For the last 15 weeks on Wednesday mornings we’ve been running a local meetup in Danang, Vietnam. We call it “Defi Study Group”. It gathers people together to discuss anything in blockchain or crypto, and to use some of the new and exciting apps in the Ethereum ecosystem. Our main aims are to have fun, stimulate group discussion, and help progress crypto education for anyone who attends.

We have had programmers who have talked us through code and showed what it does.

We have had power users who have explained various aspects of decentralised finance, NFTs, mobile apps, safe storage of assets, or blockchain layer 1s.

But most importantly we have had regular people through who are just curious about crypto and want to find out more. Our group is a place where they will definitely find out more, in a friendly atmosphere!

A couple of things we are not doing are providing trading tips or shilling tokens. Instead, the focus is on learning about the whole blockchain ecosystem, how it works, what it is capable of. The group is free to attend, so no money changes hands in the group. This approach both benefits attendees and respects local laws!

This group started up because I had coffee with Aaron Everhart on 31st May 2022 in Lang Roastery in Danang. Previously, Aaron had run various web3 evening events in Danang, and I invited him to coffee just to talk crypto with someone in real life, I’d been following the Ethereum ecosystem closely since mid-2020. During the conversation I said how nice it would be to have a group of people to “do crypto things” together, how the Ethereum ecosystem was so active, and how we all ought to be spending time engaging with it. He said I should start a local meetup, and that his Draper Startup house could host. I said something like “how about next week”? That got updated to “well how about tomorrow”? And we did! We ran the 1st meeting on 1st June, and four people attended. We have been running ever since.

Although so far I have been providing the majority of the content each week, we have had other attendees take an hour and present something they are knowledgable about, such as NFTs or flash loans. It is so great to join the community each week and explore the highly dynamic and ever progressing crypto ecosystem!

I have never been short of things to talk about, mainly because I keep up to date on crypto as one of my personal hobbies. My three main sources are: following core Ethereum people on Twitter, watching Anthony Sassano’s “The Daily Gwei” channel on YouTube, and viewing Bankless content in all its forms. Thank you all for your great educational content!

POAPs have been issued for every meeting we have had, you can see them on my POAP profile for drcoder.eth. We welcome artistic input to make these POAPs even better! And if you attend one of our meetings – please ask me for a claim link!

Special thanks to Aaron Everhart and Draper Entrepreneur Network for hosting us at Draper Startup House My Khe Beach, this support has made the group possible.

It is great to be publishing content about a web3 group in a web3 native way – thank you Mirror! To help our group, I’m going to try to use Mirror to publish the meeting notes each week, so we all have the links to the apps and topics discussed.

If you are not in Danang (which presumably is the rest of the world) then how about starting a crypto meetup in your home city? The path to crypto adoption is the same as any new technology – education. At one point people did not know how to use email, or web browsers, or (much longer ago) write letters by hand. People only know how to do these things if they are shown how. Nowadays we are taught to write in schools, and almost everyone has learned how to compose an email or surf the web on a browser.

If you run a group like this in your home city, you can help people to take custody and responsibility for their own assets in a safe and secure way. I think this web3 skill set will be very important in the years to come. Regular local crypto meetups can help meet this educational need in wider society.

We can help other people around us to use blockchain wisely, everyone benefits!

For the last 15 weeks on Wednesday mornings we’ve been running a local meetup in Danang, Vietnam. We call it “Defi Study Group”. It gathers people together to discuss anything in blockchain or crypto, and to use some of the new and exciting apps in the Ethereum ecosystem. Our main aims are to have fun, stimulate group discussion, and help progress crypto education for anyone who attends.

We have had programmers who have talked us through code and showed what it does.

We have had power users who have explained various aspects of decentralised finance, NFTs, mobile apps, safe storage of assets, or blockchain layer 1s.

But most importantly we have had regular people through who are just curious about crypto and want to find out more. Our group is a place where they will definitely find out more, in a friendly atmosphere!

A couple of things we are not doing are providing trading tips or shilling tokens. Instead, the focus is on learning about the whole blockchain ecosystem, how it works, what it is capable of. The group is free to attend, so no money changes hands in the group. This approach both benefits attendees and respects local laws!

This group started up because I had coffee with Aaron Everhart on 31st May 2022 in Lang Roastery in Danang. Previously, Aaron had run various web3 evening events in Danang, and I invited him to coffee just to talk crypto with someone in real life, I’d been following the Ethereum ecosystem closely since mid-2020. During the conversation I said how nice it would be to have a group of people to “do crypto things” together, how the Ethereum ecosystem was so active, and how we all ought to be spending time engaging with it. He said I should start a local meetup, and that his Draper Startup house could host. I said something like “how about next week”? That got updated to “well how about tomorrow”? And we did! We ran the 1st meeting on 1st June, and four people attended. We have been running ever since.

Although so far I have been providing the majority of the content each week, we have had other attendees take an hour and present something they are knowledgable about, such as NFTs or flash loans. It is so great to join the community each week and explore the highly dynamic and ever progressing crypto ecosystem!

I have never been short of things to talk about, mainly because I keep up to date on crypto as one of my personal hobbies. My three main sources are: following core Ethereum people on Twitter, watching Anthony Sassano’s “The Daily Gwei” channel on YouTube, and viewing Bankless content in all its forms. Thank you all for your great educational content!

POAPs have been issued for every meeting we have had, you can see them on my POAP profile for drcoder.eth. We welcome artistic input to make these POAPs even better! And if you attend one of our meetings – please ask me for a claim link!

Special thanks to Aaron Everhart and Draper Entrepreneur Network for hosting us at Draper Startup House My Khe Beach, this support has made the group possible.

It is great to be publishing content about a web3 group in a web3 native way – thank you Mirror! To help our group, I’m going to try to use Mirror to publish the meeting notes each week, so we all have the links to the apps and topics discussed.

If you are not in Danang (which presumably is the rest of the world) then how about starting a crypto meetup in your home city? The path to crypto adoption is the same as any new technology – education. At one point people did not know how to use email, or web browsers, or (much longer ago) write letters by hand. People only know how to do these things if they are shown how. Nowadays we are taught to write in schools, and almost everyone has learned how to compose an email or surf the web on a browser.

If you run a group like this in your home city, you can help people to take custody and responsibility for their own assets in a safe and secure way. I think this web3 skill set will be very important in the years to come. Regular local crypto meetups can help meet this educational need in wider society.

We can help other people around us to use blockchain wisely, everyone benefits!