ReFi Gazette #4
Welcome to the fourth edition of the ReFi Gazette, a bi-weekly primer covering the developments in and around Regenerative Finance and the larger DAO ecosystem we’re building with you!
This newsletter offers a guide to ReFi stakeholders by gathering the resources they may need.
In this edition;
Upcoming Projects
Featured Projects
Success Stories
Grantors, Accelerators, and Investors of ReFi
Bi-Weekly Recap
Prime Sources
OG Quotes
Sunday Readings
Upcoming Projects
Featured Projects
Projects which we follow closely.
Helios
About: Helios enables anyone anywhere to profitably fight climate change through the funding of impact solar projects around the world. They aim to avert 10 million tons of CO2 by 2030.
Latest Updates: They partnered with Gitcoin in September in
sponsoring the GR15 Climate Round
Thallo
About: They are building an efficient and transparent Carbon Offset Marketplace. By democratizing access to onchain carbon credits issued by trust accreditation bodies, verified credits can be freely, bought, sold held or retired by companies or individuals committed to offsetting their carbon footprint. Thallo also creates to a market previously inaccessible to retail investors.
Latest Updates: They recently announced their founding and strategic partners
Spirals Protocol
About Spirals Staking on Celo: Staking with Spirals is the easiest way to make climate impact without giving: yield normally received goes towards funding high-impact climate projects while keeping one’s $CELO locked and secure.
Rather than yield, people will earn governance which gives them a voice in project funding across a list of prevetted projects. Spirals empowers to maximize climate impact without needing to source and vet climate projects or maintain infrastructure.Latest Updates: They recently partnered with ReFi Spring
If you need more details, please reach out to us :)
Grantors, Accelerators, and Investors
Grantor | Algorand Foundation
The Algorand Foundation's mission is to enable an inclusive, decentralized, and borderless global economy - at scale - based on the Algorand blockchain technology. Some things they look for when supporting projects are zero carbon footprint, decentralization, safety, and speed.
Projects Count: 16
Money Spent: $254,500,000
Accelerator/Incubator | B1
They originate, incubate, acquire, and invest in technologies and businesses that build trust in transactions and increase efficiencies in the world we live in.
VC | Capital Community
capital.community is run by Jon Hillis: founder of Cabin, a DAO building a decentralized city. He advises Seed Club Ventures, serves as an Executive in Residence at Reforge, and completed Sequoia Scout Camp.
They have invested in incredible web2 and web3 organizations like Syndicate, Braintrust, Seed Club, Maven, Reforge, On Deck, Interintellect, Gumroad, Pallet, Commsor, Roam, and Clarity.
Success Stories
Cogo - raised $500K from Web3 investors to incubate and grow Coco Pago
Coco Pago; YCombinator startup fixed remittances and payments in Venezuela using Web3 stablecoin. They created a marketplace that would allow Venezuelan migrants to easily send food and medicine to their beloved ones back home in a few hours. They built Coco Pago - a crypto wallet that uses the Celo dollar to send money. They chose to build on Celo because of its low fees and frictionless user experience. This led them to apply to Celo Camp last year. They not only won the first place in Celo Camp but also during the camp, in just 8 weeks, they went from an idea to building and launching the MVP. By the end of the camp, they raised $500K from Web3 investors to incubate and grow Coco Pago. Users can just download the app, load funds (Celo Dollars) to their wallet, and send to another user in Venezuela. The person there will have the option to either cash it out to Bolivars or USD, or spend it in any of the Coco affiliated merchants.
Bi-Weekly Recap
@theinnovator publishes article “How Web3 Technologies Can Help Combat Climate Change” with #ReFi shoutouts to @reseedcarbon, @Nori, @clim8collective, @_avatree & @PlanetWatchsas
@ReFiPodcast releases a new episode of the ReFi Podcast featuring Marko (of @impactMarket_) discussing how impactMarket is delivering Unconditional Basic Income #UBI and developing tools as “The Human Empowerment Protocol.”
@thallo_io announces 23 partners as they gear up to launch their #Web3 carbon credit marketplace. Lots of #ReFi Innovation partners incl: @GreenTradeCO2, @ivy_protocol, @GetFix6, @Kolektivo, @ReturnProtocol, @senken_io, @solidworlddao, @SpiralsProtocol
@OpenForest_ Protocol publishes article “Forest Project Deep Dive: Greener Communities Program” describing the reforestation work being done in Kajiado, Kenya. OFP’s documentary on this project will premiere on their YouTube channel Oct. 19th
Prime Sources - A map of what dOrgs do in ReFi
OG Quotes
Sunday Readings - Regeneration Needs Location
Astral’s Geospatial Role in the Kolektivo Framework
This blog post provides a technical overview of the tools that the Astral Protocol is developing for the Kolektivo Framework. It is recommended to read the framework’s Bluepaper summary prior to this post.
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