Crypto Altruism highlights from April 2024: addressing the climate coordination failure with blockchain; empowering open-source software builders with Web3; breaking down the acronyms and lingo in Web3; and highlighting the success of the third Gitcoin Citizen’s round!

In episode 152, we’re excited to release a special live episode hosted on Let’s GROW Live! For this special episode, we welcome Kris Decoodt, Round Operator of Gitcoin Citizens, a retroactive grant program that rewards those contributing to the growth of the Gitcoin ecosystem. We discuss the evolution of Gitcoin Citizens, the value of retroactive funding, maximizing network effects, and more.

Each Gitcoin Grants round, we like to take a moment to highlight all the grantees who we’ve had the honor of highlighting on the Crypto Altruism Podcast! For GG20, there are 10 projects that we’ve featured, including Glo Dollar, $EARTH, Atlantis DAO, The Solar Foundation, Giveth, Hypercerts, ReFi DAO, Traditional Dream Factory, Kokonut Network, and Good Dollar.

Web3 is at the forefront of a movement revolutionizing how public goods are funded. Experimentation with new Web3-powered funding mechanisms has led to exciting improvements over traditional public goods funding models. In this infographic, we highlight some of the key innovations in Web3 public goods funding and case studies of pioneering projects that are leading the way.

Recap of the most popular Crypto Altruism content from November 2023: Advice for new Web3 social impact builders, chatting Quadratic Funding and community coordination with Gitcoin’s Ben West, ten reasons nonprofits should embrace crypto giving, and decentralizing solar energy with The Solar Foundation.

For the seventh episode of The Web3 Nonprofit, we’re excited to welcome Jon Behar of The Life You Can Save, a nonprofit on a mission to “make “smart giving simple” by curating a group of nonprofits that save or improve the most lives per dollar.” We dive into how they’re leveraging Web3 to advance this mission, and their upcoming Quadratic Funding round on Gitcoin’s Grant Stack!

For the sixth episode of The Web3 Nonprofit, we’re excited to welcome Coleen Chase and Jon Ruth of The Solar Foundation, a nonprofit with a mission to fund and accelerate off-grid solar for underserved communities in emerging markets. They believe that decentralized clean energy is a public good and are exploring how blockchain can help make this a reality.

In episode 129, we’re excited to welcome Ben West, Grants Program Lead at Gitcoin, an incredible organization that has distributed over $50M to early-stage public goods builders championing projects across DeFi, climate, education, and more. We discuss quadratic funding, Web3 as a powerful tool for community coordination and advancing public goods, advice for first time grantees, and more.

Recap of the most popular Crypto Altruism content from October 2023: decentralizing space exploration and education with Web3, chatting ReFi with DreamDAO, an introduction to Quadratic Funding and Gitcoin Grants, and how blockchain is being used to deliver high quality coding bootcamps in Africa!

In this infographic, we give a brief introduction to Gitcoin Grants, an innovative new granting program for early-stage public goods projects. We explain quadratic funding, why public goods builders should participate, how to get involved as a grantee or community member, and how to make the most of your Gitcoin experience!

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.

Newsletter highlighting the most popular Crypto Altruism content from April 2023: Gitcoin Beta Round, how blockchain can empower democracies, web3 and healthcare data ownership, why Nonprofits should embrace Web3, and how Web3 can help combat climate change.

In episode 101, we’re excited to welcome Carl Cevone from hypercerts, a new protocol for funding and rewarding impact. We discuss how they’re using the power of blockchain to help build sustainable models for public goods financing, why blockchain is such a valuable tool for impact monitoring and evaluation, how Web3 will disrupt the impact ecosystem, and much more.

If you’re active in the Web3 space, you’ve probably seen a lot of buzz around Gitcoin Grants. The Gitcoin Grants program is a community-driven fundraising protocol, delivered quarterly, that catalyzes the Web3 community and empowers individuals to fund Web3 public goods projects. In this article, we breakdown the basics of Gitcoin Grants, and demystify the innovation of Quadratic Funding.

Quadratic Funding has received a lot of traction lately. It might sound intimidating, but it’s not as complicated as it sounds. Quadratic Funding is a revolutionary technology that could positively disrupt how communities raise funds for causes, making the process fairer, transparent, and more democratic.