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. Seven cities, eight Saturdays, July through August: Augusta Jul 11, Savannah Jul 25, Albany Aug 1, Macon Aug 8, Columbus Aug 15, Athens Aug 22, Gainesville Aug 29.
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.
The east-of-Atlanta coalition.
Augusta brings the CSRA to the table. Historically under-engaged in crypto-policy conversations, historically essential to statewide outcomes. Paine College anchors the HBCU lane. Local civic partners host. The room is built around economic mobility framing: jobs, ownership, founders. Not abstract policy.
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. Savannah State University anchors. Coastal civic networks co-host. The frame is practical, not theoretical.
Where policy meets the next generation.
Athens brings the university lane. UGA anchors. Student-led policy energy, professors with research stakes, civic infrastructure built around campus life. The room frames crypto policy as the generational fight it actually is: the rules written this decade are the rules our students live under for the next forty years.
The working-class block party.
Columbus is the working-class block party. The frame is not "industry." It's fees, fairness, and the working economy. Faith leaders co-host. Columbus State partners. The room talks about what blockchain rails mean for small business, remittances, and a workforce left out of the financial-tech conversation.
The middle of the map.
Macon brings the cultural-policy intersection to life. Mercer and Fort Valley State anchor the academic-and-HBCU pairing. Macon's music history becomes the framing device: culture, ownership, royalties, on-chain rails. The policy conversation follows the story, not the other way around.
The growth-belt block party.
Gainesville is the growth-belt block party. Fast-changing demographics, Latino civic infrastructure, suburban small-business owners. The room is multilingual by design, the partners include local Latino-led civic orgs, and the conversation centers on remittances, ownership, and small-business access to financial tools.
The unexpected coalition.
Albany is the block party that nobody on a coastal email thread would have put on the map. That is exactly why we go. Southwest Georgia, anchored by Albany State and a civil-rights legacy that runs deep, has been left out of the tech conversation for too long. The faith infrastructure is real, small-business owners care about the same fees and access questions everyone else does, and the honest crypto-civic conversation belongs here too.
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.