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ReFi Project Database
We've officially launched our curated ReFi project database!
Tune into our X space today at 8:00 GMT | 16:00 SGT to hear more about it.
GIV-Earth Round on Giveth
We've been accepted into the GIV-Earth Round on Giveth. If you appreciate the work we do for the ReFi space, we'd be thrilled if you could make a small contribution to our efforts. We think CARBON Copy should remain a public good, so every bit helps!
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Project News
Wins
Thanks to all our supporters and organizations that believe in our vision.
— Kokonut Network 💚🥥🌴 (@KokonutNetwork) July 3, 2024
Kokonut Genesis has reached its planting phase, and we couldn't be happier.@Meta_Cartel @boilerrat, @climate_program @gitcoin @glodollar, without you this wouldn't be possible. pic.twitter.com/TgIM0FOhYw
@whyNotSwitch is slowly but steadily creating value in the Blockchain-Renewables world🎉
— GDEE🤓 (@GDEE__) June 28, 2024
Proud to announce our first International sale🫂
From Nigeria 🇳🇬 to Chile 🇨🇱
🎉🎉 pic.twitter.com/yjYIM5Huok
We're welcoming Keyrock as a Founding Organization of Glo 🥳@KeyrockTrading donated $15,000 to help us build the world's largest philanthropic funding mechanism.
— Glo Dollar (@glodollar) July 1, 2024
We'll use the funds to expand the Glo network of on/off-ramps, protocols & platforms. Making Glo more accessible. pic.twitter.com/Rny0LJmis1
🎉 A year already!? On 6/29/23, we launched the Universal Impact Pool (UIP), built in collaboration w/ @Gitcoin to revolutionize matching grants for nonprofits.
— Endaoment 👉 ETH CC (@endaomentdotorg) June 29, 2024
The results have been incredible. In just one year, the UIP has granted nearly $140K to over 500 orgs worldwide! pic.twitter.com/ASRNCM5GTc
Latest from CARBON Copy
Extreme Poverty, Private UBI, and Web3
A look at whether private UBI programs, along with a little help from Web3, can be used to reduce extreme poverty.
https://carboncopy.news/features/extreme-poverty-private-universal-basic-income-web3/
ReFi in the News
Welcome to DePIN Summer
Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN) are flourishing across multiple businesses, creating an “economy of things,” where value is shared across all participants. Scott Foo, founder of...
https://www.coindesk.com/opinion/2024/07/02/welcome-to-depin-summer/
Worth a Listen
Knowledge
Blockchain Technology and Polycentric Governance
Transforming climate finance in Africa: more efficient ways to finance grassroots initiatives
Over the years, international efforts to combat climate change have primarily channelled climate finance through African governments.
https://medium.com/@shambanetwork/transforming-climate-finance-in-africa-more-efficient-ways-to-finance-grassroots-initiatives-c57aa38b7092
There once was a river …An allegorical tale of money and credit
Written and narrated by Thomas H. Greco, Jr. click to see the full image There once was a river that flowed through an arid land, and though rainfall was scant and infrequent, the river provided an…
https://beyondmoney.net/there-once-was-a-river-an-allegorical-tale/
DIVA Donate - 3rd campaign completes
DIVA Donate - 3rd campaign completes
https://www.divaprotocol.io/posts/diva-conditional-donations-pastoralists-3-completion
A deep dive on impact metrics for Retro Funding 4
Everything you wanted to know (and were not afraid to ask) about the onchain impact metrics developed for Optimism's fourth round of Retroactive Public Goods Funding
https://mirror.xyz/cerv1.eth/0s05D8YqJwezhJpOn9PEx_jLihvTqtFxw0R4_6nFl5I
ON–247: DAOs 👥
Coverage on Snapshot, Squads, Tally, Gitcoin, Coordinape & CoW DAO.
https://www.ournetwork.xyz/p/on-247-daos#gitcoin
Opportunities
Calling all Refi projects that are going to ETH CC
— Let’s GROW (@LetsGROWdao) July 4, 2024
Reply to this if you want to pitch your project to a panel of VCs pic.twitter.com/KmeS57GdRD
1/X Calling all #Web3 #GovTech projects out there!
— Urbánika -🚌 UrbanCommons Academy 🟢 (@0xUrbanika) June 26, 2024
Hey! We're currently working on a chapter of a book about blockchain in #publicgovernance. We've been reading a lot about GovTech use cases in LATAM.
But! We want to meet projects that aren't in the literature. So we're doing: pic.twitter.com/vtPpos3XVo
🌍 Carbonable is expanding! And looking for those ready to reshape the future of web3 + carbon assets
— Carbonable.io 🌱🌐 (@Carbonable_io) July 1, 2024
🔍 Frontend + Fullstack Dev
📈 Growth Marketing + Digital Content
🤝 Business Dev
Passionate about innovation & climate impact? 🌱 Discover more + apply below 👇 pic.twitter.com/KOPJw9Bw8o
📢 ICYMI, #GG21 Community Round applications are now OPEN! Deadline = July 14th.
— Gitcoin (@gitcoin) July 1, 2024
➡️ GG21: August 7 - 21
➡️ Top 10 Community Rounds accepted; top 5 receiving matching funds from Gitcoin
➡️ External Community Council reviewing and voting
Dive in: https://t.co/IpMBkVDDlE
Thoughts
if you want to know why crypto has no mass adoption, maybe it’s because:
— david phelps 🐮🏰🃏🐘 (@divine_economy) July 3, 2024
— every chain is targeted towards devs
— every conference is targeted towards devs
— every social product is targeted towards devs
— every conversation, app, marketing campaign is targeted towards devs
i…
Solar is democratic energy. No other other source of energy has such a low barrier to entry or low cost of maintenance.
— David Vorick (@DavidVorick) June 30, 2024
In some cases, a fully functioning power plant is less than $10,000, with maintenance and repairs measured in the hundreds of dollars per decade.
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