🎬 Take a look at how we closed out 2025 with our Detroit Blockchain Collective holiday party 🎉 As we ring in 2026, we're celebrating what has been an extraordinary year of impact for Detroit Blockchain Collective (@DetBlockchain) and for Michigan’s Web3 ecosystem as a whole. This holiday celebration was a fitting way to close the year. It was a moment of recognition for the community that has helped propel Web3 in Michigan to new heights. We were honored to welcome Lt. Governor @garlin Gilchrist II as our featured speaker, alongside @JustinOnwenu, Detroit’s Director of Entrepreneurship & Economic Opportunity. Their presence signaled something important: the work happening in this community matters, & it is being noticed at the highest levels. We’re grateful to @standwithcrypto for sponsoring our holiday party & helping make this community celebration possible. As the Michigan President of Stand With Crypto, I’m proud to support work that strengthens local communities while advancing the responsible digital-asset policy our state needs to thrive. What Detroit Blockchain Collective accomplished in 2025 was powered entirely by you: the founders, builders, students, advocates, sponsors, & community leaders who showed up, collaborated, & pushed this space forward together. The momentum & credibility we’ve built happened because of you. Throughout 2025, Detroit Blockchain Collective brought people together across backgrounds & experience levels. From hosting conversations with federal regulators shaping the future of digital assets, to spotlighting mission-driven organizations doing globally recognized work, to partnering with entrepreneurial hubs born right here in Detroit. We created space for education, connection, & opportunity, and in doing so, strengthened Michigan’s position in the broader digital-asset ecosystem. As proud as we are of what we’ve built, the work is far from finished. Ecosystem building is never “done.” It evolves, it expands, and it demands continued curiosity, integrity, & leadership. We enter 2026 energized, focused, & committed to deepening education, strengthening partnerships, supporting responsible policy, & creating even more pathways for people to participate in this space. Thank you for being part of this journey. Thank you for building with us. And thank you for helping make Detroit Blockchain Collective what it is today. Here’s to an even more impactful 2026! 🥂

I remember your Women of Web3 brunch. I received a heartfelt message that stayed with me. We need strong emphasis on digital inclusion and meaningful connectivity for women and girls. The flowers are blossoming for us! @DetBlockchain @ElizabethHa @333Polaris

The United Nations Development Programme @UNDP just launched its Blockchain Advisory Group with 26 member orgs. First focus: financial inclusion & digital finance in underserved economies. Orgs include @ethereumfndn, @StellarOrg , @AlgoFoundation, @arbitrum, @FilFoundation, @Cardano, @AvalancheFDN, @krakenfx, @Celo, @Cointelegraph. UNDP is already working with governments and ecosystem partners across Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Central Asia, and Asia-Pacific on applications spanning digital payments, financial inclusion, climate finance, digital identity, supply chain traceability, public procurement, and service delivery. Among the use cases already live: land registries in India, aid distribution in Malawi, digital identity for 70,000 beneficiaries, and on-chain payroll saving $453K/month in Syria. Formalizing an advisory group at this scale points to the UN shifting from fragmented country-level deployments toward coordinated institutional infrastructure for blockchain across public systems globally.

Detroit Blockchain Collective is part of a coalition of 200 organizations who called on Senate leadership to bring the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act to the floor. The bill passed the Banking Committee with bipartisan support and would establish regulatory clarity for digital asset markets, provide developer protections, strengthen consumer safeguards, and support U.S. competitiveness in the space. 👇🏽

Commissioner Peirce puts “code is speech” first among her principles for stopping SEC jurisdictional overreach, citing Coin Center’s research and advocacy for the proposition. We don't force software publishers to get licensed in America. Constitution says so.

we’ve come a long way from being the only girl at a crypto meetup 🥹

There’s a pretty good reason prediction markets are powerful: it’s not just the accuracy, it’s because ppl are putting their own capital behind their convictions, which gives you behavioral data instead of what ppl say they think.

🫶 my blockchain fam! Building in Detroit feels truly special with this community!

detroit crypto fam 🫶

Networking that doesn't feel like networking. Who else has made awesome friends through Detroit Blockchain Collective? 🖤 📸 photos thanks to the one & only @KingDabTech

You’re welcome, Elizabeth! I am very proud of what you have done with @DetBlockchain since you founded it. I have no doubt that your work in Web3 will be recognized even more. Thank you for starting a crypto hub in Detroit! 🙌

A pro crypto Democrat just ousted a 20 year incumbent Democrat who was anti crypto. Nature is healing.

If you haven't attended a @DetBlockchain Collective x @standwithcrypto Michigan event... you should do that 😏😁 @ElizabethHa Gravitates great people like @HecTheProtector and @Dao1sm. You won't want to miss the next one @onboredmi @vtatvio @DaKindKid @bitfiendd @ontherisecc34

Michigan’s role in digital assets is taking shape right now. Take a peek at the highlight reel for our recent @DetBlockchain Collective event focused on where Crypto policy is headed.

Yesterday's Detroit Global Pizza Party was a whole vibe! 🍕 Great catching up with @ElizabethHa, Michigan's @standwithcrypto President, out in the yard. Celebrating 16 years of Bitcoin pizza history! Here's a look: 📸👇 #StandWithCrypto #DetroitBlockchain #BitcoinPizzaDay #Ky

The honor is all mine, brother! 🫡 Always appreciate you holding down the lens for the city. It’s always a movie when the crew links up with you and @ElizabethHa to build bridges in Detroit web3! 🎥🔥 #KingDabTech #DetroitBlockchainCollective #Ky

Loved getting to show @drake_koko62874 how @DetBlockchain and @standwithcrypto Michigan does it out here in #Detroit with a great talk on #Ripple and #XRP🔥 Getting to introduce him to great people like @HecTheProtector & @ElizabethHa was also a true honor 🫡

RT @DetBlockchain: You come for the knowledge but leave with new friends 😌 Great shots from this week’s event with Author Justin McKnight o…

RT @DetBlockchain: That’s a wrap on Bitcoin Pizza Day 2026! Thanks to @Pizza_DAO for hosting & inviting us to partner with them in Detroit.…