Celo Public Goods

GainForest is a **global non-profit** [and **one of six finalists**](https://www.xprize.org/prizes/rainforest/finalist-teams#:~:text=XPRIZE%20Rainforest's%20independent%20judging%20panel,of%20the%20XPRIZE%20Rainforest%20competition) **of the XPRIZE RainForest competition**. with the mission to halt and **reverse global deforestation by 2030**. Learn more at [links.gainforest.earth](https://links.gainforest.earth/). The GainForest platform brings transparency to conservation and restoration…

Exion Pay was inspired by the need for seamless microtransactions and cross-border payments in Web3. Traditional finance imposes high fees and delays, making small transactions impractical. Even in crypto, converting stablecoins to fiat remains a barrier to real-world adoption.

GlidePay is a mobile-first decentralized financial application built on the Celo blockchain, designed to facilitate seamless access to stablecoin-powered financial services across Africa. The platform enables users to send and receive money, pay bills (such as electricity, water, and airtime), deposit or withdraw funds via local providers like MTN Mobile Money, Airtel Money, or banks, and securely manage their assets using stable digital currencies such as cUSD, USDT, and USDC. By combining…

The NFT Impact Minter is designed to introduce communities to blockchain technology by allowing them to tokenize their impact. This platform empowers individuals and projects to easly create and trade NFTs that represent their positive environmental, social, and economic activities. For the next phase, an impact marketplace will be established to serve as a financial inclusion tool, enabling users to sell their NFTs and access alternative funding. This initiative marks the beginning of a…

Emerging and developing countries, especially in remote locations, are most affected by environmental degradation and climate change. However, they often lack the resources to take meaningful action, making them entirely dependent on the decisions of other countries. It is estimated that an annual investment of $5 trillion is needed to combat climate change. Of this figure, emerging and developing countries (EMDEs) need $2 trillion annually, a fivefold increase from 2020 (IMF, 2023). Without…

GreenPill Brasil is a Brazilian coordination network working with public goods funding, local economies, agroforestry, biodiversity, community infrastructure and open digital tools. Since 2023, GPBR has supported organizers and local initiatives through funding rounds, workshops, onboarding, impact documentation, local circulation experiments and governance infrastructure. The network works with projects connected to agroforestry, biodiversity, waste management, beach cleanup, education,…

Introduction & Problem statement: Our project aims to establish a Regenerative Finance local node and hub in Tanzania, with a focus on sustainability and integration of disruptive technologies such as Web3 and Blockchain, all while empowering and onboarding more projects into ReFi. By combining innovative waste & sustainable management strategies with the transparency and security of blockchain technology, we intend to contribute to a more sustainable and regenerative future. Tanzania, like…

Grassroots Economics is a Kenyan non-profit foundation that seeks to empower marginalized communities by helping them coordinate their collective abundance. We do this by co-developing Community Asset Vouchers inspired by indigenous practices of mutual aid, built on the best of modern technology. Since 2009, we’ve expanded our network to 65,000+ households across Kenya, Cameroon and South Africa.

Fairly Odd Fellas is an experimental on-chain social game and ecosystem blending memecoins, gamified interaction, and real-time micro-economics. Every action — from sending a transaction to joining a round — becomes part of an evolving story driven by the community itself. It’s chaotic, funny, and fairly odd — built to reward the most active and daring players in the crypto underground.

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Closer is a protocol that brings digital infrastructure (including web3 primitives) to community driven land projects - and possible exits to the commons. It is an open source decentralized platform for co-owned regenerative villages, transforming them into socioeconomic hubs through both Web2 and Web3 tools. Villages use the platform to onboard guests, volunteers, and events, while adopting blockchain-based tools like Native Tokens, Proof of Presence, and Proof of Sweat for governance and…

**Rifai Sicilia** is a bioregional cultural association focused on regenerating the commons. We have woven a community of on the ground projects throughout Sicily while equipping them with web3 tools to create the outline for a regional economy backed by a healthy ecology. Our growth and achievements include: * Starting with a single syntropic agroforestry site, we have expanded to partner with more than twelve sites across the region, demonstrating our successful scaling model. * We have…