A Winter WonderLAN with FWB x Mesh

Mario Kart tourney + DJs. Bites, bevs, and besties. Come through? It’s a Winter WonderLAN with Scene Infrastructure Company and Mesh.

Thursday, December 12 @ 185 E. Broadway, NYC | 7pm to late

Get on the friends and family list for Winter WonderLAN.

The FWB 2024 Winter Bazaar: powered by PYUSD on SOLANA

Dropping soon*: Friends With Benefits x PYUSD x Solana presents the FWB Winter Bazaar 2024: a 72-hour e-market with curated goods from the extended Friends With Benefits community. Our physi-digital subcultural economy is made possible by the accelerating advancements in emerging technologies like trusted stablecoins and increasingly efficient layer one infrastructure.

*Due to smart contract difficulties, the FWB Winter Bazaar will be dropping soon! In the meantime, load up your Solana wallet with PYUSD on SOL!

Bar Blackbird San Francisco

Bar Blackbird is a members-only club for thirsty birds.

Bar Blackbird passes are valid every night of the week at 10+ beloved San Francisco watering holes. Members enjoy insider access and a drink (cocktail, wine, beer, +++) on Blackbird. Bar Blackbird membership unlocks members-only events, plus a 2,500 $FLY activation bonus (value: $25). Spend $FLY at participating Blackbird establishments all over San Francisco. Bar Blackbird membership is $30 a month.

Participating venues: 
• Bar Iris • Bar Sprezzatura • Bergerac • Blind Pig • Bus Stop • Hazie's • Kaiyo Rooftop • Mosto  • Palm House  • Tacolicious  • The Brixton • Trick Dog •

Distribute Music, Tokenize Royalties, Automate Splits in Stable Coins

Original Works is a decentralized and open-source protocol for Music IP that offers next-generation, secure, and transparent music distribution to all major streaming platforms and stores for artists, labels, and businesses.

Collect royalties from all major platforms and stores, whilst receiving payments onchain in USDC.

Enjoy seamless payments and royalty splits sent directly to the respective wallets of IP holders using Smart Contracts (Royalty Tokens). Access advances and easily split revenue, all while retaining self-custody of your IP rights.

Artist in Residence Erika Weitz spent the month of August with us exploring all that the desert has to offer. Drawing inspiration from many days and nights spent exploring Joshua Tree and the surrounding areas, Erika’s use of wet plate collodion and dives deep into nature and the unique, heightened, and surreal energies within the desert.

Join us and Superchief Gallery NFT from December 14-15 at the Palm Springs Ace Hotel & Swim Club for a weekend to celebrate the opening of Erika’s work titled “HOLY WATER” with a line up of curated DJs and unique nighttime swim dive-ins.

Members, workshop & vote:

WORKSHOP: Community Council Proposal (’24–’25) has been shared in the Discord workshopping channel here.

VOTE: Member Proposals SOP vote will go live tomorrow, December 4 at 12:00 PM PST through December 11 12:00 PM.

TOKEN MIGRATION UPDATE

Crypto is a rapidly evolving industry, with tools advancing in efficiency and scalability everyday. It’s incredibly exciting, and it’s exactly why we proposed updating the FWB token ecosystem from ETH Mainnet to Base L2. As many of you know Uniswap is close to launching a more proven V4. After careful consideration, we are postponing opening the migration to align with the launch of Uniswap V4 in order to set the pair once. We’re targeting January 2025, exact date to come.

ADD CULTURE TO YOUR TECH STACK WITH FWB

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. We partner with infrastructure companies, consumer brands, protocols, and communities to build user adoption strategies, craft cultural positioning, and deploy product launches.

What We Do: 

• Content & experiential marketing

• Solving cold start problem

• User acquisition & retention

• Community building

• Strategic advisory

How We Do It:

• URL → IRL Activations

• FWB FEST

• Incubators

• Strategic rollouts & marketing campaigns

• Thought leadership

Our Edge:

• Solving the Cold Start Problem: Our crypto-native community are the right first adopters paired with a custom rollout plan to drive early traction.

• Beyond crypto: We help you break out of the web3 bubble, ensuring your product resonates with a broader audience.

• A Community of Culturalists: Partner with us to access a global network eager to bring your vision to life and drive cultural relevance.

• Solutions for Newly Funded Companies: Our tailored approach maximizes your investment, delivering impactful results for your growing business.

More Than A Social Network

FWB was founded as a new kind of social network. Four years later, our network has evolved to produce cultural go-to-market solutions leveraging our 5,500+ global membership and wider emerging tech ecosystem.