The world is awash in ecological data that can and should be coupled to cryptomarkets. A well-designed Web3GIS should unlock new GIS functionalities such as geographic or bioregional liquidity formation.

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The Ethereum Public Goods Ecosystem is in a stage of rapid expansion around the many variables of project funding. Responses to the provocation put forth by Optimism's retroactive funding infrastructure have proliferated in the direction of impact attestations, peer review networks, prospective funding and crowdfunding. If this concert of ambitious and internally complex initiatives is still in infant stage, its less a problem of mechanism design, and more one of mutual coherence: that is, how these tools fit together with each other, and how that coherence creates a story that can be told to a broader world of impact creators. Hyperactive Public Goods Funding (HPGF) is our name for a generative synthesis of this multiplicity of protocols, describing the emergent properties that arise when these siloed mechanisms - especially strategies of prospective and retroactive funding - are fused into a well-oiled, feedforward machine of sustainable impact.

Adidas has partnered with Stepn, a move-and-earn app, to introduce a limited-edition, non-fungible token sneaker collection, according to a Monday press release. 
The Stepn x Adidas Genesis Sneakers collection includes 1,000 digital items inspired by Adidas running designs. The NFT collection will be the first of multiple co-branded activities during a one-year partnership between the two companies which will include other NFT drops and physical, wearable items. 
The shoe collection will drop via Stepn’s sister marketplace, Mooar, starting Wednesday via a two-phase raffle. The NFT collection is based on Solana and will be priced in Stepn’s currency of GMT tokens.

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Alternative to webpub (formerly PubSubHubbub) and overcast ping api? Blockchain yet cerntralized ingress point is an interesting approach.