Elizabeth Hansson🛡️

Founder Detroit Blockchain Collective @detblockchain

[Elizabeth Hansson🛡️ @ElizabethHa]

🎬 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! 🥂

[Elizabeth Hansson🛡️ @ElizabethHa]

@0xNock noooo breaking my heart they had like a dozen different kinds of hotdogs with insane topping combos and they were all amazing 😿

[Elizabeth Hansson🛡️ @ElizabethHa]

@missbitcoin_mai you’re welcome, thanks for the X space tonight!

[Elizabeth Hansson🛡️ @ElizabethHa]

@zERC20io Such fantastic discussion around the zERC20 tech. Learning so much right now. We need privacy to be accessible & easy to use like this 🙌

[Elizabeth Hansson🛡️ @ElizabethHa]

@AngelofYHVH that’s what I’m sayinnn

[Elizabeth Hansson🛡️ @ElizabethHa]

@AngelofYHVH that is hilarious and also 0% surprising 😂

[Elizabeth Hansson🛡️ @ElizabethHa]

@zERC20io @missbitcoin_mai @nunocloth @cauleneamagi let’s gooo 🔥

[Elizabeth Hansson🛡️ @ElizabethHa]

don’t miss my girl @cauleneamagi, technical communications manager for @zERC20io, doing an AMA this Tuesday 8PM EST ♨️

[zERC20 @zERC20io]

Join our community update! 🎙️
🇯🇵 June 17 · 10:00 AM JST / 📷 June 16 · 8:00 PM CDT

Live on X Spaces 👉https://t.co/ETlp7M9mcO

With @missbitcoin_mai, @nunocloth & @cauleneamagi

See you there 📷🔔

[Elizabeth Hansson🛡️ @ElizabethHa]

@ALGO_BRO @UNDP @ethereumfndn @StellarOrg @AlgoFoundation @arbitrum @FilFoundation that’s right!

[Elizabeth Hansson🛡️ @ElizabethHa]

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.

[Elizabeth Hansson🛡️ @ElizabethHa]

@DetBlockchain Full crypto 100 ranking here: https://t.co/wLkpbHDAPw

[Elizabeth Hansson🛡️ @ElizabethHa]

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[Elizabeth Hansson🛡️ @ElizabethHa]

Fortune's first Crypto 100 dropped today, and the changes from the 2023 list say a lot about where this industry is headed. Three years ago, the same ranking only needed 40 names.

In 2023, TradFi was one category on this list. In 2026, it's everywhere. Banks in stablecoins, asset managers in ETFs, payment networks in fintech. Fortune is calling this the suit-and-tie era of crypto, and the rankings back that up.

The stablecoin category shows how fast that happened. The GENIUS Act gave stablecoins a federal framework, and within a year they're a standalone Fortune category with ten ranked issuers. Industries tend to get measured once they get regulated.

The list moves in the other direction too. NFTs had their own category in 2023 and don't have a single entry this year. Meanwhile in DeFi, Hyperliquid took the top spot over incumbents like Aave and Uniswap, a protocol most people had never heard of three years ago. The on-chain side keeps reinventing itself even while the institutional side settles in.

The companion Innovators list hints at where this goes next. One of the largest US prediction markets just won approval to list perpetual futures. That's an entirely new product category crossing into crypto derivatives.

One more detail worth sitting with: the #1 ranked crypto services company is a compliance firm. With institutions operating at this scale, the work ahead is governance, controls, and oversight. Quieter than a bull market, but that's what makes the whole thing durable.

Full list linked in the comments.

[Elizabeth Hansson🛡️ @ElizabethHa]

@AngelofYHVH the prettiest of mermaids 🧜🏼‍♀️

[Elizabeth Hansson🛡️ @ElizabethHa]

@rescueranjazz So fun!

[Elizabeth Hansson🛡️ @ElizabethHa]

@_macki 🙌

[Angelica Saldaña S.T.B.❤️‍🔥 @AngelofYHVH]

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

[Elizabeth Hansson🛡️ @ElizabethHa]

@AngelofYHVH @DetBlockchain @333Polaris I saved my card too ❤️🙏 That kind of inclusion and support is so powerful!

[Elizabeth Hansson🛡️ @ElizabethHa]

@AngelofYHVH @UNDP 100%!

[Elizabeth Hansson🛡️ @ElizabethHa]

@ALGO_BRO @DetBlockchain @UNDP @ethereumfndn @StellarOrg @AlgoFoundation @arbitrum @FilFoundation lets go! 🌎🇺🇸⚡️

[Elizabeth Hansson🛡️ @ElizabethHa]

@AngelofYHVH This is very exciting :)