Cate

🪄 marketing, content & community building • 🎩 wearing many hats: • 💫 @shefiorg S9 • member of @wikieditoraslx

[Cate @categcc]

always has been. some people just finally noticed they don’t have any.

[Greg Brockman @gdb]

taste is a new core skill

[S.🎧 @1ssve]

May your Friday be meetingless and your coworkers leave you to work in peace

[Kristel @Web3Kristel]

she doesn't want flowers or chocolates.

pay for her claude subscription.

[Cate @categcc]

officially a member of the @shefiorg Inner Circle! 💫 kicking-off today. thanks @maggielove_.

[Cate @categcc]

why am I doing this? https://t.co/JBrUtlouZv

[Rachel Karten @milkkarten]

i interviewed the video editor at mynytimes about the account here! https://t.co/Sj51IFfOX8

[Chairman Birb Bernanke @Bonecondor]

We used to live in a world where people were allowed to be untethered from technology: we used to have machines where you’d leave voice notes for your friends to listen to when they got home. Now the expectation is that you’re instantly reachable all the time, no matter what.

[Jess | founder CEO @blockusgg @theweb3jess]

Incredibly bad take, Jen. It’s not the women’s problem. It’s not the venue’s problem. It’s a @CoinDesk problem. They used to be a respected voice in this industry. This event marks their official decline — a total fall from grace. 🧵

2/ Let’s talk accountability. Organizers took massive fees from sponsors and delivered crap. If you’re going to host at E11, the bare minimum is ensuring the performers are taken care of. A real organizer would’ve used sponsor money to provide guests with stacks for the girls. They did nothing. 💵

3/ It wasn't "cabaret vibes" — it was full-on racket stripping vibes where the performers were clearly suffering. You can’t claim to "respect" the women working while the organizers pocket the overhead and leave the performers in a chaotic, poorly managed environment.

4/ Crypto events at E11even always get this much attention. It’s not a "win" for press; it’s a repetitive, lazy spectacle. There is nothing wrong with stripping as work, but there is everything wrong with making it the central spectacle of an official industry afterparty. ❌🙅🏻‍♀️❌

5/ It is deeply disappointing to see another female leading voice in Web3 publicly playing the "pick me" card. You don’t have to minimize other women’s valid professional concerns just to feel like the "cool, unbothered" girl who’s been here since 2016. 👎

6/ Why is hosting official events at strip clubs disrespectful? Because it forces a choice. Networking is where deals happen. When you make a strip club the "official" hub, you force women to choose between their professional growth and their personal boundaries.

7/ It reinforces a hierarchy where women are the "background entertainment" rather than the peers at the table. It’s lazy, it’s regressive, and it’s a middle finger to the professionalization we’ve been fighting for. ✍️

8/ We should be raising the bar, not celebrating the "trench" mentality of 2016. If we want Web3 to be taken seriously, we need leaders — and media outlets like CoinDesk — who actually act like it. Done. 🎤

[Cate @categcc]

and it’s not about pearl clutching, as some people will be saying. it’s about reading the room. this industry has been calling for more safety and inclusion for everyone, so this was not the right call.

[Cate @categcc]

you want institutional credibility, but then you throw your flagship closing party at a strip club? shameful that some crypto companies (crypto people, tbh) still haven’t moved on from this embarassing bro culture. it’s 2026, do better.

[Jess | founder CEO @blockusgg @theweb3jess]

1/ This year’s official @consensus2026 closing party by @CoinDesk was a massive step backward. Hosting the flagship event at E11even — a strip club — wasn't just inappropriate; it was incredibly low-brow for an industry trying to grow up.

2/ Let’s be clear: I’m all for alcohol, music, and a good time. Hire a world-class DJ. Throw a massive rave. Go to Club Space. But choosing a strip club as the official venue for a global conference is a choice that reflects poorly on all of us.

3/ Just because this happened in 2021 doesn't mean it should happen in 2026. Back then, Coinbase, FTX and Binance execs were there, but the industry has evolved. We are supposed to be moving toward institutional maturity, not leaning into "bro-culture" clichés.

4/ I’ve always been an advocate for sex work. I have zero issue with women making $40k–$80k on their own terms. The issue is the context.

5/ When an official event for a top-tier conference — filled with institutional partners and people of all genders and religions — centres on women shaking for dollars, it diminishes women to sexual objects and enforces a stale, exclusionary culture.

6/ It’s honestly boring. I guarantee brands like @MetaMask and CoinDesk will one day look back at their logos plastered on those walls with genuine embarrassment.

7/ We had international attendees flying in from across the globe. Is this really the best US crypto has to offer? Working the pole is a skill, but watching it in a professional context just left most people looking dazed and awkward.

8/ The vibe was off. I ran into my banker and some mid-tier hedge fund guys there. We can talk millions on Wall Street or over steak, but meeting at a strip club is unnecessary. We could’ve hit a polo club, a baseball box, or played padel.

9/ Even the economics were a "bear market" vibe. Most people were just watching with a mix of shock and intrigue. The girls weren't making much. They used to take crypto; now they don't. The floor was dry. No fiat moving. Why were we even there?

10/ Seeing a banker film the stage (until security stepped in) while seeing my bankers logos walk around in a strip club is the peak of industry cognitive dissonance.

11/ This industry is capable of so much more, yet we keep tripping over our own feet. We want to be taken seriously on the world stage, but we’re still acting like we’re in a basement. We must do better.

Special shoutout to @SolanaFndn, @amystreet, and @SuperteamUSA. Your Accelerate vibe was immaculate, paired with the best Mario Kart-themed afterparty. 🏎️💨

It was the perfect illustration that "crypto culture" doesn’t have to mean "bro culture." You can have high-energy, high-intelligence fun without… whatever E11even was.

Let’s talk economics: A single sponsorship for that E11even event costed roughly $90k. The entire Mario Kart event? Maybe $50k. Using a massive brand budget to alienate half your audience is a spectacular waste of capital.

📣📣📣
Conference organizers and sponsors: we have to do better. If we want to move millions on Wall Street, we need to stop acting like we belong in a basement. ✌️

[Hailey Lennon @HaileyLennonBTC]

Crypto bros defending Consensus hosting the official party at a strip club by saying “it’s not a strip club, it’s a night club with strippers”

Y’all are so embarrassing. Like be serious

[Cate @categcc]

@angelinarusse same ❤️

[Cate @categcc]

@jappleby it will ALWAYS be twitter.

[Cate @categcc]

if your self-care routine is causing you anxiety, it’s not self-care anymore. real self-care is mostly boring, free and anything that actually makes you feel better, not a checklist.

[Cate @categcc]

self-care culture started as something good and useful, but quickly became an obsession with very little room for actually feeling okay. it also became a very effective marketing vehicle: the line between taking care of yourself and being sold things got really blurred.

[Cate @categcc]

now you will have a morning routine that takes 3hrs, 70 skincare products, or a supplement stack nobody asked a doctor about. it stopped being about restoration and became another list to “optimise”, another aesthetic to “perform”, another thing to spend money on.

[Cate @categcc]

@britodeisabella 😍

[Cate @categcc]

@britodeisabella yeah, usually if I have some calls scheduled, I’ll save that part of the day (morning/afternoon) to work from home, but on the free days, working from here is a blessing.

[Cate @categcc]

turns out the best cowork in my neighborhood was free all along. public library, perfect for no calls days, full focus. and I get to pick up books on the way out. can’t really beat that.

[Cate @categcc]

@ritakozlov and you just gained one more female follower. 🙂