Victor Cioffi - Bankless Brasil Co-Founder
YouTube Interview, 03.28.2023
This was a podcast interview in Portuguese with Camila Rioja for a Brazilian audience with an educational objective to talk about use cases and potential of celo’s blockchain, mainly focused on public goods. Thus exposing the values and missions of the ecosystem that Celo is building.
Hello there! I’m Daniel, the GoodDollar LATAM Lead. I wanted to reach out on behalf of the community I represent to extend our heartfelt congratulations for the fantastic work you’re doing. It’s clear to us that your primary focus on education is yielding remarkable results, and this recap truly reflects the positive outcomes of your strategic planning, dedication, and excellent teamwork. As you continue on this journey, which undoubtedly still has exciting paths ahead, we’re here to offer our unwavering support for anything you might need or want to collaborate on with GoodDollar. Best of luck, and know that we’re rooting for your continued success!
Hi everyone! Quick recap! This Jose Rodriguez, former Celo Ecosystem Lead for El Salvador, Bitcoin Country and now Digital Assets Country too!! During the end of 2021 and 2022, together with an amazing team of people from Celo Foundation, CLabs and some other amazing organizations, we deployed an exploratory mission and created the Celo Ecosystem for El Salvador achieving some relevant things>
Celo Hackathon For Prosperity
LabitConf El Salvador Edition
Web 3 - Entrepreneurship World Cup El Salvador Edition
Celo Community in El Salvador
Celo Training Program for Developers on Celo Stack
Alliance for Prosperity Invitational
And many other activities to explore possibilities to deploy Regenerative Finance project in El Salvador. Hopefully we will keep up with a new phase together with the Celo Builders and deploy a new ReFi ecosystem for our country in the coming years.
Hi @MilaRioja! Such a nice initiative!
It’s heartwarming to look back to impactMarket’s achievements and learnings through this past year and see how much we’ve accomplished. We are super grateful for your continuous support and energy! It’s also so inspiring to see all the progress and amazing things happening on the other projects in Latin America! 
Having a global presence and impact, Latam is a key region for impactMarket - where we created the first UBI community, and always a fertile soil to launch new services, implement pilots, etc. We are thrilled to share some of our achievements for the Recap:
impactMarket/ Marco Barbosa, Bernardo Vieira, and Afonso Barbosa
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We’ve been providing Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) to almost 15,000 beneficiaries from vulnerable communities across 7 Latin American countries. Behind these numbers, we are talking about refugees, indigenous people, and families living in favelas and in rural communities… people having their lives improved thanks to an additional income to help support their basic needs.
Our mission goes beyond financial support – it’s about empowerment. We’ve revamped our positioning from Poverty Alleviation to Human Empowerment Protocol, aligning an extended range of solutions with the mission of unlocking human potential.
Since 2022, impactMarket developed several new products and mechanisms:
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UBI Communities in São Paulo, Brazil
Povoado de Jaguara, Bahia, Brazil
Discover the stories posted by our users on our dApp.
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Talent Protocol
Take Off Rio 
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Take Off (previously known as Talent House) is an initiative organized by Talent Protocol that supports high-potential talent in attending their first Web3 conference. This helps them grow their network, learn new things, and improve their chances of success in business and in life.
Celo played an important role in Take Off’s history by sponsoring the first editions, and was also an active part of it’s 7th edition in Rio de Janeiro, between March 27th and April 3rd.
During the two days of Ethereum Brasil, our scholars attended panels and workshops in both English and Portuguese, putting not only their Web3 knowledge but also their language skills to the test.
After that, it was time to hack! For three days, ETHSamba offered extremely useful bootcamp workshops for everyone new to the space, engaging talks, and panel discussions on both technical and non-technical topics. Of course, there was also the chance to build awesome projects and compete for bounties as part of the hackathon.
All of our scholars worked on important and impactful ideas, but we want to give a special shoutout to Sandra Carrillo and Brian Sander, whose projects won the hearts of a few ETHSamba sponsors.
Talent Protocol’s co-founder, Filipe Macedo, was also part of CELO’s judging team, listening to the teams that applied for CELO’s hackathon prize.
What an inspiring work!
Awesome to see you here!
@Soydanielandres Humbled to hear your words, as your community grows and thrives by showing real world value 
I would love to feature some of your work in LatAm here. Thinking about extending the deadline until next Monday in the hopes you, @Demian and @paulammaira , who manifested support, can also share your accomplishments?
Any initiative you want to highlight please post here in the following format to be featured:
Happy Friday
hey Crist, would be awesome to see some numbers from the projects themselves as well! Maybe MAU on Celo with some onchain activity, and milestones reached by the startups from batch 1!
Hi Luis, yes! New week we will have a call with the teams. Let me work with them on that
Hey all! Nice to see many familiar faces here. My name is Sebastián, Sr. Associate at Flori Ventures, a seed-stage fund investing in the future financial system and solutions for the climate crisis, we are a close partner to the Celo Ecosystem. I wanted to share the most recent event we did together:
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Gathering CELO + Flori Ventures + Cabogo Creators. March 14th
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Taking advantage that Flori’s partners were on a trip across Brazil and Argentina to update with our portfolio companies and meet potential Dealflow, we organized an event on March 14th with Mila and the Cabogo Creators team in Sao Paulo to get to know teams that are building great solutions in the Celo ecosystem.
It was very pleasing for us to see how the adoption of new payment systems like Pix in the country, combined with a more promising regulatory framework, is generating significant opportunities for the most advanced ecosystems in the regions where we invest (Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa). We look forward to returning to Brazil very soon and are delighted to be a part of the ecosystem!
