Jean Hansen

Blindness only exists because of our broken healthcare system.

And that’s a wrap 🙌 Last week, we closed Ipê Village with Demo Day and a very special closing ceremony, after one month together building solutions for the cities of the future with AI and blockchain, creating connections, and deepening relationships. But this is only the beginning of what we’re building together. There’s a long road ahead, and the community doesn’t stop here. Every month, we’ll host a new event, online or in person, following the same spirit: workshops, buildathons, and hands-on experiences. To stay updated on Ipê’s next steps, keep an eye on our Telegram group and join our community calls. Let’s go!

Privacidade Em Um Mundo Exposto 🔐 No nosso cotidiano digital, a exposição virou padrão. Cada clique, transação ou interação deixa rastros invisíveis, mas permanentes. Nesse cenário, privacidade não é mais preferência. É infraestrutura. É aqui que a @Zcash se posiciona de forma única. Diferente de outras criptos, a proposta é clara: oferecer privacidade como opção real sem abrir mão da segurança e da verificabilidade. Com zero-knowledge proofs, a rede permite validar transações sem expor dados sensíveis. Na prática, isso devolve ao usuário algo essencial: controle sobre sua própria informação financeira. Mas essa discussão vai além do cripto. Empresas, instituições e governos já enfrentam uma nova questão: 👉 Como operar em um ambiente onde dados são ativos, mas também vulnerabilidades? A resposta passa por tecnologias que protegem sem comprometer eficiência. Dentro da Web3, essa narrativa cresce principalmente no contexto institucional e B2B, onde segurança, compliance e proteção de dados são críticos. É por isso que a presença da Zcash no TokenNation importa. Conectando tecnologia, mercado e quem está construindo. 📍 1 e 2 de junho O time da Zcash estará presente, trazendo essa visão para o centro das conversas. Se a nova economia é onchain, a privacidade pode ser o diferencial estratégico.

@michael2xl Will be there

Huge event in Brazil, Zcash! 🇧🇷

René Pinnell, founder of @Artizen, introducing us to Venus, his next CEO in training. The idea is to have the community guided and coordinated by a highly intelligent system like her. Mindblowing 🤯

Windsurf & Devin Meetup by @cognition See how engineers and product teams use AI agents in their daily work, and what that means in practice for founders, CTOs, and builders scaling faster. Plus: AI credits and 30 days of free tool access for all participants 🙌

Zero to Agent with @vercel at Ipê Village 🙌 It’s 10-day global build week to go from idea to deployed agent using v0 and Vercel.

House packed for @cursor_ai session tonight.

Ipê News #35 is out! 🙌 This week we're sharing: - Frontier Tower, a self-governed vertical village in San Francisco for AI, crypto, biotech, and longevity teams, positioning itself as the first node in a global mesh of community-run spaces, @frontiertower - ETH NS launches a genesis month at Network School in Malaysia, a permanent Ethereum residency built around five tracks: dAI, dData, dApps, Art & Culture, and Privacy - The Canton Principle: how Swiss subsidiarity, where Cantons hold power first and lend it up, maps onto Houses, guilds, and network societies that scale without central bottlenecks - Ipê Village Week 3: Artizen House takes over Privacy House's block; workshops covered coercion-resistant onchain voting (@vocdoni), the KYA (Know Your Agent) framework for verifying humans and AI agents, and operational agent workflows with Claude - Brazil's Q1 crypto surge: $6.9B in cross-border crypto purchases, 98% stablecoins, operating as a parallel dollar rail outside the fiat tax regime - India stands up AIGEG, a single ministerial body to coordinate national AI policy with sectoral regulators at arm's length and "Innovation over Restraint" as a guiding principle Other interesting news: PerturbAI releases an 8M-cell in vivo CRISPR atlas with @nvidia and 10x Genomics; Singapore crosses 500 daily-updated geospatial datasets with open API access; @Wikimedia and @OKFN push to classify open knowledge as critical digital infrastructure. You can watch the AI preview below 👇

@tokennation_io @ipecity Muito feliz de ter iniciado essa parceria! Ansioso em cocriar eventos e projetos com vocês nos próximos anos! 🙌🏻❤️

A parceria entre o TokenNation e a @ipecity aponta para uma direção clara: A convergência entre comunidades digitais e novas formas de organização social 🌐 A Ipê City se define como uma comunidade de techno-optimists dedicada à construção de tecnologias sociais para cidades nativas da internet. Não se trata mais apenas de ferramentas ou protocolos isolados, mas de como esses elementos se articulam na criação de novos modelos de convivência, governança e produção cultural. É nesse ponto que a conexão com o TokenNation ganha força 🤝 O TokenNation atua como um ponto de encontro entre builders, criadores e agentes do Web3, enquanto a Ipê City explora uma camada mais conceitual e experimental, investigando como essas redes podem se traduzir em cidades, comunidades e sistemas vivos. Essa parceria estabelece um eixo consistente entre prática e visão. Em um cenário onde o termo “comunidade” foi frequentemente esvaziado por ciclos especulativos, iniciativas como essa ajudam a reposicionar seu significado. A ideia de “internet-native cities” também traz uma provocação relevante 💡 E se as cidades do futuro forem, por natureza, híbridas? Espaços onde identidade, governança e economia emergem diretamente da camada digital. Nesse contexto, a Web3 se consolida como base para novas formas de organização social. A parceria entre TokenNation e Ipê City conecta quem está construindo no presente com quem projeta futuros possíveis 🚀

One of the things I enjoy most about events like this is seeing how different the ideas and realities of other founders and builders are The number of initiatives and projects that emerge from events like @ipecity is really fascinating

AI Week starts at Ipê Village. Cursor, Lovable, Vercel, n8n, Cognition, all in Floripa this week. Kickoff: @cursor_ai Meetup with the actual Cursor team, live at Founder Haus. 50 spots. Link in below 👇🏽

Ipê Village recap, April 23 A day for career strategy and building 👨‍🏭 Marina Chekmysheva led Next Big Idea: Career Engineering for Builders and Techno-Optimists, a workshop on how to approach your career as a strategic project, mapping your strengths, identifying your value gap, and turning ideas into concrete paths for financial sustainability and long-term impact. It was so good, super inspring and insightful day ✨

@timourxyz that's so cool!

So cool how the letter 'C' here is burning man from space

Fridayyyay! Today at Ipê Village we’re welcoming a very special crew, the @Artizen team. Excited to have you guys with us 🤩 After open mic, we’ll also have a mentorship session with our builders! A lot of great projects cooking 🧑‍🍳

If you asked a stranger on the street to open their bank app, they'd think you're crazy. But that's effectively what it means to live and bank onchain today. "Onchain finance is going to become finance. Everything we do now in silos and black boxes called banks and exchanges will be completely onchain", in a way that is verifiable, self-custodial, and private by default. — Valerio Leo, Co-founder of @raycashxyz, on what needs to change. ⬇️

@vitoriagoodies It was a good trial 🥰

My boyfriend proposed to me, and everything was captured in this video 🥹

Claude Workshop happening now at the AI house 💻 Mikhail Savchenko, founder of INITE, builds AI systems and agent-based workflows for real-world operations, with a focus on making Claude useful and operational rather than keeping it at the level of hype.

@michael2xl @ipecity Lost my zcash sunglasses 🥲.

Thank you @ipecity 💚

In a recent interview with Jean Hanson (@peerbase_) of @ipecity and Rafael Castaneda of Oxus Finance, @alphacityinc CEO @bradfordcross said: “We can’t change the West,” comparing it to “a family member who has a drug addiction and they have to hit rock bottom and be willing to change.” “Alpha is a dual level mission where we’re attacking what’s wrong in the West and what’s wrong in the developing world at once with a new kind of foundation that fixes the issues in the developing world so that they can grow much faster. As we build these cities, we’ll use them as case study cities and bring people through from the developed world and say, ‘Hey, check this out. We could do the same thing in your country.’”