ReFi Mexico City node 🌱🌎vibrant community scaling a regenerative web3

$142.64 crowdfunded from 11 people

$145.00 received from matching pools

80%
average score over 2 application evaluations
Launching a ReFi node in Mexico City to promote regenerative finance, foster community growth, and drive environmental initiatives by collaborating with local leaders and integrating web3 technologies.

HOLA👋🏼BIENVENIDO! 🪅

👇🏼This application is to run the refi node in Mexico City🍃 > please refer to Metacrisis application to support ReFi Mexico City node.

Our application is focused on specific efforts to run the ReFi node in Mexico City in the most effective way.

This application to become a ReFi DAO node in Mexico City about Regenerative Finance, Decentralized Finance and Decentralized Social Media. As well foster a Regenerative Community in one of the biggest cities in the World.

Our node Manifesto:

-To be inclusive

-Stay on alert mode toward climate emergency

-To materialize growth of the community

-To regenerate at all levels

-The Planet comes first

ReFi Mexico City

https://www.refidao.com/community/local-?recordId=recPKGiAo38ks4BH5

ReFi Mexico City is a local node of the global ReFi DAO, focused on tangible regenerative actions, with real use cases and fostering the growth of the web3 ecosystem in Mexico City. Led by Oscar, the co-founder of ReFi Starter, Miché, an environmental scientist, founder of Senergy Tech, and Gerardo Alvarez, psychologist and social entrepreneur, the founder of MotusDAO, and who has been gathering a Solar Punk community.

Together we aim to organize regenerative initiatives, raise awareness about the critical environmental and social issues, and create a collaborative interconnected network of regenerative leaders and spaces across various sectors in order to expand ReFi's impact worldwide.

Some criterias, agenda, and mission:

Always use NFT tickets using https://app.fanz.events, supporting the local startup ecosystem

Focus on technology implementation

POAP is a norm for all our events

Eco-friendly work-culture

Commit to no pollution on the work we do

Buy from the local economy

Build our own made in Mexico NFT minter on our site

2 events per month

to onboard local environmentalist, organizations and run events with them

collaborate with local culture houses

Work with Huerto Roma Verde

Foster growth to tackle climate emergency

Locate potential land reserves

Reach the "uncheachable" and heal the social tissue

nft collection for good

Artists collaborations

run a refi cluster

help to assemble projects and scale

research on environmental local investments

Alignment with projects going to market

Find and bring scientists work with us

Form a DAO

Gather the fast-growing web3 community

Inform about Regenerative Science

Give example about Regenerative Social projects

Neighbors marketplace (Swap Tomatoes x Carrots)

Reforestation gatherings

Research co-working days (monthly)

Identify clean water solutions

MVR carbon credit projects

Natural Reserves

Biogas production workshops

Recycling plastic projects

Clean Mobility

Create local solutions on the street level

Collaborate with the indigenous communities in art collections as nft with phygital items.

Folklore NFTs

Mexico City a.k.a. as the Great Tenochtitlan Valley. Where the Aztec Empire was having ancient knowledge on permaculture, spirulina farming and other super food. The connection to the ancient roots live within the Valley. Nowadays hosting booming web3 community in a city with 25 million people. We aim to co-create viable solutions using the past, present and future knowledge in order to adapt to a complex nature.

Ecosystem * Mayan Spirits

CAP (on-chain impact accreditation)

Healing Corals (Coral reforestation)

Unite Earth (DeSoc)

Amigos x El Planeta (social environmental initiatives)

Motus DAO (decentralized healthcare)

Eco Labmx (permaculture, organic agronomy, & clean energy)

TLATOA (culture and art collaborations)

Pluviam (water technology)

SEIF (sustainable dao tooling)

Vision Science Labs (medical privacy & health)

Vital Temple (tokenized super food)

Biogas production projects (sustainable energy)

EcoBox (Recycle Management and trackability)

Ecopina (Sports)

FLOWY (Social Interactive App)

Angulo Ambiental (non-profit helping the elder ones)

Eco Roof (hardware climate technology)

SEEDS (DeSci)

Earthquake (ReSoc)

Proyecto Mentesq (regenerative healing experiences)

Innertechnologys (ReSci - mental health & human development)

Art for the Environment (minting collections)

Gallery for Impact

Neblin - (carbon credit project)

DAOS:

Foster the use of impact DAOs within the Community to empower DAO tooling blockchain development.

Non web3:

Sixteen local organizations with active agenda on biodiversity, impact investment, launchpads, networking, environment associations, cleantech network, anti-plastic. Continue collaborations.

Always welcome:

Environmentalists

Solar Punks

To everyone worrying and carrying about the animals

Those who avoid the use of any type of polymers

Against Centralization

Technologists

Learners

Artists

Programmers

The enormous Web3 community of Mexico City hosts thousands of digital nomads, entrepreneurs starting projects, introducing this node at the right time to flow with the momentum in order to attract and empower regenerative Eco-technologist initiatives.

As well we are in contact with impact-oriented communities, regeneration-driven entrepreneurs, environmentalists not knowing about Web3, impact-investment organizations, urban farmers, and Web3 communities located here in Mexico City. Big potential is growing and ready to burst, we are ready to contribute and innovate to a new era for community.

We will leverage our expertise in web3 technology, environmental science, human science, Web3 community engagement, and partnerships to deliver tangible impact on the ground at the same time we grow the community.

We are connected to several communities in Mexico City like Ethereum Mexico, Nouns, Bright Moments, Anti-SAT, NFT community, Polkadot Mexico, Near Protocol, Algorand Mexico, Celo, Gear, Avalanche Mexico, Avocado Blockchain, Solana, Solar Punks, and many other Layer 1 with people here in Mexico City.

However there are not ReFi-only community, and this is the Community we are growing, looking forward to create a strong green pill culture.

Lots of awereness is needed on the DeSci, ReSci, DeSoc, ReSoc, De Healthcare, environment science, decentralized finance, and DAOs. We are dedicated to addressing the efforts through Workshops, interactive-meetups, Twitter Spaces, Invite Developers to join ReFi.

Our goals:

For the next 12 months, we aim to achieve the following goals:

-Organize at least 1-2 regenerative actions or activations per month

-Grow social media sentiment and ReFi presence in web3 within the Mexican community. As well the non-web3 but working on environmental-projects and mental health services.

-Establish partnerships with local public, private, and third-sector institutions, including 84 universities around Mexico that we are already connected to, government agencies, NGOs (local non-profits) and Impact-funds.

-Raise between $25,000 to $200,000 to fund our initial operations and grow/expand our impact as our organization grows, with full transparency and accountability.

Team:

Our team consists of experienced professionals with prooftrack record on building Community, Education, Blockchain development, DLT insights, community engagement, environmental and social/mental health activism:

-Oscar, co-founder of ReFi Starter, researcher, has a proven track record on working on we3 and regenerative initiatives, in Mexico and abroad.

-Miché, an environmental scientist founder of Senergy Tech, brings expertise in renewable energy, technology, and community development.

-Gerardo Alvarez, psychologist and social entrepreneur co-founder of MotusDAO, who is democratizing mental health services and has been gathering a Solar Punk community.

We’ve also got a great community of regens in the area we will invite to work cooperate and collaborate with us to regenerate Mexico city, including:

-Humberto from Urnanika

-Ludin from Perennis Network

-Mayeli from Healing Corals

-Cotabe from Giveth

-Estefania Ferrera from TulumCoin and Huerto Roma Verde

-Sandra Ponce de Leon, from BlueEconomyAgency

-Cyrus - Blockchain developer

-Anna P - Impact Plus

-SOX - GreenPill Community & Impact-GameFi Entrepreneur

Horacio - Amigos x Planeta

Davide - Mayan Spirits

We would like to welcome aboard anyone with experience and energy who adds value as a local ReFi DAO node!

Together, we are committed to making a real impact on the ground and driving the regenerative movement forward in Mexico City like never before.

Budget:

Our initial budget of $25,000 to $200,000 will be allocated as follows:

Regenerative actions and activations: 35%

Online presence and community engagement: 20%

Partnerships and collaboration: 20%

Events and workshops: 15%

Operations and miscellaneous expenses: 10%

As our organization grows, we will seek additional funding to expand our reach and impact, within our robust network.

Overall:

ReFi Mexico City, as part of the ReFi DAO Local Node Prize, is dedicated to grow the community and educate about ReFi, drive tangible impact with real use cases through regenerative initiatives, partnerships, grow impact investing and web3 adoption. With your support, we can make a significant difference in the lives of our communities and contribute to the global regenerative movement.

You are empowering impact and empowering humans that will bring results and scale Web3 and ReFi like never before in one of the largest cities in the World!

GRACIAS Y HASTA LA VISTA!

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https://www.linkedin.com/company/refimexico

ReFi Mexico City node 🌱🌎vibrant community scaling a regenerative web3 History

  • applied to the Web3 Community and Education 1 year ago which was rejected
  • accepted into Metacrisis 1 year ago. 11 people contributed $143 to the project, and $145 of match funding was provided.

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