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📰 CURRENTBLOCK DAILY WATCH | SEPT. 24, 2026

Thursday brings a strong mix of protocol development, institutional blockchain infrastructure and major ecosystem gatherings across Tokyo, Sofia, Toronto and Columbus.

What’s Coming Up Today...

🔷 INJECTIVE PREPARES FOR MERIDIAN UPGRADE AS RWA AND COMPLIANCE INFRASTRUCTURE TAKE CENTRE STAGE

Injective is scheduled to activate its Meridian upgrade today, introducing new infrastructure for regulated assets, multi-VM markets, exchange functionality and privacy-focused development across the Injective ecosystem.

The upgrade is expected to bring a stronger focus on the intersection of tokenization, compliance and onchain markets.

🇯🇵 ETHTOKYO TURNS TO PRIVACY, GAS INFRASTRUCTURE AND OPEN-SOURCE RESEARCH

ETHTokyo continues today with enXross DAO hosting a Whitepaper Reading Club, the first ETHGas public meetup in Japan and a Web3Privacy Now gathering focused on zero-knowledge technology, open source, digital rights and Ethereum’s privacy ecosystem.

🇧🇬 ETHSOFIA PUTS CYPHERPUNK TECHNOLOGY AND INSTITUTIONAL CAPITAL ON THE SAME STAGE

ETHSofia opens today at Sofia Tech Park as the technical centrepiece of Blockchain Week Bulgaria.

The programme explores blockchain infrastructure, tokenization, cross-chain security, privacy, institutional adoption and the evolving relationship between traditional finance and onchain markets.

🇨🇦 SOLANA SUMMIT CANADA SHIFTS FROM BUILDERS TO INSTITUTIONS IN TORONTO

The second day of Solana Summit Canada takes place today, expanding the conversation from yesterday’s developer programme toward founders, institutions, stablecoins, financial infrastructure, regulation and consumer applications.

The summit runs at St. Lawrence Market North in Toronto.

🇺🇸 MIDWEST BITCOIN SUMMIT ENTERS ITS FINAL DAY IN COLUMBUS

The Midwest Bitcoin Summit continues today at the Greater Columbus Convention Center, bringing its Bitcoin-only programme to a close after two days of discussions around adoption, mining, policy, self-custody and the wider Bitcoin economy.

🇺🇸 FREEDOM TECH DC TAKES ITS CONVERSATION TO CAPITOL HILL

Freedom Tech DC continues its Washington programme today with its Capitol Hill component, extending discussions around Bitcoin, technology, money, computing, energy and open AI.

🇰🇷 KOREAN TOKENIZATION MOVES CLOSER TO OP MAINNET

KB Securities, Securitize and Optimism are moving into a new institutional tokenization collaboration in South Korea, beginning with plans for tokenized money-market and investment funds on OP Mainnet.

The partnership could eventually expand toward tokenized stocks, bonds and other regulated financial products as Korea’s regulatory framework develops.

🌐 RWA TOKENIZATION REMAINS THE COMMON THREAD ACROSS TODAY’S ECOSYSTEM

From Injective and Optimism to Solana and Ethereum, tokenized financial assets remain one of the strongest themes across today’s ecosystem activity with infrastructure increasingly being designed around compliance, settlement, privacy and institutional access.

CURRENTBLOCK WATCH

Today’s Web3 calendar is less about one flagship conference and more about where the infrastructure is heading:

regulated assets, institutional markets, privacy, high-throughput chains and programmable financial rails.

From Tokyo to Toronto, Sofia to Columbus, the next phase of onchain infrastructure is being built in real time.

Stay tuned for more details.

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📰 CURRENTBLOCK DAILY WATCH | SEPT. 23, 2026

Wednesday brings a packed global calendar, from a major exchange shutdown and Africa’s fintech ecosystem to Ethereum’s agentic future and Solana’s growing developer economy.

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🔴 BITMEX EXCHANGE OPERATIONS COME TO AN END AFTER 11 YEARS

BitMEX officially shuts down its exchange operations today at 04:00 UTC, ending more than a decade of crypto derivatives trading. Remaining open positions will be force-closed at the closure time as the platform begins its wind-down.

🇳🇬 NIGERIA FINTECH WEEK CLOSES ITS THREE-CITY EDITION

Nigeria Fintech Week reaches its second and final day today, continuing simultaneously across Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt.

The programme brings payments, AI, cybersecurity, digital banking, blockchain, regulation and investment into focus under the theme “Legacy in Motion: Powering the Digital Renaissance.”

🇯🇵 TOKYO TURNS TO AGENTIC ECONOMIES AS AGENTIC SUMMIT TAKES CENTRE STAGE

ETHTokyo’s flagship Agentic Summit takes place today at the University of Tokyo, bringing developers, researchers and ecosystem leaders together to examine the infrastructure required for autonomous agents to transact, negotiate and collaborate on open networks.

Topics include agent identity, delegation, payments, agentic commerce and autonomous finance.

🇯🇵 METAMASK BRINGS BUILDERS TOGETHER FOR AGENTIC EDITION IN TOKYO

Builder Nights returns to Tokyo tonight with an agent-focused edition, connecting developers and ecosystem contributors exploring the tools, protocols and applications emerging around autonomous onchain technology.

🇨🇳 WANXIANG BLOCKCHAIN SUMMIT BRINGS GLOBAL BLOCKCHAIN LEADERS TO SHANGHAI

The 12th Global Blockchain Summit takes place today in Shanghai, bringing blockchain, AI and digital-asset leaders together around the evolution of the emerging blockchain economy and intelligent-chain infrastructure.

🇨🇦 SOLANA SUMMIT CANADA OPENS WITH A BUILDER-FOCUSED DAY IN TORONTO

Solana Summit Canada begins today at St. Lawrence Market North, with the opening day dedicated to developers, technical infrastructure, AI, payments, protocol deep-dives and live product demonstrations.

The summit continues tomorrow with founders, institutions and ecosystem leaders taking centre stage.

🇺🇸 FREEDOM TECH DC CONTINUES ITS SECOND DAY IN WASHINGTON

Freedom Tech DC enters its second day today, continuing conversations around Bitcoin, technology, money, speech, energy and open AI before its programme concludes in Washington.

🇺🇸 MIDWEST BITCOIN SUMMIT OPENS IN COLUMBUS

The Midwest Bitcoin Summit begins today at the Greater Columbus Convention Center, bringing the Bitcoin community together for two days of discussions spanning decentralisation, mining, self-custody, policy and the broader Bitcoin economy.

🇧🇬 BLOCKCHAIN WEEK BULGARIA OPENS WITH EUROPEAN CRYPTO INFRASTRUCTURE IN FOCUS

Sofia hosts the opening day of Blockchain Week Bulgaria, a three-day gathering exploring how blockchain infrastructure is being deployed across European finance, regulation, AI and the wider digital economy.

🌍 AFRICA AND GLOBAL WEB3 COMMUNITIES CONTINUE BUILDING

Beyond the headline events, ecosystem meetups and builder sessions continue across London, New York, Toronto and other Web3 hubs, keeping conversations around tokenization, digital assets, infrastructure and decentralised technology active.

🧱 GLOBAL BUILDER TRACKS REMAIN OPEN

🟣 Monad Metropolis — through Oct. 13
🌐 Colosseum Crypto World’s Fair — through Oct. 12
◎ STOCKLANA — submissions close Sept. 25
🇯🇵 ETHGlobal Tokyo — IRL build begins Sept. 25

CURRENTBLOCK WATCH

From the closure of one of crypto’s longest-running derivatives exchanges to autonomous AI agents, African fintech, Solana infrastructure and Europe’s digital-asset economy, today’s calendar captures an industry continuing to evolve across finance, AI, infrastructure and open networks.

Stay tuned for more details.

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📰 CURRENTBLOCK DAILY WATCH | SEPT. 22, 2026

Tuesday brings a major protocol upgrade, new onchain financial infrastructure, and a packed global calendar spanning Ethereum, digital assets, fintech and Web3 policy.

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🔺 AVALANCHE HELICON PREPARES TO GO LIVE ON MAINNET

Avalanche’s Helicon upgrade activates on Mainnet today at 15:00 UTC, introducing Continuous Execution on the C-Chain alongside changes to staking duration, validator uptime requirements, staking renewal and gas economics.

Mainnet validators must be running AvalancheGo v1.15.0 before activation.

◎ DAWN BRINGS REAL-WORLD DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCING ONCHAIN

DAWN’s USD.infra Vault launches today at 14:00 UTC, opening a new RWA-focused capital layer designed to connect onchain capital with digital infrastructure such as connectivity, ISP and AI-compute deployments.

The initial vault is restricted to eligible non-U.S. participants.

🟦 ZILLIQA MOVES THROUGH ANOTHER MIGRATION PHASE

Zilliqa’s network migration activity continues today, putting exchanges, wallets and infrastructure providers at the centre of another important operational day for the ecosystem.

🇳🇬 NIGERIA FINTECH WEEK OPENS IN LAGOS AS DIGITAL FINANCE TAKES CENTRE STAGE

Nigeria Fintech Week begins today with its main programme at the Wole Soyinka Centre in Lagos, alongside satellite programming in Abuja and Port Harcourt.

The two-day event will bring payments, AI, cybersecurity, digital banking, blockchain, regulation and investment into the same conversation under the theme “Legacy in Motion: Powering the Digital Renaissance.”

🇨🇳 ETHSHANGHAI RETURNS WITH “THE ETHEREUM RENAISSANCE”

Shanghai hosts the fifth edition of ETHShanghai today, bringing developers and ecosystem leaders together around Ethereum’s role as open, trustworthy and verifiable infrastructure for the AI era.

Vitalik Buterin is among the confirmed contributors, with the programme exploring Ethereum technology, open source, privacy, security and resistance to centralised capture.

🇯🇵 ETHTOKYO CONTINUES ITS CITY-WIDE ETHEREUM PROGRAMME

Ethereum activity continues across Tokyo as ETHTokyo moves through its Sept. 19–27 core week, with community events, meetups and ecosystem gatherings building toward the larger Agentic Summit, Institutional Summit and ETHGlobal Tokyo later this week.

🇺🇸 WASHINGTON TURNS INTO A CRYPTO POLICY HUB

CoinDesk’s Policy & Regulation conference takes place today in Washington, bringing policymakers, regulators, legal experts and digital-asset industry leaders together to discuss crypto market structure, stablecoins, tokenization and the evolving regulatory environment.

🇺🇸 FREEDOM TECH DC OPENS WITH BITCOIN, AI AND OPEN TECHNOLOGY IN FOCUS

The Bitcoin Policy Institute’s Freedom Tech DC summit begins today in Washington, bringing discussions around money, speech, energy, computing, Bitcoin and open AI into the U.S. capital’s wider technology-policy conversation.

🇨🇦 TORONTO HOSTS INSTITUTIONAL DIGITAL-ASSET SUMMIT

Digital Asset Summit Toronto takes place today, bringing financial institutions, investors, regulators, technology companies and digital-asset builders together around stablecoins, payments, tokenization, market infrastructure, AI and institutional adoption.

🌐 UNGA WEEK CONTINUES TO BRING BLOCKCHAIN AND DIGITAL-INFRASTRUCTURE CONVERSATIONS TO NEW YORK

Blockchain, digital identity, trust infrastructure and climate-tech discussions continue across New York today as UNGA and Climate Week side events keep the city's broader digital-economy calendar active.

🧱 GLOBAL BUILDERS KEEP SHIPPING ACROSS OPEN HACKATHON TRACKS

Several major builder programmes remain active today, including:

🟣 Monad Metropolis : through Oct. 13
🌐 Colosseum Crypto World’s Fair : through Oct. 12
◎ STOCKLANA : through Sept. 25
🇯🇵 ETHGlobal Tokyo : IRL build begins Sept. 25

CURRENTBLOCK WATCH

From Avalanche’s network upgrade and DAWN’s RWA infrastructure to Ethereum’s Asia-wide gatherings, Nigeria’s fintech ecosystem and Washington’s crypto-policy discussions, today’s calendar reflects a Web3 industry moving deeper into infrastructure, financial markets, AI and real-world adoption.

Stay tuned for more details.

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📰 CURRENTBLOCK DAILY WATCH | SEPT. 21, 2026

Monday’s Web3 calendar shifts toward ecosystem meetups, builder programmes and the final preparations for major Ethereum and blockchain gatherings across Asia.

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🇯🇵 ETHTOKYO ENTERS DAY THREE AS ETHEREUM COMMUNITY WEEK CONTINUES

Ethereum activity continues across Tokyo today as ETHTokyo moves deeper into its Sept. 19–27 programme, bringing builders, researchers, founders and communities together ahead of larger events later in the week.

🇨🇳 SHANGHAI TURNS THE SPOTLIGHT TO AI AND BLOCKCHAIN AHEAD OF ETHSHANGHAI

Shanghai begins its pre-summit programme today with AI Builders Day, bringing AI and Web3 researchers, entrepreneurs and ecosystem builders together to discuss agents, computing, product development and growth.

ETHShanghai officially follows tomorrow, Sept. 22.

🇺🇸 UNSTOPPABLE AFRICA CONCLUDES TWO-DAY NEW YORK GATHERING

The second and final day of Unstoppable Africa takes place today at the New York Marriott Marquis, bringing African leaders, investors and businesses together around trade, infrastructure, capital and Africa’s role in the emerging AI economy.

🇺🇸 BITCOINMONDAYS NYC TO EXPLORE THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL AUTHENTICITY

BitcoinMondays returns to New York today with a fireside conversation featuring Dr. W. Scott Stornetta, focusing on blockchain foundations and emerging approaches to cryptographic identity and verifying digital content.

🇺🇸 AUSTIN’S BITCOIN BUILDERS GATHER FOR MONTHLY COMMUNITY MEETUP

Developers, hackers and founders meet in Austin today for Bitcoin Builders Club, with discussions and project demonstrations centred on Bitcoin innovation, Lightning and open-source development.

🇺🇸 SAN FRANCISCO HACKATHON CHALLENGES BUILDERS TO CREATE PERSONAL AI AGENTS

The Battle of the Personal Brains hackathon takes place today in San Francisco, challenging developers to combine personal data, AI memory and external information into agents capable of taking real-world actions.

🇬🇧 LONDON’S TAO COMMUNITY MEETS AS Bittensor BUILDERS TAKE THE CONVERSATION OFFLINE

The Bittensor community gathers in London tonight for a TAO Social focused on decentralised intelligence, ecosystem conversations and connections between participants across the network.

🇦🇩 CRYPTOMONDAYS ANDORRA PUTS BITCOIN MINING UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT

Andorra hosts its fifth CryptoMondays meetup today, exploring Bitcoin mining, network security, cryptography and the economic role of mining infrastructure.

🇹🇭 BANGKOK’S SATOSHI SQUARE BRINGS TRADERS AND BUILDERS TOGETHER

The weekly Satoshi Square meetup returns to Bangkok tonight, creating an informal space for conversations around Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, DeFi, trading and crypto infrastructure.

🔺 AVALANCHE OPENS A NEW 30-DAY BUILD SPRINT IN INDIA

Avalanche’s Team1 India Speedrun begins today, giving developers 30 days to build and submit working projects on Avalanche without being restricted to a specific theme or category.

🌐 ARBITRUM’S SINGAPORE BUILDATHON REMAINS OPEN TO GLOBAL BUILDERS

The Arbitrum Open House Singapore online buildathon continues today, with developers building across areas including DeFi, gaming, social applications, DePIN and emerging onchain applications. Submissions remain open until Oct. 4.

🟣 MONAD METROPOLIS CONTINUES ITS GLOBAL BUILDING CAMPAIGN

Monad’s six-week hackathon remains active, with builders exploring onchain finance, consumer applications, social markets and AI-agent infrastructure.

🌐 COLOSSEUM’S CRYPTO WORLD’S FAIR KEEPS THE GLOBAL BUILD WINDOW OPEN

The multi-chain Crypto World’s Fair continues online, keeping developers across multiple ecosystems engaged in a global building and innovation programme.

◎ SOLANA BUILDERS CONTINUE EXPLORING TOKENIZED MARKETS AND NEW FINANCIAL PRIMITIVES

Solana’s active hackathon tracks continue to push experimentation around tokenized equities, perpetual markets and prediction-market applications.

👀 CURRENTBLOCK WATCH

From Ethereum’s growing presence in Tokyo and Shanghai to Bitcoin infrastructure, decentralised AI, autonomous agents and Africa’s digital economy, today’s calendar reflects a Web3 ecosystem increasingly focused on building, experimentation and real-world infrastructure.

Stay tuned for more details.

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📰 CURRENTBLOCK DAILY WATCH | SEPT. 20, 2026

Sunday brings a quieter IRL calendar, but builder activity continues across hackathons, ecosystem programmes and week-long Web3 gatherings.

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🇯🇵 ETHTOKYO CONTINUES AS ETHEREUM COMMUNITY WEEK ENTERS DAY TWO

Tokyo’s Ethereum community continues its week-long programme today, with meetups and community sessions leading into the Agentic Summit, Institutional Summit and ETHGlobal Tokyo later in the week.

🇵🇱 BLOCKCHAIN HACK KRAKÓW HEADS INTO FINAL BUILD HOURS

The 48-hour Solana-focused hackathon in Kraków reaches its finale today, as developers prepare their projects for pitches, judging and prizes before the competition closes.

🇪🇸 HIVEFEST XI REACHES ITS FINAL DAY IN BARCELONA

The Hive community concludes its four-day Barcelona gathering today with a city programme and closing activities following several days of blockchain and community-focused sessions.

🇺🇸 MINNEAPOLIS BITCOIN AND NOSTR GATHERING CLOSES AT PAISLEY PARK

The Land of 10,000 Nodes weekend wraps up today with a Paisley Park tour, following Saturday’s Bitcoin and Nostr-focused conference.

🇮🇳 AVALANCHE TEAM1 BRINGS BUILDER WORKSHOP TO INDORE

Avalanche’s Team1 Builder Launchpad continues today with an in-person developer workshop in Indore, giving local builders another opportunity to explore the Avalanche ecosystem.

🇸🇬 SUPERTEAM SINGAPORE BRINGS SOLANA BUILDERS TOGETHER

Singapore’s Solana community gathers today for a Superteam builders hangout ahead of the larger Token2049 and Solana Summit activities coming to the city.

💻 GLOBAL WEB3 COMMUNITY MEETUP GOES ONLINE

A global online crypto and Web3 meetup is scheduled for today, offering remote participants an opportunity to connect with the wider ecosystem.

🇺🇸 UNSTOPPABLE AFRICA BRINGS AFRICAN DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE TO NEW YORK

The two-day Unstoppable Africa gathering begins today during UNGA week, bringing African investment, trade and technology conversations to New York, including discussions around African ownership of AI and digital infrastructure.

🇺🇸 AI AGENT BUILDERS CONVERGE IN PHILADELPHIA FOR HACKATHON

Developers gather at Pennovation Center for a Coffee & Code build day focused on AI-agent frameworks and prototypes, with the competition continuing toward its awards later this week.

🌐 COLOSSEUM’S CRYPTO WORLD’S FAIR KEEPS GLOBAL BUILDERS SHIPPING

The multi-chain Crypto World’s Fair remains open online, bringing developers across ecosystems including Solana, Ethereum, Base, Sui, Bitcoin, Tempo and Zcash into a global hackathon with hundreds of thousands of dollars in prizes and accelerator opportunities.

🟣 MONAD METROPOLIS CONTINUES ITS GLOBAL HACKATHON RUN

Monad’s six-week global hackathon remains active today, with builders developing projects across onchain finance, consumer applications, payments, social markets and AI-agent infrastructure.

◎ SOLANA HACKATHON PROGRAMMES PUSH TOKENIZED EQUITIES, PERPS AND PREDICTION MARKETS

Solana’s self-serve hackathon ecosystem continues to open new tracks for builders, including STOCKLANA’s tokenized-equity applications and a newer track focused on perpetuals and prediction markets.

Stay tuned for more details.

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📰 CURRENTBLOCK DAILY WATCH | SEPT. 19 2026

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🇯🇵 ETHTOKYO WEEK BEGINS

Tokyo’s Ethereum week opens today and runs through September 27. This is a city-wide coordination week meetups, workshops, dinners and community sessions not a single flagship conference. Larger set pieces land later: Agentic Summit (Sept. 23), Institutional Summit (Sept. 25) and ETHGlobal Tokyo (Sept. 25–27).

🇮🇹 BLOCKCHAIN BEACH + AVALANCHE TEAM1 HACKATHON, PESCARA

Day two continues at Università “G. d’Annunzio.” Alongside talks on blockchain, Web3 and AI, Avalanche Team1 runs an in-person hackathon from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., aimed at shipping real-world Avalanche apps around payments, credentials, loyalty, identity and AI agents.

🇨🇳 AVALANCHE TEAM1 BUILDER DAY, SHENZHEN

A full-day IRL builder session for the Greater Bay Area, 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Programme covers Avalanche tooling, workshops, team formation, coding and a Demo Day. Registration is approval-gated.

🇳🇱 NODERUNNERS CONFERENCE, ARNHEM

A Bitcoin-only day inside the historic Koepelgevangenis. Talks and workshops cover self-custody, mining, nodes, Lightning, Nostr, privacy and EU regulation. Side events were yesterday; the main conference is today.

🇩🇪 BLOCKTRAINER EVENT, COLOGNE

The annual German-speaking Bitcoin community gathering returns to MMC Studios. Doors 10:00 a.m., programme from 11:00 a.m., with talks, community space and on-site Bitcoin payments. Organizers are planning for 1,000+ attendees.

🇵🇱 BLOCKCHAIN HACK KRAKÓW

Superteam Poland opens a 48-hour IRL Solana sprint today (through Sunday). Mentors on site, live pitches, about $3,000 in prizes, and a runway into Colosseum’s live Crypto World’s Fair. Warsaw’s twin weekend follows Sept. 26–27.

🇨🇳 OPEN AGI BUILDER DAY, SHANGHAI

Sentient and Zhipu host an afternoon at Shengbang International Building, Hongkou, 13:30–17:30. Focus is open-source AGI, agents, infra and AI-native startups — with a Sentient keynote, demos and panels. A related Fudan MBA Blockchain Club session on AI-driven Web3 security and compliance follows in the evening.

🇺🇸 BLOCKCHAIN WEEK CLOSES, NEW YORK

UN Blockchain Week’s last official beat is Pause the World for Peace in Times Square / Duffy Square, led with Paul Sladkus. The week calendar lists 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.; the peace concert also publishes a longer afternoon window. This is a public close, not another conference day.

🇳🇬 SOUTHEAST BLOCKCHAIN & GAMES WEEK FINALE, ENUGU

The four-day regional programme ends today at Kobbs Event Center / ShopRite Enugu after three days of build stations and esports hubs across the South-East.

🇪🇹 AFROCHAIN 2026, ADDIS ABABA

The organizer site still lists September 17–19 at the Addis Ababa Science Museum, so today remains the published closing day for blockchain, AI and finance programming. One secondary calendar has floated a November move; treat the official site as the live source.

🇳🇬 FBF SUMMIT, LAGOS

Founders Backing Founders takes over Café One Studios, Victoria Island, 9:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. WAT. Demo Day for the current cohort, operator keynotes, a panel on the future of African AI, and live founder pitches. Free, registration required.

🇰🇪 BLOCKCHAIN CENTRE NAIROBI — PITCH YOUR FRIEND

Evening social at Blockchain Centre, Maralal Oasis, 6:00–11:00 p.m. It is a community hangout, not a technical conference. Avalanche Team1 also has a Nairobi builder finale on today’s Team1 calendar at Impact Hub.

🇺🇸 LAND OF 10,000 NODES, MINNEAPOLIS

The Twin Cities Bitcoin and Nostr weekend’s main conference day is today at O’Shaughnessy Distilling, with dinner and a concert after Friday’s kickoff dinner. Sunday is the Paisley Park / Purple Rain programme.

🇪🇸 HIVEFEST XI, BARCELONA

Hive’s annual gathering continues through Sept. 20. Saturday is the workshop and in-depth Hive-session day after Friday’s ChainCulture crossover.

🇮🇳 MONAD BLITZ MUMBAI V4

A one-day IRL Monad build sprint. Same calendar also lists a Metropolis Hacker House activation in Hangzhou as part of the live six-week Metropolis hackathon.

🇺🇸 DREAM AI HACKATHON, SAN FRANCISCO

A one-day AI MVP sprint at Frontier Tower, 9:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m., with evening networking. Adjacent to the AI × Web3 builder circuit rather than a chain-native conference.

🌐 BUILDER TRACKS STILL OPEN

Monad Metropolis (Sept. 1–Oct. 13) and Colosseum’s Crypto World’s Fair (Sept. 14–Oct. 12) remain live online. Filecoin is also on the board for today’s RUNTIME Build + Demo activity in New York.

Stay tuned for more details.