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 attracted up
Community Featured Reimagining Social Networks: Thinking Beyond The ‘Twitter Box’ (Zuzalu 2023) At Zuzalu 2023, the panel titled "Reimagining Social Networks" explored innovative ideas and fresh perspectives on social networking, pushing beyond the conventional boundaries set by platforms like Twitter.
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
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
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
Research We need to talk about the social graph Who doesn’t love a good concept?! Concepts are the fundamental building blocks of thinking, of designing. While there are plenty of things in the mix when it comes to contemplating system design, if the primary concepts remain unchallenged and unchanged from what came before, then the outcome will likely
Community Fish Out of Water: My Experiences Joining the Crypto Community - Part 5: Product-Market Fit+ Fish Out of Water Series Part 1: New Beginnings Part 2: The Community Shows Up Part 3: Ethereum Personas Part 4: The Standard for Crypto UX Part 5: Product-Market Fit+ Howdy! Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas! I am super excited to share with you my last blog post of the
Community IRL (Part II): Symbiosis and Interdependence In the first part of this series, we discussed the value of community hubs - physical spaces where groups with common interests meet to commune, brainstorm, learn, and work together. We have also talked about the AKASHA Hubs, and I promised to tell you a bit more about them. Before
Community Fish Out of Water: My Experiences Joining the Crypto Community - Part 4: The Standard for Crypto UX Fish Out of Water Series Part 1: New Beginnings Part 2: The Community Shows Up Part 3: Ethereum Personas Part 4: The Standard for Crypto UX Part 5: Product-Market Fit+ Hi everybody! Great speaking with you all again. Many of you, speaking with us during our Personas user study, indicated
Community IRL (Part I): Community Spaces Here's a thought: the 0s and 1s running across telecom cables and interconnecting all of us do not effectively supply us with all the social interactions we need to tackle certain problems - which might sound a bit obvious for some, but not so obvious when we look around and
Team Climbing crypto curves: Another(!) outsiders Clichéd advice is often the best, so here it is: the best way to learn about something is by doing it. This is my modus operandi on my journey into the world of Ethereum as, truth be told, I bring little experience with me. You guessed it, you have yet
Community Filecoin Slingshot: Launching into orbit On Friday 15 October at 14:44hrs UTC, the Filecoin network pivoted to mainnet. 🚀 🥳 🎉 This long-awaited launch marks a new chapter for decentralization, with Filecoin's s IPFS-based cooperative storage cloud providing the ability to store files and distribute content at scale without relying on the incumbent centralized (and expensive) cloud.
Community Fish Out of Water: My Experiences Joining the Crypto Community - Part 3: Ethereum Personas Fish Out of Water Series Part 1: New Beginnings Part 2: The Community Shows Up Part 3: Ethereum Personas Part 4: The Standard for Crypto UX Part 5: Product-Market Fit+ Hi everybody! It’s been around a month since I last checked in and I have a very exciting development
Community Fish Out of Water: My Experiences Joining the Crypto Community - Part 2: The Community Shows Up Fish Out of Water Series Part 1: New Beginnings Part 2: The Community Shows Up Part 3: Ethereum Personas Part 4: The Standard for Crypto UX Part 5: Product-Market Fit+ Hi everybody! Gabriel Golcher here again! Last we spoke was a couple of months ago and it is high time
Community Project Profiles: A Whole New World of Community Interactions Hopefully you are here because you've looked at a world full of problems which have been caused (at least in part) by centralization, and (correctly) decided that the solution is decentralization.
Team Fish Out of Water: My Experiences Joining the Crypto Community - Part 1: New Beginnings Fish Out of Water Series Part 1: New Beginnings Part 2: The Community Shows Up Part 3: Ethereum Personas Part 4: The Standard for Crypto UX Part 5: Product-Market Fit+ Hi everybody! My name is Gabriel Golcher. I am a UX Designer living in beautiful Austin, Texas and I joined
Community Years of Effort, Experience, and Experimentation At the time of writing we are on the cusp of the five-year anniversary of the Ethereum blockchain's genesis; a lot of things have happened in those five years as the Ethereum ecosystem has grown and ethereans have thought deeply about the many different applications of this world-changing technology: "man,
Ethereum Open Source Research: April to June 2020 Since the publication of our first Open Source Research article in March, we have continued to put out polls (almost) weekly via the Ethereum World Twitter account and the Ethereum World Telegram group about Ethereum and crypto topics.
Community Voices from the Community - Designing a New World: The Call for Interdisciplinary Collaboration Throughout the course of history, there have been single events that have altered the world so radically that life before and after that moment in time and space became incomprehensible to the generations of people who lived before the event took place and those that followed.
Ethereum Open Source Research: November 2019 to March 2020 Since the launch of the Ethereum World landing page in October 2019, there have been a whole host of useful and interesting ideas proposed for how this new tool can be built to ensure that it solves real problems for real Ethereans.
Community Crypto Resolutions for a 10/10 2020 People have engaged in the act of creating annual life-improvement plans since the time of the Babylonians, who made promises to their gods at the start of each year to return borrowed property and repay debts. It sometimes seems like a degree of undue importance is put, at least in
Community What is AKASHA Reloaded? What is Ethereum World? This year (2019), on World Press Freedom Day, we announced that we were going through a process dubbed 'AKASHA Reloaded' through the post AKASHA Reloaded: Three Spins Around The Sun Later. Since then we have been in constant awe of the positive response that has come back to us from
Research How Do You Define the Word Proving an Idea 💭 You can build in your mind the greatest, most revolutionary piece of technology ever, something which would change the world, improve lives, potentiate other amazing technologies, and recalibrate the course of history. Ideas created in a vacuum are isolated sparks of creativity; if you are only discussing
Research How Do You Define the Word "Community?" A Deep Dive Into the World of Ethereum Proving an Idea 💭 You can build in your mind the greatest, most revolutionary piece of technology ever, something which would change the world, improve lives, potentiate other amazing technologies, and recalibrate the course of history. Ideas created in a vacuum are isolated sparks of creativity; if you are only discussing
Community All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace: Surveillance in 2019 Today, August 16th, is #SurveillanceDay, formerly called Wave at Surveillance Cameras Day. This seemingly-quite-jokey annual occurrence, once branded by Motherboard as the Laziest Protest Ever, was possibly started by pseudonymous privacy activist, Zorbitor, who we expect will, once again, release a video on their YouTube Channel, in spite of their
