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AKASHA Around The World #6

Issue #6 - July 9, 2025

Wass B.

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AKASHA Around The World #6

AKASHA Around The World is a monthly dispatch covering our growing network of innovation hubs. While each hub charts its own course, all share core values of community empowerment and decentralized growth.

✨ Flagship Celebration — Zug, Crypto Valley

🎉 10 Years of Ethereum Mainnet Anniversary – Meetup & Afterparty

​📅 Date: Wednesday, July 30th, 2025
🕕 Time: 6:00 PM – 12:00 AM
📍 Location: SHED, Dammstrasse 16, 6300 Zug

Zug — Ethereum 10Y Anniversary // RSVP: https://lu.ma/ethereum-10y-zug

Hosted by the AKASHA Foundation and in partnership with Bitcoin Suisse, ETHGlobal, Ethereum Ecosystem Fund, and Inacta Ventures, this is the headline birthday gathering in Ethereum’s spiritual birthplace.

  • 🕕 Invite‑Only Meetup (18:00–19:00) — Welcome from Beat Bachmann (Canton of Zug), a special announcement by Mihai Alisie (Ethereum & AKASHA co‑founder), and a keynote from Fabian Hediger (Bitcoin Suisse).
  • 🪩 Official After‑Party (19:00–00:00) — Open to the wider community: drinks, music, and surprise guests. Dress code: ETH‑casual.

🎂 Ethereum at 10 — A Decade of Decentralised Innovation

On July 30, 2015, the Ethereum network mined its genesis block and turned the bold idea of a programmable blockchain into reality. Ten years on, that same chain secures everything from dollar‑pegged stablecoins (DAI) to digital art markets (NFTs), from DAO treasuries to public‑goods funding, all with zero downtime and upheld by 870 000+ validators spread across 80‑plus countries.

To mark the journey “from white‑paper to world computer,” the global community is throwing birthday gatherings on every continent. We're talking about more than 80 events and counting. Whether you want to toast with builders in Accra, debate scaling in São Paulo, or dance through the night in Seoul, explore the live map (and submit your own meetup) at ethereum.org/10years.

ethereum.org/10years

🎉 Where to Party on July 30 With Friends of AKASHA

🌍 Community Highlights Around the World

🇪🇸 AKASHA Barcelona Hub

Housed in a repurposed warehouse in El Clot, AKASHA Hub Barcelona mixes a fab‑lab, co‑working loft, and rooftop micro‑farm. It’s where citizens prototype regenerative tech and social‑impact projects to reimagine the future of cities.

Just a few things they’ve done lately:

  • ☀️ Solar Brunch & Green City Lab — Over tostadas and solar‑brewed coffee we opened our rooftop “micro‑farm”, exploring appropriate technology: simple, locally‑maintainable tools such as low‑voltage irrigation and DIY solar dehydrators.
  • 🔄 How to Think Differently — An eight‑week intensive on regenerative strategy: designing organisations that give back more than they take, measured through biodiversity and social‑equity KPIs.
Taken at the "How to Think Differently" program.
  • 🧗‍♀️ Climbing for Palestine — A charity climb demonstrated how sport can galvanise solidarity, raising €4 500 for Palestinian civil‑society projects while teaching newcomers the basics of bouldering.
  • ♻️ Circular Design Challenge — In partnership with Fundació Andròmines & Elisava, students up‑cycled 8 kg of hotel plastic into furniture prototypes, illustrating the circular‑economy mantra: design out waste.

Many more meet‑ups, art nights, and maker sprints didn’t fit on the page. See what’s next at akasha.barcelona/events.

Barcelona — Ethereum @ 10 Party // RSVP: https://lu.ma/5phjvy78

🇮🇹 Rome — Urbe Hub

Urbe Hub, launched in February 2025 as Italy’s first permanent web3 coworking space, and sponsored by AKASHA, is fast becoming the meeting point for builders across the peninsula. Here’s what happened last month, and what’s coming next.

June Flashback

  • 🏛️ Web3 Forum — State of Ethereum (Jun 11) — A round‑table on how Ethereum is evolving into the world’s “settlement layer”, followed by an aperitivo.
  • ⚓ Lido Meetup — Rome (Jun 20) — Prospective node operators discovered how liquid staking lets you earn block rewards while keeping your ETH liquid and tradable.
  • 🌐 Web3 Forum — Decentralised Social Networks (Jun 21) — From Farcaster demos to debates on identity portability, attendees explored why web3 social could fix the “walled‑garden” problem of web2.
  • 👩‍💻 Only Dust Station (Jun 23) — A hands‑on evening guiding devs to their first open‑source pull request via OnlyDust’s reputation‑building platform.

July Preview

Rome — Web3 Forum: 10 Years of Ethereum // RSVP: https://lu.ma/bk5s41kn

Now, let’s visit other spirited Ethereum communities: friendly nodes in the global network, nurturing the same open-source ideals in their own cities.

🇵🇱 Warsaw — ETHWarsaw

ETHWarsaw is Central‑Eastern Europe’s largest Ethereum builders’ hub, and AKASHA is delighted to join as a sponsor of the 2025 hackathon.

  • 👩‍💻 ETHWarsaw Hackathon 2025 (Sep 5–7) — Three‑day creative sprint with workshops, mentors, and pierogi‑powered coding.
  • 🌐 Ongoing: monthly meet‑ups, workshops, newsletters & podcasts for 1 100+ community members.
ETHWarsaw Hackathon 2025 // RSVP: https://lu.ma/fk2sox3r

🇷🇴 Cluj‑Napoca — ETHCluj

AKASHA was proud to sponsor and attend the inaugural “Ethereum for Everyone” conference held June 26–28, 2025, at the UTCN Hub in Cluj‑Napoca. The community‑run event brought together more than 70 speakers across six tracks, spotlighting tools and ideas that make Ethereum accessible to all. 

AKASHA is partnering again with ETHCluj to host an evening meetup and after‑party for Ethereum's 10Y Anniversary:

Cluj‑Napoca — Ethereum 10Y Anniversary (ETHCluj) // RSVP: https://lu.ma/sfxc7yrs

🇮🇹 Naples — NapulETH

NapulETH is the community igniting web3 energy beneath Vesuvius. Our friends from Urbe will be on‑site to deliver their beginner‑friendly Urbe Campus bootcamp.

  • 🏛️ NapulETH Open Village 2025 (Jul 15–19, Villa Doria d'Angri) — 2‑day hackathon, 3‑day conference with 120+ speakers. Agenda: napuleth.org/agenda
10 Years of Ethereum — NapulETH Edition // RSVP: https://lu.ma/kmav1aak

Ethereum is strongest when local builders shape it to their own culture and needs. Some spaces are powered directly by the AKASHA Foundation; others are independent collectives we champion or learn from. Together, they all form a network united not by structure, but by a shared commitment to the Ethereum values.

Want to get involved? Reach out at [email protected] ✉️

Until next time, see you at the hubs! 👋