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.
Hello ReFi peeps!👋 Hereward and John here with this week's edition of the ReFi Roundup newsletter where we curate the best of ReFi Twitter 🦚.
Planet Positive NFT Hackathon Results
The Planet Positive NFT Hackathon was a global, virtual, collaborative event where over 25 teams & around 100 individual participants came together to come up with solutions to 7 different challenges.
Challenges ranged from open-ended prompts that allowed for creative expression & out of the box thinking, to specific tasks of creating prototypes that address art & design, blockchain integration, & even real world applications. Entirely new projects and teams were formed during the weekend event, in astonishingly open and collaborative fashion (you can view the giant Miro board used for the event).
Team presentations have been reviewed by a diverse panel of judges, while participants also engaged in a voting process, ultimately determining how the over $20k pool of prizes will be distributed, courtesy of the sponsors of the event, ReFi Punks, Regen Network, Celo's Climate Collective, Stargaze, Toucan, SEUNwater, & Flow Carbon.
Winners of the 🌐➕ #NFT #Hackathon have been announced!!
— ReFi DAO (@ReFiDAOist) May 4, 2022
Congratulations to the 10 winning teams + 20 participants! 👏👏👏🥳🎉
Here's a little info on the winners
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This is just the beginning, teams will be supported and encouraged over the next 3-4 weeks to further refine their ideas, participate in additional hackathons, giving them more shape & then eventually given the opportunity to pitch their ideas to a group of investors and experts that can further support the execution & implementation of the proposed solutions!
Ecorise $RISE token launch May 10
Ecorise is a new ReFi protocol led by Corneile and Booker that is aiming to kick off a flywheel of regeneration. They do this by incentivizing people to help them purchase land at risk of destruction in order to preserve it and ultimately improve the land through ecosystem services.
They've been inspired by the TERRA / LUNA tokenomics design and are raising money for the $RISE governance token which will be followed by $ECO. Together these assets will maintain the peg of the value of land, creating the first stablecoin backed by the value of land (rather than fiat).
To kick off our first community AMA on telegram we are giving away 10 guaranteed Launchpad allocations worth a total of $5000 in $RISE tokens 💜
— ECORISE FINANCE (@ECORISEDAO) April 25, 2022
It's easy to participate, just fill out the form linked below#solarpunk #refi #defi #dao #ama @trustswap https://t.co/bk2K1IHmaQ pic.twitter.com/Bpe39he7ij
Uniswap V3 deploys on Celo
With a huge margin of 99.998% voting in favor the Uniswap community has voted to deploy on Celo. Rene Reinsberg has the full summary of the proposal!
In essence the proposal will:
- Introduce green asset liquidity pools with natural capital-backed assets
- Support Celo’s stablecoin reserve with nature-backed assets
- $10 million of $CELO in user incentives and a climate assessment of Uniswap, as well as grant funding for developers utilizing Uniswap v3 as a financial building block on Celo.
2/ This is going to massively accelerate the growing Celo #ReFi ecosystem. Our main focus of deployment is introducing green asset liquidity pools with natural capital-backed assets (such as tokenized land and forest).
— Rene Reinsberg (@followrene) April 29, 2022
Here's a link to the full proposal:https://t.co/IrLyvW7hcn

Should Carbon Removal be a community-focused endeavor?
We all know the race is on the latest IPCC report clearly stated that without CDR technologies we are unlikely to reach anything resembling Net Zero. Currently their is a race between private carbon removal enterprises tol scale up carbon removal, kick-started by commitments made on voluntary markets.This runs the risk of technology becoming propriatory, colonial dynamics arising in the GS and likely goverment procurement practises leading to public funding being funneled into private hands. It could be argued that CDR technology also provides an opportunity for oil and gas companies to capture the market due to their pre-existing infrastructure, A recent article from oilprice.com covers exactly that.
A recent article by @andmbergman explores an alternative. Imagine a public approach, a regional network of community run cooperatives that provides the same services, sharing technology, with publicly open management ensuring that local communities lives are benefited equitably. The article explores the further benefits associated with this kind of governance approach.
It opens up a key question about how to approach carbon removal infrastructure. Are you working on a CDR project?
We would love to hear your responses at ReFi DAO.
ReFi Bites
Kevin Owocki recent book ‘Green Pilled’ which is helping to popularize the Refi Movement has been successfully translated into italian, portugese, chinese, french, spanish, indonesian, turkish, russian, japanese, arabic and hindi through Gitcoin DAO, join the translation party @ Telegram ‘Regenerative Cryptoeconomics Book’
ATTN: Green Pill has been translated to italian // portugese // chinese // french // spanish // indonesian // turkish // russian // japanese // arabic // hindi
— Ξwocki (🤖,💚) (@owocki) April 28, 2022
Want to help us greenpill the world!? Help GitcoinDAO members review these translations! https://t.co/m96jhHv0V9 pic.twitter.com/5yokB9yAR9
Energy and Climate Implications on Digital Assets
In the US, a report on the Energy and Climate Implications of Digital Assets is due to be delivered to the President which may inform future legislative direction. The framing of the document is focused on the Energy use of the protols surrounding digital assets. This is the perfect opportunity of the Refi community to step up and begin it’s lobbying efforts in earnest. See below for further details

SolidWorld partners with Sequestr.io
Solid World is pleased to announce a new partnership with @SequestrIO, a project that aims to improve the quality supply in carbon markets. Join their community on Twitter and check out our announcement to learn more!https://t.co/pEKWaXtDYY
— Solid World DAO (@solidworlddao) April 29, 2022
A timely reminder of introduce limits and redundancy as the ReFi ecosystem scales from Dr Daniel Christian Wahl. Let’s remind ourselves that many new ‘solutions’ have resulted in catastrophic and widespread unintended consequences so let’s be wise and think about how we can limit experimentation to the local/regional scale.

DAO 2 DAO Deals
As the interwoven mycelium-like expansion of the ReFi ecosystem develops, the need for effective coordination mechanisms arises. Learn about token swaps, joint ventures and more DAO 2 DAO tools through this wonderful article from PrimeDAO

John Ellison gave us a quick summary of Prime Deals
I've been fascinated by the DAO2DAO space emerging, but haven't had much time to dig into it.
— John Ellison 🇺🇦 (@climateXcrypto) May 4, 2022
In prep for my chat with @LuukDAO from @Kolektivo and @PrimeDAO_, I did some reading. https://t.co/uesUIn4sUH https://t.co/uesUIn4sUH
Here's what I discovered in my research 🧵🪡
OFP & Ecorise
A nice summary from @thecorpsemen summarizing the synergetic relationship between Open Forest Protocol and ECORISEDAO, from their recent Twitter Space.
@glasshalfcrypto, explain the carbon economy that OFP is trying to bring forth through our MRV platform?#OFP provides easily verifiable on chain forest data using Permissionless MRV Tooling.🌳
— Corpsemen (💀,🌳) a.k.a ReFi Degens (@thecorpsemen) April 29, 2022
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NFTs + Climate?
Still confused about how NFT’s can contribute to scaling Climate action? Read this short article which is an entry point into understanding the field and the future of tokenized model of nature assets and ‘Proof of impact’.

Commons Stack Regen Month
As part of Commons Stack Regen Month they have released some short snippets of interviews with dClimate on how a decentralized data marketplace will empower organizations to build long-term climate resilience using climate data.
Last Change: Commons Stack Prize!
Today is the final day to submit nominations for the Commons Stack Prize!
Today is the last day to submit your nominations for the #CommonsPrize!
— The Commons Stack 🌱 (@commonsstack) May 6, 2022
Submissions will be accepted only UNTIL 11:59pm EST today! If you haven't done it yet, use this form to nominate a community: https://t.co/ulskOEzBsk
P.S.: Don't forget to send your nomination video! pic.twitter.com/w8dP6qZMu4
Stay tuned by following Commons Stack for an upcoming announcement regarding nominations. Voting round for finalists begins May 11-17. Winner is expected to be awarded the prize by the end of May.

A example of an indiginous NFT from @400drums
Have you ever seen anything like it?
You haven't seen an #NFT project like this
— 400 Drums (@400Drums) April 26, 2022
👉 One-of-a-kind #Indigenous art from traditional #drums
👉 HANDMADE #drums and more are given out to holders - unbelievable utility through our #roadmap
🚨 Only 444 #NFTs in our Presale list - check the links below#nftart #nftartist pic.twitter.com/Fs9yOgqVMO
Refi MOOD 😂
Painfully true. Or is it?
How much will nature-based solutions play in humanity's response to climate change? En-Roads climate simulator gives us some tools to play around with...
— Gregory Landua (🌳,🌳,🌳) (landua.eth) (@gregory_landua) July 14, 2021

Breathe with the Earth
The earth is alive.
What would happen if all of our behaviors recognized this reality?
Happy Earth Day. I love this animation by John Nelson, reminding us how the earth breathes, how it is alive. May we let it breathe. https://t.co/BIbkpA4oLW #EarthDay pic.twitter.com/7UvTGDYjEQ
— Fabian Pfortmüller (@pforti) April 22, 2022
Outside Refi
Struggling with Climate Anxiety? You are not alone. It’s real, it's here and we must learn to receive our grief and allow it to empower us with renewed meaning and purpose. See this wonderful thread full of resources for coping with Climate Grief initiated by @IzzyKing063
does anyone know any resources to help with climate anxiety?
— Izzy 🌿 (@IzzyKing063) April 28, 2022
UN Secretary-General draws a line...
250 days to avert climate catastrophe. WAGMI?
BREAKING: UN Secretary-General says the world's biggest carbon emitters must start drastically cutting emissions within the next 250 days to avert climate catastrophe 🧵
— Ben See (@ClimateBen) April 27, 2022
Thought for the day
“The revolution does not involve us all owning land more equitably but recognizing that land is beyond ownership and we need a new treaty with land and our natural ecosystems.” @indy_johar
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