One coalition. One state. A block party in every city. A grassroots series co-presented by ABC and Stand With Crypto, led by Tia Williams, President of Stand With Crypto, Georgia. Crypto, culture, civic engagement, and the southern vote, building all year to Block Party South this September.
At the inception of Stand With Crypto, Coinbase flew its first cohort of 50 founders to Washington to stand in front of Congress. Two of them came from this room: Marlon Williams and Chris Powell, co-founder and CTO of Project Pi Labs. That trip lit the fuse: the Crypto Townhall in Atlanta, advocate town halls, founders in the room with lawmakers, and eventually Stand With Crypto Georgia, now led by Tia Williams.
The Crypto Townhall · Atlanta
Most "crypto tours" are panel events that fly in talent and fly back out. This is the opposite of that. The Block Parties are built city-by-city by Tia Williams, President of Stand With Crypto Georgia, with local organizers, HBCU partners, civic leaders, and the voters the policy fight is actually about. Every block party is a coalition meeting that happens to feel like a celebration.
The strategy is simple: turn the cities that decide Georgia into rooms that decide themselves. Each block party pairs ABC's crypto-native programming with Stand With Crypto Georgia's civic infrastructure. Voter pledges, policy education, and direct on-ramps for first-cycle voters. Local partners host. Local organizers cohost. Local press covers it. Three cities across Georgia: Athens on August 22, Augusta on August 29, and Savannah on September 12.
It all builds to one place. Every regional block party feeds the energy, the coalition, and the receipts into Block Party South, the Atlanta finale this September. The deliverable is not impressions. The deliverable is a coalition that survives past the cycle.
Where policy meets the next generation.
The tour starts in Athens, around the block from the University of Georgia. Live band, food and drinks, and a room of students, founders, and neighbours talking about where AI, blockchain, and crypto go next in this state. UGA's Innovation District has shared the invitation with student groups across campus, so expect a good mix of people who are new to this and want to understand it. That is exactly who we came for.
RSVP free →The east-of-Atlanta coalition.
Augusta brings the CSRA to the table. Historically under-engaged in crypto-policy conversations, historically essential to statewide outcomes. The room is built around economic mobility framing: jobs, ownership, founders. Not abstract policy. We walk the room through PeachCheck.org so people can look up their own representative and decide for themselves.
RSVP free →Where the coast meets the code.
The Savannah block party ties crypto to the coastal economy: ownership, supply chains, small-business stablecoin rails, and the makers and entrepreneurs already doing real work. Coastal civic networks co-host. The frame is practical, not theoretical, and every attendee leaves knowing where their own representative stands.
RSVP free →Everything converges here.
The grand finale. Block Party South is where the whole series lands: one Saturday, three acts, co-presented by ABC and Stand With Crypto. The coalition, the founders, the voters, and the culture every regional block party built all converge in Atlanta. Crypto, culture, and the southern vote, in the city that sets the tone for the South.
See Block Party South →Led by Tia Williams. The state chapter of Stand With Crypto. Voter pledges, policy education, civic infrastructure.
Morehouse, Spelman, CAU, Morris Brown, Paine, Fort Valley State, Savannah State. Georgia's HBCU spine.
Four years of Atlanta-built founders and operators. The validator network for every block party.
Co-hosts in every city. The honest face of the room. The legitimacy multiplier.
Local press in every market. National press riding the founder + block-party arc. WSJ relationship intact.
Marquee sponsors get coalition seats. Partners co-design framing. Choose your altitude.
Act I · Education. Local builders, policy basics, plain language. Act II · Coalition. Faith leaders, civic orgs, HBCU students, founders. Act III · Pledge. Stand With Crypto pledge integration. Voters register, voters get on-ramps.
Each block party has a local producer on payroll. A respected community organizer who pulls the room together. The producer is the trust-broker. ABC + Stand With Crypto are the curriculum.
Each block party produces a 3–5 minute mini-documentary: founders, voters, faith leaders, students. Distributed by ABC + Stand With Crypto + sponsors. The series leaves a content trail, not just receipts.
Every block party activates local press the right way: a real story, a real coalition, a real ask. National press rides the founder + block-party arc, not the press release.
Sponsors get real speaking slots, coalition seats, and on-the-ground roles. We do not sell sticker placement. We co-design wins. Partners get the full lane.
The Stand With Crypto voter pledge is integrated at every event: tablets at the door, QR on the slides, follow-up via Stand With Crypto, Georgia's distribution. The receipts compound.