Join the Detroit Blockchain Collective for Crypto Connect at the new 225 Speakeasy (next to Atwater Brewery in Detroit) for a night of connection and ideas shaping the future of Web3.
🍸 🤝 Drinks On Us
We’ve got drinks on the house and a room full of people shaping Detroit’s emerging tech scene—founders, builders, investors, creatives, and the crypto-curious.
This is a social-first mixer designed to make it easy to meet people, start conversations, and plug into Michigan’s growing tech & crypto ecosystem.
Food is also available to order at the speakeasy from Atwater Brewery.
Throughout the evening, we’ll also feature a talk from Nick George, sharing how AI tools are lowering the barrier to building—giving attendees a chance to connect and walk away with something practical to apply.
Featured Talk:
AI Assisted Coding for Non-Technical Builders
Don’t miss this talk from Nick George, Events and Ecosystem Builder for Crypto and AI, and Founder of Dryad.
Nick will lead a conversation about how to use the latest AI tools to bring your ideas to life and actually build things — whether that’s a website, a dashboard, an app, an agent frontend, or just an idea you’ve been sitting on. He’ll walk through how to go from raw idea to real project— from research and project framing to building and refining towards your vision. Whether you’ve shipped a dozen projects or have never written a line of code, this one’s for you.
Speaker Bio
Events and Ecosystem Builder for Crypto and AI, Founder of Dryad.
Ex- Dr. Sushi, Serotonin, Story Protocol.
Nick George is an ecosystem and events operator with a background in live production, brand experience, and program design. At Story Protocol, he served as Events Lead, managing more than $3M in global event spend across flagship activations in Seoul and Denver — covering strategy through execution: budgeting, sponsorships, speaker ops, vendor management, and on-site production. He also designed Surreal World Assets, a builder program that reached 1,900+ registrants, supported 75+ community events across four continents, and moved multiple teams into active incubation. Before Story, he helped scale event-led ecosystem growth at Serotonin across clients including Robinhood, PayPal, and Protocol Labs.
Outside of crypto, Nick founded and ran Dr. Sushi — Michigan’s first sustainable sushi operation — for ten years out of Detroit, and continues to produce Far Off Sounds (music documentary series) and Pure Rave (experimental turntablism, est. 2016).
Parking
🚗 Bonus: free parking in the adjacent lot — easy in, easy out.
Sponsored by:Stand With Crypto and Dryad
Stand With Crypto
Stand With Crypto is a non-prodit and grassroots advocacy organization committed to supporting the 52 million Americans in the U.S. that own crypto. Stand With Crypto is driving progressive blockchain regulatory initiatives and working to ensure the rules being written in Congress today protect your right to participate in the financial revolution.
Dryad
Dryad is an autonomous AI agent that manages native habitat restoration on 9 vacant lots in Detroit, funded entirely by USDC DeFi yield so it never needs ongoing donations or grants. It monitors biodiversity through iNaturalist, hires and pays contractors in USDC, and records every decision onchain.
🗓 Thursday, April 16, 2026
🕔 Time: 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
📍 225 Speakeasy
237 Joseph Campau Ave · Detroit, MI
✨Founded in 2024, the Detroit Blockchain Collective was created to foster blockchain innovation in Michigan through grassroots community and education.
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