5 Ways Web3 Could Transform the Global South

If you are following crypto news on Twitter, you might learn about the new and trendy NFT collection, how another VC fund raised millions of dollars for investing in crypto startups, the latest demise of a poorly designed web3 protocol or articles on how to survive a bear market. You might get the impression that web3 is all about investing, memes and rug pulls.

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A Vision for HubCityDAO 2.0

The Road Ahead

Note: The ideas presented in this article are my own and does not necessarily represent the future of HubCityDAO. Take these ideas just as a thought experiment of what’s possible.

A few weeks ago we released to the public the white paper for HubCityDAO along with a Juicebox project and a governance token called HUB. In a nutshell, HubCityDAO is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) whose main goal is to support the Togolese project HubCity that has been fostering the emergence of smart cities in Africa for more than 10 years. HubCity promotes a bottom-up approach that focuses on empowering local communities through technology and knowledge.

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Reading Data from the Ronin Sidechain

In order to automate processes related to Axie Infinity I needed to read data from smart contracts deployed to the Ronin sidechain. Because Ronin is an EVM compatible blockchain, the same tools used for Ethereum will work for Ronin. However, you still need three critical things: the URL of a Ronin RPC server, the ABI of the smart contract you want to interact with and the address it was deployed to on Ronin.

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