Collaborative finance (CoFi) is all about community, trust, and social agreements, showing great potential to bring a human touch back into the impersonal world of financial transactions. In this article, Tereza Bizkova explores how Collaborative Finance, powered by blockchain, stands as a promising avenue to forge more empowered, human-centric, and peer-to-peer interactions.

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 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

At the core of web3 is the value of decentralization and innovation. This has led the emergence of several movements including Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Regenerative Finance (ReFi), and Decentralized Science (DeSci). In this infographic, we give a brief overview of DeFi, ReFi, and DeSci, and some examples of projects within these three movements.

Over the past couple of years, the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) movement has made enormous strides in working towards a world where everyone, regardless of where they were born, has the ability to access financial instruments and services to improve their lives. In this blog post, we highlight five projects using DeFi to build financial capacity in unbanked communities.

Blockchain and cryptocurrency will not be the panacea for all financial inequities that exist around the world, but they can certainly help put in place systems and protocols that make it easier for unbanked populations to access essential financial services.

The case for Universal Basic Income (UBI) programs has gained considerable momentum in recent years. The GoodDollar project offers anyone the ability to join their UBI program and receive a small daily income.

31% of the worlds adults don’t have access to traditional financial services. Satchel provides an innovative DeFi solution to help the unbanked earn interest and raise funds for their community.

The international development use cases for crypto and blockchain are truly endless. Here are five projects making use of this technology to address real-world challenges.

This week’s roundup of exciting crypto quotes, reflections, and educational resources!

Kotani Pay makes use of blockchain to provide access to financial instruments through basic mobile phones, without the need for internet or a bank account.

BX Smart Labs’ decentralized application uses smart contracts to automate a system of community financing used by millions in Mexico.

Leaf Global FinTech provides a blockchain-based virtual banking platform to help refugees and vulnerable populations store and access their money anywhere.