@cryptoaltruists
We believe emerging technologies like blockchain & AI can be a powerful force for social & environmental impact, and we're on a mission to make sure it gets in the right hands! 🌱❤️ Weekly podcasts & articles focused on #Web3, #ReFi, #DeSci, & more! 🎙️
Cell phones were abstract until they weren't. Yaniv Tal of Geo thinks the same is true for data composability—we're just still in the building phase. 📡
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"When you invent the car, you also invent the car crash. The answer isn't to halt cars. It's to ask: how fast can we also invent the seat belt?"
The case for steering AI development before the window closes by Tao Burr.
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What if the future of money was powered by communities, not banks?
We sat down w/ Will Ruddick of Grassroots Economics and Coleen Chase of Solar Foundation to explore how commitment pooling & mutual aid models can help build resilient local economies 🌱🌍
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Science is a public good.
So why is it locked behind paywalls, owned by journals, and funded by gatekeepers?
Decentralized science is changing that. 🧬🔓
The systems making decisions about the real world should be open to question. 🔎
Looking back at a thoughtful conversation with Jason Teutsch from Truebit.
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It’s easy to get caught up in narratives, but at its core, crypto is also a conversation about values: who gets access, how we coordinate, and what kinds of systems we want to build. 🧭
These quotes are a good reminder 👇
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Communities don’t live inside political borders. They live in watersheds, ecosystems, and networks of care. 🌱
Benjamin Life explores what governance could look like if it reflected that reality & and how neutral infrastructure might help.
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One of the clearest “beyond finance” use cases for blockchain is supply chains. 🚢
Tracking origins, verifying claims, coordinating across global networks.
A reminder that crypto infrastructure is increasingly touching the physical world. 👇
Not every meaningful crypto story shows up in markets. 🌍
More than $38B in humanitarian aid moves through slow legacy rails. The UN is expanding blockchain-based payments across 15 agencies to move funds faster and reduce risk in crisis settings.
www.devex.com/news/united-...
GoodBuilders Season 3 is here!🌱
$50k+ in G$ rewards. Streaming funds with real-time feedback. Mentorship & community. 💸🤝
We sat down with Rael & Hadar of GoodDollar to explore S3 and what builders need to know to get involved! 🎙️
🎧Listen: www.cryptoaltruists.com/blog/crypto-...
Every dollar you hold is working for someone. Shouldn't it work for something you believe in? 🤔
Azos Finance is building money that funds climate action—by design. 👇
cryptoaltruists.com/blog/crypto-altruists-episode-226-azos-better-money-for-a-better-planet-how-stablecoins-can-fund-climate-action
Blockchain for Good published a 98-page report on crypto in humanitarian aid. 🕊️
Stablecoin payrolls in Syria, a 400K-user wallet in Afghanistan, WFP catching 855K duplicate registrations in Ukraine, programmable cash transfers in Kenya & more.
research.theblockchainforgood.org/index.php/r1...
What if funding public goods didn't require constantly asking for donations? 🌱
@octant.bsky.social uses crypto staking rewards to create a self-sustaining funding stream—the money keeps working, funding never stops.
Explore our Octant-related content. 👇
www.cryptoaltruists.com/trailblazers...
Our systems extract because that's what we programmed them to do.
What would it mean to build the opposite? Beautiful piece on regenerative economics, living systems as valuable, and place-based coordination 🌍
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Proof of personhood. Community currencies. NGO Coordination Tools.✨
We sat down with Bill Laboon, VP of Ecosystem at Web3 Foundation to explore decentralized tech that works for people, including case studies in the Polkadot & Kusama ecosystems 🔎🌐
🎧Listen: www.cryptoaltruists.com/blog/crypto-...
There's a lot of noise in crypto right now, but people are still showing up and building.
If you're still here, we want to hear from you—we're collecting community reflections on what's keeping people in the space. 👇
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Our first BREAD Member Spotlight is live. Paul Glavin from Gardens talks about what the community can look forward to this month and why your vote matters.
Governance cycle #19 is ongoing. Will Gardens get your vote?
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💸→🏘️ One use case from @UNDP's new blockchain report: transforming remittances into community investment.
Families channel portions into transparent, democratically-governed local funds—not just household spending.
Anticipatory action delivers aid before disasters strike, not after. 🔍
Sandra Uwantege Hart of Mercy Corps Ventures explains how blockchain automates it:
Crypto rails + oracles + smart contracts = response when climate data says disaster is coming 🌾
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UNDP just published a snapshot of their blockchain work across 42 use cases 📊
Digital payments, climate finance, community investment models—real deployments in public systems.
Worth checking out. 👇
www.undp.org/publications...
I don't often do solo eps, but I've been sitting on something...something personal, & political.
In this episode, I reflect on the state of crypto; its capture by bad actors, and its potential as infrastructure for democracy, rather than authoritarianism 🌱🗳️
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How does aid reach people when banks collapse or borders close? 🌍
UNHCR uses blockchain for Ukrainian refugees. Afghanistan's HesabPay serves 51K families. Myanmar built a $500M digital economy.
We document the real cases. 👇
www.cryptoaltruists.com/blog/how-blo...
Send $100 internationally:
Bank wire → $83 arrives
PayPal → $92 arrives
Wise → $96 arrives
Crypto → $100 arrives 💸
Today, stablecoins deliver 100% and in seconds. Crypto is the way.
Why does so much capital chase so little impact? 💸
This piece by CeLatamOrg is one of the clearest breakdowns we’ve read on what’s broken and why the problem ISN'T money, but structure.
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What does impact on Solana actually look like? 🌱
We spent months mapping out the tools, case studies, and people making it happen—from conservation to community finance.
Now we’ve pulled it all together. 👇
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In the age of AI, we need to know who or what we’re interacting with.
A person? An AI? An agent acting for someone else?
In our episode with Evin McMullen from PrivadoID, we talked about why identity is a key piece of the puzzle. 🧠
www.cryptoaltruists.com/blog/episode...
Stablecoins are becoming core global infrastructure; but without strong rails, impact gets stuck ⛔️
We sat down with Jamie Green of Superset, to unpack why "boring infrastructure" is vital for humanitarian aid, financial access, & global adoption 🌱🌐
🎧Listen: www.cryptoaltruists.com/blog/crypto-...
Afghanistan, under Taliban rule, isn’t where you’d expect one of the most impressive crypto aid platforms to emerge.
But that’s where HesabPay was built—now delivering 💵 to Syrians via Mercy Corps & UNHCR using stablecoins.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/w...
Funding impact is hard...for projects, funders, and communities 💰🫤
We sat down with Mahesh Murthy of Karma to explore how onchain reputation & attestations can help replace funding chaos with trust, clarity, and coordination 💸🌐
🎧Listen: www.cryptoaltruists.com/blog/crypto-...
Our co-founder @tbsocialist.bsky.social recently joined @cryptoaltruists.bsky.social for a conversation about building financial tools without venture capital, and why we chose worker ownership over investor returns.
