Impact Stream

💥COOKING w/ the product/engineering team @impact_stream V2 of the app is in progress. It will allow multiple rounds, and multiple types of rounds, to run simultaneously. For those not familiar, an Impact Stream "round" is when there is a pool of on-chain funds intended to positively impact a particular geography (e.g. a village) and/or vertical (e.g. literacy). Impact Stream's Pilot Round last year helped HUNDREDS of families in Togo (West Africa) get access to education, health care, and clean water. Their own community proposed, voted on, and built the projects. Round 2 will be deployed on @ApeChainHUB 🦍 The Impact Stream protocol (and Web/iOS/Android apps) proves on-chain voting and movement of money to ensure IRL impact via local and/or vertical experts. cc/ @beijingdou @ctballer_ @CryptoVonDoom @will6079 @apecoin @BoredApeYC

Who else is doing impact work that should I highlight? DMs open! 🙏💛

Shout out to my friend and fellow Ape @ctballer_ In 2022 he launched @byautistic to serve neurodivergent kids in West Africa, meeting families where they are with legit care and resources. He’s also been: ✨ building Ape Shelters and drilling clean-water boreholes to keep communities healthy and stable ✨ setting up community bakeries that empower single moms with job training and microfinance (dignity + income = durable change). ✨ renovating schools, running food programs that feed thousands, donating soccer gear to youth since ’22 and hosting joyful BAYC Christmas parties ✨onboarding African builders via ApeChain hackathons, offering free neurodiversity screenings, and delivering the annual Project Food for All each August. To top it all off, he’s also produced a five-part docuseries on special-needs inclusion to shift mindsets and policy, not just moments (and he’s a gifted artist!). This is real-world impact. Proof that those in our community CAN and ARE making a huge difference. David, thank you for your passion, creativity, heart, and persistence. This work takes generational thinking and you’re making it happen. Let’s amplify wins. All, check out these posts below to learn more about David’s work👇

Here is my friend/colleague Azaria - from/lives in Lomé - playing with a boy who was entertaining himself for hours with a little empty bottle. This is a medical clinic that @impact_stream helped fund - as part of a development grant that the local people submitted, voted on, and ranked on-chain. Web3 is helping - not only to level the playing field for everyone - but it gives kids like this a future where the system can't (as easily) extract cash and keep him impoverished. Web3 can incentivize him to add value to the world and be financially rewarded for it - as fairly as possible - without corruption/injustice keeping him down.

Amazing time with @ctballer_ / @byAutistic in Lomé (Togo, West Africa) 🌍 We hung out with the @impact_stream team to see the development projects submitted by (and voted on-chain by) the local people, who proposed and built the projects themselves (education, clean water, and health care). Photos/videos coming soon! Thanks for the multiple introductions that made this happen, @beijingdou, @wonk1m, @HeadofApe, @CryptoVonDoom, @nftgerry, & @CapetainTrippy 🙏 Together, we are aiming to run new Impact Stream rounds ASAP in both Ghana (with David and his crew) and in Togo for development projects *and* much-needed loans for entrepreneurs supporting their communities. Follow along, stay tuned, and - fellow Apes - let's connect IRL in Vegas. 🍻 (DM us!)

I'm in Addis Ababa today. Who should I connect with? Seoul tomorrow/Sat. Singapore next week. Last handful of days: 2TB of video content collected from the 7 completed @impact_stream development projects in Togo from our pilot round. It was REALLY good to work IRL with @princessashleiv, @alidra_xyz, @eannan_24, @ByAutistic / @ctballer_ and our Impact Stream team.

🦍🌍 Hi, I’m Impact Ape. Let’s work together to galvanize and showcase the heart of the ape community. Thanks for helping me reach my official launch day today, friends! 🙏 @nftgerry @CapetainTrippy @wonk1m @HeadofApe @beijingdou @CryptoVonDoom @ctballer_ @ByAutistic @owocki @gitcoin @quirkiesnft @princessashleiv @TheQuirkKnight @iladngo @impact_stream #ApeFollowApe A thread: 👇