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Decentralizing Brand Partnerships

A blueprint for DAOs, brands, and their communities.Today we’re launching Café 11, FWB’s most ambitious partnership to date. We’ve teamed up with Hennessy, the renowned 250-year-old spirits brand, to reimagine the free-thinking cafe society of 1920’s Paris with a series of blockchain-enabled events at the most relevant cultural fairs around the world. But what does a DAO stand to gain by partnering with a legacy cognac brand, and vice versa? Quite a lot, as it turns out. As we bring this new ...

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Aug 8
Why We’re Here: FWB Census
FWB originated as an internet-native group of friends with a shared interest in crypto and culture. Just a few years later, it has blossomed into a global community of over 4,000 members. With such a diverse group of participants and so many initiatives across our DAO, it’s no wonder that FWB means many different things to many different people. Before this next chapter unfolds, there’s an opportunity to hear from all voices in the room about what FWB means to each of us, where we want it to ...
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May 31
FWB Garage™️ Grants // Open Call for Proposals
Offering project grants of up to $10K. FWB is a collective experiment for how Web3 tools can enable new ways of thinking and creating. Members should always feel empowered to propose projects, rally a squad, and make all kinds of things happen. Now, FWB Garage™️ makes it easier for members to propose, fund, and produce a creative project that benefits the FWB community. This Season, Garage Grants will distribute up to $50K worth of $FWB to get member-led projects off the ground. Here’s how FW...
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Apr 20
Season Six: Collective Growth
Web3 has exploded over the past year and is now an industry unto itself. Six months ago we were in a moment of pure experimentation. Now, with all eyes on Web3, there’s a growing sense of pressure and professionalization. In this moment, it’s important to remind ourselves why we’re all here in the first place: to freely experiment with Web3’s emergent possibilities, and to grow with each other in the process. FWB originated as a place where people interested in crypto and culture could come t...
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Mar 1
2022 Product Retrospective and Roadmap
We believe the future of product design is centered around communities and not users. The central prompt of the discipline needs to be rewritten: How might we build a better community experience for our users friends? The process of building interfaces and products changes radically when building for people you care deeply about. Understanding the distinction between user and friend is the first step in comprehending how and why we build at FWB. A quick history FWB began in September 2020, as...
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Jan 6
FWB Season Five: Social Spaces
Friends with Benefits is excited to enter our second year. What started as a social experiment exploring shared incentives and cultural production saw us push the boundaries of what it means to be a community-owned enterprise. We spent a lot of time together online, gathered around the world offline, created remarkable art together, built tools for ourselves, and formed real friendships — all within the confines of a Discord server. As FWB grew, so did the needs of our community. Sub-communit...
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Oct 27
Fundraising in a Community First World
What if instead of founders pitching investors, investors pitched to communities? Started just over a year ago, Friends With Benefits is a self-organized and internet native community that is collectively building the ultimate cultural membership. Today, we’re excited to announce a $10M raise led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Pace Capital, Kindred Ventures, Spark Ventures, and Li Jin. These funds purchased tokens from the FWB DAO treasury - setting precedence for how future c...
FWB Uniswap V3 Liquidity Guide
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Oct 14
Uniswap V3. You’ve heard of it. You love it. But truthfully, most people have no clue how it works. In this guide, we’ll walk you through how to add liquidity to the FWB/ETH pool, and how to earn FWB in the process.Get started at v3.fwb.helpIf you’re a DeFi pro, add liquidity to the FWB/WETH 0.3% fee pool here and stake the NFT here to start earning FWB rewards. Please note - Providing liquidity is risky. Only provide liquidity with tokens you are comfortable holding. There is a high likeliho...
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Oct 13
FWB Season Four: Locally Grown
With every Season, Friends with Benefits is challenged to reinvent itself. Season One initiated this social experiment as we gathered around a vision, a set of values, and a vibe. Season Two tested our resilience as we rebuilt from an unprecedented social token hack, laying down formative infrastructure and recalibrating our strategy. Season Three saw our internet-native group chat blossom into a digital city, powered by custom products and services built and governed by the community. Friend...
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Oct 6
Introducing the FWB Fellowships Program
As we enter the fourth official season of Friends With Benefits, one of the primary questions we've been asking ourselves is: 'How do we increase accessibility to our community?’ As any group scales and evolves, there are many elements that need to be carefully balanced — what does being a member of the community mean, what are its values, and can they be preserved over time? Those questions become even more complicated in the realm of DAOs, where financial implications are often in...
FWB Pulse - Dashboard for DAOs
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Aug 14
Friends with Benefits is becoming the ultimate cultural membership in Web3. Over the last three months, FWB has begun to mobilized its community into focused teams to build products and experiences for the community. You can read more about how the community is organizing itself here. Central to the success of this coordination is information organization, single sources of truth that the community can turn to and rally behind. Now introducing FWB Pulse™ - the real-time FWB dashboard to locat...
Exploring Web3 Ticketing
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Jul 18
Friends with Benefits is on the path to becoming the ultimate cultural membership in Web3. Powered by a community with a diverse set of expertise, FWB has begun to organize and incentivize its members to form structured teams and build products and experiences for the community, by the community. You can read more about how the community is organizing itself here. With Season 3, our Product Team has been rapidly expanding the product ecosystem beyond Discord - starting with one of our first D...
FWB Season Three: Creative Cooperation
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Jul 6
Friends with Benefits has become the web3 home for the creative class. Bound together by shared values and shared incentives ($FWB), Friends with Benefits started as a private Discord server populated by our favorite creatives and has since evolved into a global community. Members hold $FWB to gain access to the ultimate cultural membership consisting of ever evolving token gated internet products, global events and parties, and an active Discord home base where the community converses, coord...