Azul, the reboot, and a new website

The May assembly was a hinge night. We started with the question we’ve been circling for months — what is Crypto Wednesday actually for? — and ended it with three concrete answers, a shipped website, and a wooden table covered in Azul tiles.

What we did

• Rebooted the format. Crypto Wednesday is no longer a presentation evening. From now on it’s a working assembly: short framings, then circles, then a plenary. Less stage, more table.
• Played Azul. We pulled out the board game and played a full round. It’s a good model for what we want the assembly to feel like — quiet, tactile, patient, slightly competitive in the right way.
• Shipped a new website. The first version of dao.brussels is live. Black and white, geometric, no muted blue. Events, pods, and Nostr-backed comments — all in one place, all on the open web.

Next steps

• Bring the new format back next month and see if it sticks.
• Open issues on the website so anyone can propose changes.
• Pick a second board game for July.