Taipei Blockchain Week, 12/12-17, Taipei, Taiwan.

This writing explains the story of why Bu Zhi DAO is hosting this conference, our goal and how we’d love for you to join us in our mission.

Context

Bu Zhi DAO is a mission driven, non-profit, and apolitical DAO that aims to bridge Taiwan with the world in web3. Taiwan has been in the news cycle heavily lately for narratives that are completely out of our control. How can we highlight Taiwan to the world in a positive light that we (people who live in Taiwan, moved abroad, visit often, or just love Taiwan) are all proud of?

Zooming out in Asia, Korea Blockchain Week was a huge success despite the rain, and Singapore TOKEN 2049 has never disappointed. On the other hand, ETH Taipei schedule for 12/2-4 was cancelled and moved to India due to quarantine rules uncertainty.

Before Bu Zhi DAO even formed, our #1 goal was to be one of the organizations that volunteers on the ground and sponsor ETH Taipei to help ETH Global make it as successful as possible. We were so proud and excited to see Taiwan mentioned in the ETH Global roadmap, many of us bought our tickets to return in advance anticipating of all we can do for it. That’s also when I snatched the ENS taipeicity.eth to dedicate my passion for bridging web3 Taiwan as my core identity.

With that high of anticipation, also came with a huge disappointment when we saw the news of its cancellation:

With all that we had worked on, bringing all the best web3 talent we know with genuine interest towards Taiwan into a thriving DAO, building relationships with organizations and people who support our mission and also want to see Taiwan shine on the global stage, we weren’t gonna just let up. We decided we are going to make something happen anyway, introducing.. Taipei Blockchain Week.

Taipei Blockchain Week 2022 | 12/12-17

The theme of Taipei Blockchain Week is “Bridge”. For a lot of us living abroad, this is a homecoming back to Taiwan since the long pandemic. We wanted to bridge any knowledge, connections and learnings with the Taiwan web3 community and grow it together globally.

The beauty of Web3 is innovative, interoperable and collaborative. Taiwan has some of the strongest developers in the world. Audrey Tang, Taiwan's renowned Digital Minister, even adopted IPFS tech for government infrastructure, leveraging Ethereum’s decentralization to protect the government website from attacks.

Taiwan is also known to be one of the friendliest place on Earth with genuine amicable and curious people who are super environmental conscious, a haven for digital nomads who enjoy the best cafes, fast internets, clean streets, and cheap living cost. With all Taiwan has going for it, “We want to see Taiwan become a friendly place for Web3 builders from all over the world to come build” - Jolie Yang (Coinbase lawyer) mentioned on the IDK show describing why she is excited about working on the conference.

We also partnered with Futureward Taiwan & Taiwan Gold Card Office to help interested attendees and professionals join us in Taiwan this December for Taipei Blockchain Week.

Start the process early, apply for a gold card here for easy entry into Taiwan

During the week, we’ll be going deep into big topics including but not limited to De-fi, DID, public goods, digital Societies, DAOs, VC/Fundraising, NFTs, music and gaming. We’ll also have a 5 day hackathon for builders to create together. Workshops for developers to learn and meet different projects. NFT activations from blue chip communities all over the world. A lot more details will be released as we get closer, meanwhile we are full speed ahead, all hands on deck preparing.

Call to Action

As described by our conference lead Tiffany…

A lot that goes into hosting a conference. And we invite you to be part of our village and an honored guest! We love and welcome any ideas for collaborations and partnerships. We believe web3 is a non-zero sum game that can lift all boats. While Taiwan is small, our reach together in web3 is global, let’s all win together. We can’t wait to bring all our Bu Zhi DAO members and communities back to Taiwan, bridge and highlight how special the Taiwan web3 community is. Join us in our mission!

We are looking for sponsorships, global speakers and any local organization in Taiwan that we can collaborate with in both web2 and web3. If you have any interest or know someone, please reach out on our twitter!

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We’re open for any donations! You can mint this article as a collectible on the top right, 100% will be donated towards www.taipeiblockchainweek.com