David is documenting the nuts and bolts of running a node in Nigeria and, more generally, on the African continent and all the challenges that come with it.

Operating a node in Africa

Eddie's Antugrow platform digitizes farmer production records and farm metadata to create reputation scores on-chain, with a goal to access to affordable working capital for smallholder farmers and cooperatives in Kenya

On-chain credit scores for smallholder farmers and co-ops in Kenya

Guo is building a new form of sustainable funding for content creators, using a Harberger tax (plural ownership) mechanism.

Democratizing support for content creators

Lefteris is focused on reducing marine plastic pollution by engaging with fishers in Greece and the Mediterranean and adopting cleaning and sustainability practices.

Fishing for the Commons

Mercedes' research focuses on understanding the impact of crypto in Venezuela through the lenses of human experiences and how this can help us creare Web3 solutions to strengthen civil organizations in Venezuela

Activism, Human Rights and Web3 in Venezuela

Commitment pooling, local currency, and indigenous mutual aid practices.

Commitment pooling and community currencies

MUQA - Municipal Quadratic Funding Initiative

Municipal Quadratic Funding

Brian investigated the needs of web3 workers through Copra Finance, a startup that designs web3 financial products for working folks in Jakarta, Indonesia

Fair Lending for Web3 workers

Devansh is exploring retroactive funding for citizen journalists using the hypercerts standard.

Retroactive Impact funding for Journalists

Ongaeshi is exploring retroactive solidarity payments in education and employment.

Retroactive solidarity payments in education and employment

Mulenga is developing a tokenized artifact registry and experimenting with museum revenue sharing for community documentation of art, customs, and crafting practices.

Digital repatriation of art and revenue sharing

Studying and documenting grassroots adoption of blockchain and other decentralized applications within the Ukrainian community

Crypto adoption in Ukraine

Farmer Finance

Bloinx is a project that focuses on 'tandas' in Mexico. In 2022, Gabriela conducted user research with several women's saving circles, and ran a pilot of Bloinx deployed on the polygon and celo side-chains.

Small Business Savings Circles

Beyond Borders - Unveiling Potential of Blockchain in a Crisis - the case of Syria

Peer to peer aid in Humanitarian Crises

Empowering disenfranchised communities in Latin America using Ethereum

LatAm Empowerment

The scouting movement is decentralised by nature and community-driven by essence. They are working on a Scout’s passport on chain, onboarding youth all over the world.

Scouting for the Future

Microinsurance products for small-scale farmers in Kenya in extreme weather events

Microinsurance for Every Farmer

Chuy explores government-issued documents on chain in Argentina and other LatAm countries.

Identity Solutions for Govtech

How should the world's largest NGO approach decentralized technology?

Re-decentralizing with BRAC

Naroa explores Ethereum-based solutions as part of Giga's effort to connect every school to the internet.

Retroactive solidarity payments in education and employment

Masahiro Fukuhara

Interview at Devconnect 2023(opens in a new tab)

Meet more fellows

Devansh

Retroactive Impact funding for Journalists

Mulenga

Digital repatriation of art and revenue sharing