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Welcome to ZuChat, a place hosted by zuzalu.city where the builders, dreamers, and doers of ZuVillages come together. Each episode features critical and insightful topics ranging from technology to community governance. We hope these discussions could not only inspire action but also deepen our collective understanding of the endeavors we pursue together.

  1. 12/01/2025

    Zuzalu Software Townhall November: Pensieve Ads, MySieve, and ZuVillage Grant Winners

    🎉 A vibrant space where everyone is invited to contribute, discuss, and weave connections.📑 View Slides📺 Watch the full content on: Youtube Project Updates Highlights from 3 inspiring projects: ECF Pensieve New features & enhancements added: Pensieve launched Pensieve Ads (Harberger-tax ad slots, open-source contracts) and MySieve (sorting/curation for grant/project discovery); upcoming Pensieve AI agent and integrated project discourse space. A 10-week experiment funding public-good, pre-investment projects weekly via Pensieve Transparency & Accountability scores, without gatekeepers & black boxes. Apply once, and receive rainfall. Week 7 is open, check rules and mechanisms! TG support Group. 👥 @QJ, @Reno Zuzalu Software ZuVillage Special Grant, supported by the ECF Pensieve Perennial Grant Experiment is finished, with ETHChiangmai and ZuKas winning the prize, and announces a year-end pause in December and a restart in 2026. 👥 Kelly ETHChaingmai A two-month unconference and bootcamp (Dec–Jan), hackathon and summit, university partnerships, speakers/workshops, and tracks on blockchain, privacy, digital residency, and AI+blockchain.👥@zik #🔗 Stay in Touch and Jump In! 📚 Docs & Stories: bit.ly/ZuSoftware-doc 💬 Builder Chat: Discord 🌍 Socials: X · Warpcast 📬 Contact Point: @Kelly 💡 Zuzalu Software Vision: A CommunityOS for Every Innovative Community

    29 min

  2. 11/03/2025

    Zuzalu Software Townhall October: Supporting ZuVillages & Public Good with Pensieve Perennial Grant

    🎉 A vibrant space where everyone is invited to contribute, discuss, and build connections. 📑 View the Slides 📺 Watch the full session here: YouTube, Spotify, Medium. ECF Pensieve: Recent upgrades include the Auto-Fill Agent (v1), live website support, Harberger Tax contract (launching soon), new filters, sorting and sharing tools, expanded Items, Irys (Arweave) integration, an updated notification system, and upcoming Complaints & Redress and Quora.pensieve features.Perennial Grant Experiment: A 10-week ongoing funding experiment rewarding public-good, pre-investment projects through Pensieve’s Transparency and Accountability scores — without gatekeepers or black boxes. Apply once, and receive recurring support. Week 3 is live: see rules and mechanisms. Join the Telegram Support Group.🧩Community Huddle Notes How the grant works: Projects remain live on Pensieve — no need to reapply weekly. Keep your page updated to stay eligible. Multiple projects per team: Allowed. Use the Ecosystem tab to connect related work. Voting mechanics: Simple voting for now; future rounds will introduce conviction or linear models to stabilize results. Passing funds: Winners may choose to donate their award to the next-ranked project. 👥 @QJ, @Reno Zuzalu Software: Launching a dedicated grant round for Zuvillages, powered by the ECF Pensieve Perennial Grant Experiment. Runs October 30 – November 13 (2 weeks). 👥 @Kelly AAStar: Key updates include: AirAccount 0.15 (BLS + TEE) released; SuperPaymaster 0.16 (AOA+) near completion; CoinJar and more on the way — learn more 👥 @Jason ZuKas & ZuGov: ZuKas continues exploring ancient democracy through decentralized tech, announcing Zukas II and the ZuGov protocol alpha, an open-source governance framework. 🎥 Watch the video. 👥 @Tarik Equity / Token Swaps & Investment Graphs: Introducing SAFE-like agreement templates for equity and token swaps, generating a visual investment graph that maps relationships between projects and investors. 👥 @Jesse #🔗 Stay in Touch 📚 Docs & Stories: bit.ly/ZuSoftware-doc 💬 Builder Chat: Discord 🌍 Socials: X · Warpcast 📬 Contact: @Kelly 💡 Zuzalu Software Vision: Building a CommunityOS for every innovative community. Zuzalu.city emerged from the first techno-optimistic pop-up community of Zuzalu. It aims to become the most user-friendly operating system for exploring decentralized tools built by Ethereum communities. Zuzalu Software represents a d/acc movement — a call to builders to create a world where communities can own and shape their civilization through open, decentralized tools. Timestamp Reference: ECF Pensieve Updates — 02:48 Perennial Grant Experiment — 20:51 ZuVillage Special Grant — 28:17 AAStar — 38:30 Equity / Token Swaps — 44:35 ZuKas & ZuGov — 48:56 Community Huddle — 54:42

    1h 28m

  3. 09/21/2025

    Zuzalu Software Townhall September: Mapping Out Web3 Tech Stacks and Dependencies

    🎉 A vibrant space where everyone is invited to contribute, discuss, and weave connections.📑 View Slides📺 Watch the full content on: YouTube · Spotify · Apple PodcastsModerator: @Kelly 🚀 Project Updates Highlights from 6 inspiring projects: 🧠 ⁠ECF Pensieve New features added: New project tabs for Fund Contributions and Ecosystem New sort/filter for Contributions & lists of Profile pages Simplified Homepage layout All aimed at profile mapping out infra and web3 tech stack dependencies. 🧪 Pensieve Alpha Bug Bounty is almost here. Temporary priority access is given to ZuKas residents, but global rollout will open soon with plenty of bounties left. Hunt to earn!👥 @QJ, @Reno 📝 Simple Page A censorship-resistant publishing platform on Ethereum, ENS & IPFS featuring: Added file uploads (images, audio) for embedding in sites Enabled page search functionality Added sidebar navigation options Included Table of Contents sidebar Improved appearance customizations and UI tweaks👥 @Joel 🌐 AAStar Updates include: AirAccount BLS aggregation tested and being integrated New tools (Contracts, token and landing) Working on AirAccount TEE KMS now👥 @Jason 📻 Web3Radio.it A decentralized community radio platform for audio content creators featuring: Supports EOA Wallet and Google login Allows live stream bookings via smart contracts A continuous player with live or community playlist modes (depending on schedule) Plans include decentralized advertising integration 👥@Matteo 🏛️ ⁠ZuKas A 10-day Governance & Collective Future Lab will take place Sept 9–19 in Kaş, Turkey. Strong local support and collaboration; warm hospitality Intimate, productive vibe; local ties enabled low-budget success Rich activities: scuba, historic visits, Vitalik’s talk, jamming with OpenSourceOrchestra Refreshing experience to see how a local community can host the Zu-Event 👥@ SHAKA Will openly share playbooks on localizing and facilitating communities Aim: build durable, locally rooted hubs Site’s history inspires today’s democratic practices 👥 @Tarik 🏅 POAP Collect your POAP from the September edition of the Zuzalu Software Townhall! 👥 @Salmanneedsajob 📚 Docs & Stories: bit.ly/ZuSoftware-doc 💬 Builder Chat: Discord 🌍 Socials: X · Warpcast 📬 Contact Point: @Kelly 🔗 Stay in Touch and Jump In! Timestamp: ECF Pensieve 01:43 Simple Page 05:17 ZuKas: 09:12 Web3 Radio 17:50 AAStar : Slides only Zuzalu Software Townhall POAP: 23:07

    28 min

  4. 09/01/2025

    Zuzalu Software Townhall August: Shipping Trust, Coordination, Momentum

    🎉 Hey friends! Welcome to the Zuzalu Software Townhall - a vibrant space where everyone is invited to contribute to the discussion and weave connections! See all Slides here. Check full content on Youtube, Spotify, and ApplePodcast. Moderator: @Kelly Exciting Updates from 8 projects in a nutshell! ECF Pensieve: Shipping My Lists, financial transparency items, smarter categories, a new Transparency Score, and continuing to integrate on-chain verification solutions such as Sablier. Pensieve bug bounty campaign will launch in September. Join Discord to get your alpha-tester code and explore Pensieve Alpha. 👥 @QJ @Matteo Zuzalu.City: WE ARE BACK, with hybrid storage mode (Web2 & Web3) still on the horizon. Pensieve project listings are now integrated on Dapp store. ZuSoft Townhall September will be happening on Sep. the 18th. 👥 @Reno Statecraft.tech:  a modular governance platform for online communities enabling network states. It features a drag-and-drop State Builder, a Citizen app for on-chain voting and discussions, and a configurable voting module with privacy-focused encryption options, inviting collaborators and testers. 👥 @Vladislav Social Layer : building a modular community event platform with new features like party programs, membership management, API enhancements, and image optimization for better app performance. 👥 @Jiang ETHCluj: lit up in late June, the event featured diverse first-timers and seasoned builders packed workshops, forged RWA and liquidity-aggregator collaborations, and proved that a strong community is built on resilience and creativity. Post-event, academia workshops and a 10-year Ethereum hackathon kept momentum rolling—with more initiatives coming. 👥 @Simona POAP: shared some positive experiences at Network School, highlight on learnathons, robotics classes, and a POAP collectible project showcasing monthly cohort activities and achievements. Inviting attendees to collect the POAP of Zuzalu Software Townhall August.👥 @Salmanneedsajob REcity: a pop-up city coming to Recife & Olinda (Brazil) in October 2025. 👥 @Zeugh ETH Floripa: going to happen the week right before Buenos Aires Devconnect, a couple of days by the beach to connect with other builders before going to Argentina.👥 @Zeugh **Timestamp:** Zuzalu.City 01:39 ECF Pensieve 03:22 Statecraft.tech 12:11 Network School POAP Collection 22:30 Zuzalu Software Townhall POAP 26:24 ETHCluj 28:03

    34 min

  5. 08/03/2025

    Zuzalu Software Townhall July: Pensieve Evolves, Zuzalu.City Returns, and More

    🎉 A vibrant space where everyone is invited to contribute, discuss, and weave connections.📑 View Slides📺 Watch the full content on: YouTube Moderator: @Kelly 🚀Project Updates Highlights from 8 inspiring projects: 🧠ECF Pensieve New features added: Featured lists Sablier link references Search, notifications, new filtering & sorting One-click item sharing All aimed at helping you discover like-minded projects and forge new connections.🧪 Alpha testers can request access via the ECF Discord.👥 @QJ, @Reno 🏙️ Zuzalu.City Zuzalu.City is BACK with: Launch of event.zuzalu.city with SocialLayer integration for easier event discovery and hosting Pensieve integration via the dApp Store ✅ Security audit completed Backend transition to Supabase for increased stability Hybrid storage mode (Web2 + Web3) in the works👥 @Reno 📝 Simple Page Beta launch of a censorship-resistant publishing platform on Ethereum, ENS & IPFS featuring: Version control Markdown editing ENS publishing Decentralized backend for full content ownership👥 @Joel 🎭 Social Layer New dashboard live—enabling organizers to: Manage events and teams Export data Access new venue-based views Import events via Luma for seamless onboarding and sharing best practices👥 @Eggy 🌐 AAStar Updates include: Development of Mycelium Craft for cooperative coordination Infra V0.2 underway A working open-source demo is expected next month👥 @Jason 🧳 Nomadia A decentralized, peer-to-peer OTC platform addressing travel and banking access challenges.Currently building: Escrow smart contract with multisig Off-ramp verification tools 🛠️ Looking for technical contributors (escrow and wallet devs welcome!)👥 @Tarik 🏛️ ZuKas A 10-day Governance & Collective Future Lab will take place Sept 9–19 in Kaş, Turkey.Focus: Designing a plurality-based smart contract Exploring new voting models Inviting community participation 📹 Watch the presentation video👥 @Tarik 🏅 POAP Collect your POAP from the July edition of the Zuzalu Software Townhall!👥 @Salmanneedsajob 📚 Docs & Stories: bit.ly/ZuSoftware-doc 💬 Builder Chat: Discord 🌍 Socials: X · Warpcast 📬 Contact Point: @Kelly Zuzalu.city was born from the original techno-optimistic pop-up experiment Zuzalu, and aims to become the most user-friendly OS for engaging with Ethereum-based tools for decentralization. Zuzalu Software is a d/acc movement—a call to builders to help every community own and shape its own civilization with the tools it needs. Participation Guidelines: All projects are welcome to present at Software Townhalls We neutrally promote all presentations on our channels Please DYOR (Do Your Own Research) before testing, collaborating, or investing Hosting ≠ Endorsement: A project featured at Zuzalu.city does not imply official endorsement Timestamp: ECF Pensieve 01:35 Zuzalu.City 07:35 Simple Page 11:06 Social Layer 17:21 Nomadia 24:08 ZuKas: 26:42 POAP: 31:30

    34 min

  6. 06/29/2025

    Zuzalu Software Townhall June: Discover ECF Pensieve Alpha, Join as Early Participantes Now

    🎉 Hey friends! Welcome to the Zuzalu Software Townhall - a vibrant space where everyone is invited to contribute to the discussion and weave connections! Moderator: @Kelly Exciting Updates from 8 projects in a Nutshell! ECF.Pensieve: Alpha version has launched, enabling community-verified truth with dynamic, transparent consensus, inviting 500 early participants to test and explore projects. Join via Discord to get your alpha-tester code. @QJ CarbonVote: Following a recent internal audit, CV will relaunch soon with a new one-click voting process, and will introduce a Twitter bot to simplify community decisions and boost engagement. @Reno ZuKas: 10 days of Web3, decentralized governance & collective future Lab is about to happen from September 9th to 19th, based in Kas, the birth place of the ancient democracy, aiming to foster pluralistic governance to support diverse, connected inhabitants and nomads with Web3 tools. @Tarik Nomadia: a peer-to-peer, decentralized OTC platform addressing travel and banking access issues, aiming to enhance transparency and safety with escrow and ZK ID integrations. @Tarik Speech Without Borders: Introducing Speech Without Borders, a nonprofit serving that will support the development and distribution of censorship-resistant technologies, including blockchain, VPNs, mesh networks, and satellite technologies. @Jesse Community Tooling for Privacy: A research on modular privacy that combines off-chain data self-attestation with on-chain zero-knowledge proofs, enabling confidential DAO voting, private trades, and secure operations. @Eugenio AAStar Team: AirAccount 0.12 demo finished with a double-signature 95%, starting Mycelium Protocol, and SuperPaymaster 0.12 in July, aiming to build decentralized infrastructure for communities. @Jason POAP: Inviting attendees to collect the POAP of Zuzalu Software Townhall May. @Salmanneedsajob Timestamp: 06:28 ECF Pensieve 04:23 CarbonVote 13:42 ZuKas& Nomadia 21:20 Speech Without Borders 24:31 Community Tooling for Privacy 35:38 POAP AAStar: slides only

    41 min

  7. 05/06/2025

    Zuzalu Software Townhall April: Insights and Lessons from Running Long-term Web3 Hubs

    Exciting Updates from 10 projects in a nutshell! ZuBuilder Guild (Pilot 1): Rewarding long-term contributors in infrastructure, dApps, and community testing through trustless funding tools like 0xSplits. Membership opening soon—join Discord for the latest updates. @QJ , @Cathy Zuzalu.City: Now supporting role-based permissions in space management, gated access via POAP or Zupass, and flexible Web2/Web3 storage (Supabase available, Ceramic coming soon…). Communities can install apps directly from the dApp Store, use a new public forum on Discourse, receive updates via Discord, and access a private Element room for privacy-conscious users. @Reno, @Kelly ECF.Network: Developing a decentralized, identity-agnostic coordination platform that tracks contributions, verifies information, and evolves shared understanding. MVP in progress, with a v0 launch expected in 2–3 weeks. @QJ AAstar Team: Working on a new version of AirAccount (permissionless accounts) and SuperPaymaster (a decentralized gas payment protocol). Future plans include COS72 and the Mycelium Protocol. @Jason Nomad Collective: Running 45 pop-up cities worldwide, offering “pop-up as a service,” exploring real estate tokenization, and inviting collaboration on community-driven pop-up hubs. @Dianel AI-CNS: Building infrastructure to help communities self-govern, allocate resources, and make decisions using AI. Features include on-chain agreements, smart accounts, and AI agent delegation tools. @dayan Web3PrivacyNow Hackathon: Coming June 13–15 in Berlin! Reimagining Web3 hacking with veteran mentors, no bounty hunting, and a focus on usability, privacy-first AI, cryptography, and deep interdisciplinary collaboration. @web3privacy Palm Protocol: Bridging crypto to physical cash. New partnerships in Turkey and Kenya, with a pilot program planned for Devcon arrivals—real-world utility on the horizon. @Ziz Zuzalu POAP Collection: A nostalgic look back at Zugrama through its POAPs, offering creative inspiration for anyone looking to build their own POAP story for a future pop-up.@Salmanneedsajob USDC-NEAR-ME: Almost ready for MVP! An interactive map showing physical businesses that accept USDC. Businesses can add their locations and info—making it easy for users to find them.@Samuel Special Session: Insights and Lessons from Running Long-term Web3 Hubs AKASHA Hub Barcelona: Building Community Hubs for Local Impact and Web3 Values @Nikoline; @Lawrence ⁠4Seas⁠: Co-Living, Radical Social Experimentation, and Cypherpunk Ideals @Link Community Graphs⁠: Mapping Social Interactions and Trust Across Communities @Leo; @Jesse Timestamp: 00:02:01 ZuBuilder Guild (Pilot 1) 00:05:41 AAstar Team 00:08:10 Zuzalu.City 00:11:15 ECF.Network 00:18:05 Nomad Collective 00:21:33 AI-CNS 00:36:06 AKASHA Hub Barcelona 00:48:57 4seas 01:00:00 Community Graphs 01:15:36 Zuzalu POAP Collection 01:20:01 USDC-NEAR-ME 01:22:02 Palm Protocol 01:25:32 Web3PrivacyNow Hackathon

    1h 29m

  8. 04/01/2025

    Zuzalu Software Townhall March: Introducing ZuBuilder Guild Pilot 1 to Shape Community Governance

    🎉 Hey friends! Welcome to the Zuzalu Software Townhall — a vibrant space where everyone’s invited to join the discussion and connection! Zuzalu Software Vision: CommunityOS for Every Innovative Community. Zuzalu.city was born in the first of its kind techno-optimistic pop-up community of Zuzalu, and commits to becoming the most user-friendly operating system to interact with the tools and applications built by Ethereum’s decentralisation communities. Zuzalu Software is a d/acc movement, it is to call upon builders to create a world where every community can own and innovate their civilisation with the decentralised tools they need. Exciting Updates from projects in a nutshell! Launching ZuBuilder Guild（Pilot 1): Rewarding Contributions and Shaping Future Community Governance @QJ;@Cathy A collective funding mechanism that rewards contributors based on their ongoing impact and participation in Zuzalu Software’s ecosystem.Aims to identify, compensate, and encourage long-term and impactful involvement allowing contributors to directly benefit from collective rewards through calculations via split and vesting 0xsplits.A foundation for future community governance that fairly recognizes and compensates every contribution.Huge thanks for your support during the ENS x Octant Public Good Grant Round on Giveth! With the grant now complete, all donations and future grants will flow directly into the ZuBuilder Guild to reward the builders shaping Community OS.Join the ZuBuilder Guild space for the latest updates and check out the Guild Doc for full details. Membership OPENS SOON with mainnet launch!Zuzalu.CityUnveils Major Updates: dApp install flow, Role-Based Access, and Zuland Integration @Reno New Beta version is coming soon, with default on mainet.dApp install flow v0.1 is now live! This feature allows anyone to list their dApp in the dApp store, and community admins can exploreand install these apps. Future phases will support iframes for community apps.Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) System has been introduced with four initial roles: owner, admin, member, and follower. A customized role, space gating and invitations will also be introduced later.Zuland Integration, a tokenized decentralized social network,is now complete and is fully integrated as a native app on Zuzalu.City for community spaces.UI/UX Improvements have been made for smoother space creation flow and more personalized spaces styles.Zuzalu.City’s builder chat has moved to Discord, hop into our Discord to stay tuned.Urbe.eth: Leading Italian Web3 Builders and Building Italian Permanent Space @Limone Urbe.eth is an Italian Web3 community focused on developer education and onboarding. They’ve opened the first Italian Web3 permanent space, offering free access to boot camps, workshops, and hackathons.Urbe.eth is now collaborating with Zuzalu.City on dApp store development and the integration of Zuland.ETHRome, the leading ETHalian Hackathon, combined with Urbe Village — a 2-week pop-up event — will take place in October 2025.Zuzalu Software Events POAP Collection @salmaneedsajob POAP Collection was introduced as a fun way to engage the community during events.The first POAP was distributed at Zuzalu Software townhall in Bangkok and continued for every subsequent event.The goal is to create a POAP collection page where participants can track their involvement in Zuzalu events.Future events will feature new collectible POAPs, and the project is designed to be community-driven. Members can also contribute by creating artwork for upcoming POAPs. Timestamp: 00:01:19 ZuBuilder Guild Pilot 00:09:14 Zuzalu.City 00:14:45 Urbe.eth 00:19:12 Zuzalu Software Event POAP collection 00:29:44 Palm Protocol

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Welcome to ZuChat, a place hosted by zuzalu.city where the builders, dreamers, and doers of ZuVillages come together. Each episode features critical and insightful topics ranging from technology to community governance. We hope these discussions could not only inspire action but also deepen our collective understanding of the endeavors we pursue together.

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