UNICEF Cryptofund - Workshop on creative approaches for innovative fundraising and engagement
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Speaker: Kati Illes, Arun Maharajan
Type: Workshop
Expertise: Deep prior knowledge
Event: Devcon
Date: Nov 2026
preferably 90 min
Agenda:
1. Intro
2. UNICEF presenting current workstream and possibilities/constraints:
Impact credits: innovating programme monitoring
Dendro: platform to support DPGs
Drips list: dependency list of UNICEF-affiliated DPGs
ETH Impact Staking with Launchnodes
Cryptofund: since 2019 the team conducted explorations, funding frontier tech solutions in the humanitarian sector and setting up different funding modalities to support the startups through the Venture Fund.
Modes for crypto funding at UNICEF:
Cryptofund – B2B E.g. Ethereum Foundation partnership
UNICEF National Committees – B2B and B2C E.g. Impact staking, DRIPS
3. Brainstorming: in breaking groups diving into the financing modalities, looking at ideas which involves: the DeFi ecosystem, major DAOs, major treasury holders – E.g. optional % of Tx Fee donated –, apart from pure B2C usecases, how AI can help us fundraise.
4. Presenting ideas. Q&A
5. Closing the session and takeaways.