ETHChiangmai 2026 is back 🌴 📅 Save the date — Nov 11, 2026 Right after Devcon India, Chiang Mai opens another long Ethereum builder season. Not a conference. A place where builders stay for a while. Code. Debate. Ship things. Break things. Fix them again Co-create · Cultivate · Connect Follow this journey now, bring heat to the #SEAsia#. #ETH# #BuildOnEthereum# #ETHDev# #zuzalu# #DevconIndia#

1/4 For years, we've dreamed of decentralized social: user-owned identities, creator-first economies, no gatekeepers. Today, @masknetwork is thrilled to share that we step in as the new steward of @LC, to advance our mission of taking decentralized social to the mainstream🌐

@VitalikButerin back on @greenpillnet in this week’s episode of the Network Nations mini-series! @yaoeo & @felix_beer are joined by Vitalik to reflect on one of the most influential experiments in recent community-building history: Zuzalu. Vitalik shares the motivations behind Zuzalu, what actually worked (and what didn’t), and why many pop-up cities risk drifting into “long conferences” instead of becoming real communities. Together they explore kinship vs telos, culture vs mission, permanence vs mobility, governance by forking, and how zones, tribes, and regulatory sandboxes might interlock to form durable network nations. A deep, reflective conversation on how digitally aligned communities can evolve into lasting political actors without losing their soul. @BlockchainGov @owocki ⏱️ Timestamps 00:00 – Why Zuzalu matters for network nations 02:20 – Introducing Vitalik & the Zuzalu experiment 03:40 – From ideas to action: why Zuzalu was created 05:40 – Bringing 200 people together for two months 07:10 – When a pop-up becomes “real life” 09:10 – Membership, visas & selective curation 11:20 – Zuzalu’s offshoots: Edge City, Vitalia & more 13:30 – Decentralizing after Zuzalu 15:30 – Why permanence matters 18:10 – Building culture through physical proximity 20:20 – Cities vs tribes vs nations 22:30 – Membership as a spectrum, not binary 24:50 – Bitcoin embassies & cultural recognition 27:00 – Interests vs vibes vs kinship 29:10 – Shared experiences as the glue of community 31:30 – Why kinship is hard to design 33:50 – Internal purpose vs external purpose 36:10 – Telos-driven communities & corporations 38:50 – Prospera, regulation & culture 41:00 – Zones as platforms for tribes 44:40 – Regulatory sandboxes & state experiments 46:50 – Libertarian vs developmentalist approaches 49:10 – Why niche cities beat generic hubs 51:40 – The “archipelago” vision 54:00 – Zones and tribes: separation or fusion? 56:00 – Governance by forking 01:10:00 – Why governance still matters 01:12:10 – Reinvigorating crypto’s political vision 01:14:10 – Low-hanging fruit for network nations 01:16:40 – Ethereum as a proto-network nation 01:17:50 – Closing thoughts

🚀 ETHChiangmai Hackathon 2026 — Applications Open! Join builders, creators, and researchers from around the world to build IRL in Chiang Mai 🌴 🗓 Jan 28 – Feb 3, 2026 📍 Chiang Mai University, Thailand (with community support from 4Seas) 🧠 Tracks: • Privacy • Digital Resilience • Digital Economy • AI × Blockchain • Localism 🏆 Prize Pool: $11,500+ 👋 Devs & non-devs welcome: AI builders · designers · PMs · researchers · creators · storytellers ⏳ Apply by Jan 20 (GMT+7) 🔗 Apply here: 🔗 Join our TG: Build. Learn. Connect — in real life. #ETHChiangmai# #Hackathon# #Web3# #DevCommunity# #ASEANdev# #OpenSource# #DigitalNomads#