Regenerative Finance (ReFi)

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

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

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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...
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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...
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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 l...
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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)
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)

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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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Manuel Alzuru, the founder of DoinGud, says "a social awakening is happening," and the future of crypto will be tied closely to ReFi. "This is the very beginning." (Kristopher Roller, Unsplash)
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, the founder of DoinGud, says "a social awakening is happening," and the future of crypto will be tied closely to ReFi. "This is the very beginning." (Kristopher Roller, Unsplash)

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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...
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