Impact investors  and cryptocurrency advocates have long talked about the potential for blockchain-based technology to transform the lives of people in small emerging markets. The NGO Mercy Corps put its money where its mouth is with an impact fund focused specifically on using the tech to solve some of the gnarliest problems in human development, disaster response and financial inclusion. 

In this pod, Mercy Corps Ventures’ Ken Kou shares insights and learnings from their adventures in Web3.

It turns out that crypto’s ‘killer app’ might be that it can save lives.