ReFi DAO 🪩

🌿 Join ReFi DAO at Edge City Patagonia — Regen Haus Residency 🌿 From October 18 – November 15, ReFi DAO is heading to San Martín de los Andes, a breathtaking mountain-and-lake town at the edge of the Andes in southern Argentina 🇦🇷 — and we’d love for you to join us. In collaboration with @JoinEdgeCity, @NetxState and @RegenCoordinate , we’re hosting the Regen Haus Residency — a month-long immersive experience combining: ✨ Coworking & Collaboration — deep work alongside high-agency peers from across the ReFi and frontier tech ecosystem. ✨ Conscious Living — daily practices, wellness, and space for inner work. ✨ Bioregional Connection — engaging with the unique culture, ecology, and communities of Patagonia. ✨ Collective Building — co-creating regenerative Web3 infrastructure for the common good. Edge City Patagonia brings together a global network of innovators for a month of residencies, workshops, and shared living in one of the most inspiring settings on Earth — all timed just before Devconnect Buenos Aires. This is an open invitation to anyone in the ReFi community — and to those who feel called to explore and get more involved in the movement — to collaborate on shaping it's future through living, learning, and building together in Patagonia. 📍 Dates: Oct 18 – Nov 15 (join for a week or more) 🔗 (see below for key links to learn more and register) Let’s gather here and now to shape what’s next for the regenerative movement in Web3. 🌱

@MontyMerlin @CeloPublicGoods 🌱

The most powerful coordination mechanism humanity has invented? Finance. The almighty “invisible hand of market forces” we are taught in neoliberal economics. But even across mainstream institutions, foundations, investors and policymakers… a quiet consensus is emerging: The old system is broken. I’m starting a new project exploring how we might bridge worlds — connecting the emerging ReFi / Web3 ecosystem with mainstream nature finance. More soon 🌱 @circbioalliance @UniofOxford @LeverhulmeTrust @KateRaworth @UNEP

Land sits upstream of almost every crisis we treat as separate. My new piece on stewardship, restoration, and what web3 can (& can't) do about it. 🌱 Huge thanks to @CC_ReFi_News, @agroforestDAO, @RifaiSicilia, @SilviProtocol, @GainForestNow. carboncopy.news/content/featur…

Building a startup, product, or business for the first time is hard. Doing it without structure, feedback, or real users is even harder. That’s why we launched the B<>rder/ess Builders OP — a 2-week builder sprint designed to help: 🕴🏽Early-stage founders 💼First-time builders 👩🏽‍🏫 Student Entrepreneurs 🏪 Real world Business Owners 👨🏽‍💻Emerging startups move from: 💭idea → to 🔨validation → to 📲users → to 💲revenue 🗓 January 26 – February 8 This isn’t a hackathon. It’s an Operator Program (OP) focused on real-world outcomes. Sponsored by: @PublicNouns @localismfund @BitsaveProtocol's BizMarket During the Builders OP, participants will: • Validate real business ideas • Talk to users and test assumptions • Learn practical marketing & growth fundamentals • Build and launch MVPs (Web2, Web3, or hybrid) • Work toward their first 100 users/customers and first revenue • Get reality checks, consultations, and founder support We’re doing this alongside ecosystem-aligned partners and communities including @PublicNouns, @Celo @localismfund, and local university tech clubs like @Borderlessunn, @borderless_kano, @BTCUniuyo, @Borderless_Ph, @UnicalTechClub with pathways to funding through @BitsaveProtocol's BizMarket, and post-program scaling. The goal is simple: "raise builders who can survive, adapt, and win in the real world". If you’re a builder, entrepreneur, or early-stage startup looking for momentum, this is for you🫵🏽 Sign Up here👇🏽 luma.com/f8u4u3f8

Season 1 Contributor Rewards are LIVE! ✨ We’ve distributed 135,000 $CELO to 1,194 dedicated contributors via Prosperity Pass. Funded by the CeloPG S1 proposal and programs earnings, these rewards recognize the impact of those building the @Celo ecosystem. Rewards were determined by PP level, S1 badge points, and self-verification. Reward Tiers number of points (number of individuals): CELO • 800 pts (4): 1,000 • 600-799 (12): 500 • 500-599 (52): 400 • 400-499 (55): 300 • 300-399 (236): 200 • 100-199 (146): 100 • 1-99 (499): 25 A massive thank you to everyone who contributed to Celo’s growth this year. Share a screenshot of your rewards and tag us so we can celebrate with you! 📸

Stepped away from ReFi DAO in 2024. Came back to find the network didn't just survive the bear market—it evolved into something I barely recognized. And then I discovered something that changes everything for regenerative builders. 🧵🪡

1/ We're excited to share the final results of the Local Meetups LATAM Round - in collaboration with @localismfund & @gitcoin, supporting grassroots Ethereum meetups as part of GG24. Huge shoutout to all the communities that applied! 👏 Reflections and more info 🧵👇

@Cloudunetwork 🔜 refidao.github.io/refi-orbifier/

Where are the refi orbs? @ReFiDAOist

bullish ethereum localism. takeaways from @gitcoin GG24 ethereum localism fund so far: • $275k mobilized, with gitcoin’s $116k catalyzing ~2.36x in local + ecosystem co-funding •round 01: 12 locally led programs funded across catalunya, cascadia, tanzania, ukraine, colombia, brazil, curaçao, fraser lowland (canada), and east + west africa. $100k+ raised locally, increasing durability and legitimacy (groups showing up with real skin-in-the-game) • round 02 (local meetups LATAM) was co-funded by ethereum foundation and saw 37 complete grassroots meetup applications • latam showed strong pull: 37 grassroots meetup applications post-devconnect • ethereum works well as real infrastructure in many of these locales: payments, grants, governance, coordination • lesson: place-based funding is high-touch, high-leverage, and essential for real-world adoption some anecdotes: • in tanzania, the refi solar saving circles were not pitched as “web3 adoption” at all. they were pitched as cheaper energy, shared ownership, and local resilience. ethereum just quietly handled the coordination and flows in the background • gen ukraine was running a local grant program while the country is at war. the fact that they still prioritized transparent allocation, public reporting, and local co-funding says a lot about how strong the coordination muscle already is • several catalunya and cascadian groups raised local money before they ever knew if they would get matched. that flipped the usual grants dynamic from “please fund us” to “we already did the work, now meet us halfway” • in curaçao, the “onchain island” framing made ethereum legible to non-crypto locals by tying it to everyday governance and economic coordination, not tokens or speculation • in latam, 37 meetup applications came in for a round that maxes out at a few hundred dollars per month. many organizers explicitly said they cared more about continuity and legitimacy than the check size • evaluators noticed a sharp difference between proposals that used ai to sound polished and those grounded in lived local practice. the latter were often messier, but much more real read the whole GG24 progress report by @MontyMerlin : gov.gitcoin.co/t/localism-fun…

Remember the #ReFi orb? Well, it's back. You can get your own here 👇 johnellison.github.io/refi-orbifier/ Just go to remove.bg, sign up, get your API key and upload an image. Was inspired by the @ReFiDAOist community call Friday so built this as a gift to all my regens!

Looking forward to 2026 interoperable onchain enterprises will drive web3 growth and adoption turning oil and other bioregional cash crops into liquid investment opportunities with regen revenues. Shout out to new mechanisms like @revnets cc @MontyMerlin x.com/regenavocado/s…

The next trophic layer up is @refi_italia where we are taking the lessons learned from @RifaiSicilia and are creating a replicable and adaptable playbook for other local regen communities to adopt in Italy starting with Roma, thanks to the @localismfund x.com/RifaiSicilia/s…

@WairaT 🫶🫶🫶

@ReFiDAOist forever💚 Regeneration, sustainability, and the environment come first in my life. Growing up in the Amazon shapes how I see the world and I truly believe a more nature connected future is possible🌿 Grateful to connect with like minded people✨🫶🏻

Here is a three thread answer to why and how @owocki is wrong: Thread 1: Ride or Ride Regen x.com/gregory_landua… Thread 2: Regen Is Dead, Long Live Regen x.com/gregory_landua… Thread 3: In Regen We Trust x.com/gregory_landua…

@marek_ @owocki @Celo @minipay Yes yes yes - and a bunch of exciting other innovations, including @SilviProtocol, Regen Claims by @regen_network, Trust Graphs, @hypercerts, and more reaching maturity 2026 will be a breakout year

.@owocki is wrong, Regen web3 is thriving on @Celo, especially when it comes to advancing financial inclusion Opera @MiniPay now has 10M users and recently added more cashout options including payment options in Brazil and Argentina where you can now pay with PIX and Mercado Pago directly from your self custodial wallet We want to add more fuel to this fire and think that sybil resistance is the next big unlock. That's why we've been investing heavily into @SelfProtocol. Self right now is a standalone app, but by next year, we'll have our mobile wallet SDK ready This will allow wallets to provide onboarding incentives to users without risk of being sybiled, but also dapps in those wallets to do the same, all while preserving user privacy This will be huge for getting more normies into web3 🎉

@owocki Owocki is wrong. Regen Web3 is thriving... check out Bloom Network 🧵 Links: 🌐 bloomnetwork.earth 📊 bloomnetwork.earth/impacts/insigh… 👁️ bloomnetwork.earth/vision 🔗 karmahq.xyz/project/bloom-…

Looking for ReFi / Regen present ideas 🎁🌱 Currently on my radar: ☕ Coffee from @EthicHub? 🫒 Olive oil from @ReFi_Italia? 🥥 Coconuts from @KokonutNetwork? 🌰 Regen nuts from …? What else should be on this list? What I’d really love is for my family home to have a set of core, recurring household supplies that — instead of coming from the supermarket — are sourced directly from ReFi enabled regenerative producers. Shipping obviously matters, but for things like coffee & olive oil (which can’t be produced in the UK anyway), bulk shipping direct from regenerative sources feels like an amazing way to support real impact and get top-quality produce. Would love any ideas or offers! 👇