Events

For this presentation, we'll be diving into a foundational component of the Ethereum ecosystem and blockchain technology: wallets!

Bring your laptop and a friend to follow along with the ETH SD team in building a simple Ethereum wallet from scratch. If you have questions on wallets ahead of time, send us a DM on 

Thanks to our great community, we have the best possible place in SD to host a talk on crypto wallets: the Edge office at 1495 Pacific Hwy #300, San Diego, CA! The event will take place from 6pm to 9pm PDT.

There is limited street parking around the Edge office as well as paid public parking at 950 W Ash St. as well as the Little Italy Parking Garage located on 715 W Cedar St. We recommend arriving early or taking a rideshare service, as parking in downtown can be a bit hard to find.

Looking forward to seeing everyone there!

Building a Simple Ethereum Wallet from Scratch

we’re hyped to celebrate Cinco de Mayo with our ETH SD community for our May social! we’ll be at Stone Brewing Tap Room (1202 Kettner Blvd., Suite 101, San Diego, Ca. 92101) from 6-8 pm enjoying brews and margaritas. Come by for some networking and to catch up with everything happening local and on-chain

Cinco De Mayo Social 

This will be part 2 of the Build a Simple Ethereum Wallet from Scratch series. You can find part 1 here: 

For this presentation, we'll be covering HD wallets (BIP32), Mnemonic/seed phrase (BIP39), and lightly touch on multipurpose/multi-currency (BIP43/44).

For this event, there will be a soft requirement to hold an ETH SD 

 NFT, which can be earned by completing the quiz from part 1 here: 

https://101.xyz/course/cl2y7avcj088909l3inyr481k

https://twitter.com/EthSanDiego/status/1523760700820131841

Additionally you can see all of the already minted badges here: 

https://opensea.io/assets/101-badges?search[stringTraits][0][name]=Course%20Name&search[stringTraits][0][values][0]=Building%20a%20Simple%20Ethereum%20Wallet%20from%20Scratch%20Quiz&search[sortAscending]=true&search[sortBy]=PRICE

​Bring your laptop and a friend to follow along with the ETH SD team in building a simple Ethereum wallet from scratch. If you have questions on wallets ahead of time, send us a DM on 

​Thanks to our great community, we have the best possible place in SD to host a talk on crypto wallets: the 

 office at 1495 Pacific Hwy #300, San Diego, CA! The event will take place from 6pm to 9pm PDT.

​There is limited street parking around the Edge office as well as paid public parking at 950 W Ash St. as well as the Little Italy Parking Garage located on 715 W Cedar St. We recommend arriving early or taking a rideshare service, as parking in downtown can be a bit hard to find.

​Looking forward to seeing everyone there!

Building a Simple Ethereum Wallet from Scratch Pt. 2

Calling web3 builders across the galaxy 🌌

We’ve teamed up with Blockchain and Brews Founder Barry to host an out-of-this-world collab for our June technical!

For this competitive, hackathon-style meetup, users will battle to maximize their token's market cap!

Barry will be walking everyone through creating your own ERC-20 token and Uniswap pair on Polygon. From then, you’ll be on your own to form teams to try to maximize the market cap of your token!

Token Wars will be the first event at the new ETH SD Clubhouse. Stop by for the soft launch and get a look at our new space for future events!

Huge shout out to Flo for making this happen, we can’t wait to unveil all the activities we will be hosting in the future!

Make sure you drop your polygon address on the events page and join our discord as we will be hosting this event IRL & URL!

Token Wars ✨ ETH SD Clubhouse Launch 🚀

Tokenomics are the most important, yet least understood topic in crypto.

They are what make a cryptocurrency valuable. 

With weak Tokenomics, currencies and tokens can only rely on speculation to support price and secure a protocol. 

With strong Tokenomics, cryptocurrencies and tokens automatically accrue value as they are used. 

Learn how to identify and create valuable tokens at Tokenomics 101 next Tuesday, June 14th from 6-8 pm at the ETH SD clubhouse with our guest speaker 

After the event, we will be having food and drinks at 

Tokenomics 101 📈

Since many from the ETH SD community will be headed to New York for an exciting week of conferences, socials, and more, we’re stoked to make our June social a Satellite Event for NFT.NYC and pre-mixer for ETH NY!

Come hang out and network with devs, designers, and other builders looking to connect from coast to coast! If you're looking for a team or a teammate, don't miss out on this event.

We will be hanging out at Sweet & Vicious (5 Spring St, New York, NY 10012) from 5-7 pm eastern!

NFT NYC + ETH NY Mixer 🗽

For this meetup we'll be learning solidity together by going through the 

We will be starting with lesson one and seeing how far we get as a group. This will be a great opportunity for those looking to break into solidity and learn some fundamentals through a fun course. Bring your laptop and a friend!

This event will be hosted at the ETH SD clubhouse. 

Parking is tough to find around the area so we suggest parking at a Petco Park lot and/or ridesharing.

Crypto Zombies Pt. 1

For this monthly web3 mixer, we’ll be hanging with our friends from Kové at their new Miramar Tasting Room! 

is the world’s first Hard Yerba Mate Beverage 

As a local San Diego business and a healthier alternative to traditional alcoholic beverages, teaming up for a community event makes perfect sense.

Stop by and unwind with us at the Kové Tasting Room from 6:30 to 8:30 pm PDT on Thursday 7/28. 

It’s located at 9030 Kenamar Dr. Ste. 309, SD, CA 92121 

Kové x ETH SD Web3 Mixer

We’re hyped to host a Web3 Game Night for our August social at the awesome Powerhaus Pizza in Pacific Beach 🍕

Join us in enjoying a few slices of some of the healthiest pizza in town and hanging with the local crypto crew! Bring some of your favorite Web3 games as well!

Powerhaus has sponsored and hosted previous crypto meetups, and is a champion for adoption in our city 🥇 Purchase a pizza and get a free beer, hard kombucha, or seltzer!

Save the date for Thursday, 8/18 from 6:30 to 8:30pm PDT. Powerhaus is located at 1550 Garnet Ave, San Diego, CA 92109.

We look forward to seeing everyone, don’t forget to bring a friend!

ETH SD Game Night

In the spirit of keeping things lively, we’re hosting a fireside chat as this month’s technical!

, this discussion will around Decentralized Identity & Verifiable Credentials, and the future of Soulbound tokens (SBTs).

Be sure to come ready for some in-depth dialogue, in addition to jamming on ideas with the community.

  on Thursday, Aug. 25, from 6:30 to 8:30pm PDT.

Fireside Chat: DIDs, VCs, & SBTs

The MERGE is happening this week so it only makes sense to get together and party 🎉

We've got a room reserved at Maverick's Beach Club in Pacific Beach and will be displaying the viewing party

Also get ready for some merge bingo and other fun surprises ✨

We hope to see you all there for a very exciting moment within the Ethereum ecosystem. 

To learn more about the merge and what it means for Ethereum, head over to 

The Merge Viewing Party 🎉

We're excited to welcome Toby Jaguar, a member of our community and core-contributor to the SmartPiggies Protocol for a technical presentation and live coding session.

This presentation will review the SmartPiggies protocol platform for non-fungible options on the EVM, how 

 is used within the protocol, and focus on the fair mint NFT art campaign used to support the platform.

There will also be a live coding portion where local development environments will be setup using 

 and a sample VRF smart contract will be implemented.

https://github.com/ethsd/nft-fair-mint-with-vrf

Smart Piggies Technical Presentation

We're excited to announce that for October's technical event, we're hosting 

Disco is a purveyor of fine data backpacks 🎒. Wallets are for all of your financial assets, and data backpacks are for the rest of the stuff you need to explore the metaverse! 💃🕺💃

As an exclusive for the event, ETH SD will be demoing beta access to Disco!

Thanks to our friends at Launch Factory for sponsoring us with a location. We’ll be getting the night started at 6:30pm Pacific on Tuesday, Oct. 4! 

6:30 - 6:50 pm: Networking — Food & Drinks and Sounds from Vurtual

6:50 - 6:55 pm: Intro from the ETH SD team

6:55 - 7:55 pm: Disco: Evin McMullen's Presentation 

8:05 - 8:20 pm: Disco: Technical Demo from Eric

8:20 - 8:30 pm:  Break out & Closing Remarks

8:30 - 9:30 pm: After party w Sounds from Vurtual

We've also partnered up with our friends at 

 to offer an NFT 🎫 ticket for this event. 

The Magic of Web3 Identity with Disco

ETH SD is excited to be part of the FOAM Trust Zone Program Beta to set up a FOAM network in San Diego!

FOAM provides the tools to enable a crowdsourced map and decentralized location services. You can call this a proof of location service where the hardware nodes use extremely precise clocks that allow them to geolocate each other and anyone that wants to use the network. 

The main value of FOAM is providing proof of location - or the ability to log time, date, and location onto a blockchain in a provable way.

FOAM helps solve many issues such as location spoofing that affects many applications like Helium, Ride services like Lyft, and location-based games like Pokemon Go.

https://mirror.xyz/foamspace.eth/9QRjUNdAuw80x9CLvMs76hEp-LVpV92CXVyGmC0H4fU

We want to get the San Diego community involved in helping set up the necessary hardware to set up a FOAM trust zone. What we will be doing during this first meetup is brainstorming 4 locations all within half a mile of each other where we can set up the nodes. We will also be assembling the nodes, so get your hardware hats on!

Yes! We've got a grant from FOAM to set up this Trust Zone so every participant will be rewarded with $FOAM tokens, yay!

Thursday, November 3rd from 6:30 - 8:30 PM

UCSD Campus Design and Innovation Building Room 436

FOAM Meetup #1

This will be a follow-up to our last FOAM meetup: 

We've got all the hardware to start building so this session will be very hands-on!

If you missed out on FOAM rewards, you can check out the 

Parking can sometimes be an issue near the ETH SD clubhouse. We recommend showing up early!

If you really can't find parking, reach out to us via twitter!

FOAM Meetup #2

We're excited to host Joshua Lapidus, a Founding Steward of Opolis and SporkDAO (the parent DAO of ETHDenver) for a talk on the Future of Work in Web3!

Opolis is a Member-owned digital employment cooperative helping independent workers (which happens to also be everyone who works in and around DAOs) access high-quality group rate employment benefits like crypto/fiat payroll, health/dental/vision insurance, access to retirement accounts, etc.

Beyond the boring aspects of employment self-sovereignty, we're living through and building together the ground swell with the potential to change the face of capitalism for the better. If you're interested in DAOs or already contribute to a DAO, you won't want to miss this talk.

Additionally, ETH Denver is coming up so what better time to ask Joshua any questions you may have about the largest and longest-running Ethereum event in the world!

We hope to see you for an awesome talk with Joshua!

The Future of Work is Web3

Join ETH SD and the local builders from our previous FOAM meetups in finishing the builds of our hardware nodes for SD's own Trust Zone in the Proof of Location network! 

Check out the details on the last FOAM Meetup (

 on the ETH SD Twitch. ​If you missed out on FOAM rewards, you can check out the 

​Parking can sometimes be busy near the ETH SD clubhouse. We recommend showing up early!

​If you really can't find parking, reach out to us via 

FOAM Meetup #3

 for a workshop on Scaffold-ETH, an off-the-shelf stack for rapid prototyping on Ethereum, giving developers access to state-of-the-art tools to quickly learn and ship an Ethereum-based Dapp.

Scaffold-ETH is everything you need to get started building decentralized applications powered by smart contracts. Learn more at 

https://github.com/scaffold-eth/scaffold-eth

🏗 Build on Ethereum Quickly and Easily with Scaffold-ETH 🥷

ETH SD is proud to announce we're a Polygon Guild! 

Polygon Guilds are partnerships between Polygon and upcoming Ethereum communities just like ours. As the first one on the West Coast, we hope to continue to build out the Ethereum and Polygon ecosystems as we grow.

Keeping up with the Polygon ecosystem is not an easy task; between an international community that never sleeps and a booming marketplace of new innovations, content creators can easily miss out on all that happens within web3 - which is why ETH SD has decided to launch a Polygon Guild of our own. For those of you interested in learning, building, and contributing to Polygon, don’t miss out on this exciting overview of the ecosystem!

For this event, ETH SD founder gmchad will be welcoming Krak, Developer Relations Engineer and Head of Polygon for Chainstack, for a fireside discussion on Polygon Guilds, Chainstack, and more!

ETH SD x Polygon Guild Kickoff

For this fireside chat, ETH SD is welcoming PK, Co-Founder of Blockchain at SD (BaSD) and Developer at Euler Labs for a discussion with gmchad on democratizing borrowing and lending, the current state of DeFi, and more. 

BaSD is UCSD's student organization for crypto builders and developers on campus. Euler is a non-custodial permissionless lending protocol on Ethereum that helps users to earn interest on their crypto assets or hedge against volatile markets without the need for a trusted third-party

ETH SD Fireside: Euler Finance with PK 

With all of the activity in the crypto job market, ETH SD is particularly excited to bring a timely fireside chat to the community and welcome Engineering Manager David Bai and Technical Recruiter 

, this panel will focus OpenSea's journey, what it takes to land a developer role at a larger Web3 company, and the day to day of engineers at OpenSea.

OpenSea x ETH SD Panel

San Diego AI Meetup

Join us in welcoming Relay founder Sean Brennan and Ensō  founder Julienne Worring for a discussion on founding web3 organizations and communities, a recap of Ethereum Denver, and more!  

Relay is the intersection of Ethereum-enabled OpenAI agents and wallet messaging. Learn more at 

Ensō is building a digital (social) closet to discover, collect, and earn with built-in attributions on-chain. Learn more at 

ETH SD Founder Fireside: Enso Collective & Relay

You've probably seen the recent bank runs and closures happening to major financial institutions. First SVB, then Signature, and now Credit Suisse.

's #BitSignal and his bet that the US Dollar will hyper-inflate in the next 90 days.

Let's get together and discuss what this all means. Join ETH SD and EX3 at the 

 in Solana Beach for a fireside chat on the role of crypto and digital assets in times of transition. 

 will be hosting NoRamp CEO and 7feur Ventures Managing Partner 

While there will be some street parking available, please be mindful of the neighbors as this location is within a residential area. Taking an Uber or Lyft is also a good alternative. 

ETH SD x EX3 : Crypto Sunday 

Ethereum's Shapella network upgrade is here, let's celebrate! 

For those who don't know, the Shapella upgrade is the first simultaneous upgrade of Ethereum’s execution layer and consensus layer, and is highly anticipated because it will enable staked ETH withdrawals.

Join ETH SD and EX3 at the W1SE Castle this Saturday for networking and fun as we welcome in the latest milestone of the Ethereum roadmap. 

We'd like to thank Kové for being the exclusive alcoholic beverage sponsor for this event with their delicious Hard Yerba Mate. We would also like to thank TBD for sponsoring with their amazing CBD-infused drinks.

While there will be some street parking available, please be mindful of the neighbors as this location is within a residential area. Taking an Uber or Lyft is also a good alternative.

Shapella Upgrade Castle Party

Let's get together with the Web3 & AI Community at ASU+GSV Summit

ASU+GSV Web3/AI Happy Hour

Join us for an exciting and informative evening meetup with fellow AI enthusiasts! This event is perfect for those interested in artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, and especially ChatGPT. Get ready for an engaging evening filled with delicious pizza, insightful talks, and stimulating discussions!

Kick off the evening with a casual pizza dinner, while getting to know fellow AI enthusiasts in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.

7 Prompt Engineering Techniques You Need to Know (7:05-7:30pm)

You’ve heard about ChatGPT in the news, now come learn how to use it! Learn the 7 core techniques of prompt engineering with Greg Schwartz, the host of Prompt Engineering Mastermind and Podcast. He’ll demonstrate each technique, show why they matter, and you’ll walk away with a simple guide to remember each one.

AI Engines Deep Dive: Comparison and OpenAI API Tutorial (7:30-8pm)

Data scientists Ryan Chesler, Alex Loftus, and Aina Tersol, will present a comprehensive comparison of the major language modeling APIs. They’ll cover their strengths, weaknesses, prices, and best use cases for each one. Then they’ll walk you through using the OpenAI API in Python. Code will be shared.

We’ll wrap up the evening with Q&A plus social time for exchanging ideas and discussing the topics covered during the meetup.

Don't miss this opportunity to learn, network, and have a great time with fellow ChatGPT/AI/ML practitioners!

Parking: nearby public parking (950 W Ash St) and the Little Italy Parking Garage (715 W Cedar St)

AI San Diego: Working with LLMs

ETH SD is excited to host Developer Experience Engineer 

 for a presentation on how to use Thirdweb, a complete development framework. This will be a hybrid event, presented remotely. 

A front-to-back development suite, Thirdweb leverages powerful SDKs, a CLI, and a robust dashboard to streamline your web3 app development. Learn more at 

​​There is limited street parking around the Edge office as well as paid public parking at 950 W Ash St. as well as the Little Italy Parking Garage located on 715 W Cedar St. We recommend arriving early or taking a rideshare service, as parking in downtown can be a bit hard to find.

ETH SD x Thirdweb: How to Use Thirdweb

Many moons ago, on May 22, 2010, a brave crypto pioneer completed the first crypto transaction: 10,000 BTC for 2 large pizzas. Now, that same date is a global holiday for blockchain enthusiasts and builders to commemorate the sacred purchase with pizza.

Join ETH SD and PizzaDAO in celebrating BTC Pizza Day as part of a worldwide celebration sponsored by PizzaDAO. PolkaHaus, Opolis, and SD NFT Friends are also community sponsors for this event!

The event will be hosted at the Edge HQ from 6:30pm to 8pm.

ETH SD x PizzaDAO: BTC Pizza Day 

The finale of our FOAM saga is here! Join ETH SD and FOAM in initializing the first Trust Zone in San Diego of the Proof of Location network. 

Over the course of the past year, members of the ETH SD community have been working with the FOAM team to plan the SD Trust Zone, assemble and mount the hardware nodes, and get them online! 

For this event, we'll be celebrating the completion of the Trust Zone, and seeing what lies ahead with the activation of the zone. 

ETH SD x FOAM: SD Trust Zone Initialization

 is a silicon beach run takeover during LA 

 2023, gamified around the theme of generative AI, featuring a diverse panel of leaders and creators, including 

, based on your perceived future of A.I., and be ready to join in on the conversation.

 permeating our lives and taking over conversations, we decided to put together this run experience with our friends at 

, to discuss near term and long term impact of this technology. 

 - a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to celebrate the growing LA ecosystem!

Run Tech Club is a community of creators, builders, and founders who’d rather brainstorm in sneakers than a suit. We invest into people before their next big idea, providing access to entrepreneurship through weekly office hours, group runs, and annual fellowship programs.

LA #Techweek: Run AI (Presented by Run Tech Club)

 - the next-gen startup ecosystem for builders in San Diego - is hosting its inaugural event this summer focused on Generative Artificial Intelligence, the SDxAI Hackathon! 🦾

We're taking over the beautiful UCSD Design & Innovation Building on July 15-16 for this 2-day, in-person event.

​Join 100+ fellow hackers for workshops, mentor sessions, and plenty of time for hacking!

Though our main & credit sponsors we have a total prize pool of 

 that will be distributed to 1st, 2nd, & 3rd place teams plus bounty winners!

For more information on the Design & Innovation building and how to get there, 

🚨 Event is full, now accepting a waitlist 🚨

You will only be allowed into the event if you are approved. If you registered 

 and didn't receive approval, please reach out on 

We can't wait to see you all there. It's going to be amazing.

SDxAI Hackathon

The first SDx Hacker Club event. To apply, please visit 

This will be an exclusive event for AI builders in San Diego. All attendees will be required to showcase what they're working on. No powerpoints, no pitching, just demos.

 HQ. Address will be given upon approval.

SDxHackerClub

SDx is hosting an exclusive coworking day for builders with our friends at 

If you're working on something neat in AI, this is a great time to meet the SDx team and learn more about the Hacker Club.