ReFi Roundup #31: Extreme flooding and record heatwaves PLUS: ReFi 101, MRV 101 Hello friends! Bati here, founder of Neurinko, co-authoring this week's ReFi Roundup to give an update on our public goods stream to help small project developers leverage the power of digital MRV. Waking up to climate reality People all around the world are waking up to the reality
Deep Dive ReFi Deep Dive: Gitcoin ReFi Podcast's guest for season two, episode four is Kevin Owocki, founder of Gitcoin. Read on for a Deep Dive to further your understanding of Gitcoin and some of the topics discussed in the podcast! TL;DR Gitcoin is a Web3-powered community platform for software developers, and a
ReFi Roundup #30: A Tale of Two Acts + Funding and Founding the Future of ReFi Welcome to this week’s ReFi Roundup! ThoughtFloats here with another takeover, celebrating the news and narratives of the week at the intersection of climate and crypto 🌍 Let’s dig right in! A Tale of Two Acts: Transformative Funding for Climate Innovation For climate tech innovators and advocates in the
Deep Dive ReFi Deep Dive: Verra Today we take a Deep Dive with Verra, a key player in the voluntary carbon market. TL;DR Founded in 2007, Verra is a key player in the global voluntary carbon market (VCM). The non-profit organization primarily functions as a standard setter and searchable registry for tradable carbon credits. With
Roundup ReFi Roundup #29: Social Justice Edition—Climate Bill, Ethereum Merge & Dual Power ⚡️⚡️ Hey y'all! It's Rudy Fraser here, Founder of Papertree.earth, doing a takeover of this week's ReFi roundup! This one's gonna be a bit different, because we're gonna focus mostly on the Third pillar of ReFi: Social Justice! Follow me
Deep Dive ReFi Deep Dive: Moss In this Deep Dive we unpack a Moss.earth—a leading regenerative finance protocol that exists to preserve the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil. We had the great pleasure of speaking to Luis Adaime, CEO of Moss on ReFi Podcast and wanted to share some of what we learned along the
Roundup ReFi Roundup #28: Verra's Public Consultation, ReFiJobs.com, KYC in ReFi, & Celo's Salon It's the Slaptain here this week taking over ReFi Roundup!
Roundup ReFi Roundup #27: The Story of Redemption DAO In this week's edition of ReFi Roundup I'm going to share the story of Redemption DAO as I think it's a pivotal point in the ReFi movement...
Roundup ReFi Roundup #26: ReFi in Paris, joining forces, and the great "Regen Opportunity" This week, ReFi took the stage in a big way at both EthCC in Paris and the Sustainable Blockchain Summit🗼 It seems like everyone is joining forces, collaborating, and making pacts for collective climate action 🤝 And crypto is just finding out about this new "Regen Opportunity." So much
Community Stories ReFi DAO Update | ReFi Summer Founder's Circle Formation, ETH CC, SBS & Moss on ReFi Podcast There's a lot going on this week in ReFi DAO! Here's a quick run through of everything happening so you can figure out how to get involved. We're running a 'formation week' for the ReFi Summer cohort of Founder's Circles,
Roundup ReFi Roundup #25: Regen A+, network states, metacrisis and ReFining the Future of everything Hey everyone! Thought Floats here doing a takeover of this week's ReFi Roundup! While the wider crypto space recharges ReFi just keeps on growing 🌱! Interoperability and collaboration abound this week as we build out the future of Regenerative Finance and possibly the future of everything? 🤯. Find out more
Roundup ReFi Roundup #24: Plastiks.io wins Celo Camp, Impact DAO research, ETH Barcelona & Spirals Protocol reveal With ReFi Summer getting into full swing, we're stoked to see an amazing roster of events, a stack of protocols preparing to launch and a burgeoning community of builders getting ready for action.
Roundup ReFi Roundup #23: Polygon goes carbon neutral, Cerulean ventures & dMRV South Side Congratulations to Polygon for becoming carbon neutral! Kudos to Offsetra and Klima DAO for helping make this a reality! So great to see layer ones competing for market positioning as the 'green blockchain'. We're excited to see more carbon negative infrastructure providers as we embed regeneration
Roundup ReFi Roundup #22: MRV Day, ReFi on TEDX, The Future of Corporations & ReFi NYC! Happy Friday—I mean MRV Day! 🎉 Happy #MRV Day! 🎉 Here's to all the devoted people putting their hands in the soil to heal the earth. 🌱 Here's to all the brilliant builders creating infrastructure to bridge the gap from regeneration to finance. 🌐 Here's what we&
Retrospective ReFi Retrospective: The CCA Unconference Transitioning to a crypto commons requires the integration of local communities in protocol design.
Roundup ReFi Roundup #21 - Moss Brazil, Guardians of The Rainforest, Prime Rate-athon, and how to Adapt & Endure... We're super excited to announce a collaboration with Web3 for Climate—written by Alex Filotimo and other investors at Aera Force DAO. Each week, we'll be working together to cover the full ReFi ecosystem from different angles. Our newsletter will increasingly focus on materials for ReFi
Community Stories ReFi Rate-athon is Underway! ReFi DAO is halfway through the ReFi Rate-athon, a partnership with Prime DAO and Impacta Finance to help build trust in the ReFi space and encourage capital to flow to high-integrity projects. By creating an open framework for evaluation and rewarding researchers for their analysis—we hope to help curate
Roundup ReFi Roundup #20: GR14, MRV Day, Klima inverse bonding, IXO Launchpad GR14 goes live with $1M to fund public goods, Klima inverse bonding critique, and IXO Launchpad goes live!
Community Stories ReFi DAO GR13 Grant Update Happy GR14 frens! 🎉 We are super grateful to provide an update on everything in ReFi DAO. So much has happened since GR13. None of this could have happened without you! Despite not reaching our full-target, we are super excited to share the progress we’ve made with the $22,636
Roundup Featured ReFi Roundup #19: Challenges of ReFi, Prime Rating with $25k in prizes & Verra saga continued... This week we're going to touch on challenges we face in ReFi and how we might overcome them. Curve Labs most recent article takes an honest look at the movement as they try to make sense of a rapidly growing sector and the pitfalls that we face. We
Roundup ReFi Roundup #18: Verra prohibits tokenizing retired credits, Flowcarbon $70M Series A & ReFi Portugal sold out What a week!
Roundup ReFi Roundup #17: Impact DAOs, Ripple’s $100m ReFi commitment, & SaveThePlanet 100m tree project Let’s zoom out and focus on the big picture again. This week we look at the overview of the Impact DAO space and how it is blossoming. We are loving this cartographic map of the refi space. Here we see most of the amazing DAOs leading the way in
Roundup ReFi Roundup #16: Terra collapse, ReFi Portugal & Earth Day Hackathon Retro! With the dust of the Terra Ponzi scheme beginning to settle, we wanted to take a chance to look at what happened, what this means for ReFi and why this movement is essential to the success of web3 as a whole.
Retrospective Earth Day Retro: Planet Positive NFT Hackathon The planet positive NFT hackathon was a week-long event with $20,000 in bounties. It was a global virtual event that focused on collaboration to address a handful of challenges set by sponsors.
Roundup ReFi Roundup #15: Planet Positive NFT Hackathon Winners, Ecorise Launch & Uni V3 on Celo In this week's edition, we share a recap of the Planet Positive NFT Hackathon run by Sev Nightingale at ReFi DAO, Ecorise governance token launch on May 10th and Uniswap V3 deployment on Celo.
