Since my FEST talk, I've answered a lot of DMs about the "concrete crypto church" experience I produced for Friends With Benefits in Berlin. Truth is, it wasn't a one-off event but rather a 2-year journey aiming to redefine community-driven marketing standards. Here's the BTS 🧵

All these events are products of Friends With Benefits' Event Key Program, which invited their community to co-create their brand: fwb.help/editorial/even… Status isn't just about exclusivity; it's about elevating your core fanbase. Imagine what could be created if you elevated yours?

we're still not over this

when they connect a mass cultural moment to subcultural insight

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Bend believes that people should be able to use their money on their terms and freely send money to anyone, anywhere. At Friends With Benefits FEST 2024, Bend gave attendees film cameras to capture their own FEST experience on their terms–6 rolls came back! The result? Absolute magic.

happy friday ⌐Ⓗ-Ⓕ it's time for a broadcast with thepark.eth fridays at the park season 002 is streaming on UFO from 12pm PST tune in for music, surprise guests and adventures including the latest from @Base Camp, Zora and Friends With Benefits FEST

Friends With Benefits is a new type of cultural institution driving the adoption of emerging tech. Forged on the internet, FWB is a group of 5,500+ global members with a combined, cross-channel audience of 100K+ cultural producers, emerging tech builders, and early adopters.

In photos: look back on this year's A. G. Cook-headlined edition of Friends With Benefits' FEST, which returned to Idyllwild this August with a programme split between music, experiences and ideas crackmagazine.net/article/long-r…

Ready for Singapore? Join us for a night of Web3 culture, alphas & potential airdrops?, with Friends With Benefits, LUKSO, Livepeer, Mesh, squid & Refraction at Singapore’s iconic Magic Carpet. 🐉 Sign up now: partiful.com/e/JMxNRNsIVcQE…

finally put my Friends With Benefits x PER.MA disposable onchainnnn zora.co/collect/base:0…

The Universal Profile mobile app is around the corner and we're teaming up with Refraction & Friends With Benefits in Singapore Sept 17th to offer guests at our event whitelist spots 📲 that come with an NFT airdrop & access to future events! 🔥 See you soon™️👇 partiful.com/e/JMxNRNsIVcQE…

EVERYONE who registered for the SUNNYs will get free analytics. Did you register, anon?

⌐◨-◨ x ☀️ Superchain Creators! This week, create a piece of animation featuring Nouns and SUNNY to tell your Superchain story and earn a portion of 5K OP reward. Rounds will automatically include it in the entries!

Earlier in August, Bend brought payments onchain for Friends With Benefits FEST 24. Hear directly from Rao and Ryne Saxe from the Bend team on how they thought it all went down!