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INFOGRAPHIC - Social Impact Use Cases of NFTs
While many view non fungible tokens (NFTs) as nothing more than JPEGs, they couldn’t be further from the truth. NFTs enable new use cases that help nonprofits, changemakers, and communities drive social impact and build a better world, including philanthropy, impact tokenization, IP-NFTs, community building, and digital identity.
Crypto Altruism Podcast Episode 146 - $Earth - Redesigning money to power the Solarpunk revolution
In episode 146, we’re excited to welcome Utkarsh Patel, Founder of Earth Coin, a digital currency backed by real world climate solutions, ecosystem services and solarpunk values. We discuss how Earth Coin aims to address the massive climate finance gap, the benefits of tokenized climate solutions, Web3 as a powerful force for climate coordination, and much more.
INFOGRAPHIC: Web3 Use Cases for Nonprofits
Web3 opens the door to a world of new possibilities for nonprofits, impacting everything from fundraising to organizational governance. In this infographic, we highlight five of the most compelling use cases for how nonprofits can leverage blockchain-based tools to grow their impact, connecting with new donors, and future proof their mission.
Crypto Altruism Podcast Episode 122 - Sweat Economy - Building “The Economy of Movement” with Web3
In episode 122, we’re excited to welcome Oleg Fomenko, Co-Founder of Sweat Economy, an OG in the move-to-earn space, with a mission to reward movement to inspire a healthier, and wealthier planet. We discuss how Web3 tools can incentivize healthy actions, the evolution of move-to-earn, onboarding hundreds of millions of users to Web3, and much more.
Crypto Altruism Podcast Episode 121 - IMPT - Building “The Planet’s Loyalty Programme” with blockchain-powered carbon credits
In episode 121, we’re excited to welcome Denis Creighton, CEO of IMPT, a platform that allows individuals to offset their carbon footprint while shopping for the things they love. We discuss some of the challenges with carbon offsets and how blockchain can help, how their ERC-20 token helps individuals verifiably offset their carbon footprint, building partnerships in Web3, and more.
Natural Capital Backed Assets: Incentivizing conservation and regeneration with asset tokenization
By incentivizing investment in the preservation of ecosystems and the services they provide, Natural Capital Backed Assets, enabled by on-chain asset tokenization, present a transformative approach to address climate change, protect the Earth's most vital natural resources, and build a global community of regeneration and conservation changemakers.
How blockchain can help protect endangered species
In the fight to protect endangered species, emerging technologies like blockchain offer a glimmer of hope. Blockchain, with its decentralized and transparent nature, has the potential to revolutionize wildlife conservation efforts and create a more secure and accountable system for protecting our planet's most vulnerable creatures.
Can web3 incentivize better health? The gamification of healthy living
One of the more common criticisms of web3, or the metaverse, is that it will negatively impact the health of individuals by encouraging them to engage in sedentary lifestyles. However, web3 can also help encourage healthier lifestyles by incentivizing physical activity and healthy behaviors through gamification and play-to-earn models.
Crypto vs. Climate Change – tokenizing carbon sequestering assets
Despite the bad rap that cryptocurrency gets when it comes to its environmental impacts, crypto projects around the world are disrupting climate finance by coming up with new and novel ways to incentivize a low carbon future, one of which, is the tokenization of carbon sequestering assets.
Research Highlight: The Oracle Problem as Applied to Social Impact and Impact Tokens
Highlighting exciting research being conducted by Emergence exploring the tokenization of social impact. This post looks at some of the challenges and complexities when it comes to the use of Oracles when applied to social tokens.
Research Highlight: Trusting the Value of Impact Tokens for Higher Level Social Problem Solving
Highlighting exciting research being conducted by Emergence exploring the tokenization of social impact. This post looks at some of the challenges and complexities when it comes to measuring the impacts of social tokens.
Research Highlight: Fishcoin: Early Lessons in Tokenizing Social Impact Part II
Highlighting exciting research being conducted by Emergence exploring the tokenization of social impact. This second post is part two of a two part series that looks at early lessons learned through Fishcoin, an innovative blockchain-based supply chain ecosystem.
Celo Foundation launches Climate Collective aimed at tokenizing rainforests and carbon sequestering assets
Celo Foundation recently announced the launch of the Celo Climate Collective to compete for XPRIZE’s 100M Carbon Removal Challenge
Research Highlight - Fishcoin: Early Lessons in Tokenizing Social Impact
Highlighting exciting research being conducted by Emergence exploring the tokenization of social impact. This first post looks at early lessons learned through Fishcoin, an innovative blockchain-based supply chain ecosystem.
Tokenizing social impact: highlighting the research of Emergence
An introduction to our partnership with Emergence, an organization conducting high impact research at the intersection of blockchain and social impact. We will be highlighting the impactful research of Emergence into the tokenization of social impact.
NFTs: The Next Frontier in the Social Impact Space
In this blog post, we discuss the exciting social impact implications for NFTs, which have grown in popularity at an astonishing rate over the past couple of years.
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.