Hey Zuzalians! 👋

Another month has passed - can you believe it? Welcome to the August edition of the Zuzalu Community Newsletter!

This month, not only have temperatures globally been hitting all-time-highs, our community has been up to some incredible things. 🔥

Not only can you see Zuzalian accomplishments and event highlights below, there are a number of upcoming events and ways for you to get involved so make sure to check them out! And at the end of the newsletter, some very exciting information about Istanbul. Will we see you there? 👀

We hope you are all taking cold showers and staying cool in these fiery times. Please continue to provide feedback and suggestions for this newsletter and submit your events and photos to be highlighted in our upcoming issues!

I. COMMUNITY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Let’s start off by recapping a few awesome things that Zuzalians accomplished in July 2023:

• 📝 Tristan Roberts released his opus on Zuzalu, available for reading here.
• 🎙️ Jazzy completed an intriguing interview with our very own community design expert, Janine Leger.
• 🧵 Immortal Coil, a Longevity fashion brand driven by Julie Zhang, is advancing with designs for the "essential collection", "goddess collection" and "Nathan in Black hat Collection".
• 📚 Michael Edward Johnson explored Buddhist "tanha", active inference, and the vascular system in his comprehensive write-up.
• 🎉 Despite venue issues, Mia Soarez led a popular event by Fabric Ventures at ETHCC, attracting over three thousand enthusiastic attendees.
• 📣 Benjamin Whitby announced three significant developments from Qredo, including QSign, deflationary tokenomics, and Exchange Hub.
• 📍 Petra kickstarted stamp.network to create "decentralized Airtags" and developed zkWallet, a privacy-preserving on-chain KYC tool, winning two hackathon prizes.

(Message Gary on Telegram if you’d like your accomplishment to be added to this list.)

II. EVENTS FROM THE COMMUNITY

A few exciting events from Zuzalians:

1. **Zuzalu Town Hall (Every Tuesday at 9:30am ET / 3:30pm CET)**
   • Come to hear announcements related to the future of Zuzalu and updates from the community! Call link: https://meet.google.com/coo-ydvu-fox
2. **Gitcoin Grants 18, which will feature a Zuzalu Round** (Aug 15-29)
   • Applications for Gitcoin’s ~quarterly Quadratic Funding round opening up by the end of July. Follow @Gitcoin on Twitter to be first to find out.