Newsletter highlighting the most popular Crypto Altruism content from February 2023: supporting Syria and Turkey earthquake relief with crypto, chatting DeSci with Data Lake, separating the myths from the reality in Web3, and how blockchain can improve land protection and management.

In episode 92, we’re excited to welcome Rafaella Orelli, Madhuri Rahman, and Susana González from ImpactScope, a Web3 startup dedicated to helping organizations deploy web3 tools to measure, verify and amplify their impact. We discuss how Web3 tools can help NGOs and social enterprises achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Proof of Impact NFTs, some compelling use cases for social enterprises that are skeptical of Web3, and much more.

Land management and protection continues to be rife with intricate challenges including contentious rights ownership, land grabbing, and the impacts of climate change. Up to 40% of the world’s land is now considered degraded, affecting food security, biodiversity, and water availability. Can blockchain help tackle these problems and provide secure and transparent systems for land governance?

In episode 91, we’re excited to welcome, Jordan Smith and Hank Brigham, Co-Founders of SCINET, a decentralized life sciences research and investment platform that revolutionizes the way people do and support science. We discuss how decentralized science, or DeSci, can address the biggest pain points felt by scientists, the role of IPNFTs in scientific research, how Web3 can empower individuals to have a voice in science, some of the most compelling DeSci use cases, and much more.

Blockchain technology has the potential to revolutionize the carbon offsetting market, making it more transparent, trustworthy and efficient. By creating a secure, tamper-proof digital ledger, companies and individuals can have confidence that their carbon credits are supporting real, verifiable carbon reduction and removal projects.

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.

Following the devastating earthquakes in Syria and Turkey, the Web3 community was quick to respond as several crypto fundraising campaigns were launched to raise funds for earthquake relief including NFT projects and cryptocurrency funds. In this blog post, we highlight some of these campaigns and the various ways you can use your cryptocurrency to support humanitarian relief in Syria and Turkey.

Newsletter highlighting the most popular Crypto Altruism content from January 2023: Web3 as a tool for grassroots and activist movements, chatting regenerative finance with ReFi DAO, and 10 Web3 social impact trends to monitor in 2023.

In episode 89, we’re excited to welcome Nihar Neelakanti, Founder & CEO of Ecosapiens, the world’s first Carbon-backed NFT project. We discuss how Web3 is a perfect tool to incentivize climate action, how blockchain can improve carbon markets, NFTs as a powerful tool for activists and changemakers, advice for seeking out venture capital funding in Web3, 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 88, we’re excited to welcome Dr. Wojtek Sierocki, Founder & CEO of Data Lake, an EU-funded movement dedicated to creating a global Medical Data Donation system based on blockchain technology, and the world’s first consent-to-earn platform. We discuss why blockchain is such a powerful tool for improving medical data collection, their unique consent-to-earn incentive model, some of the most compelling decentralized science use cases, and much more.

Despite the amazing developments happening in Web3, there are still many stigmas that exist around cryptocurrency. These stigmas can discourage nonprofits and changemakers from getting involved in Web3. “Cryptocurrency is terrible for the environment”, “it’s only used by criminals” – these are common narratives, but is there any reality behind them?

In episode 87, we’re excited to welcome Natassja Aleksy, Product Developer at Diversity in Blockchain, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a mission to empower everyone from all walks of life to engage with blockchain technology in order to ensure equal participation and distribution. We discuss how we can build greater inclusion and equity into Web3 while learning from the mistakes of Web2, how blockchain can help underserved communities thrive, some advice for those looking to succeed in the wild world of Web3, and much more.

Despite all the good being done with Web3 technology, many of the prevailing narratives around Web3 are still negative, including that it’s terrible for the environment, that the Web3 space is made up only of “shadow super coders”, and that there is a lack of diversity and inclusion in Web3. In this article, we break down and challenge these narratives.

In episode 86, we welcome John Ellison, Co-Founder of ReFi DAO, a founder-led start-up community on a mission to accelerate impact for people and planet. In this episode we discuss the principles and philosophy behind regenerative finance, the incredible ReFi Spring movement and some of the exciting projects and innovations to emerge from it, some of the most compelling ReFi use cases, the work being done by ReFi DAO to uplift builders, and much more.

The current state of the world has reinforced the urgent need for grassroots and activist movements to emerge, fight back, and help build a better world. Web3 tools can help uplift these movements by protecting them from censorship, supporting their fundraising efforts, and helping them organize their movements.