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.

Blockchain's decentralized, transparent, and immutable nature makes it a potent tool for enhancing disaster response efforts. By enabling direct aid to victims of disasters, new tools for raising funds, identification solutions for victims, and new mechanisms for organizing the community, blockchain can significantly improve the efficiency and effectiveness of disaster response efforts.

The global healthcare sector is facing numerous challenges including a lack of funding, inequitable access, and high levels of clinician burnout, all leading to poor patient outcomes. Blockchain technology has the potential to revolutionize the healthcare industry by empowering patients with control over their data, restoring trust in health care, and improving overall quality of care.

In episode 120, we’re excited to welcome Adam Helfgott, Founder & Advisor of several tech and Web3 companies including Valence, AliceNet, AdLedger, and Madhive. We discuss being a Founder in Web3, advice for emerging entrepreneurs, on-chain identity, blockchain and data privacy, digital media in Web3, and much more.

In episode 118, we’re excited to welcome G.D. Anderson, Founder of Honey Badges, an NFT community dedicated to funding changemakers. We discuss how Web3 will transform donor engagement, DAOs and the power of decentralized grant making, stories of impact from the grassroots changemakers they’ve supported, inclusion in Web3, and more.

The traditional donor-charity relationship is disempowering and desperately needs a rejuvenation. Individual donations are down, trust in charitable giving is waning, and nonprofits are struggling to connect with new donor demographics. Web3 can help shift the donor-charity relationship and empower donors to become active participants in causes.

In episode 117, we focus on Gitcoin Grants Round 18! We start with an introduction to Gitcoin and Quadratic Funding, the innovative matching funds mechanism behind Gitcoin grants. We then highlight 10 current Gitcoin grantees including Solar Foundation, Mycelia, Solarpunk DAO, Earthist, OceanSoles, ReFi Medellin, VoiceDeck, Urbanika, Grassroots Economics, and Endangered Tokens.

Democracy, hailed as the beacon of freedom and representation, faces many complex challenges in the modern age, demonstrating a need to re-evaluate how democracies function and adapt in an ever-changing landscape. Enter the era of "Liquid Democracy" — a revolutionary approach, empowered by blockchain, that will redefine accountability, transparency, and participation in democratic institutions

In episode 115, we’re excited to welcome Ali Husain, Advisor at Navigate, a Web3 organization using blockchain, AI, and crowdsourcing to optimize global mapping. We discuss how they’re using next generation technologies to improve mapping data, the power of decentralized communities to crowdsource data, using Web3 tools to incentivize community participation, and much more.

Education is one of the biggest and most bureaucratic industries in the world, and is ripe for disruption. Web3 can help improve global education by enabling new learning mediums, decentralized learning, on-chain credentials, open source learning, “learn2earn” models, and the building of a global community of educators and learners.

In episode 114, we’re excited to welcome Alicia Cepeda Maule and Steven Aguiar of Givepact, a crypto philanthropy platform that allows individuals to support the causes they care about while joining a donor-led DAO. We discuss how Web3 can address the pain points felt by nonprofits, using proof of impact NFTs to recognize donors, the power of DAOs to build community and engage donors, and more.

Today marks the 8th anniversary of the initial launch of the Ethereum Blockchain. To celebrate, in this article we highlight five key areas where Ethereum has been instrumental in empowering individuals and communities to drive social impact: Smart contracts, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), Stablecoins, New funding models, and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs).

In episode 113, we’re excited to welcome Bolaji Akinboro & Arkan Akin, Co-Founder’s of TóróNet, an L1 blockchain with a vision for a world of access where finance and technology help communities fulfill aspirations for a better life. We discuss how Web3 tools can drive financial inclusion in emerging economies, why blockchain is well suited to address the most pressing international development challenges, and much more.

While still in the early stages of development, Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers an incredible array of opportunities for nonprofits to streamline their operations, optimize their fundraising efforts, and measure their impact. When used properly, A, can help nonprofits future proof their organization and adapt to the challenges of tomorrow.

In episode 112, we welcome Nick Lambert, CEO of Dock, a decentralized identity company that enables organizations to issue, manage, and verify fraud-proof credentials securely via blockchain. We discuss how decentralized identity can protect us in our digital world, the innovations of soulbound tokens and Zero-Knowledge Proofs, how decentralized identity will revolutionize industry, and more.

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.