The FWB 2024 Winter Bazaar opens next week, for 72 hours only

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.

SF Friends — Join us for a night with Blackbird @ Trick Dog

The birds take flight in San Francisco. Join Blackbird and FWB to celebrate the launch of Blackbird San Francisco. December 10, 6-9 PM at Trick Dog. 

Blackbird is the loyalty company that rewards people who love restaurants. With Blackbird, you'll earn rewards and unlock magical experiences every time you visit a partner restaurant. You can now find Blackbird in over 50 great spots all over San Francisco including Octavia, Trick Dog, Bar Iris, Tacolicious, Frances, SPQR, Mister Jiu's and more. Download the app, set up Blackbird Pay (simply add a card), and you’ll find a balance of $FLY waiting for you. The more you use the app, the more $FLY you earn, and you can spend that $FLY on meals, memberships, and exclusive experiences. 

See you at SCOPE Miami 🏝️ Come by Friday from 3pm - 5pm for panels co hosted with CoinDesk. Greg will be speaking on the topic of Scaling Our Creative Future, with:

Greg Bresnitz - CEO, FWB
Erick Calderon - Founder, Art Blocks / Generative Goods
tom.base.eth - Head of Product, Base
San Ewen - CoinDesk, Moderator

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: FWB FEST 2025 Proposal vote is now live through December 10 at 12:00 PM PST. Read the proposal here.

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

Checking in on Squad Wealth

About the series: Checking in on Squad Wealth is a 4-part editorial series investigating the path toward a blockchain-dominant future, where financial tools are intertwined with cultural narratives. With essays by a storied cast of eminent culture and finance experts including Anna Gát, Gaby Goldberg, and Jose Fernandez da Ponte, and Kyla Scanlon.

Read the full series:

1. “Trust and the Crypto Economy” by Kyla Scanlon

2. “No Onramp Needed” by Gaby Goldberg

3. “Decentralized Centralization in the Nexus of Culture” Anna Gat interviewed by Kyla Stanton

4. “The Economics of Decentralization” by Jose Fernandez da Ponte

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.