We are excited to welcome Rofem Egbe to the MCV team! He has 5+ years of experience in investment banking, venture capital, supporting high-impact tech startups in Africa. Rofem joins Mercy Corps Ventures as an Investment Associate.

the only way to truly verify the authenticity of a photo is to directly mint onchain at the point of capture. embedding wallets into cameras can assure that a photo's metadata—including device, location, timestamps, etc.— is recorded onchain before it's edited or tampered with.

A very nice way to kick off #Consensus2024 with fellow panelists in Austin this morning!

What an unbelievable stat: according to a recent report by Chainalysis, ~4% of Turkey's GDP is going to stablecoin purchases. Turkey is among the Top 20 economies globally by GDP. Source: bitcoinke.io/wp-content/upl… (h/t gurnoor singh narula)

Contender for favorite chart of all time: Predictions vs. Reality for solar energy.

JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a

Great working with the Crypto Council for Innovation on this new report highlighting how web3 is addressing environmental challenges. We look forward to sharing more high-impact use cases in the months to come!

When I met Alice and James from Jambo in April, we immediately started finishing one another's sentences. Jambo is putting a portal into the global economy into practically anyone's pocket. Truly: where there's an internet connection, there's a bank account. Starting

We are proud to announce the second joint report with The Crypto Council for Innovation for Innovation, presenting the key findings from the MCV’s Crypto Venture Lab pilot testing the use of blockchain-powered smart contracts to deliver anticipatory cash transfers to pastoralist in Kenya.

Opinion: Wake up, world! Web3 is the key to defeating climate change. Written by Scott Onder and Renée Pinto da Silva Barton blockworks.co/news/risk-clim…

Web3 holds the key to climate action, so why isn’t the rest of the world listening? CCI's Head of Impact Research Renée Pinto da Silva Barton & Scott Onder of Mercy Corps via Blockworks blockworks.co/news/risk-clim…

Imagine all the people empowered to own their own data (medical records, personal info, social etc) = this is what interoperability + digital ownership looks like

1/ Treasury Department wants to know how the financial sector is addressing the rise of AI. Other than recruiting Sarah Connor, here are 6 ways (of the many) that blockchain can help mitigate risk & improve AI:

Mario Draghi's new report on EU competitiveness doesn't mince words. "Across different metrics, a wide gap in GDP has opened up between the EU and the US, driven mainly by a more pronounced slowdown in productivity growth in Europe. Europe’s households have paid the price in

Stablecoins Increasingly Used for Savings, Payments in Emerging Countries, but Crypto Trading Still Leads: Report coindesk.com/business/2024/… via @coindesk