Editorial
We ran our first member survey since 2024 to understand what members want and how to focus our energy in 2026.
FWB restructured its token system to support scalable governance, sustainable treasury mechanics, and cultural experimentation—without compromising onchain integrity.
FWB unveils a new visual identity reflecting its evolution from crypto-native collective to a global platform for cultural technologists.
The FEST25 theme and programmatic narrative embraces our technological and cultural tension.
Music needs more than just new tech, it needs better systems.
The money myth and the real promise of crypto.
Blockchains are the next logical step in the evolution of the internet.
Anna Gat is a modern polymath, a person focused on advancing the world through reconnecting people to their roots. She started a company, Interintellect, that is based on the idea of reinventing the French Salon - or, what it would look like if we talked to each other again. She talks here about her idea of a Hope axis, decentralized centralization, and connection in a fragmented world.
You can’t have a perfect solution in an imperfect world.
A perspective on emerging standards for consumer crypto applications.
This essay–the third in an ongoing series–addresses the need for our larger industry to build products people want to use.
Introducing “The Palimpsest of Personhood”: a collaboration with Worldcoin and PUSH, Jul. 6 and 7 in Tokyo.
Today, we announce a new editorial series investigating the path toward a blockchain-dominant future, where financial tools are intertwined with cultural narratives.
This is a call to integrate social and cultural contexts into our technology.
A framework for a better internet.
The FEST24 music line-up is finally here.
We sat down with our friend iamnick.eth, founder Fam and instigator of Soulquest to talk about the project's journey from Party crowdfund to winner of Optimism's We <3 The Art.
Event Pattern Language 2.0 – 2024 Release
Introducing FWB's first CMO Steph Alinsug.
DAOs remain a critical component within the web3 ecosystem because token-based governance remains the most effective and common mechanism to reflect community decision-making.
FEST is distinguished by the brilliance of our speakers, collaborators, and the breadth of ideas they bring to campus. We sat down with FEST co-founder & Programming Director KD to chat about this year’s line-up.
We sat down with our friend Stefen Deleveaux, founder and curator of Oasis Onchain to chat about the summit's origins and what's to come.
For FEST24, our programmatic inquiry spotlights the forever push-pull of innovation and adoption.
FWB believes in a future where web3 is an extension of our humanity, not a departure from it.
Introducing “The Paradox of Personhood” our collaboration with Worldcoin & Feria Material, Feb. 8-11 in Mexico City.
The long-time FWB contributor, author, producer, and senior-level growth strategist shares his vision for the future of our DAO.
Alex Zhang has been FWB’s “Mayor” for just over two years. Before passing the torch, he reflects on key learnings from the role, and shares how this move helps make our DAO even more decentralized.
We’re launching a holiday marketplace showcasing limited-edition goods from Refraction, Dirt, Metalabel, USB Club, and more members of the extended FWB family—with purchases powered by the new PayPal stablecoin, PYUSD.
Generative artists and FWB members Andrew Benson and Kirsten Bevin talk about what it’s like to create with code, the human impulse to explore variability, and designing plans that you fully expect to go haywire.
All the nitty gritty on how well we did in Q3 and what's next for Q4!
This year's FWB FEST features 36 collaborating partners and respective communities working to build the new internet. Here’s what each has planned for our destination gathering, happening August 4–6 in Idyllwild, CA.
In the first half of 2023, we successfully reconfigured FWB’s operational model. Here’s where we’re going next, and how we’re getting there.
FEST is a destination gathering of new-internet communities, and a temporary network city for creating culture and exploring new ideas. Here’s how we’re planning it, and why you should join us.
Read “Octane Render,” a non-fiction comic by David Blumenstein.
It's been a strange couple of years for music NFTS. Despite the challenges, independent artists still see them as a way to escape a broken industry.
Introducing FWB's new social software — the first platform owned and operated by a DAO whose users will define its outcomes.
A conversation about the possibilities and pitfalls of open-sourcing your IP, with folks from Broadside, OKPC, All-Starz, and more.
Furries have traded unique digital artworks for years, without relying on blockchains. Crypto communities can learn from their emphasis on trust and mutual care.
Lessons from the rise and fall of Bulletin Board Systems
Web3 harnesses power of the network to will our collective desires into reality. But what future are we manifesting?
The relationship between art and capital feels more toxic than ever. How can we build a world that supports meaningful and subversive work?
VR promises a seductive image of a utopic space where we can escape the ills of modern society. When we buy into this rhetoric, whose experiences are we choosing to ignore?
The story of the Cypherpunks Mailing List, an obscure ‘90s email server that developed decentralized technology as a path to new forms of human organization.
Nadya Tolokonnikova, Kilo Kish, Telefon Tel Aviv, and other FWB FEST performers imagine a creative economy that puts artists first.
FWB Fest performers Haleek Maul, Kilo Kish, Sudan Archives, Nadya Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot, and more open up about the internet communities that changed their lives.
Inside the hiking-inspired, AI-driven visual identity designers David Rudnick and Laiqa Mohid and collaborators created for FWB FEST
Bounties aren't the future of work in Web3. They’re a primitive of some of the worst forms of exploitation under capitalism.
Mindy Seu’s Cyberfeminism Index documents the slime-dripping legacy of artists reclaiming cyberspace from the male gaze.
The hyper-financialized world of crypto and Web3 is just one application of the blockchain. It’s time we explore the wider possibilities that can emerge from shared public ledgers.
Matthew Chaim, Mark Redito, and Greydient, core contributors of Songcamp’s wildly ambitious Chaos experiment, discuss collaboration, compensation, and lore-building in Web3.
Rare Pepes were one of the earliest known collections of blockchain-based tokens as digital art. The creator of the wallet that powered the community speaks.
An open source, decentralized Twitter would be great — the platform's future under a billionaire sh*tposter is a different story.
MoonPay has made it easier for millions of people to buy crypto. So what's the deal with them helping famous people buy JPEGs now?
Designers Jeremy Karl and Eugene Angelo want to live in a world where garment design is decentralized and creators own the fruits of their labor.
The rudimentary virtual world was imbued with life and meaning by its members. Can new metaverse projects say the same?
With millions of members and thousands of autonomous groups, AA's "benign anarchy" has a lot to teach us about decentralized governance.
Eric Hu, Itzel Yard, Nic Hamilton, and other collaborators join the visionary designer to discuss Web3's most ambitious art experiment yet
The High Witches open up the project's unlikely beginnings, how they collectively conjured such a detailed world, and breaking the spell of the male gaze.
The Bajan rapper sidestepped the exploitative streaming economy through NFTs. Now, he’s using the tools of Web3 to empower Caribbean and Afro-diasporic artists.
Luxury NFT restaurants only scratch the surface of blockchain's potential to transform how we eat.
The best framework for coordinating — and making a difference — may not be a choice between the two models, but a blend of both.
17,000 people teamed up to a buy a copy of the U.S. Constitution. What happened taught us a lot about decentralized decision-making.
Pussy Riot provocateur speaks on building a decentralized movement before blockchains, how Web3 tech changes activism, and mistakes made trading NFTs.
How a series of generative artworks gave way to one of 2021's most unique NFT communities, as told by the artist, technologist, and collectors who are a part of it.
The promise of Web3 is a brighter tomorrow, but that can only happen if it solves for the inequities of today
In his new book, David Ehrlichman lays the ground rules for healthy and productive networked systems.
Fresh off the release of his debut NFT project Monarchs, the interdisciplinary artist reflects on evolving an on-chain practice, the value of digital art, and finding freedom through code.
The implications of ownership in an infinitely divisible existence.
