Crypto Altruism Podcast

For episode 259 of the Crypto Altruists podcast, we're excited to welcome Inès d'Haultfoeuille, Chief Operating Officer of Egregor, a non-profit dedicated to catalysing social and environmental transformations, playing roles that range from accelerator to venture philanthropist and strategic advisor. Their team is truly global, and their work reaches across climate, education, social justice, civic engagement, and more.If you work in the nonprofit or impact space, the last few years have been brutal. Funding is being cut. Donor priorities are shifting, sometimes overnight. Geopolitical instability is reshaping where resources flow and who gets left out. And through all of it, the needs on the ground aren't shrinking. They're growing.We've talked about this on the show before, with organizations working in Ukraine, in Afghanistan, in Tanzania, in Somaliland. The pattern keeps repeating. The people doing the most essential work are often the ones with the least support, the least stability, and the least room to breathe.Egregor was born out of a conviction that social and environmental innovators deserve better than isolation, precarious funding, and systems designed without them. And what I find compelling about their model is where they choose to focus. Rather than just writing cheques, they work to remove the structural, financial, and logistical barriers that stand between an innovator and their vision. Because so often, the bottleneck isn't the idea but everything surrounding it.In today's discussion you'll learn:

For episode 258 of the Crypto Altruists podcast, we're excited to welcome Shannon Lanigan, Heenal Rajani, and Marvin Paul of All In For Sport, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) on a mission to create a “coordi-nation” to support projects that advance inclusion and empowerment through sport.This episode is part two of an ongoing conversation, so let me set the stage. In episode 245, we sat down with the team at SuperBenefit to explore their Reimagining Power series. That conversation was about the theory and the possibilities: how Web3 could be a tool for systems change, how we might redistribute power rather than concentrate it, and how we can confront the uncomfortable history of development work and philanthropy instead of repeating its mistakes in Web3.It was a rich, thought-provoking discussion. But it lived mostly in the realm of ideas. Today, we get to see those ideas put into practice with a case study, a real-world test of what we discussed in that first conversation. We highlight All In For Sport's collaboration with Sarreya, an organization that has spent over a decade creating space for women and girls to play sport in Somaliland.The project, The Six-Month Wire Transfer (And What We're Doing About It), is named after a very real experience: a routine grant payment that took six months to reach Sarreya, blocked, rerouted, and questioned every step of the way. And it grew into something much bigger than a payments experiment. It became a test of whether Web3 tools could not only move money to a community the traditional financial system overlooks, but also shift power, introducing governance structures and transparent treasury management that keep decision-making in the hands of the community itself.In today's discussion you'll learn:⚽ How All In For Sport and Sarreya are leveraging crypto to support women and girls playing sport in Somaliland

For episode 257 of the Crypto Altruists podcast, we welcome Erik Balsbaugh and Carole House of Open Frontier, a non-profit advocacy organization and a leading voice on how digital currencies, Artificial Intelligence, and emerging technologies can empower underserved communities and advance the values so many of us care about: inclusion, accountability, and financial freedom.A few episodes back, I released a solo episode on AI, the hype cycle, and the principle of "do no harm." And the response really moved me. It clearly struck a chord, because so many of you are feeling the same tension I am. We're living through a moment of extraordinary technological change, and it's not entirely clear who it's being built for.You can feel it in the pushback happening all around us. Communities are organizing against data centers. There's a growing unease about how much power is concentrating in the hands of a few enormous tech companies and the ultra-wealthy. And there's a real fear, one I think is worth taking seriously, that these powerful new technologies, AI and digital finance among them, could end up deepening the very inequities they promised to solve.Here's the thing. Technology is not destiny. It's not something that just happens to us. It's built by people, shaped by choices, and governed by rules that we get to have a say in. The question isn't whether AI and digital finance will reshape our world. They will. The question is who's at the table when those systems are designed, who benefits from them, and whether they're built with people and the planet in mind, or just as another tool for wealth creation.In today's discussion you'll learn:⚖️ Why technology is not destiny, and how the future of AI and digital finance depends on who shapes it, who benefits, and what rules govern it

For episode 256 of the Crypto Altruists podcast, we're excited to welcome Martin Simms and Aaron Rafferty, co-founders of WYDE, a social impact exchange built on Base, the Ethereum Layer 2, where transaction-based fees are directed into verified charitable grants for hunger relief.They call themselves an "Impact Exchange," and the model is built on a concept called "contributory consumption," where everyday financial activity like crypto trades or even debit card purchases generate charitable impact by design, rather than relying on one-off acts of generosity. At the core of it is the $EAT token. When someone buys, sells, or transfers it, a portion of every transaction flows toward funding meals. And it's all recorded on the blockchain for public verification, so you can actually see the impact happening in real time.WYDE recently announced an exclusive national partnership with Feed the Children, an organization that reached nearly 15 million people last year, and they have big hopes of growing that number. They've already helped fund tens of thousands of meals. They've run their first "Trade-to-Feed-athon," a trading competition that generates funding for meals. And this month, they announced the $EAT debit card, extending the model from crypto into everyday spending.In today's discussion you'll learn:

Today we're excited to kick off a brand new series: Building for Good with G$, where we will explore the people, projects, and communities powering the GoodDollar Ecosystem. We're thankful to our friends at GoodDollar for partnering on this series, and in the coming episodes, we're going to take you deep inside one of the most interesting ecosystems in the Web3 for good space, exploring everything from universal basic income to public goods funding, and the builders and communities creating real value on the ground.So let me start with a quick introduction for anyone who's new to GoodDollar. It is a protocol delivering digital universal basic income to people all over the world. Since launching, it's distributed its G$ token to about 1M people across the globe, many of them in underserved and emerging markets, simply for being part of the network. The vision has always been about using crypto to redistribute opportunity and give people access to the financial system.GoodDollar is also in the middle of an evolution. What started purely as a UBI project is growing into something bigger: a full ecosystem where G$ doesn't just get distributed, it circulates. It flows through builders, communities, and public goods, creating value and opportunity along the way. It's a shift from simply giving people a token, to building an entire economy around it.At the heart of that shift is a program called GoodBuilders, which funds the builders expanding the GoodDollar ecosystem. What's particularly interesting is how GoodBuilders is funded. Rather than the traditional grant model, where you apply, wait, and hope for a one-time check, GoodBuilders uses streaming funding through a platform called FlowState, where money flows to builders continuously over time.For Episode 1 in this new series, I'm super excited to be joined by Meri Fernández Sancho and Rael Kilonzo of  GoodDollar, and Graven Prest of FlowState to introduce the partnership, walk through the outcomes of GoodBuilders Season 3, highlight some of the most exciting projects in the ecosystem, and explore why this streaming funding model can be a blueprint that other ecosystems and communities adopt for themselves.In today's discussion you'll discover

For episode 255 of the Crypto Altruists podcast, we're doing something a little different. No guest, no interview, just a conversation about something that's been on my mind: the parallels between crypto's hype cycle and the moment AI is in right now.A few years ago, we were told crypto would change everything. It would bank the unbanked, topple corrupt institutions, create generational wealth, and solve humanity's hardest problems. Some of that came true. A lot of it didn't. And along the way, the noise, the scams, and the booms and busts drove people away and bred a lasting resentment toward the entire space.But here's the hopeful part: once the hype faded and the dust settled, the real use cases quietly emerged. Stablecoins delivering aid and remittances. Transparent, on-chain philanthropy. Tokenization funding community-owned infrastructure. The "boring," behind-the-scenes applications turned out to be the ones creating impact at scale.Today, I want to make the case that the Artificial Intelligence (AI) space is running almost the exact same playbook. The same totalizing promises, the same accelerationist fervor, and the same growing public backlash. This isn't an anti-AI episode, and it's not anti-crypto either. It's a pragmatic, human-centered take on managing hype, recognizing and mitigating real harms, and protecting the genuinely good stuff so it has a chance to grow. Because if there's one thing crypto taught us, it's that a technology can't thrive at scale without human buy-in.We'll also touch on what responsible development could look like, from the "do no harm" principle borrowed from the development world to the recent call from leaders within the AI industry itself, like Anthropic, for a collective pause mechanism.In today's discussion, you'll learn:

For episode 254 of the Crypto Altruists podcast, we're excited to welcome Alison, Director at Buddies for Paws, a charitable initiative within the BONK ecosystem that's leveraging blockchain technology to support animal welfare and wildlife conservation worldwide. Every donation made through Buddies for Paws is matched 100% by BONK, and to date, the community has raised almost $600,000 for animal welfare.What makes Buddies for Paws special isn't just the model. It's the storytelling. Through their "guardian animals" program, donors can follow specific animals like Bani the elephant, who was struck by a train and abandoned by her herd before being rescued by Wildlife SOS, or Big Papa the orangutan, now living peacefully on a protected forest island in Borneo. It goes beyond statistics, and spotlights the powerful stories of individuals with names, and the community gets to be part of their journeys.So today we're going to talk about how Buddies for Paws came to be, what the partnership with BONK has unlocked, the power of memecoin communities rallying around causes, and what the future of crypto philanthropy might look like.In today's discussion you'll learn:

For episode 253 of the Crypto Altruists podcast, we're excited to welcome Maksym Zalevskyi , Founder of GEN Ukraine, the Ukrainian branch of the Global Ecovillage Network. GEN Ukraine is a grassroots network of over 60 ecovillages, family farms, and intentional communities across the country. Since Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022, these communities have become sanctuaries for displaced families, solidarity centers, and hubs for ecological regeneration.What makes this story particularly interesting for our audience is how Web3 fits in. GEN Ukraine has built partnerships with projects like Arkreen for solar energy tracking, Silvi and Regen Network for tree planting and land regeneration, and the Sarafu Network for commitment pooling. They've developed an Eco Impact Dashboard that tracks all of this work transparently, so you can see the impact in real time.It's a powerful example of what community-led, blockchain-enabled resilience can look like, on the ground, in some of the most challenging environments.In today's discussion you'll learn:

For episode 252 of the Crypto Altruists podcast, we're excited to welcome Paul Glavin, a contributor to 1Hive and Gardens, a bottom-up governance framework for Web3 ecosystems. Gardens provides coordination infrastructure and funding mechanisms designed to help communities fund public goods in a way that's healthy and sustainable.In today's discussion you'll learn:

For episode 251 of the Crypto Altruists podcast, we're excited to welcome David Machuche and Victor Muhagachi of NEDA Labs, and special Co-Host Jon Ruth of The Solar Foundation, for the final episode of our series exploring the Solar Savings Circles pilot in Tanzania. Today we go under the hood and explore the technology layer behind this partnership.In today's episode you'll discover:

For episode 250 of the Crypto Altruists podcast, Drew Simon, Founder of Crypto Altruists, takes listeners on a guided tour of The Quiet Revolution - five specific frontlines where crypto is functioning as humanitarian infrastructure, creating real impact, for real people, all over the world.Each one tells a different story. But together, they paint a picture of something much bigger: that crypto's most important chapter isn't about speculation or market cycles. It's about building systems that work for the people traditional systems have failed.In today's discussion you'll learn:

 For episode 249 of the Crypto Altruists podcast, we're excited to welcome Alinagwe Mwaselela, Director of JUKUMU TZ, and Coleen Chase, Co-Founder of The Solar Foundation. This is a continuation of our recent conversation exploring the work of The Solar Foundation and their partners in Tanzania. In part one, we looked at the partnership from a higher level, and today, we're going to the ground level, hearing directly from the team that works with close to 300 savings groups across Tanzania.In today's discussion you'll learn:

For episode 248 of the Crypto Altruists podcast, we're excited to welcome Solène Daviaud, founder of Dev3pack, an organization on a mission to support new builders in Web3 and AI through tools, mentorship, and hands-on learning opportunities.This May, Dev3pack is hosting their Global Hackathon, bringing together builders from around the world to experiment at the intersection of Web3 and AI.In today's discussion you'll learn:

For episode 247 of Crypto Altruists, we share a special documentary-style episode featuring Tetiana of Alliance for Public Health and Ivan, a Ukrainian veteran who tragically lost his sight in the war in 2022. We explore the Touchpoint rehabilitation program, Ivan's powerful story of resilience, rehabilitation, and hope., and how Web3 can build new pathways for sustained support.In today's episode you'll discover:

For episode 246, we welcome back Jon Ruth and Coleen Chase, Co-Founders of The Solar Foundation, a nonprofit accelerating access to off-grid solar & productive appliances for underserved communities in Africa. They're behind the Solar Savings Circles project, which seeds communities with solar assets and leverages them as the foundation for savings groups that can grow, invest, and build local resilience.This episode will be the first in a series of conversations exploring the work of The Solar Foundation and their partners in Tanzania. In today's episode you'll discover:☀️ How decentralized solar assets and community savings circles combine to create a powerful model for grassroots economic empowerment

For episode 245 of the Crypto Altruists podcast, we're excited to welcome Heenal, Marv, and rathermercurial of SuperBenefit, a decentralized collective on a mission to develop the social and financial flywheels that enable the invention and acceleration of a better world. We discuss their Reimagining Power series, a body of research exploring how Web3 can transform power dynamics in philanthropy, governance, and social impact.You'll discover:

For episode 244 of the Crypto Altruists podcast, we're excited to welcome back Jaydeep Korde, CEO of Launchnodes and Founder of Lido Impact Staking.When we last spoke, Lido Impact Staking was a bold new idea: what if you could donate a portion of your staking rewards to fund verified social impact projects, all while keeping your principal intact? It was a powerful counter-narrative to traditional philanthropy, which can often be viewed as a zero-sum game.In today's discussion you'll learn:

‍For episode 243, we welcome Stefan Deiss, Co-Founder and CEO of The Hashgraph Group, a Web3 technology company building enterprise-grade solutions in the Hedera ecosystem. We explore the intersection of climate action, supply chain integrity, and distributed ledger technology, and their collaboration with CONFED, the Confederation of Coconut Farmers Organizations of the Philippines, to establish the country's first Digital Carbon Office.You'll learn:

For episode 242, we take a break from the regular format for a special live episode highlighting our recent community space: "Impact Onchain: Bridging the Gap for Nonprofits and Changemakers," where we welcomed our partners The GSR Foundation and Social Equation Hub for a fascinating conversation on how we can successfully onboard nonprofits to Web3, and where we also shared an update about our Toolkit. We also welcomed our friends from Alliance for Public Health to share a little about their work and their current campaign. They're doing critical work in Ukraine, and we're proud to be supporting their campaign through Endaoment.You'll learn:

For episode 241, we welcome Will Ruddick, Founder of Grassroots Economics and architect behind Sarafu Network and the Cosmo-Local Credit DAO. We are also joined by a special Co-Host, Coleen Chase, who brings great perspective from her work with community saving circles with The Solar Foundation.You'll learn:

For episode 240, we welcome Matthew Keller, Impact Lead at the Algorand Foundation, and Nigel Pont, Senior Advisor for Humanitarian Affairs at both HesabPay and the Algorand Foundation, for a fascinating conversation on the role of blockchain in building more resilient and impactful humanitarian infrastructure.You'll learn:

239, we're excited to welcome Rael Kilonzo, Developer Community Lead, and Hadar Rottenberg, Tech Lead at GoodDollar, a protocol designed to deliver digital universal basic income at scale, leveraging blockchain to financially empower people around the world, regardless of where they live or what access they have to traditional financial systems.You'll learn:

For episode 236, we're excited to welcome Bill Laboon, VP of Ecosystem at Web3 Foundation, a nonprofit organization supporting the growth of the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems.You'll learn:

For Episode 237 of the Crypto Altruists podcast, we're going to something a bit different. In this special solo episode, host Drew Simon reflects on the current state of crypto; its capture by bad actors, its association with extreme political movements, and its potential as infrastructure for democracy rather than authoritarianism. He issues a call to action for builders to commit to transparency, community ownership, and resilience, highlighting projects that are leading the way.We explore:

For episode 236, we're excited to welcome Jamie Green, COO of Superset, a crypto start-up on a mission to improve stablecoin efficiency & reliability. Before building in Web3, he worked across startups, venture, and the United Nations; including on programs supporting Syrian refugees with blockchain.In this episode, we dive into why fragmented stablecoin liquidity across chains is one of the biggest bottlenecks to real-world adoption; how Superset is building infrastructure to make stablecoin FX cheaper and more dependable; and what builders can learn from operating at the intersection of finance, humanitarian systems, and Web3.You'll learn:

For episode 235, we're excited to welcome Mahesh Murthy, Founder of Karma, a platform helping ecosystems fund projects in the open, and helping builders turn real work into reputation that sticks. We explore what's broken in crypto funding, why reputation portability is essential for builders, how their Grantee Accountability Protocol (GAP) and onchain attestations shift trust dynamics, and what it looks like when funding becomes more than capital, and starts becoming real coordination infrastructure for long-term growth.You'll learn:

For episode 234, we're excited to welcome Yaniv Tal, a legendary builder who has helped shape the foundations of Web3 as we know it. Yaniv is the co-founder and former CEO of The Graph, one of the most critical pieces of decentralized infrastructure in the ecosystem, powering tens of thousands of applications across Web3. Today, he's building Geo, a project focused not on scaling transactions, but on rebuilding trust, knowledge, and coordination on the internet itself.In today's episode you'll learn:

For episode 233, for our third annual Year in Review episode, I'm excited to welcome Sam Flanagan and Abeera Akhtar from Web3ForGood. We reflect on the biggest wins, moments, and lessons from 2025, and what's ahead in 2026, a year that could be defining for how technologies like AI, blockchain, and zero-knowledge tools shape society for the better.We discuss:

For episode 232, I'm excited to welcome Joshua Dávila, a longtime organizer, writer, and builder at the intersection of progressive politics and crypto. Josh is the host of The Blockchain Socialist podcast, the author of Blockchain Radicals, and a core contributor to Bread Cooperative, a worker-owned collective building real financial tools rooted in solidarity, not hype.In today's episode you'll learn:

For episode 231, we welcome Eric van Miltenburg, Senior Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Ripple.We explore Ripple Impact's mission, unpack their most ambitious initiatives including a $25 million RLUSD commitment projected to generate $1B+ in long-term impact, and look at how blockchain is reshaping philanthropy from one-off donations into sustainable, scalable systems of change.In today's episode you'll learn:

For Episode 230, we welcome Djimo Serodio, Founder of Silvi, and Jon Ruth, Co-Founder of the Climate Coordination Network, two leaders helping reimagine how the world funds and verifies ecological restoration.We unpack the newly launched Bioregional Reforestation Grants Round, the largest blockchain-native, outcomes-based reforestation funding mechanism to date, and explore why this may be a blueprint for the next era of regenerative climate finance.You'll learn:

For Episode 229, I'm thrilled to welcome Mark Pascall, Co-Founder of The Wellbeing Protocol and the newly launched hum.community a participatory funding platform that transforms how local communities allocate funds.In today's episode, we explore this question and the origins of The Wellbeing Protocol, the lessons learned from 15 pilot projects across New Zealand, Australia, and the UK, and why hum.community is such a meaningful milestone for the future of community-led impact.You'll learn:

For episode 228, we have something special in store. In Web3, we spend a lot of time talking about potential: what blockchain could unlock for climate, aid, finance, or human rights. And those conversations matter because they help shape the future.But today, I want to cut through the noise and focus on what's happening right now.All around the world, builders, nonprofits, and communities are already using crypto rails to move money faster, more transparently, and more equitably than ever before. Real people are feeling the impact. Lives are changing. And these stories often go unheard.So in this special episode, I'm sharing eight powerful clips from past conversations; moments that highlight the human stories behind the tech, and the tangible impact being made today.You'll learn:

For episode 227, we're excited to welcome Joe Agoada, CEO of Sostento. Joe has spent his career fighting to ensure that no one falls through the cracks of the healthcare system, and under his leadership, Sostento has helped more than 350,000 people access care and supported over 4,000 frontline health workers across the country.We explore today's nonprofit challenges, how Web3 can help close care gaps, the future of blockchain in healthcare, and the vision behind Sostento's new Crypto Advisory Board that brings together a cross-disciplinary group of builders to explore how blockchain can remove barriers to care and help more people access the healthcare they deserve.In today's episode you'll learn:

For episode 226, I'm exited to welcome 0xJoshua and Penguin, Co-Founders of Azos, a third-generation DeFi protocol using blockchain technology to turn climate-positive assets into real financial infrastructure. Their stablecoin, AZUSD, is designed to hold a stable value while automatically directing capital toward environmental good.In our conversation, we explore how Azos is making values-aligned money possible, what it means to merge DeFi innovation with climate action, and how they're building an ecosystem where both regens and degens can participate in building a greener future.You'll learn:

For episode 225 of the Crypto Altruists podcast, we're excited to welcome Lindsay Poss, former Hoops Sagrado player and current Campaign Architect behind their groundbreaking new initiative powered by the Stellar network.Through this campaign, Hoops Sagrado is paying basketball camp employees, vendors, and local partners in Guatemala using the Stellar Disbursement Platform and Beans App, enabling fast, transparent, and secure digital payments where traditional banking access is limited.In today's conversation, we'll explore how basketball is breaking barriers for blockchain, how Stellar's ecosystem is helping bridge financial divides, and the importance of local community engagement in driving meaningful change in Web3.You'll learn:

For episode 224 of the Crypto Altruists podcast, we're excited to welcome Eric Alsop, Chief Technology Officer at Pesabase, a fintech platform using blockchain rails to simplify remittances, empower communities, and make financial access a reality across Africa.In today's conversation, we unpack what's new with Pesabase's latest platform evolution, how stablecoins and smart contracts can create better financial rails for underserved communities, and why Africa may hold the blueprint for the world's decentralized financial future.You'll learn:

For Episode 223, we continue our celebration of Octant Epoch 9 with part 2 of our Storytelling on Ethereum series where we explore how creators, educators, and storytellers are helping to define Ethereum's narrative and build the foundation for a new, decentralized creator economy.In part 2, we dive into how creators are using Ethereum to reimagine ownership, funding, and creative freedom in the digital age. Joining me for this episode are three incredible creators who are each contributing to Ethereum's story in their own unique way:

For episode 222 of the Crypto Altruists podcast, we kick off part 1 of a short series celebrating Octant Epoch 9. It's called Storytelling on Ethereum; featuring conversations exploring how we communicate Ethereum's human story to the world, and how Ethereum's tech stack and community ethos empowers creators to elevate their storytelling.Since this is a special episode, we're changing things up and joining me are two amazing co-hosts who are also part of this round:

For episode 221 of the Crypto Altruists podcast, we're excited to welcome I. Christwin, Co-Founder of M3tering Protocol and Switch Electric. His journey into Web3 began with a simple question: how do we make clean power reliable, affordable, and investable where it's needed most? That question led to M3tering, a protocol that coordinates rooftop solar using smart contracts, stablecoin prepayment, and token incentives; and to Switch Electric, the specialized hardware layer that makes it all work on the ground.Traditional energy systems often fail at the last mile where the need is greatestm keeping millions without access to affordable power. M3tering changes that by using smart contracts and stablecoins to make clean energy reliable, transparent, and fair.You'll learn:⚡ How tokenized energy assets and stablecoins can unlock affordable solar energy where the grid falls short.

For episode 220 of the Crypto Altruists podcast, we're excited to welcome Bayley Wang, Co-founder & CEO of PrismaX, a robotics intelligence platform building an open coordination layer between humans and machines. PrismaX's thesis is simple and bold: the bottleneck in robotics isn't just hardware anymore, it's coordination. If robots, humans, and AI are going to collaborate safely and at scale, we need transparent rules, shared standards, and incentives that reward the communities creating the value.You'll learn:

Welcome to Episode 3 of Growing Good on Solana, our three-part mini-series where we dive into the Solana impact ecosystem and highlight visionary builders using Web3 to reimagine what's possible for people and the planet. This series is made possible thanks to support from Superteam Canada and their sponsors. Superteam is helping onboard a new wave of builders into the Solana ecosystem, and we're thrilled to be part of that mission and showcase impact-driven founders using Solana to build for good.For the final episode in the series, we're joined by Ashen of Telaga Charity, a crypto-powered nonprofit on a mission to meet the basic needs of those living in poverty in Indonesia.We discuss:

For episode 219 of the Crypto Altruists podcast, we're excited to welcome Matthias (Matze) Seidl of growthepie and Leon Waidmann of the Onchain Foundation to explore how Ethereum has grown into a force for global impact and discuss their landmark report: 10 Years of Ethereum - Building the World Ledger.In today's episode you'll learn:

For episode 218 of the Crypto Altruists Podcast, we tackle a big question: What happens when you combine the intelligence of AI with the transparency and coordination power of blockchain?AI is eating the world, from your search results to your smart fridge. And while it brings innovation, it also fuels surveillance, misinformation, inequality, and tech monopolies. Ignoring it isn't an option, and AI is here to stay.That's why blockchain matters. By pairing AI with decentralization, transparency, and incentive alignment, we can build systems that are open, ethical, and designed for impact. Together, these technologies could become one of the most powerful combinations humanity has ever created for justice, equity, and social good.In today's episode you'll learn:

For episode 217 of the Crypto Altruists podcast, we're joined by Ciarán Murray, Founder of Olas, an ownerless, open-source protocol for publishing and reviewing ideas, where accuracy is priced in and reputation is earned, not inherited.We explore how Olas is leveraging blockchain and crypto incentives to challenge centralized media and help rebuild trust in journalism.You'll learn:

‍For episode 216, we're excited to welcome Tony Pham, Chief Marketing Officer at Kava, to explore how decentralized AI and blockchain can work hand-in-hand to create a more transparent, secure, and efficient Web3 ecosystem.If you've ever wondered how blockchain can help ensure that AI remains open, ethical, and aligned with human values, this episode is for you.You'll learn:

Welcome to the second episode of Growing Good on Solana, a three-part mini-series diving head first into the Solana impact ecosystem and highlighting the builders reimagining what's possible with Web3.This series is made possible thanks to support from Superteam Canada and their sponsors. Superteam is helping onboard a new wave of builders into the Solana ecosystem, and we're thrilled to be part of that mission and showcase impact-driven founders using Solana to build for good.Today we're joined by James Bettauer, the Founder and CEO of ecoBridge, a pioneering platform on a mission to make ecological credits and measurable environmental impact universally accessible.We discuss:

For episode 215, we welcome Leon Waidmann, Head of Research at the Onchain Foundation, a nonprofit collective helping Web3 founders navigate the most important trends and opportunities in blockchain for global good.Today's episode is a masterclass on tokenization, and the future of real-world assets onchain. We explore how tokenized infrastructure is transforming access to capital in the Global South, why usability is the next frontier, and how new markets are emerging beyond finance.You'll learn:

Welcome to the first episode of Growing Good on Solana, a three-part mini-series diving head first into the Solana impact ecosystem and highlighting the builders reimagining what's possible with Web3.This series is made possible thanks to support from Superteam Canada and their sponsors. Superteam is helping onboard a new wave of builders into the Solana ecosystem, and we're thrilled to be part of that mission and showcase impact-driven founders using Solana to build for good. To kick things off, we're thrilled to welcome Casson Trenor, a TIME Magazine “Hero of the Environment” and Co-Founder of Somos Axolotl, a groundbreaking initiative combining blockchain, art, and local partnerships to protect the endangered Axolotl.We discuss:

For episode 214, we welcome back Batsirai Muguti and Wayne Daniels, of PIPE gDAO, a decentralized movement on a mission to fix the broken bridge between university research and real-world impact.Through their DeSci launchpad, tokenized governance, and open review model, they're creating an ecosystem where breakthrough innovations, especially those with social or environmental potential, can access support, funding, and partnerships needed to scale.We discuss:

Welcome back to AutoPGF - Funding Impact with Glo Dollar, our special podcast series exploring how Glo Dollar is funding public goods automatically, just by holding a stablecoin. It's decentralized, donationless philanthropy, and it's already changing how we think about impact at scale.For episode 5 of the series, we welcome Kimberley Chang, DApp Relations Lead at VeChain, a sustainability and impact-focused blockchain ecosystem, and one of the longest-standing in the space. In this episode, we focus in on VeBetterDAO, VeChain's ambitious initiative to grow a grassroots community of changemakers by turning everyday positive actions into tangible rewards.We discuss: