# Open Conversations: You Can't Blockchain Your Way to Global Impact (Teo Petricevic, UNDP AltFinLab)

- Channel: [Funding the Commons](https://streameth.org/funding_the_commons)
- Date: 2026-04-09
- Duration: 02:32
- Topics: blockchain for good, UN blockchain, UNDP blockchain, Teodor Petricevic, AltFinLab, UNDP Alternative Finance Lab, blockchain adoption, public goods funding, crypto for public goods, web3 social impact, blockchain government, blockchain policy, crypto regulation, cross chain collaboration, interoperability blockchain, web3 infrastructure, crypto ecosystems
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/yt-Z1bHGbePqkA
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1bHGbePqkA

## Description

The UN has a pipeline of 150 blockchain initiatives. Getting them to scale means the blockchain industry has to build relationships it hasn't prioritized yet—with governments, UN agencies, and civil society.

Teodor Petricevic works at the UNDP Alternative Finance Lab in Istanbul. In this conversation, he talks about why cross-chain, cross-sector collaboration has to happen now, and why builders shouldn't compromise their core principles to make it work.

Filmed at Funding the Commons Buenos Aires, November 19, 2025.
Learn more at https://www.fundingthecommons.io

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UNDP AltFinLab: https://innovation.eurasia.undp.org/altfinlab/

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