Articles ReFi Launchpads We are starting to gather intelligence about ImpactDAO and ReFi Launchpads, which offer a fully decentralised way of accelerating the path to success for impact-focused startups and marketplace ecosystems.
Articles DAOs as Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Enabling Organizations We explore the difference and convergences between DAOs and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Enabling Organizations.
Articles Green Energy Impact in Africa In a conversation with the founders of Vittoria Technology, we learn about green energy mini-grids and the opportunities to invest in innovative, for-profit solutions that increase access to renewable energy and impact on people's lives.
Articles Smart Grids Smart Grids are a key enabler of the Green Energy transition. Blockchain technologies are a key enabler of Smart Grids. These synergistic technologies are driving the growth of the Tokenised Green Energy Economy.
Articles Impact DAO-ism The big ideas and practical implementations of ImpactDAOs that are developing new patterns for scaling human and capital coordination.
Articles Impact DAOs in the Global South Purpose-driven initiatives in the Global South can now enable all their stakeholders to become empowered participants in Impact DAOs, with shared ownership and governance rights.
Articles The Risks of a DAO Some of the brightest minds in the blockchain space are working on the challenges and risks of creating, governing and managing DAOs. Are you ready To DAO, or Not To DAO, given the known and unknown risks?
Articles Web3 Access In many places around the world, people have extremely limited access to the technologies, assets and tools that could improve their lives and give them self-sovereignty. With Web3, this has the potential to change.
Articles Soft Infrastructure for inclusive digital citizenry Soft Infrastructure is essential for any data technology to work. Without digital literacy, the access gap will continue to widen and perpetuate human poverties.
Articles Opera and ixo for Earth On Earth Day this week, ixo in partnership with Opera launched the Interchain crypto wallet integration with the Opera mobile browser to communities around the world – from Hong Kong, to India, South Africa and Brazil.
Articles The Chain from Farm to Fork Do you know what you are eating? Where does it come from? Check out the Blockchain Burger and hear from Marieke de Ruyter de Wildt how The New Fork is using blockchains for supply chains – from farm to fork.
Articles Regenerative Farming Chains A deep-dive into the reasons why the agricultural sector has to transform, with examples of how Web3 technologies can accelerate the growth of regenerative agriculture and sustainable food production.
Articles 🔥ReFi to stop Wildfires in the Amazon The Amazon continues to be decimated by wildfires. These natural and man-made disasters can only be stopped by changing incentives and supporting networks of local agro-forestry projects. Ekonavi is showing how ReFi can do this.
Articles Decentralised Impact Organisations The climate crisis is a governance and coordination crisis. Could Decentralised Impact Organisations (DIOs) built on DAOs and ReFi for climate verification, staked commitments & collective action, be a solution?
Articles Rivers of ReFi Change Adam Bornstein gives his first-hand account of how the Danish Red Cross is innovating ReFi for financing humanitarian disaster Response and Recovery, with Cat Bonds and Community Currencies.
Articles From coordination failure to a regenerative future We speak to Kevin Owocki the founder of Gitcoin, thought-leader and author of GreenPilled, about his recently published book on regenerative crypto-economic systems, and the potential to overcome coordination failures.
Articles Engineering Alpha Bonds Alpha Bonds implement Risk-adjusted Bonding Curves as a new versatile crypto-economic primitive for results-based financing that has a wide number of potential applications, from ReFi Social Impact Bonds, to local currency systems that incentivise collective action towards desired outcomes.
Articles What is ReFi? Part I A tour through the climate crypto rabbit hole – personal perspectives from John Ellison, leading growth at Toucan.
Articles The journey to build a new (tokenised) Education Economy The Chimple journey describes how Ed-tech, together with ReFi, has the potential to draw in new sources of capital and innovations that will create an economy that scales, incentivises and rewards educating people.
Articles Zoning in on the Nature-based Economy Nature-based solutions are critical for responding to Climate change and the extinction of biodiversity. Tokenised nature-based economies are starting to be built. Learn about an important new initiative in Namibia.
Articles The Tokenised Earth Economy A first draft outline thinking through what we mean by the concept of a Tokenised Earth Economy. Inviting discussion and feedback.
Articles A Critique of Cryptocurrencies and Money It's about sustainable public goods. About sovereignty and interoperability. About the self-sufficiency of communities. It's about transparency and accessibility of the basic architecture of the monetary and financial system.
Articles What will the Tokenised Earth Economy look like? Let's add our diverse 'crypto' community's voice to the narrative of the Future of Capitalism, by proposing what a Tokenised Earth Economy could look like. We will gather this Earth State intelligence to share in future editions of the Earth State Briefing
Articles 2021: A year of Climate Changes 2021 has been a year of significant change in the cultural, social, technological, crypto, political, and economic climate. Whilst the environmental climate continues to change, for the worse. What Earth State changes do we hope 2022 will bring?
Articles From Billions to Trillions Financial Protocol DAOs are set to become the Web3 sustainable & regenerative finance engines that will grow the tokenised impact economy & shift capital allocations from billions, to the trillions needed to achieve the 2030 global sustainable development goals, & finance climate impact mitigation.