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AKASHA at ETHRome 2024: Announcing the Urbe Hub

AKASHA-Urbe hub announced at ETH Rome: a new Roma-based center to offer coworking, hackathons, and knowledge transfer for the Ethereum community.

Community

Devcon 7 SEA: The Ethereum Community in Bangkok 🇹🇭

The dynamic city of Bangkok recently hosted Devcon 7 SEA, bringing together some of the sharpest minds in Ethereum. Held at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center (QSNCC), the event attracted developers, entrepreneurs, and enthusiasts from around the globe. Boasting over 12,500 attendees from 130 countries, 750 speakers and

Community

ETH10X Celebration: Honoring A Decade of Ethereum

At ETH10X, Ethereum co-founders received the first Swiss Blockchain Award for 'Lifetime Achievement'. This historic moment at CV Summit 2024 honored their decade-long impact on blockchain tech and Zug's role as "Crypto Valley".

Video

Decentralized Autonomous Worlds: AKASHA's Keynote at ETH Bucharest 2024

ETH Bucharest 2024: Mihai Alisie discusses Ethereum's inception, maximum viable decentralization, legal hacking, and smarter communities.

Identity

AKASHA Core: Decentralized Identifiers 101 (DIDs)

Tired of the pitfalls of traditional identity models? Imagine a world where you own your online identity, free from centralized control and the constant threat of data breaches. This is the promise of Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs).

Moderating

Vibe Check: Building Transparent Moderation in Web3 Social Media

Social media moderation often feels chaotic, but it doesn't have to be this way. Discover how clear rules, transparency, and user accountability can transform the moderation process for a fairer and more just virtual world.

AKASHA Core

AKASHA Core: The Power of Micro-Frontends

Today, let's dive into AKASHA Core and its micro-frontends architecture. This approach offers several benefits that are particularly advantageous for developers. Let's explore these benefits in detail! From Monoliths to Micro-frontends Microfrontends are an architectural style where a web application is decomposed into individual, semi-independent “microapps”

AKASHA Core

AKASHA Core: Understanding Apps, Widgets, and Plugins

Discover the power of AKASHA Core by understanding its essential components: apps, widgets, and plugins. These elements work together to enhance your experience and bring web3 functionalities to life.

AKASHA Core

Spotlight on Bubble Breaker: Winner of the $10,000 AKASHA Bounty

Are you stuck in a social media echo chamber? Bubble Breaker is here to challenge your views by injecting new and diverse perspectives into your feed, fostering growth through dialogue.

Panel

Highlights from the AKASHA & UrbeTalk Meetup 🐺

AKASHA Hub Barcelona welcomed the 10th UrbeTalk.

Ethereum

Mihai Alisie & Urbe Unplugged: Breaking the Chains of Centralization

Mihai Alisie bridges the gap between local activism and the creation of the AKASHA Foundation, championing decentralized platforms.

Community

Zuzalu & AKASHA: Learning from a Digital Nomad Pop-Up Community in Montenegro

The AKASHA Team was stoked to receive an invitation to become Zuzalu's inaugural inhabitants or "Zuzalians.” Zuzalu, a unique pop-up city community in Montenegro, operated from March 25 to May 25, 2023. Conceived by Vitalik Buterin with an amazing team of local and international supporters, this vibrant

Community

ETH Denver 2023: BUIDLing A Mile-High

Every morning from February 24 through March 5th, as the sun rose over the picturesque city of Denver, Colorado, 20,000 to 25,000 crypto enthusiasts gathered at the National Western Complex, aka $SPORK CASTLE, for ETH Denver, to experience a lineup of top speakers, hands-on workshops, hackathons, games, and

Announcements

The Next Chapter of AKASHA: From World 0 to World 1 ✨🌍✨

AKASHA will launch its next-generation social platform, AKASHA World, in Q2 of 2023.

Research

Who will fix the Internet?

On October 27th, Elon Musk closed the deal with Twitter and took the company private. On the next day, October 28th, Twitter stock was delisted from the NYSE, and all trading of the stock was frozen. Since that day, the world of social media startups has been holding its breath

Design

AKASHA Conversations #9 — Web3 needs more UX Researchers and Designers

AKASHA Conversations is a monthly event where we explore the critical aspects of decentralized social networking. While we have focused on moderation in the first six conversations, we are now transitioning to highlighting decentralized social networks and emergent Web3 communities. For this ninth AKASHA Conversation, we were delighted to have

Conversation

AKASHA Conversations #8 - Communities of Care-full Learning with Andy Tudhope

AKASHA Conversations is a monthly event where we explore the critical aspects of decentralized social networking. While we have focused on moderation in the first six conversations, we are now transitioning to highlight dsocial networks and emergent Web3 communities and the way they shape and utilize Web3 tools. For the

Research

Digitalizing human identity

Human identity is conceived slightly differently by each discipline in their varied attempts to explain the world and how our species survives and thrives. While they may have differences, they have one thing in common — none looks anything like digital identity. Or perhaps I should write — digital identity looks nothing

Moderating

AKASHA Conversations #7 — Regenerating The Social Fabric Through Play

We were pleased to be joined by James Weir and LCC from we{collective} (WeCo) for this month’s AKASHA Conversation. WeCo is building a platform that creates public places in holonic structures. WeCo defines itself as “a collective intelligence experiment working to manifest the world brain by 2030.” 🌍 The

Moderating

AKASHA Conversations #6 — Monster Island and the Ethics of Moderating

This month’s conversation was with Aaron Rabinowitz! 🎙️ Aaron is a secular moral philosophy educator with 10+ years of experience helping students develop their capacities for flourishing and value-centered community organizing. He’s currently working on a PhD in education at Rutgers University, with a focus on developing a new

Events

DAO Camp: The DAO coming of age moment

Introduction I don’t get to go to many crypto events these days. The responsibilities of middle age tend to make it difficult to go and get deep into the vibe flow. I’m cool with that. I don’t like being away from my wife and daughter and I

Release

New Release 🎊 Ethereum World Apps — New Navigation Sidebar — Personalized Feeds — Dark Mode

What's new and what's coming next?

Moderating

AKASHA Conversations #5 — Intentional Culture Design for Moderating

What is the culture of your workplace? Your education establishment? Your neighbourhood? If we adopt the definition of culture as the way things are done around here (Drennan, 1992), then how might we begin to articulate the answer? Are you drawn to making absolute or relative observations? Are some ways

Events

The AKASHA Foundation team at OFFSCRIPT 2022

María Sanmartín and Martin Etzrodt gathered for Offscript - a conference focused on Web 3 UX and Product Design. The conference took place on the Comporta peninsula, two hours south of Lisbon Portugal. The conference occurred at an intimate venue that encouraged personal connection and discussion. Many new and lasting