The @ETHRome event coming to an end and I'm here sharing the brand guide designed in the last 10 months What a crazy journey organizing the first #web3 hackathon in Italy! Thanks to @Pupobit for all the support through all this design madness and to all the @urbeEth community!

We confirmed he's a reptilian!

Last Friday, @VitalikButerin visited the Urbe Hub 🐺 We welcomed researchers from the Ethereum Foundation and a few external visitors for a full day of coworking focused on Ethereum’s post-quantum roadmap. Shoutout to @asanso as well for helping coordinate the day. We opened the Urbe Hub a little over a year ago with a simple goal: to create a place where builders, researchers, and people passing through could sit together, work together, and exchange ideas. Friday felt like a reminder of why we opened these doors in the first place. People helping shape Ethereum spent the day here doing exactly what this space was made for. If you’re building frontier tech, whether in Web3, AI, or beyond, if you live in Rome, or if you’re just passing through, the Urbe Hub is here. Come find us!

Now that's a cool @poapxyz Great job @vDarph

i’ve been sitting with this feeling lately, trying to understand why we’re doing all this shit @urbeEth, @builders_garden, @ETHRome, FarCon Rome, all the events, the hackathons, dragging people around the world, trying to grow an italian ecosystem basically from scratch. it didn’t come from a mission statement or a big plan. it really started because for most of my life i felt alone with this obsession for tech and building things. i was always the person in the room who cared about creating something new while everyone around me wanted the slow life, the easy rhythm, the “why are you doing all this” energy. and i’ve always known that life is fine, but i’m just not built for it. when you don’t have people who speak your same language, you either shrink or you start building a place where your language finally makes sense. everything we’re doing comes from choosing the second path. @urbeEth was literally me, @Frankc_eth and @matteoikari (naming only the first two people i met in rome - there's many others who are contributing to this journey like @gallo_eth, @orbuloeth, @mctflurryy and more) trying to build the room we wish existed when we were younger: a space where wanting more isn’t annoying, where curiosity isn’t weird, where ambition doesn’t make you the outsider in your own city. @builders_garden wasn’t born out of genius or strategy, it was us wanting to get our hands dirty, to try things, to build shit for real. we’re not preaching from some balcony, we’re in the mud with everyone else, figuring it out day after day. ideas, prototypes, broken experiments at 2am, shipping things that might fail tomorrow and honestly that’s the whole point. if we want to show the way, we have to know the way ourselves, we can’t ask anyone to walk a path we haven’t walked first. and this whole idea of growing the italian ecosystem is just the expanded version of that same instinct. it’s not theory, not politics, not “ecosystem strategy” decks. it’s simply builders building, openly and loudly enough that someone out there feels less alone. if there’s a kid in rome or milan or anywhere in italy who feels the way we did (hungry, curious, a bit misplaced) we want them to see what’s happening and realize they’re not crazy, they’re not strange, they’re just early. there’s finally a place for people like that, and no, you don’t have to fly to the US to feel understood. you can actually start right here, with people who get it, with people who move the same way you do. the funniest part is that people sometimes think this was intentional, like we sat down and said “let’s create a movement.” absolutely not. we just didn’t want to feel alone anymore and when you create from that honest place, people show up. they feel it and they stay. momentum forms out of nowhere, and suddenly you look around and there are dozens and then hundreds of people orbiting something you didn’t even realize you were building in the beginning. and now the mission feels different. at the start the energy came from wanting to escape the environment we grew up in, that slow, resigned vibe that quietly suffocates anyone who wants to build a different path. but now it comes from somewhere deeper. we’re not running away from anything anymore, we’re building forward. we’re trying to make sure the next generation doesn’t have to start alone like we did. we want italy to feel like a place with a pulse. we want rome to feel like a node, a real one, not just a postcard city watching innovation happen somewhere else. and something i’ve learned along the way is that lots of people say they want community but very few actually build one. even fewer keep showing up when things get messy. and almost nobody tries to build community while also shipping products and experiments at the same time. it’s a strange combination but somehow it’s exactly where we feel most alive. not because we planned it, but because this is the life we always wanted even before we had the words for it. at the end of the day the mission is simple, we don’t want someone like us to feel the loneliness we felt. if someone in italy wakes up with that itch to build something, that obsession you can’t explain at dinner with “normal people” we want them to know there’s a place for them now. there’s a table, a crew, a hub, a group chat, a chance, someone saying yeah man go for it. we didn’t get that growing up. now we get to build it for others. and somewhere along the way this stopped being about proving anything and started becoming something that actually feels like home, not just for one of us but for everyone who shows up, contributes, dreams, and builds. that’s the part that keeps us going 🫡

What started as a team of hackers going through hackathons wearing matching hoodies, turned into an Italian powerhouse with @urbeEth Hub, @ETHRome third edition, and whole 2 weeks of Urbe Village in the heart of Rome ethrome.org

early version of @neynarxyz / @farcaster_xyz explorer

I've joined the "Ethereum Everywhere" team at the @ethereumfndn ♦︎ This team is focused on scaling local meetups and hubs that support app builders. Local meetups are fundamental for onboarding new users and devs, representing the ultimate expression of the @ethereum Infinite Garden concept🌱 It's time to bring #EthereumEverywhere 🌍

Meme competition? We're in of course Here’s our submission to the @web3privacy Memathon from me and @vDarph

𝐇𝐨𝐩𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭 on the way! 🍻

Wishes you Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Cheers 🍻

It was an intense 3 days full of overwhelming emotions.❤️ We hope you enjoyed yourselves and found our beer to your liking as much as we did. 🍺 (we promise will be more!) Thanks to all participants, sponsors and organizers of @ETHRome 24. See you soon! Cheers🍻

ANNOUNCING THE FIRST WEB3 HUB IN ITALY! It’s official! During the @ETHRome closing ceremony, we announced the Urbe Hub project, a physical space opening in 2025 for every web3 builder who wants to join us in Rome. This wouldn’t have been possible without the support of @AKASHAorg, the main sponsor of this project. With their experience from @AKASHAworldBCN, we’re sure this is the perfect partnership to bring Urbe Hub to life. Stay tuned for more updates in the coming days, and start planning your trip to Rome in 2025, you’ll always be welcome by the urbe.eth fam!

We're collecting local #privacy issues (such as censorship resistance in 🇹🇷, journalist leaks in 🇲🇽, safe comms in occupied territories in 🇺🇦) to be addressed at hackathons worldwide. Kicking off with @ETHRome 🏛️ Do u know of any privacy problem in #Italy? 🇮🇹 Drop them here: github.com/web3privacy/priva… ITA frens, help us advocate for freedom :) @mattiapomelli @francescoswiss @jaromil @hellais @dilettahuyskes_ @FrancescoRenziA @limone_eth @emanuele82 @Autholykos @costgallo @mariamagenes1 @0xMassimi @fravincenti1 @thefranceway @ClaraRosati3 A @web3privacy project started by @nicksvyaznoy

join the waitlist for the @BrianknowsAI chat feature: - 🤖 prompt in a more dynamic way - 🔑 enjoy a signless experience via @biconomy DAN session keys - 💳 fund your smart wallets via @privy_io releasing soon 👀 DMs are open for waitlist too! warpcast.com/orbulo/0x881804…

Some of the poap designs i made for last week's of Urbe House frim @urbeEth !

Nice work, @vDarph 🎨 Immutable memories for the ages. cc @urbeEth, @poapxyz, @BrianknowsAI

What helps builders bring the vision of Ethereum to life more than usable products that close the gap between tech and mainstream? Good job my friend.

I just joined Team @0xpolygon at @ETHGlobal and I got swagged by @dablclub #agglayer #aggregation

Introducing the Intent Recognition Engine v1!🎺 Built for web3, powered by AI. Want to know more? 🧵

Signup process for supercast.xyz - Multi-step process, focusing on clarity (added a stepper too!) - Added a recovery phrase step - Focused on minimal design as the platform is, worked a lot on hierarchy - Success screen added with a preview cc @wojtekwtf