What is Zuzalu

2023: First Zuzalu

The first idea of Zuzalu started on a post Crypto Cities. Over time the idea manifested to an experiment with the first iteration being: Zuzalu Montenegro. The goal: Create a pop-up city that houses 200+ people from a diverse variety of regions and fields together for 2 months aimed to blend a variety of cultures fostering an environment where innovative experiments could make positive impacts on the world. To learn more about the idea behind Zuzalu, read Why I Built Zuzalu.

2024: Open Frontier

At the end of 2023, the Zuzalu frontier was opened:

• We take the 2024 “spring of spinoffs” concept as inspiration, and make that be the only thing we do in 2024. We extend it to cover the whole year.

• We intentionally do NOT DO any of the following:

  • Have an explicit primary headline long-duration event

  • Have an explicit concept of “Zuzalu citizens” or “Zuzalu residents”

  • Attach the name “Zuzalu” to a specific physical event in general

• We DO:

  • Actively encourage people, both inside the existing community and on the edges of it, to run their own Zu-villages. It’s totally okay and even encouraged for some of these Zu-villages to be simultaneous with and beside each other!

  • Strongly consider providing funding to some of these groups

  • Continue to stay together as a group, both virtually and through in-person chats at various Zu-villages, to (i) coordinate on supporting digital public goods that would be common across these Zu-villages and (ii) engage in cross-pollination and intellectual discussion

  • Continue to be open to multiple paths in 2025, eg: moving toward becoming “United Networks”, coming back into doing some kind of larger event, etc. 2024 will be Zuzalu 2.0, 2025 will be Zuzalu 3.0; the future going that far out is unknown.

In 2024, Zuzalu has grown into a decentralised movement with many initiatives.

⚠️ There is no official Zuzalu account, so watch out for anything that claims to be a single source of truth for "Zuzalu" as a whole.