Georgia's community infrastructure at the intersection of blockchain, web3, crypto, and AI. Four years in. New chapter. What emerging technology looks like when it grows up. Atlanta-rooted. Civically wired. Built for the long road.
ABC is what happens when crypto stops chasing pumps and starts building the room. Four years of weekly events, 33 startups incubated, and a grassroots community that didn't get bought, diluted, or distracted.
Chapter one was showing up. Chapter two is anchoring. To the West End, to Morehouse, to Georgia, to the civic fight.
ABC 2.0 is the bridge between emerging technology and the people building the next American economy: between policy and the communities it touches, and between Wall Street narratives and the builders doing the actual work.
$10,000. An audience-engagement platform that came out of our incubator, built by Atlanta founders we have backed since day one.
$10,000. A web3 browser and wallet built in our incubator. It has since wound down, but its place in our history is stamped - we back founders, win or lose.
$10,000. Atlanta's local crypto, blockchain, and AI news source, covering the scene when no one else will, plus a weekly X Spaces podcast 118 weeks running.
$40,000. Direct grants to founders, including Atlanta Goods Co. ($16K), Bleu Water ($7K), REAI ($5K), Subsume ($5K), and more.
This is the receipt: 250+ events. 33 startups incubated. $70K in ecosystem grants. $75K in PitchFest checks. $1.1M raised by ABC startups. Not a launch. Not a pitch. A four-year track record sponsors and PACs can verify in public.
Crypto's policy moment is in Georgia. The grassroots are in Atlanta. The trust is already built. ABC is the activation layer the industry has been looking for, and has not been able to manufacture from a coast.
It's not aspirational. It's electoral math. Georgia is a senate battleground, a presidential battleground, and home to one of the most consequential, culturally diverse political coalitions in America. Stand With Crypto, Georgia is now led by Tia Williams, ABC's partner and co-architect.
The rules are being written right now. The GENIUS Act is already law, the CLARITY Act is moving through the Senate, and Georgia's senators are among the votes that decide it. The swing is here. The voters are here. ABC has spent four years being trusted in the room before the cameras showed up.
Anyone can rent a room. Anyone can pay influencers. Nobody can fake four years of consistent presence. ABC is the only organization in the Southeast that combines crypto-native operating knowledge, HBCU institutional fluency, civic-engagement chops, and a real local audience built one Thursday at a time.
That moat is exactly what sponsors, PACs, and policy operators cannot build in time for the cycle. It already exists. They just need a partner with the keys.
In March 2026, ABC closed the Buckhead chapter and migrated into the Russell Center for Entrepreneurs in Atlanta's West End. Geographically inside the arc that runs through the AUC, South Downtown's new tech corridor, and Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Institutionally next to HBCU partners. Culturally where the city's future is being decided.
This is not a downsize. It's an alignment. A founder rooted at Morehouse should have his organization rooted where Morehouse alumni, AUC students, South Downtown founders, and West End neighbors can all walk in the same door. The address change is the strategy made literal.
New home. Russell Center for Entrepreneurs. Atlanta's West End. AUC. South Downtown. Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Same room. Same crew. Different chapter.
The room that built the room. 250+ Thursdays. Free, open, builder-first, no agenda except showing up.
33 companies incubated. Real founders, real product, real revenue. The Southern crypto founder pipeline.
Grants and direct investments into the room: FanFundr, Instarails, DocuHero, Skylark, DappHub, The Crypto Krew, and more. Real checks, real cap tables, real companies built in Atlanta.
We put Georgia's builders in the room with the people who write the rules, from the Gold Dome to Capitol Hill. Meetings with state legislators and members of Congress, and crypto policy shaped by the founders it touches.
The flagship. Crypto, culture, and the southern vote. One Saturday. Three acts. Co-presented with Stand With Crypto.
A pipeline for college students entering the digital economy. Bridges between Atlanta's universities and emerging tech.
Co-presented by ABC and Stand With Crypto, led by Tia Williams, President of Stand With Crypto, Georgia. A block party in every city: crypto, culture, civic engagement, and the southern vote. Built city-by-city with local organizers, HBCU partners, and the voters the policy fight is about, all building to Block Party South in Atlanta this September. First out the gate: Augusta, Savannah, Athens.
Thursdays, Block Parties, cohort demos, and the occasional dispatch from the West End. One email, no noise, straight from the room.
Next priorities: Marquee + Anchor partners for the 2026 Block Parties and Block Party South. We move at the speed of trust. Let's talk →