Hello Moneda Moves fam, it’s your host Lyanne and I’m so excited to share today’s interview with Web3 Familia, a nonprofit DAO activating across the country to educate, onboard and connect the Latinx community in the Web3 space. But first, I want to give you a bit of a personal update that will impact our listeners of the show. Earlier this year, Moneda Moves was chosen as one of seven teams around the world to be a part of the Google Podcast Creators Program, a five-month accelerator that will provide funding and mentorship to help us grow and help us better serve you. We are so excited to share updates from the journey, and in the meantime you can expect our Moneda Moves episodes to drop on a monthly and adhoc basis through the rest of the year. We’ve already hit the ground running and are eager to come back in full capacity even better in 2023. In the meantime, if you like the show, please leave a review in Apple podcasts or Spotify — it would mean the world to us.

Now, onto today’s episode. Today, we are speaking with Orlando Gomez and Magdalena Madrigal, two co-founders of Web3 Familia, a decentralized autonomous organization. And that’s a mouthful, so just a bit on what a DAO is: It’s an organization run by rules encoded as a transparent computer program. It’s controlled by the organization’s members versus, say, a central government or a hierarchical structure. No managers are needed, and the idea is that this would eliminate bureaucracy and red tape, thus truly making it a project with shared ownership by the community. And that’s a word you’ll want to listen for in this interview: Community. Web3 believes heavily in this and that when you leverage community plus the power of blockchain technology, we can really reimagine the way organizations work. So today, we are speaking with Web3 Familia about how they are onboarding one million Latinos across the country to Web3 and the opportunity they see in this space, not only for Latinos but anyone who wants to get involved. We also discuss how their DAO is run, opportunities for growth in the space and how Web3 can benefit creatives. Let’s take a listen.

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