Zuitzerland is a multi-week gathering and “pop-up city” in Switzerland that explores how a society might function if it were designed with a Web3‑first mindset, drawing explicit inspiration from Vitalik Buterin’s experimental Zuzalu community in Montenegro. Over roughly four weeks in May, the event brings together more than 200 thinkers, builders, and researchers from crypto, governance, public goods, and adjacent fields to live, work, and experiment with new models for coordination, identity, and digital‑native institutions in a shared physical location. Participants apply or are invited to join an in‑person residency featuring talks, workshops, and collaborative projects centered on topics such as decentralized governance, network states, and novel social technologies.
The initiative describes itself as an attempt to build a permanent Zuzalu node in Switzerland, effectively localizing and extending the Zuzalu concept rather than hosting a one‑off conference. This involves experimenting with community governance structures, shared values, and public‑goods infrastructure informed by Web3 tools and philosophy, while operating under Swiss legal and regulatory conditions. In the broader context of crypto and digital governance, Zuitzerland serves as a live testbed for ideas around “decentralized society,” on‑chain identity, and community‑driven policymaking, and its outcomes may inform future experiments in network states, crypto cities, and long‑term Web3‑native communities.
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