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Crypto Altruism Podcast Starter Pack - LatAm Builders
Latin America has quickly become a hub of innovation for Web3 Impact projects, with numerous projects emerging with a focus on regenerative finance, education, and financial inclusion. In this podcast starter pack we’ve bundled together nine episodes highlighting incredible projects building in Latin America!
Crypto Altruism Podcast Starter Pack - Public Goods Funding
In this podcast starter pack, we’ve bundled together ten episodes highlighting projects that are leveraging Web3 tools to advance public goods. This starter pack includes interviews with pioneering leaders from Gitcoin, Tea Protocol, Giveth, Artizen Fund, Hypercerts, Endaoment, Glo, Gitcoin Citizens, and ReFi Phangan.
Crypto Altruism Podcast Episode 127 - Glo & The Life You Can Save - How blockchain can help alleviate extreme poverty
In episode 127, we’re excited to welcome Jon Behar from The Life You Can Save, a nonprofit making smart giving simpler, and Seth Ariel Green from Glo Dollar, a stablecoin with a mission to end extreme poverty. We discuss how crypto can help fight extreme poverty, how blockchain can fuel smarter giving, some of the barriers preventing crypto from reaching its full potential, and more.
Crypto Altruism Podcast Episode 119 - Giveth - Building the future of giving by empowering a global “decentralized altruistic community”
In episode 119, we’re excited to welcome Mitch, DAO Steward at Giveth, a community-driven movement to transform the way we fund nonprofits and social causes. We discuss how they are using Web3 tools to reimagine philanthropy and the donor experience, DAOs and Giveth’s “Decentralized Altruistic Community”, optimizing public goods funding with conviction voting and quadratic funding, and much more.
Crypto Altruism Podcast Episode 116 - Steward - bridging the natural and digital worlds with Web3
In episode 116, we’re excited to welcome Maria Li, Co-Founder of Steward, a Web3 community that aims to create a bridge between the natural world and digital world. We discuss how Web3 tools can help individuals reconnect with nature, the concept of decentralization in natural ecosystems, driving philanthropic action with NFTs, inclusion in Web3, and much more.
Crypto Altruism Podcast Episode 101 - hypercerts - tracking and rewarding positive impact with blockchain
In episode 101, we’re excited to welcome Carl Cevone from hypercerts, a new protocol for funding and rewarding impact. We discuss how they’re using the power of blockchain to help build sustainable models for public goods financing, why blockchain is such a valuable tool for impact monitoring and evaluation, how Web3 will disrupt the impact ecosystem, and much more.
Crypto Altruism Podcast Starter Pack - Web3, Climate, and Sustainability
In this podcast starter pack, we’ve bundled together eight episodes highlighting incredible projects using the power of web3 and blockchain to combat climate change, and drive regeneration and conservation efforts. This starter pack includes renowned guests from ImpactScope, Ecosapiens, ReFi DAO, OASA, Kokonut Network, Topl, WheelCoin, and Celo Foundation.
Is Crypto Bad for the Environment? Here's How Web3 Is Helping Combat Climate Change
Web3 and crypto have the potential to be powerful tools in driving regeneration efforts. By incentivizing conservation and regeneration, funding conservation causes through crypto philanthropy, enabling greater transparency in conservation, and facilitating the creation of natural capital-backed assets, we can make significant strides in protecting and restoring our planet.
Crypto Altruism Podcast Episode 97 - Canza Finance - Leveling the playing field for businesses in emerging economies with Web3 and DeFi
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.
Crypto Altruism Podcast Episode 93 - Glo - Fighting extreme poverty with Web3 and stablecoins
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.
Crypto Altruism Podcast Episode 90 - EthicHub - Regenerative finance to empower smallholder farmers
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.
Crypto Altruism Podcast Episode 89 - Ecosapiens - Merging climate tech and digital assets with the first carbon-backed NFT
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.
Crypto Altruism Podcast Episode 86 - ReFi DAO - Using Web3 to enable “regeneration for all”
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.
Crypto Altruism Podcast Episode 64 - Celo Foundation - Regenerative Finance and using web3 to achieve prosperity for all
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.
Crypto Altruism Podcast Episode 51 - GoodDollar - "The time for UBI is now." Using crypto to deliver a Universal Basic Income.
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.
Chain Highlight: Three Celo-based social impact projects
In the first post in a series highlighting the social impact projects operating on specific blockchains, we highlight three exciting Celo-based social impact projects.
Web3 - A Disruptive Tool For Social Impact
Cryptocurrency is more than just an investment. Cryptocurrency, blockchain, and web3 are generational technologies that have the potential to change the world for the better. These ground-breaking technologies will positively disrupt nearly all aspects of our lives in the coming decades: the internet, our financial systems, supply chains, health care, and everything in between. From a social impact lens, blockchain is the single greatest development since the internet.
It has the potential to revolutionize the way aid is disbursed, how funds are raised by non-profits and charitable causes, how communities and collectives organize and engage in self-governance, how CO2 is tracked and managed, how important financial services are delivered to the nearly 2 billion unbanked people around the world, and much more. We are only just scratching the surface of the intersections between web3 and social good.
Crypto Altruism is the leading platform for content highlighting the social impact use cases of web3 and the extraordinary organizations and projects that are using this technology to change the world. Through our blog, podcast, and educational resources, we elevate stories of how crypto, blockchain, NFTs, DAOs, and other web3 innovations are being used all over the world for novel and inspiring use cases.