Localism Fund

**Cartagena Onchain** is a community led initiative focused on bringing Web3 education and innovation to the city of Cartagena. We combine learning programs, cultural events, and soft onboarding experiences to help people understand and use blockchain in an accessible and practical way. We create learning experiences that are easy to follow, activate Web3 in festivals, universities, and public spaces, and guide new users through their first onchain actions using simple tools like wallets,…

ETH Floripa is a builder-first Ethereum community in Florianópolis, Brazil—the country's startup capital. We create high-signal environments for developers, researchers, and DAO contributors through year-round meetups, co-working sessions, and an annual retreat. Our focus is quality over quantity: meaningful conversations, technical depth, and durable relationships that strengthen both local and global Ethereum ecosystems.

Cripto Cafe is a recurring Ethereum meetup series designed to unite a fragmented local Web3 ecosystem by combining education with hands-on onboarding through real-world asset use cases rooted in organic food and coffee supply chains. Through rotating talks, workshops, and roundtables, it will introduce participants to Ethereum scaling and account abstraction, as well as practical applications such as social currencies, collaborative marketplaces, and regenerative finance. The program aims to…

GreenPill Brasil is a Brazilian coordination network working with public goods funding, local economies, agroforestry, biodiversity, community infrastructure and open digital tools. Since 2023, GPBR has supported organizers and local initiatives through funding rounds, workshops, onboarding, impact documentation, local circulation experiments and governance infrastructure. The network works with projects connected to agroforestry, biodiversity, waste management, beach cleanup, education,…

Fabulosa Lab is a community-rooted innovation hub in Rio de Janeiro. Over the past 11+ years ours programs have fostered meaningful connections between people and technologies for impact. Fabulosa is part of the Fab Lab Network, acting on a local scale as a physical hub located in the heart of the city of Rio de Janeiro, while coordinating on the global level with all the 90+ part of the Network. Our Lab is a multifunctional space combining event venue, digital fabrication workshop and video…

The program empowers women-led savings groups by funding community-owned solar infrastructure, productive appliances, and digital skills training to increase energy independence, income generation, and financial resilience. It combines embedded Web3 wallet tooling, stablecoin-based disbursements, and community governance to enable transparent, traceable funding and a scalable model for local ownership of renewable energy and microenterprise finance.

ReFi Italia is a pioneering collective addressing the pressing challenges of ecological decline and social disparity in Italy. Our bioregion is experiencing a rapid loss of biodiversity, coupled with economic hardship and a decline in traditional knowledge. To reverse this trend, we propose a comprehensive approach that integrates ecological restoration, community empowerment, and technological innovation. Italy's rich biodiversity and cultural heritage provide a unique canvas for our work,…

TravelShield: The Next-Generation Parametric Insurance & Travel Finance Protocol TravelShield is an autonomous DeFAI (Decentralized Finance AI) Super App deployed on the Celo Network that automates the entire travel finance lifecycle—from saving for a trip and hedging against currency devaluation to autonomously paying premiums and executing instant on-chain parametric payouts. By combining Celo's mobile-first stablecoin infrastructure (cUSD) with a network of autonomous AI agents (powered…

ETH Ecuador Series is a community-led Ethereum meetup program designed to move participants from onboarding to ownership by pairing foundational education with hands-on builder workshops and advanced tracks in applied privacy and zero-knowledge tooling. The initiative decentralizes ecosystem growth by training local leadership squads to run autonomous, high-quality events while strengthening partnerships with universities and adjacent tech communities to expand the regional developer pipeline…

Ethereum Monterrey will launch “La Movida Regia: Sultana Descentralizada,” a community meetup series designed to strengthen a regional Ethereum builder ecosystem by connecting developers, researchers, and institutions through recurring, high-quality programming. The series will focus on core Ethereum infrastructure (staking, validator operations, security, and client diversity), DAO governance and public goods, and real-world adoption, onboarding new contributors into on-chain building and…

Greenpill Nigeria is a local chapter of the Greenpill Network, dedicated to empowering individuals and communities to regenerate society using innovative Web3 technologies. We aim to solve traditional (Web2) challenges through decentralized, transparent, and coordinated approaches. Our strategy is rooted in building strategic partnerships with local organizations, NGOs, and government bodies that share our vision. By conducting continuous needs assessments and resource allocation…

Patagonia Pulse Ethereum Meetups is a hybrid, Spanish-first community program designed to onboard and upskill developers across Latin America through recurring Ethereum-focused sessions that span technical onboarding, L2 and DeFi education, and hands-on builder workshops. The series connects universities and grassroots Web3 communities into a sustained pipeline from learning to hacking, demo days, and career pathways, with a strong emphasis on inclusion and practical, real-world Ethereum use…