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The State of ReFi Report
Maya Dentzel and Tereza Bízková put together an excellent summary of the report:
Breaking Down "The State of ReFi" 2024 Report
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https://mirror.xyz/refidao.eth/773-LX8Jl5-Snk4lRVABzJTNXjnPgVcHjglPcvdInZY
Download the full report.
Project News
Wins
Happy Earth Day! 🌎🌍🌏🌱💚
— Litter Token ($LTK) 🌱 | Gitcoin Grants 20 #GG20 (@litter_token) April 22, 2024
Today we celebrated by completing a 1,000 piece litter pickup on Mount Parawagan in the #Philippines 🇵🇭
We look forward to continuing to keep our planet clean, our water sources free of waste, and our soil systems as healthy as possible ♻️🚮… pic.twitter.com/KHbqDGD3DI
We have 42 IMPACT projects making Regeneration a reality and seeding the #solarpunk paradigm in the $EARTH QF round 🌞💚🌍
— $EARTH 🔆🌱⚡🌍 (@solarpunkdao) April 24, 2024
Our goal with the round was to unleash communities creativity on how they can use $EARTH - Currency backed by real world regenerative assets, ecosystem… pic.twitter.com/1hBGuowVb9
GM Treegens 🌳
— Jimi🌱 (@JimiCohen) April 24, 2024
What or WHO are you grateful for today?
I’m incredibly grateful for the sponsors of my Tree Planting GUINNESS WORLD RECORD! 💚
Especially thanks to @protofire & @PublicNouns, I was also able to give out over $3,000 in prizes to the Treegen community in Kenya🇰🇪 pic.twitter.com/C4iKQy9XxR
First colony multiplied! 🐝
— Aluxes 🌿 (@aluxeprojects) April 22, 2024
The hives have different sizes depending on the specie of stingless bee that will inhabit it.
We produced 10 hives for Melipona beecheii and 6 hives for Scaptotrigona pectoralis.
Today we successfully divided one healthy colony of 👑 Melipona… pic.twitter.com/8vT7jsxBi8
We got this working in a remote village in Nigeria,
— I. Christwin (@iChristwin) April 26, 2024
😃 guys, P2P energy is now as real as P2P money
we are just getting started 🚀 https://t.co/VkXF0HY3Z8
Worth a Listen
Knowledge
Crypto Altruism Podcast Starter Pack - Web3 Climate Solutions — Crypto Altruism
In this podcast starter pack, we’ve bundled together ten episodes highlighting projects that are leveraging Web3 tools to advance climate solutions! This starter pack includes interviews with pioneeri...
https://www.cryptoaltruism.org/blog/crypto-altruism-podcast-starter-pack-web3-climate-solutions
The DAO Playbook v1
THE DAO PLAYBOOK v1 A crowdsourced playbook on building DAOs Foreword Welcome to the first edition of the crowdsourced playbook on successfully building DAOs, with contributions from >60 DAOis...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/19hBSIjcggG2fWxAiLiocLvXWzcmKbQdZgyMIo3eZy14/edit
Opportunities in Precision Agriculture
A deep dive on the most promising sub-sectors for smallholder farmers in emerging markets
https://medium.com/mercy-corps-social-venture-fund/opportunities-in-precision-agriculture-ae8cfffa7b53
Opportunities
📣 Announcing the first Retro POKT Goods Funding!
— POKT Network (@POKTnetwork) April 25, 2024
We gratefully received grants from @Optimism and @arbitrum.
Now, supported by Gitcoin's @Easyrpgf, we're topping up that OP and ARB with POKT and rolling it all into our own Retro PGF.
Details in thread. 👇 pic.twitter.com/JYV92VuvJF
#Hiring
— Mercy Corps Ventures (@MCSocialVenture) April 23, 2024
If you're interested in an investment position in Mexico or Central America and motivated by the chance to drive impact through venture-led solutions, this role could be for you.
Apply now:https://t.co/bh3Ra5i88r
Please share with your networks.
#ImpactJobs #Latam https://t.co/tgwVzI09qq
Heading to @EthCC Brussels? Into regenerative tech?
— Regens Unite 🌱✨on #GG20 (pls support 🙏) (@regensunite) April 25, 2024
Join us in creating the REGEN VILLAGE, a coalition for a week of events in shared venues, local food vendors, parties + more
We're looking for sponsors, partners, projects, communities, and spaces to co-create an epic program! pic.twitter.com/cfl95hCQ6S
Thoughts
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
— Owocki.Ξth (🍄,🟢) (@owocki) April 25, 2024
Upton Sinclair, in 1935, foreshadowing airdrop farmers discovering sybil resistance tools in the 2020s
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