For episode two of Trailblazers of Octant, we welcome Thomas Gondwe of SummitShare. We explore the challenges of artifact repatriation, blockchain’s role in creating digital repositories to monitor and verify artifacts, and their Revenue Sharing Mesh to ensure benefits flow back to communities. We also explore Octant’s new Accelerator Program, and some of the takeaways from that experience.

For episode 2 of the Impact on Optimism miniseries, we’re excited to welcome Tobias Schreier, Co-Founder of growthepie, a Layer 2 fundamentals and blockspace analytics platform on a mission to help scale Ethereum! We dive into the complex Ethereum L2 ecosystem, the exciting momentum around the Superchain, the Web3 public goods funding ecosystem, Optimism’s RetroPGF program, and much more.

In episode 164, we’re excited to welcome David Casey, CEO of Funding the Commons, a project building bridges between builders, researchers, and funders transforming funding models and mechanisms for public goods. We discuss why Web3 is a hub for public goods funding experimentation, balancing reward and impact in funding mechanisms, some of their upcoming events and experiences, and much more.

In episode 163, we’re excited to welcome Nico Gallardo of LottoPGF, the creators of permissionless lotteries for public goods funding on Ethereum. We discuss why Ethereum is such a powerful force for community coordination and capital allocation, how permissionless lotteries are set to disrupt traditional public goods funding, unifying degens and regens to advance public goods, and much more.

For episode 144, we’re excited to bring you a special episode from ETH Denver, co-hosted with Tereza Bízková and recorded at the Regeneration side event! We feature conversations with nine builders working at the intersection of Web3, regeneration, and social impact. We discuss highlights from ETH Denver, the growing ReFi Movement, community coordination, what it means to be a “Regen”, and more.

In episode 143, we’re excited to welcome Rasmus Scheuer, Co-Founder of Pawthereum, a community-run crypto philanthropy project supporting animal welfare causes. We discuss why Web3 is a powerful tool for community-driven philanthropy, the projects they’ve supported with $500k in donations, advice for Web3 impact builders, Rasmus’ new project Impactify, and much more.

Newsletter highlighting the most popular Crypto Altruism content from July 2023: Natural Capital Backed Assets, empowering human creativity with Web3 fundraising tools, celebrating Ethereum’s 8th birthday, Endaoment & Gitcoin partner on new Universal Impact Pool using Quadratic Funding.

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 103, we’re excited to welcome Yuan Su, Founder and CTO of Metis, an Ethereum Smart Layer-2 dedicated to solving the trilemma of security, scalability, and decentralization, and Nuvo, a middleware platform that bridges the gap between Web2 and Web3 development. We discuss how Web3 can enable data privacy and ownership, the exciting potential of a decentralized digital identity, and how it can help the 1B unbanked around the world, and much more!

Etherisc provides a blockchain-based alternative to traditional agricultural insurance that provides smallholder farmers with affordable and trustworthy insurance administered via smart contracts.