The FW3 Denver invites for a special fireside chat on sacred systems, digital localism, and the future of value with Nathan Schneider and Crystal Street.
We’ve spent the last decade building cathedrals in the cloud—platforms, blockchains, and agent swarms reaching for infinite scale, universal abstraction, and frictionless control. But on the ground, communities are asking a different question: What does it mean to build resilient systems of value rooted in place?
In this timely fireside chat, Nathan and Crystal explore how decentralization, web3 protocols, and AI might serve as scaffolding for a (re)grounded economic future—one that doesn’t scale infinitely, but coheres locally.
Drawing on research in platform cooperativism, exit-to-community strategies, and democratic design, this dialogue examines what happens when we approach our technological tools with both pragmatic rigor and spiritual curiosity. How do we build systems that serve human flourishing rather than extraction? And what does it look like when communities become authors of their own digital destinies?
Demo + Panel (7-8pm)
- Nathan Schneider, CU Boulder
- Crystal Street, The Human Layer
Bites & Bevs
- Local Pizza (Redeemer RiNo)
- Open Bar (Dylan Alito, Bar-Bar Drinks)
📅 Tuesday, July 15, 2025
🕔 Time: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM MDT
📍 Venture X Denver Lodo
1800 Wazee St 3rd Floor · Denver, CO
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