all, and the future of web3 and the Celo ecosystem.

In Episode 62, we welcome Nadja Bester, Founder of AdLunam, a community-driven crypto investment and startup accelerator platform. We discuss the need to democratize early-stage crypto projects, how AdLunam is creating a more inclusive and accessible space for retail investors, how they reward users for engagement through their Proof of Attention mechanism, and advice for those looking to break into the world of web3.

Universal (or unconditional) Basic Income (UBI in short), has gained a lot of momentum around the world in recent years. In this infographic, we highlight five ways that crypto can help deliver more impactful UBI programs.

In this episode, we welcome Jessica Salama, Community Lead at Good Dollar, a global movement to bring economic opportunity to all. We discuss the synergies that exist between crypto and Universal Basic Income, or UBI, how crypto can drive greater financial inclusion and economic empowerment, and why the time for UBI is now.

In this episode, we highlight three movements within web3 that have experienced incredible growth in recent years: Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Regenerative Finance (ReFi), and Decentralized Science (DeSci).