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Which countries emit the most CO2 today? How do annual emissions vary across the world?
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Green, pgf500 SaaS, PGF7T token
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Decentralized Web3 technologies could improve coordination around tackling climate change because they use local knowledge and actors to guide policies and put funding where it’s needed.
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Climate change is a global coordination problem.
The system has failed to coordinate effective policies and capital investment into the commitments necessary to address the most pressing threat to humanity.
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Race To Zero is a global campaign to rally leadership and support from businesses, cities, regions, investors for a healthy, resilient, zero carbon recovery that prevents future threats, creates decent jobs, and unlocks inclusive, sustainable growth.
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You will need to have Metamask to pay with PGF7T token.
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We have chosen to adopt blockchain technology for the launch of 2 innovative decentralized Dapps.
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We believe in Web3 and in the strength of communities.
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The token is on the Ethereum smart contract 0x9fadea1aff842d407893e21dbd0e2017b4c287b6 ,
and the code is public at https://etherscan.io/address/0x9fadea1aff842d407893e21dbd0e2017b4c287b6#code
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QuickSwap smart contract:
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PGF7T token will be listed on other Exchanges soon.
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What is the difference between climate tech and clean tech?
Climate tech includes some similar functions to clean tech, but climate tech primarily focuses on greenhouse gas emissions.
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This includes removing greenhouse gases in the environment and reducing future emissions.
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Climate tech initiatives include the following:
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Agri-tech. Agri-tech helps mitigate greenhouse gases with initiatives such as reducing livestock manure, using less pesticides and improving crop-growing processes — for example, by using aeroponics.
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Afforestation. To assist with carbon capture, afforestation creates new forests so that trees can reduce carbon dioxide and add oxygen to the air, reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Organizations work with the timber industry to help restore trees in degraded areas.
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Carbon capture. The main gas contributing to climate change and global heating is carbon dioxide. Capturing carbon and preventing it from going into the environment can help mitigate the effects. Manufacturers are looking for clean energy using carbon capture technology, which takes carbon from the manufacturer, stores it, and turns it into hydrogen for power with minimal or zero greenhouse gas emissions.
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Geoengineering. Also referred to as climate engineering, geoengineering’s goal is to alter the climate system to reduce the effects of climate change. One way to do this is to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by capturing the gas and storing it below ground. Solar radiation management is another form of geoengineering that captures and reduces the sun’s rays to prevent warming the Earth.
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What’s the difference between climate tech and clean tech?
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Climate tech includes some similar functions to clean tech, but climate tech primarily focuses on greenhouse gas emissions. However, these emissions are only one portion of society’s effects on the environment.
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State of Venture Q3 2022 Report
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The global venture ecosystem continues its slowdown in Q3’22 as funding decreases 34% quarter-over-quarter.
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Global venture funding reached $74.5B in Q3’22, hitting a 9-quarter low. The new funding level represented a 34% drop quarter-over-quarter — the largest quarterly percentage drop in a decade — and a 58% decline from the investment highs reached in Q4’21.
Deal activity hit 7,936 deals total, marking a 9.5% quarterly drop and a 7-quarter low.
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US-based companies raised $36.7B, accounting for just under half of global Q3’22 funding. Some of the quarter’s largest rounds in the region went to companies including TeraWatt Infrastructure, TerraPower, and EnergyX.
Other Q3’22 highlights across the venture ecosystem include:
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Q3’22 saw only 25 new unicorns (private companies valued at $1B+) — the lowest unicorn birth count since Q1’20. The US accounted for the majority (14) of these births. Leading entrants include Zhiji Auto ($4.4B valuation), Tridge ($2.7B), and 21.co ($2B).
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100M+ mega-rounds collectively accounted for $29.6B in Q3’22, marking a 9-quarter low and a 44% drop QoQ. Mega-round deal count dropped in all major regions to hit 144 in Q3’22, also a 9-quarter low.
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Retail tech funding declined 33% QoQ to $8.5B, even as deals ticked up 5% to 776. Average deal size YTD clocked in at $24M, down 35% compared to 2021 averages.
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The fintech sector also continued to contract. With $12.9B raised across 1,160 deals, Q3’22 was the weakest quarter the sector has seen since Q4’20.
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Global digital health deals fell to their lowest levels in 5 years, with $5B raised across just 419 deals. The US led, accounting for more than half (58%) of total digital health funding at $2.9B.
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Global VC Pullback Is Dramatic In Q3 2022 | Startups
Global VC funding in Q3 2022 was $81B, down 53% YoY from $171B and 33% QoQ from $121B,
the lowest level since $70.6B in Q1 2020
(@geneteare/ Crunchbase News)
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Global VC Pullback Is Dramatic In Q3 2022
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What Is Web3? | A Step-by-Step Guide to a Decentralized Web
Every technology goes through generational cycles, including the internet. When a critical threshold of upgrades is crossed, it marks the beginning of a new generation. This moment, and its significance for the marketplace, can prove confusing.
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After all, the features that existed in the first generation still exist, only with additional layers. This is what happened when Web1 morphed into Web2 and now we see this occurring in the shift to Web3. Let’s start differentiating them:
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The Path to Web3 Explained
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Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0 vs. Web 3.0. Source: Myraah
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In the late-90s, the internet was just starting to go mainstream. The Web1 era was highly decentralized for a couple of reasons:
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Low bandwidth infrastructure (up to 1Mbps) precluded the media-heavy internet as we know it today, with 4K video-streaming platforms.
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Underdeveloped infrastructure went hand-in-hand with simple coding practices. Everyone could learn HTML or copy a template to deploy a website, as they were built Server-side: generating web content and database query on servers.
As a result, Web1 was static, simple, and non-interactive, making it possible for everyone to create their own websites — blogs, news, forums, and yellow pages. Most internet content was centered around personal web pages hosted on ISP-provided servers, often for free.
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Over time, telecom companies built broadband infrastructure (above 10Mbps) and spurred entrepreneurs to develop new ventures that deepened the experience, and the economics, of the internet.
In the late-’00s, ventures such as YouTube and Netflix scaled as they delivered streamed content to the mass market.
More complicated software stacks began to emerge as the internet demonstrated it was a new channel for television, radio, and publishing.
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Customize Stacks
Alongside HTML, the Web2 software stack includes PHP, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, HTML5, Java, Ruby, and other programming languages.
In essence, Web2 is the merger of Server-side (programs executed on a server) and Client-side (programs executed in a browser) programming, with web browser languages as the starting point:
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Web browser stack: HTML, JavaScript, CSS
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More advanced Server-side and Client-side stack: PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Java
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Additionally, to scale up web development more easily and maintain large websites, Server-side web frameworks emerged: Django, Ruby on Rails, Laravel, and other scripting libraries.
Web developers often customize their stacks. For example, the MEAN stack consists of MongoDB, Express.js, AngularJS/Angular, and Node.js. Or, they could focus on the MERN stack: MongoDB, Express.js, React, and Node.js.
These programming layers made it possible to create dynamic web content, sandwiched between Client-side and Server-side.
Such platforms manifest as Vimeo, YouTube, Twitter, (Meta) Facebook, and TikTok. All of them have in common increased user interaction and effortless content contribution, enabled by Client-side web stacks.
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Web2 Centralization
Web2 was predicated on raising capital and traditional management of business. That meant centralization. Additional programming stacks made web content both labor and hosting intensive.
Moreover, no individual or small business could pay for vast months of data traffic delivered through video sharing and social media platforms. On top of that, the network effect took place. Even if someone could clone Twitter, the value of Twitter is not in its software, but in the number of people using it. Even former Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, admitted as much.
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In other words, as people became dependent on Web2 platforms, they magnetized them for further growth, dulling even quality competition.
This is best exemplified by companies like Google. It went from a search engine start-up to a go-to platform (Alphabet) for everything under the sun — ad integration and monetization, news aggregation, video-sharing, payment rails, AI, robotics, and smartphones.
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Google’s annual revenue from 2002 to 2021, exemplifying power and wealth concentration during Web2. Source: Statista
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As if corporations in control of user data weren’t enough, an extra problem surfaced — deplatforming and inter-corporate collusion. Companies control who uses their platforms.
In the end, Web2 turned into an ecosystem made up of a handful of tightly-regimented nodes. These nodes make it convenient to interact with the world, but companies control the nodes and can change their policies when they like.
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Web3 Explained
When all is said and done, everything is about the concentration of power. The more a system is centralized, the more it yields lopsided results.
Case in point, when the Federal Reserve started bailing out commercial banks during the Crash of 2008 by pumping $498B into their balance sheets, the Occupy Wall Street movement expressed outrage at the use of taxpayer funding.
Protests and movements come and go, but technology stays. A year after the Great Recession of 2008–09, Bitcoin emerged as peer-to-peer (P2P) digital money, its genesis block directly referencing bank bailouts. Bitcoin emerged as an alternative to central banking.
Bitcoin’s blockchain technology also laid the groundwork for Web3. After all, if money can be made both digital and decentralized, it is a layer that can easily be integrated into the internet.
From file storage (IPFS) and video streaming (Livepeer) to monetization, smart contracts in chained data blocks are agnostic to which content is decentralized.
In other words, Web3 mirrors Bitcoin — it is a permissionless, trustless, and decentralized way of generating content, distributing it, and owning it.
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How Does Web3 Work?
Just as different programming stacks defined Web1 and Web2, a new software stack defines Web3 to make decentralized internet happen. Web3 is in many ways a continuation of Web2 in terms of interactivity, but at the bottom of the stack is a blockchain protocol.
On top of the blockchain protocol are four layers that bind blockchain to the end-user experience:
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Smart contracts are embedded into each data block. Because they chain together, smart contracts are immutable, which is also what makes both NFTs and cryptocurrencies so valuable. Ethereum is the leading platform for deploying smart contracts written in Solidity. Other blockchains, such as Cardano, use Haskell.
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Web3 libraries that link smart contracts to dApp interfaces: ethers.js, web3.js, or web3.py
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Nodes as blockchain’s decentralization cornerstones, linking Web3 libraries to smart contracts. Instead of relying on a centralized cluster of servers, blockchain networks are dispersed across computer nodes. For example, Bitcoin has over 14,000 nodes, while IPFS (Interplanetary File System) for decentralized storage has over 200,000 nodes.
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Wallets that connect to blockchain networks and individual dApps on them. Wallets should not be considered as containers. Instead, crypto wallets like MetaMask unlock access to blockchains and their dApps, via private keys.
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With these Web3 layers in play, it is possible to replicate every existing Web2 platform. They offer the same Web2 functionality but with decentralized monetization, funds/data ownership, and censorship-resistant content.
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Web3 Examples
LinkedIn is a centralized platform for job hunting and business networking. LinkedIn’s decentralized version is Indorse.io.
This platform uses Indorse tokens (IND) to monetize the platform and establish voting governance. IND tokenholders could then use their tokens to “indorse” either prospective employers or employees.
There are also YouTube decentralized equivalents in the form of D.tube and Odysee, one built on IPFS and the other on LBRY file-sharing and monetization network. Later on, Odysee split into its own video-sharing company. It has since matured into a viable YouTube alternative, but without YouTube’s intense censorship.
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Source: Odysee
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When it comes to Web3 social media, the leading lending dApp, Aave, launched Lens Protocol in which the entire social pipeline is tokenized. Users can not only store their own content — posts and comments — as censorship-resistant NFTs, but they can do the same for their followers.
Because everything is tokenized, this means that users have complete control over their online interactions, but without being censored by central entities.
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Web3 Apps To Replace Web2 Tech
There is no shortage of Web3 dApps. They link back Web1’s initial selling point — decentralization. But now they havetokenized monetization and ownership via wallets. The problem is, they are unlikely to amass much adoption unless Web2 platforms begin to deplatform and censor even more aggressively.
Ultimately, most people prefer the easiest shortcut that requires the least amount of effort. This is where Web2 platforms exce.
Nonetheless, Web3 on a global scale could coalesce into a rival mega-meta Web3 platform in which all blockchain networks are interlinked, and tokens are easily swappable on decentralized exchanges (DEXs).
They may require extra steps and more engagement, but many will see it as a worthwhile and necessary effort.
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What Is Web3?
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PGF7T crypto info, Web3, NFTs, Dapps 🔴
PGF500 has a token on the Ethereum network, called PGF7T, which you can use to pay for subscriptions and services within the PGF500 platform.
You will need to have Metamask to pay with PGF7T token.
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We have chosen to adopt blockchain technology for the launch of 2 innovative decentralized Dapps.
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We believe in Web3 and in the strength of communities.
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The token is on the Ethereum smart contract 0x9fadea1aff842d407893e21dbd0e2017b4c287b6 ,
and the code is public at https://etherscan.io/address/0x9fadea1aff842d407893e21dbd0e2017b4c287b6#code
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QuickSwap smart contract:
0xdd0fDc648a9dbC9be5A735FE4561893a13399Da2
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🔴 It is possible to buy and sell PGF7T tokens on Uniswap and QuickSwap Exchanges.
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Price: PGF7T
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Our NFTs
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Enjoy the Journey 🚀
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Startups, VC goes plop
“”We’re halfway there
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Hi there,
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Q3 VC activity is looking soft.
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Global venture funding is at just $41.9B midway through the quarter.
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If we project out, this looks like ~$83.8B across ~7K deals for Q3’22.
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Of course, there’s still half of the quarter left so this could change bigly.
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But right now, a pretty dramatic decline appears to be in the cards for Q3.””
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Q3 VC midway through the quarter
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PGF7T crypto info, Web3, NFTs, Dapps 💥
PGF500 has a token on the Ethereum network, called PGF7T, which you can use to pay for subscriptions and services within the PGF500 platform.
You will need to have Metamask to pay with PGF7T token.
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We have chosen to adopt blockchain technology for the launch of 2 innovative decentralized Dapps.
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We believe in Web3 and in the strength of communities.
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The token is on the Ethereum smart contract 0x9fadea1aff842d407893e21dbd0e2017b4c287b6 ,
and the code is public at https://etherscan.io/address/0x9fadea1aff842d407893e21dbd0e2017b4c287b6#code
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QuickSwap smart contract:
0xdd0fDc648a9dbC9be5A735FE4561893a13399Da2
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🔴 It is possible to buy and sell PGF7T tokens on Uniswap and QuickSwap Exchanges.
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Price: PGF7T
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Our NFTs
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Enjoy the Journey 🚀
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PGF500 Team
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Understanding Current Macro and Cryptomarkets 📉
Global Marcroeconomics
Let’s start with the big picture.
There has been tremendous reduction of wealth in 2022. A lot of this has to do with the reversal of easy monetary policy. In the U.S. the Federal Reserve is withdrawing liquidity and reducing M2 money supply.
Across asset classes, there has been no safe place to hide in 2022. Most asset have negative returns, with the exception of energy stocks and a few value stocks with strong cash flows. This shows the market sensitivity to discount rates. Some assets with long-maturity cash flows, like tech stocks (NASDAQ) have particularly come under pressure.
There is a clear common factor across markets in 2022, which is monetary policy. The Federal Reserve has been extremely aggressive in tightening. We believe this is due to a fundamental policy error in 2021. The Fed was late to recognize the growing inflation problem.
Capital will be more scarce as financial conditions are tightened. We believe that this will be a severe drag on growth.
Even before the monetary tightening, growth was slowing. This will likely transfer in lower cyclical inflation. However, “supply side” inflation might continue to persist, as monetary policy cannot address these issues.
Our view is that inflation will persist above the Fed’s 2% target. Inflation may have peaked, but will likely remain structurally higher going forward. We expect roughly 4-5% inflation in 2023.
There is a toxic mix emerging for policy makers of high inflation, declining real incomes, and slowing growth. Consumer confidence has crashed.
The employment market has remained relatively strong. Consumption patterns indicate that the consumer is spending their excess savings from the pandemic and adding more debt.
Here are our takeaways:
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