The trip came with vague goals: carry our momentum internationally, research to improve next year’s hack and make connections to build out the conference.

These goals, wrapped in a plan that’s currently under construction, are well within our interpretation of harm reduction. Naturally, we gravitated towards the care-first organisations and events that we could find, of which there was no shortage.

Spoiler: Berlin delivered more than expected.

Vibes were high, I expected no less.

Landing the morning of, I set up camp, got some work done and hung out with great people. FtC attracts a solution-aware crowd who genuinely want to build, so the signal-to-noise ratio is solid.

Highlights:

• Got interviewed by Tereza at the event and connected her with Alina too.

• Met with David, who was more than happy to chat about Ireland and the upcoming FtC Builder residency in Buenos Aires.

• Hung out with the usual suspects, like Heather and Rena, but also my newest pal, Joshua.

Takeaways:

• Speaking from a nation plagued by over-planners and under-builders, FtC is not just ETH Dublin’s scene. It’s what Ireland needs.

• We came seeking frameworks, tools, and credit design patterns. The scaffolding exists. Our job now is to embed myth, land, and care into the architecture.

I snuck away from the second day of FtC to attend this event curated by Vitalik himself, which was more than worth it. You can find notes from the day here and here.

I probably should have stayed longer, but it was sunny and we were quite far underground.

Anyone descending into the hangar was welcomed with angelic chords, plucked in a way that didn’t sound live. I presumed it was a curated playlist to soften that harshness of the venue.

To my absolute delight, I discovered my fellow conductoor from the Open Source Orchestra. You know what that means? An open source jam.

Funnily enough, this brought me back to where FtC was being held; Engelnest.

What happened at the W3PN hack will stay at the W3PN hack. But what I can say is I took plenty of notes for ETH Dublin 2026 on how to run a hackathon. More importantly, I committed to making sure the Womxn in Web3 Privacy are included and represented.

I loved being at this event so much. It felt like a festival, which is exactly what we are going for with our event. Everyone was well catered for.

There was constant music, matcha, maté, beer, water, coffee, food for all, dogs, workshops of all sorts, massages, photos, a rave & plenty of dancing.

No karaoke though 🤪

I got to the w3.hub late and had a couple of hallway chats that made me realise I was missing out on a great event. In my defence I was at the Späti rave the night before.

Above you’ll see Matthew (Protocol Media Labs), Arikia (CTRL+X) and Ciarán Murray (Olas), discussing the modern media dilemma of Privacy vs Transparency.

This event really shouldn’t have been a detour, because of my duty to the Crypto Comms Collective, but hey ho. Next time I will go earlier.

I did attend the dinner the night before, which seemed to have been overrun with Irish people.

I love hanging out with the Regens. Wherever they set up at the main events, I usually hang close by. The programming was dense and fulfilling; you had to be there.

At the event, I chatted to:

• Timo, who is part of an AI enabled project management unlock that’s done 10 mil in revenue

• Anusha, who needs a CTO, so if that’s you please ping me

• Amal Sayer, who was live streaming the event with an app that he vibe coded. Quite a cool dude. He showed me a game that he helped his son build over a few hours. His channel has plenty of tutorials that you should check out.

I also got acquainted with plenty of projects that are super highly relevant to our top secret plan of “rebuilding the dark forest” in Ireland.

So yeah. Berlin delivered. The question now is how we root that energy back home, in the care economies that don’t yet have a name.

While the trees are listening, the stack is growing.

“Is iomaí slí muc don mhargadh ☘️ there are many ways to the market.”

Slán go fóill.

The trip came with vague goals: carry our momentum internationally, research to improve next year’s hack and make connections to build out the conference.

These goals, wrapped in a plan that’s currently under construction, are well within our interpretation of harm reduction. Naturally, we gravitated towards the care-first organisations and events that we could find, of which there was no shortage.

Spoiler: Berlin delivered more than expected.

Vibes were high, I expected no less.

Landing the morning of, I set up camp, got some work done and hung out with great people. FtC attracts a solution-aware crowd who genuinely want to build, so the signal-to-noise ratio is solid.

Highlights:

• Got interviewed by Tereza at the event and connected her with Alina too.

• Met with David, who was more than happy to chat about Ireland and the upcoming FtC Builder residency in Buenos Aires.

• Hung out with the usual suspects, like Heather and Rena, but also my newest pal, Joshua.

Takeaways:

• Speaking from a nation plagued by over-planners and under-builders, FtC is not just ETH Dublin’s scene. It’s what Ireland needs.

• We came seeking frameworks, tools, and credit design patterns. The scaffolding exists. Our job now is to embed myth, land, and care into the architecture.

I snuck away from the second day of FtC to attend this event curated by Vitalik himself, which was more than worth it. You can find notes from the day here and here.

I probably should have stayed longer, but it was sunny and we were quite far underground.

Anyone descending into the hangar was welcomed with angelic chords, plucked in a way that didn’t sound live. I presumed it was a curated playlist to soften that harshness of the venue.

To my absolute delight, I discovered my fellow conductoor from the Open Source Orchestra. You know what that means? An open source jam.

Funnily enough, this brought me back to where FtC was being held; Engelnest.

What happened at the W3PN hack will stay at the W3PN hack. But what I can say is I took plenty of notes for ETH Dublin 2026 on how to run a hackathon. More importantly, I committed to making sure the Womxn in Web3 Privacy are included and represented.

I loved being at this event so much. It felt like a festival, which is exactly what we are going for with our event. Everyone was well catered for.

There was constant music, matcha, maté, beer, water, coffee, food for all, dogs, workshops of all sorts, massages, photos, a rave & plenty of dancing.

No karaoke though 🤪

I got to the w3.hub late and had a couple of hallway chats that made me realise I was missing out on a great event. In my defence I was at the Späti rave the night before.

Above you’ll see Matthew (Protocol Media Labs), Arikia (CTRL+X) and Ciarán Murray (Olas), discussing the modern media dilemma of Privacy vs Transparency.

This event really shouldn’t have been a detour, because of my duty to the Crypto Comms Collective, but hey ho. Next time I will go earlier.

I did attend the dinner the night before, which seemed to have been overrun with Irish people.

I love hanging out with the Regens. Wherever they set up at the main events, I usually hang close by. The programming was dense and fulfilling; you had to be there.

At the event, I chatted to:

• Timo, who is part of an AI enabled project management unlock that’s done 10 mil in revenue

• Anusha, who needs a CTO, so if that’s you please ping me

• Amal Sayer, who was live streaming the event with an app that he vibe coded. Quite a cool dude. He showed me a game that he helped his son build over a few hours. His channel has plenty of tutorials that you should check out.

I also got acquainted with plenty of projects that are super highly relevant to our top secret plan of “rebuilding the dark forest” in Ireland.

So yeah. Berlin delivered. The question now is how we root that energy back home, in the care economies that don’t yet have a name.

While the trees are listening, the stack is growing.

“Is iomaí slí muc don mhargadh ☘️ there are many ways to the market.”

Slán go fóill.