The Proof of Craic Fund supports artistic expressions of harm reduction that blend storytelling, metaphor, and community technology.

I’m not here to romanticise trauma, or to wrap harm in some airy, abstract design framework. I’m here because the systems meant to protect us often don’t — and someone has to start saying that in plain language. Or at least in a way that doesn’t sound like it came out of a policy brief or a TED Talk.

If you know what the craic is, you'll also know it's how Irish people check in. We have a soft way of asking how you are, for better or for worse. Sure, things can be great craic. I find most most often, it's not really about banter at all and instead is a relational pulse check dressed up in humour.

So yeah, I called this initiative Proof of Craic. So next time anyone asks you "have ya any craic?", you'll be able to corroborate the fact that you do, indeed.

I think harm reduction deserves that kind of attention — familiar, embodied, and woven into the social fabric. Not hidden behind buzzwords. Not treated like a footnote. Not only talked about after the fact.

Because sometimes naming the absurd is the only way to survive it. So no, this isn’t just a joke.

This is cultural infrastructure. This is an invitation to build systems of care with the same intensity we pour into consensus mechanisms and zero-knowledge proofs.

I’m interested in the people who transmute personal grief into public good.

Who turn folklore into onboarding flows. Who build dApps with a sense of humour. Who don't treat healing as a buzzword but as something we code into community.

Because honestly, web3 has given me a kind of catharsis I didn't expect — the ability to create weird, meaningful shit with other people who care. I made this fund because I want more of that.

A big respecto patronum to René Pinnell, the mastermind behind Artizen and the 34 community funds partaking in its accelerator programme.

More support for artists, lovers, loners, builders, harm reducers — especially the ones who don’t always fit neatly into grant categories or VC funnels. The ones who carry stories in their bodies, not just in decks.

So here it is.
A public good with a laugh and a wink.
A little irreverent. A little raw. Entirely serious about softness.
We fund the mess-makers and the myth-weavers. We write code with care in it.

Proof of Craic is my way of saying:
- Healing can be punk.
- Care can be clever.
- And harm reduction can look like art.

Let’s build from there.