ReFi Podcast

jE and Simar are joined by Sep, Co-Founder of Celo, for a beautiful journey of a conversation brimming with stories and metaphors that connect nature, humans, technology and money... Topics covered include: 🎙 Sep's background 🎙 Mycelial Networks and their symmetry with Web3 🎙 Story/Technology 🎙 Blockchain Mental Models 🎙 The Vision for Money 🎙 And a whole lot more, see below...   Sep Co-Founder of Celo: "The blockchain reminds us that money is just a technology, but money has always been a technology, which can change..." https://celo.org/ Mentioned/References We Feel Fine http://www.wefeelfine.org/ Jonathan Harris https://jjh.org/ Wild flower Montessori Schools Project https://wildflowerschools.org/ The hidden life of trees https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hidden-Life-Trees-International-Communicate/dp/0008218439 Arthur Koestler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Koestler Holons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holon_(philosophy) Charles Eisenstein https://charleseisenstein.org/ Sacred Economics - Charles Eisentstein https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sacred-Economics-Money-Society-Transition/dp/1583943978 Demurrage, Silvio Gessel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demurrage_(currency) The Miracle of Wörgel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%B6rgl#:~:text=W%C3%B6rgl%20was%20the%20site%20of,as%20Stamp%20Scrip%2C%20or%20Freigeld. Rob Kalin Etsy founder Etsy founder The Story of Curitiba, Brazil http://www.ggtrust.com/currency/curitiba-bus-tokens-and-garbage/#:~:text=The%20bus%20tokens%20were%20soon,of%201%2C200%20trees%E2%80%94each%20day! 00:00 Intro 04:16 We feel fine Project  06:35  Wild flower Montessori Schools Project 08:47 Celo Connect Talk, Mycelial Networks 11:55 Story is inextricably related to technology 17:00 Blockchain Mental Models 22:14 Vision for Money 28:55 Ecological Succession 32:21 The Story of Curitiba, Brazil Join the conversation on Twitter, follow: https://twitter.com/ReFiDAOist https://twitter.com/climateXcrypto https://twitter.com/simarsmangat https://twitter.com/johnx25bd   Thanks to our frens at Feed Ignite for the podcast and micro-content production: https://feedignite.com

jE is joined by Jahed Momand, co-founder of Cerulean Ventures, for a deep-dive into his experiences, learnings, and insights that sit at the intersection of Climate & Web3. Topics covered include: 🎙 Jahed's background and journey into the space 🎙 Forming the fund of Regen Network 🎙 Raising Money at Cerulean Ventures 🎙 Core Mental Models for founders in the Bear Market 🎙 The massive opportunities presenting themselves as a result of new climate legislations in the EU and US, 🎙 And a whole lot more, see below... Follow Jahed, Co-Founder, Cerulean Ventures: "I co-founded Cerulean Ventures with my partner Matthew Stotts. Cerulean Ventures backs crypto / web3 companies building the infrastructure and tools necessary to scale climate impact in this decade. We take a deeply hands-on approach informed by our own experience and background as founders, helping our portfolio with everything from the technical (mechanism design, product management, data engineering) to marketing and operational (community engagement, governance, tokenomics design, recruiting). I also actively contribute to DAOs, as a steward to both PrimeDAO and GnosisGuild." https://www.linkedin.com/in/jahedmomand/ https://mobile.twitter.com/cerulean_xyz Individuals Mentioned: Dan Ariely https://danariely.com/ John Light https://www.linkedin.com/in/lightcoin/ Gregory Landua https://twitter.com/gregory_landua Ethan Buchmanhttps://twitter.com/buchmanster BJ Fogg https://www.bjfogg.com/ Brianna Welsh https://twitter.com/briannaleewelsh David Rodriguez https://twitter.com/davidjrodriguez Cathie Wood https://twitter.com/CathieDWood Mentioned: Magalix https://www.linkedin.com/company/magalix/ Prime DAO https://www.prime.xyz/ Regen Network https://www.regen.network/ Regen Foundation https://regen.foundation/ Verra https://verra.org/ Gold Standard https://www.goldstandard.org/ American Carbon Registry https://americancarbonregistry.org/ Bio Carbon Registry https://biocarbonregistry.com/en/ Thallo https://www.thallo.io/ GreenTrade https://greentrade.tech/ Cosmos https://cosmos.network/ Cosmoverse https://cosmoverse.org/ Helium https://www.helium.com/ Twilio https://www.twilio.com/ Osmosis https://app.osmosis.zone/pools Polygon https://polygon.technology/ Open Forest Protocol https://www.openforestprotocol.org/ Bankless https://www.bankless.com/ Cloud Native Computing Foundation https://www.cncf.io/ Parachains https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/learn-parachains Mercy Corps Ventures https://www.mercycorps.org/ Reneum https://reneum.com/ Jasmine Energy https://www.jasmine.energy/ Helios DAO https://helios.eco/ Sustainable Bitcoin Protocol https://www.sustainablebtc.org/ COP https://cop27.eg/#/ World Climate Summit https://www.worldclimatesummit.org/ Draft Ventures https://draftvc.com/ 00:00 Intro 01:53 Jahed's Journey 09:27 Shared Ownership 11:06 Regen Network Thesis 17:14 Impact Outcomes 19:57 Impact Claims 21:14 Cosmos Deep Dive 23:57 Cosmos App-Chain Thesis 27:05 Cosmos Use Case 33:40 State of ReFi in the Bear Market 41:14 User Research to Test Hypotheses 45:17 Unlocking the Next Cycle 49:51 Insetting 52:07 Renewable Energy Opportunity 54:58 Greening Bitcoin 58:58 Concluding Thoughts Join the conversation on Twitter, follow: https://twitter.com/ReFiDAOist https://twitter.com/climateXcrypto https://twitter.com/simarsmangat https://twitter.com/johnx25bd Thanks to our frens at Feed Ignite for the podcast and micro-content production: https://feedignite.com

jE hosts ReFi Podcast's first ever live chat on Twitter Spaces, joined by ReFi pioneers Brianna, Dalton and Karl. With a live audience of 244 listeners from across the ReFi Nation, they take a deep dive into the new world of Renewable Energy Credits (RECs). The chat covers: The history and importance of RECs Their role in Web3 Capital flow & Liquidity And much more, see below... Follow Brianna, Co-Founder, CEO at Renuem: "Focused on #TheRegeneration. Tokenizing renewable energy to fund the energy transition!" https://twitter.com/briannaleewelsh https://reneum.com/ Follow Dalton, Co-Founder, CPO at Jasmine Energy: "The time to move away from our reliance on fossil fuels for energy is now." https://twitter.com/TDaltonC https://www.jasmine.energy/ Follow Karl, Head of Commuity Growth at Arkreen: "If we build it, the planet will regenerate." - Arkreen https://twitter.com/karljweaver1 https://arkreen.com/ Twitter Spaces Guests: https://twitter.com/solarpunkmaxi https://twitter.com/lyricalpolymath Mentioned: https://www.helium.com/ https://flowcarbon.com https://pick.flow3rs.io/auction https://solarpunkdao.earth/ https://www.blocks.garden/ https://cop27.eg/ https://www.iea.org/ https://www.trescool.xyz/ 00:00 intro 01:51 Brianna from Reneum 02:25 Dalton from Jasmine 04:12 RECs - Brianna 06:00 History of RECs 07:42 Karl from Arkreen 08:38 Why RECs are important now 10:24 Web3 role in REC market 15:14 Capital flows/Demand 18:46 Bottom layer and monitoring renewable energy 20:20 Liquidity added to markets 20:38 Liquification process 21:54  Voluntary market 22:55 Arkeen's approach to RECs 24:50 Incentivizing prosumers 25:12 Electrifying the economy 27:00 REC Value 29:50 Recs on-chain 33:35 Volume of on-chain supply 35:08 Spaces Q1 from @solarpunkmaxi 41:55 Spaces Q2 from Beltran, @lyricalpolymath 49:48 Spaces Q3 from @solarpunkmaxi 54:16 Spaces CTA from Beltran https://blocks.garden 58:20 CTA -------------------------------------------------------- Join the conversation on Twitter, follow: https://twitter.com/ReFiDAOist https://twitter.com/climateXcrypto https://twitter.com/simarsmangat https://twitter.com/johnx25bd Thanks to our frens at Feed Ignite for the podcast and micro-content production: https://feedignite.com #refi #web3 #climateaction #climate #nft #renewables #renewableenergy #blockchain #carbonmarket #onchain #investing

Johnx25bd is joined by Leanne Bats, founder of Tres Cool Labs and Co-Author of the new ERC-Cool Standard which is looking to embed climate action through carbon removal technologies into the cultural fabric of Web3. The chat covers: Leanne's background in marketing, psychology and sports... Her calling into climate and web3... The power of storytelling to galvanize climate action And much more... Meet the ERC-Cool. An improved implementation on the Ethereum standard smart contract ERC721A, that weaves real world, perpetual carbon removal into any NFT use case that adopts it." Find out more at https://trescool.xyz Follow Leanne: "After a cocktail of mother instinct, too little sleep and one too many climate documentaries, I have been building...  And I won't stop until climate action is the definition of cool." https://twitter.com/leannebats Mentioned in the show: SBS Columbia https://sbs.tech/ Toucan https://toucan.earth/ How the World Really Works - Vaclav Smil https://www.amazon.com/How-World-Really-Works-Science/dp/0593297067 Sacred Economics - Charles Eisenstein https://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Economics-Money-Society-Transition/dp/1583943978 00:00 Intro 01:13 Leanne's Journey 05:00 Sport & Web3 Connection 06:00 Why Climate? 08:00 Why Web3? 15:00 A digital world that fixes the physical world 20:24 Embedding Climate Action at the Base Layer 22:00 ERC-Cool Explainer 25:00 Green Hushing 30:46 How's ERC-Cool going? 32:28 How does it work? 36:10 The First Users 38:28 Storytelling 44:55 Mass Adoption 51:24 Mint of Intent 53:00 CTA -------------------------------------------------------- Join the conversation on Twitter, follow:            https://twitter.com/ReFiDAOist https://twitter.com/climateXcrypto https://twitter.com/simarsmangat https://twitter.com/johnx25bd        Thanks to our friends at Feed Ignite for the podcast and micro-content production: https://feedignite.com

John Ellison is joined by Rez, co-founder of Solid World DAO and co-host of This Week in ReFi Podcast. They take a look at the last year in the world of ReFi, the Cambrian explosion of innovation at the intersection of climate and Web3. Where we are now, and where we are headed as we continue our collective ReFi journey together... Mentioned in The Show People Stenver Jerkku. https://twitter.com/stenverjerkku Companies eAgronom https://eagronom.com/en/ghg-platform/ Solid World https://www.solid.world/ Toucan https://toucan.earth/ Verra https://verra.org/programs/verified-carbon-standard/ FTX https://cases.ra.kroll.com/FTX/ CTA Links https://refijobs.com https://future.quest/submit Screenshares https://www.klimadao.finance/ https://carbon.klimadao.finance/carbonmarket https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/money-supply-m0 https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/GFSR/Issues/2022/10/11/global-financial-stability-report-october-2022 https://nasdaq.com/market-activity/index/comp https://nasdaq.com/market-activity/index/comp https://co2.earth https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/publication/global-landscape-of-climate-finance-2021/ 00:00 Intro 01:32 State of The ReFi Nation 03:04 Rez's Journey 08:45 JE's journey 12:45 Klima DAO launch 16:40 JE's time at Toucan 17:55 KlimaDAO Launch 19:20 NCT Launch 22:50 Verra pausing Tokenization 26:50 Verra Consultations & Gold Standard 33:40 Where are we now? 34:00 State of tokenized carbon 36:22 How we dealt with COVID-19 36:43 US Money Supply  38:26 Macro Finance, IMF GFSR 40:40 Tech Stocks  41:04 Tech Company Layoffs  43:03 Changing Narrative of Crypto 47:45 Atmospheric CO2  48:20 Global Co-ordination  55:40 The next chapter of ReFi 57:34 Future Quest 1M grant pool Connect with Rez, check out Solid World Dao & This week in ReFi Rez on Twitter  https://twitter.com/0xRez Solid World      https://www.solid.world This Week in ReFi https://twitter.com/ThisWeekInReFi

Simar is joined by Ashley from Resource Finance, who are taking the ancient behavior of bartering and mutual credit, and creating a set of tools to enable this to happen at a community and local level at scale. The conversation unpacks: - What Resource is - Mutual Credit - Ashley's story - What regenerative economic systems look like now and in the future - A whole lot more.... References Peter Buffett https://www.peterbuffett.com Charles Eisenstein: Sacred economics https://sacred-economics.com The Ascent of Humanity https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/482505.The_Ascent_of_Humanity David Casey https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidacasey Resource Finance https://resource.finance                                 https://twitter.com/resource_fi 00:00 intro 01:32 What is resource? 03:45 Ashley’s journey 08:54 Initial insights on the broken economy 13:02 Origins of the protocol 19:25 What is Mutual Credit? 24:09 Credit/Debit 27:31 Communities on the Ground 31:12 Theory to Practice, discoveries 35:40 Key Educating Factors 37:50 Future Potential 42:13 What do you Value? 43:40 CTA --------------------------------------------     Connect with Ashley and check out Resource Finance https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleybtaylor11 https://resource.finance --------------------------------------------     Join the conversation on Twitter, follow:          https://twitter.com/ReFiDAOist https://twitter.com/climateXcrypto https://twitter.com/simarsmangat https://twitter.com/johnx25bd Thanks to our friends at Feed Ignite for the podcast and micro-content production: https://feedignite.com

As COP27 unfolds in Sharm El-Sheikh. John and Simar are joined by Ryan Panchadsaram, Co-Author of Speed & Scale, advisor at Kleiner Perkins, and formerly Former U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer. Drawing on Ryan's experience and knowledge they unpack : - Ryan's backstory - Speed & Scale as a blueprint and plan to mobilize collective action towards tackling the climate crisis - Where and how technology can help service this mission - A resounding CTA for both individuals, companies, and governments to strive towards the Climate goals being discussed at COP27 - A whole lot more... See below... #cop27 #2030 #climateaction #unitednations Individuals Mentioned: John Doerr https://twitter.com/johndoerr Todd Park https://www.linkedin.com/in/todd-park-3232573/ Bill Gates https://twitter.com/billgates Al Gore https://algore.com/   Christiana Figueres https://unfccc.int/about-us/the-executive-secretary/former-executive-secretary-ms-christiana-figueres Companies/ Organizations/Gov Departments Mentioned: KleinerPerkins  https://www.kleinerperkins.com/ Speed & Scale https://speedandscale.com/tracker/ Department of Health and Human Services https://www.hhs.gov/ United States Digital Service https://www.usds.gov/ Rock Health https://rockhealth.com/ Unilever https://www.unilever.com/planet-and-society/climate-action/ Chevron https://www.chevron.com/ Shell https://www.shell.com/energy-and-innovation/the-energy-future/our-climate-target.html#iframe=L3dlYmFwcHMvY2xpbWF0ZV9hbWJpdGlvbi8 NASA, Methane leaks https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/methane-super-emitters-mapped-by-nasa-s-new-earth-space-mission FlowCarbon https://www.flowcarbon.com/ Climate Draft https://www.climatedraft.org/ Breakthrough Energy Ventures https://breakthroughenergy.org/ Lower carbon https://lowercarboncapital.com/ School of Sustainability Stanford https://sustainability.stanford.edu/   UN mentions: The Paris agreement https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/the-paris-agreement COP27 https://unfccc.int/cop27 COP26 https://ukcop26.org/ UN integrity Measures https://www.unglobalcompact.org/about/integrity-measures OKRs https://www.whatmatters.com/ Timestamps 00:00 Intro 03:10 Ryan's Story 07:00 What are you most curious of? 09:16 Why Speed & Scale Exists 13:37 Solutions & Accelerants 16:25 What are you seeing since the plan is out? 19:30 Code reds Methane, Coal, Beef, Nature.. 23:29 COP27 26:40 Coordination at a global level 29:30 Sustainability School of Stanford 32:44 Carbon Removal 35:36 View on Carbon Markets 41:00 Natural Market Trends 46:10 Growth/De-Growth 48:16 Re-designing Money & Deploying Capital 56:29 CTA --------------------------------------------     Connect with Ryan and check out Speed & Scale https://twitter.com/rypan https://speedandscale.com   --------------------------------------------     Join the conversation on Twitter, follow:          https://twitter.com/ReFiDAOist https://twitter.com/climateXcrypto https://twitter.com/simarsmangat https://twitter.com/johnx25bd      Thanks to our friends at Feed Ignite for the podcast and micro-content production: https://feedignite.com

John Ellison and Johnx25bd are joined by Courtney and Gordon for an insightful, exciting and deepening conversation about New Atlantis DAO. The two successful entrepreneurs have founded New Atlantis DAO with the goal of enabling the protection and regeneration of the Ocean. Through pioneering metagenomic data sampling the aim is to create a biodiversity market that will fund the regenerative projects that are sorely needed to secure the World's largest biome and carbon sink. It's an amazing project that is inspiring Scientists to get involved and giving hope to a sector that has been neglected and under funded thus far... Mentioned in the Show: SmartyPants https://www.smartypantsvitamins.com/ Unilever https://www.unilever.com/ Only One https://only.one/ UN https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/oceans/ https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/30x30-land-and-ocean-by-2030-explainer/ Kolektivo https://www.kolektivo.network/ 00:00 Intro 03:05 The Problem with the Oceans 04:52 How did you stumble on this? 10:45 Political Landscape/Classes of Protection 13:50 What is the New Atlantis Solution? 19:10 Investor demand 28:00 The call to Contribute 31:46 User Journey/Actors 34:40 Sampling process metagenome explainer 39:46 How do you regenerate the Ocean? 46:10 Scientists reaction to New Atlantis Arrival 49:47 Urgency and Incentive 52:46 Looking Ahead/Get Involved --------------------------------------------   Connect with Courtney & Gordon and get involved with New Atlantis https://discord.com/invite/newatlantis https://mobile.twitter.com/newatlantisdao https://newatlantis.io/   --------------------------------------------   Join the conversation on Twitter, follow:        https://twitter.com/ReFiDAOist https://twitter.com/climateXcrypto https://twitter.com/simarsmangat https://twitter.com/johnx25bd       Thanks to our friends at Feed Ignite for the podcast and micro-content production: https://feedignite.com

John and Simar are joined by Brianna for a hugely insightful and inspiring conversation about her work at Reneum, which will soon launch a green marketplace that will use the power of #web3 and #blockchain to fund #renewable energy. She shares the background story, future prospects and also the bigger picture of Renewable Energy Certificates and what's needed from all of us for the successful transition to green energy, and so much more... Mentioned in the show: Reneum https://reneum.com 92 Rio Summit https://www.un.org/en/conferences/environment/rio1992 Nori https://nori.com/ Hormesis Therapy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormesis Jasmine energy. https://www.jasmine.energy/ Helios https://helios.eco/ 00:00 Intro 03:36 Brianna's Journey 06:40 Transition from Business to ReFi Founder 09:48 Energy Transition and Climate Change 12:46 Claiming Renewable Energy Credit Process 16:50 Monitoring Tools 18:08 Future & Forward 21:05 Explained 23:53 Credit Lifecycle 28:15 Primary vs Secondary Market 31:00 Where's Reneum at and future roadmap 31:58 Incoming Beta Market place  41:05 Inner journey and staying well 44:10 Giving People their Agency Back 46:30 Projection to 2030 50:20 Fitting into the Big Picture 54:15 CTA for renewable Energy --------------------------------------------   Connect with Brianna and check out Reneum https://reneum.com https://www.linkedin.com/company/reneum/?originalSubdomain=sg https://www.linkedin.com/in/briannawelsh https://twitter.com/briannaleewelsh   --------------------------------------------   Join the conversation on Twitter, follow:      https://twitter.com/ReFiDAOist https://twitter.com/climateXcrypto https://twitter.com/simarsmangat      Thanks to our friends at Feed Ignite for the podcast and micro-content production: https://feedignite.com

John and Simar are joined by Dana & Phil from Flowcarbon and have a great chat about how their backgrounds led to the inception of Flowcarbon, the amazing work they've been doing to help project developers on the ground. The public consultation they've been leaning into and devoting so much time to with all the different voluntary carbon market participants. The background work that's gone into the new centrifuge pools for carbon forward projects, and what they expect to happen in the next six months for tokenizing assets and entering a new era of a liquid supply of carbon credits flowing both on and off-chain. #web3 #blockchain #refi #carbonmarket #investing Mentioned in the show https://www.flowcarbon.com/ Charles Eisenstein https://sacred-economics.com/ 00:00 Intro 02:32 Flowcarbon overview 05:30 Phil's background 07:47 Dana's background 11:53 Price discovery in carbon market 15:39 Two Way Bridge 22:08 Project Finance. Centrifuge 25:48 The Supply & Demand 29:16 The Projects on the Ground 30:40 Behind the Scenes 34:25 Whats Needed Before Mass Adoption 39:36 Future Forecast 44:05 CTA --------------------------------------------   Connect with Dana & Phil: Dana: https://twitter.com/danagibber https://www.linkedin.com/in/danasterngibber Phil: https://twitter.com/philfog https://www.linkedin.com/in/philfog/   --------------------------------------------   Join the conversation on Twitter, follow:    https://twitter.com/ReFiDAOist https://twitter.com/climateXcrypto https://twitter.com/simarsmangat    Thanks to our friends at Feed Ignite for the podcast and micro-content production: https://feedignite.com