Regenerative Finance (ReFi)


Opinion

Why Crypto’s Most Altruistic Project Is Going (Kinda) Corporate

Gitcoin, which rewards developers for working on open-source projects, is embracing money-making initiatives to increase its capacity for good.

Gitcoin founder Kevin Owocki has been a long-time advocate for public goods funding in crypto.

Finance

Climate Finance Firm Solid World Opens Forward Carbon Liquidity Pools With Polygon

The pool will enable the purchase of mangrove-based carbon credits.

Mangroves can store four times as much carbon as other ainforests, according to the WWF. (Jonathan Wilkins/Wikimedia Commons)

Consensus Magazine

Regen Network Calculates the Real Price of Our Actions

A trio of sustainability consultants designed a layer 1 blockchain that mints ecological assets and measures the true environmental costs of manufacturing and other commercial enterprises. That’s why Regen Network is one of CoinDesk’s Projects to Watch 2023.

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

Tech

Gitcoin’s Owocki Says Crypto Can Regenerate the World. Just Don’t Call Him Starry-Eyed

A programmer by training, Kevin Owocki's view of securities law is not based in any formal legal training but crypto optimism, evolutionary science, economics and legal theory, with a focus on the principal-agent problem.

(Melody Wang/CoinDesk)

Markets

Gitcoin, a Crowdfunding Platform for Open-Source Software Votes to Seed Staked ETH Index

The index could provide a stream of income for Gitcoin to raise funds for grants – if users are attracted to the new index that exposes token holders to a diversified set of liquid staking tokens.

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Consensus Magazine

ReFi for the People: How Crypto Can Help Local Communities Help Their Ecosystems

A hyper-localized breed of regenerative finance hopes to use crypto not only to improve the world’s carbon footprint but improve lives’ of local communities.

A view of the Suriname river from the Blauwe Berg. The small nation north of Brazil is home to a couple of projects trying to use blockchain to preserve the forest. (-JvL-/Wikimedia Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

Opinion

Ethereum’s Regens Tend to Ethereum’s Public Goods

How to build a community that won't "overgraze" open source tools available for all.

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Consensus Magazine

The Rise of Crypto's Brand of Regenerative Finance

Call it a culture shift or an evolutionary process, why this group of crypto-natives is building "public goods" for the longterm rather than focusing on short term profits.

Manuel Alzuru, fundador de DoinGud, dijo que “se está produciendo un despertar social” y que el futuro de las criptomonedas estará estrechamente vinculado a las ReFi. “Este es solo el principio”. (Kristopher Roller/Unsplash)

Opinion

Instead of Slowing Innovation, Regulation May Drive Demand for ReFi

At the intersection of crypto and climate activism, the business community is seeking the power of regulation to spur adoption and action, writes sustainability advocate Boyd Cohen.

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