This Week in DAOs + Web3 - Jun 4, 2024
A roundup of the most exciting developments in DAOs and web3.
Highlights
👩💻 OG Web3 - Gitcoin successfully concluded its 20th grants round, GG20, raising $632K from 35,109 donors to fund open-source software projects for Ethereum.
☁️ Big Li’l Partner - TRON DAO announced that Google Cloud is a Super Representative, producing blocks and packing transactions, ensuring proper blockchain governance.
💳 DLTlements - Mastercard joined major banking institutions in the United States to test distributed ledger technology for banking settlements using tokenization.
👟 Futureverse - Sports culture brand Reebok announced the launch of Reebok Impact, allowing for the creation of AI-infused, custom digital sneakers.
🏆 eSports - Atleta Network, developed by Blockchain Sports, will launch a modular layer 1 blockchain, unifying various sports-related blockchain functionalities, in May.
🏎️ Fast Money - Five startups will join Mastercard’s Start Path Blockchain and Digital Assets program to trial various payment technologies.
World Wide Web3
🪆 Free Speech? - Exiled Russian opposition leader Mark Feygin is launching a blockchain powered referendum - where protest votes can be registered anonymously - on the legitimacy of Vladimir Putin’s victory in Russia’s election.
💳 Worlds Merge - Israeli fintech Kima and Mastercard are modeling linking DeFi tools and traditional financial services, such as credit cards and bank accounts.
🎓 Web3 Academia - Meta Pool DAO announced a partnership offering Latin American students the chance to study web3 and cryptocurrency at the Blockchain Center of the University of Zurich.
🌠 UniVerse - Telecom provider LG U+, a subsidiary of LG, launched a metaverse experience at Yonsei University in Seoul.
🛵 Taxi On-chain - Nodle’s blockchain technology will facilitate the real-time tracking of motorcycle (Boda Boda) taxis in East Africa, with funding provided by Watu.
Show Me the Money
🗳️ Election Entertainment - Polymarket, a platform that enables betting on political events, raised $45M from Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, and others.
🖐️ People Proof - Humanity Protocol raised $30M, led by Animoca Brands and Blockchain.com, to further develop its decentralized identity protocol.
🌌 Launchpad - Galaxis, a Singapore-based web3 platform raised $10M, led by ENS, to help creators and brands introduce collections of NFTs.
💸 EVM for Bitcoin - Botanix Labs raised $8.5M led by Polychain Capital to build layer-2 network Spiderchain, which offers smart contract functionality for Bitcoin.
🥑 DeFarm - AgriDex, a Solana-based tokenization platform, raised $5M led by Endeavour Ventures to bring agricultural commodities on-chain.
Listen + Learn
📰 Mainstreaming - In The Crypto Comeback from The Daily, a New York Times podcast, the fate of FTX and the story of crypto’s ‘improbable resurgence’ is discussed. Written for the masses, this is language most people can understand.
👩💻 Creator Tools - In Building the web3 Equivalent of Substack from the Crypto Sapiens podcast, founder Colin Armstrong discusses how Paragraph helps creators build, own, and grow direct relationships with their audiences.
🎼 Do Re Mi Fa Society - Speaking on the topic of decentralized music in Cointelegraph’s The Agenda Podcast, FanSociety founder Miles explains why musicians typically get so little of the revenue generated by their music and how the blockchain can improve this.
📽️ Teamwork Makes the Dreamwork - In Film.io parts I and II from the HollywoodChicago podcast, co-founder Ian LeWinter explains how Film.io leverages blockchain technology and fan collaboration to provide filmmakers with a solution for creating, funding, and distributing projects.
Coming Up in Web3
🇭🇷 May 27-30: BlockSplit, Split, Croatia
🇵🇹 May 28-30: Non Fungible Conference, Lisbon
🌵 May 29-31: Consensus, Austin
🪘 May 31-June 1: DAOfest, Nigeria
🍕 June 7-8: NFT Rome, Italy
🌷 June 19: Dutch Blockchain Days, Amsterdam
🇲🇾 July 31: Malaysia Blockchain Week, Kuala Lumpur
🏴 August 1-2: BlockStart, Glasgow
🇰🇷 September 1-7: Korea Blockchain Week, Seoul
🇦🇿 September 10-12: Chain Reaction, Baku, Azerbaijan
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