🇮🇹 Italy's Web3 Builders 👾 Onboarding Web3 developers 🛠️ Organizers of @ETHRome 🏛️ Hosts of Urbe Hub - Italy's first Web3 event & coworking space
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The urbe.eth Manifesto 2.0 📜
Urbe.eth is a community of builders and a non-profit association, formally established in Rome in April 2023.
It started in Rome around a simple idea: people interested in Ethereum and emerging technologies need places where they can meet, learn, build, and collaborate together.
Over the years, that idea became a real community. Today urbe.eth brings together developers, founders, researchers, designers, lawyers, students, and technology enthusiasts who share a common curiosity: understanding how technology is transforming society and helping shape that transformation for the better.
Ethereum remains at the center of our story. It introduced many of us to ideas such as decentralization, self-sovereignty, and programmable coordination.
But the questions that brought us together have grown larger than any single technology.
Today, we are equally interested in the broader ecosystem of technologies redefining how humans create, communicate, and organize: open-source artificial intelligence, cryptography, decentralized systems, and other frontier technologies that expand human capabilities while preserving individual freedom.
In February 2025, the community found a physical home in the Urbe Hub in Testaccio, Rome, the first space in Italy dedicated to frontier technologies and open technological research.
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What are your hobbies?
Trying to fix the time estimate in Claude
Sure...
github.com/Matteoikarieth96/…
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Web3 Forum: Digital Identity and DPI
📍Urbe Hub, Rome
🗓️ October 29th, 6 pm
Urbe Hub hosts an open discussion, moderated by @aledecentral1, on Digital Identity and DPI (Digital Public Infrastructure).
RSVP:
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"Claude Time is Relative (to you)" 🕒
Claude can't tell how long a task will take.
So I built a skill that learns from your past sessions and estimates the time before each task starts. The more you use it, the better it gets.
github.com/Matteoikarieth96/…
Web3 Forum: Digital Identity and DPI
📍Urbe Hub, Rome
🗓️ October 29th, 6 pm
Urbe Hub hosts an open discussion, moderated by @aledecentral1, on Digital Identity and DPI (Digital Public Infrastructure).
RSVP:
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The AI and Quantum Threat to Your Crypto Keys 🔐
I made an ELI5 whiteboard video on why your EOA keys are at risk and what this means for @ethereum.
Thanks @SolidityDrone for the review!
cc @asanso @tcoratger @corcoranwill @drakefjustin @VitalikButerin @renaissancing_
Urbers love Open Source👩🏼💻🧑💻
Last week @mignano introduced @Supertake: tell AI agents your take on the world, get a real portfolio.
I've been working on the same problem since July with SyntheTick, from the research side.
Today I'm open-sourcing all of it.🧵
github.com/Matteoikarieth96/…
Great discussion yesterday at the Web3 Forum on RWA tokenization at the Urbe Hub👏
This article covers the slides and the main points we discussed.
We're also planning a larger conference on this topic here in Rome. Let us know if you'd like to take part!
I'm not part of any RWA project or shilling any token. I've studied this since my 2018 master's in finance, when I wrote a book on equity tokenization.
My only bias: @ethereum is the neutral settlement layer for trillions in tokenized equity.
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coming back from retirement after 2 years never felt so good
- 🏆 @ETHGlobal finalist
- 🦄 @Uniswap 1st prize
- 🆔 @ensdomains 3rd prize
orbuletto still got it seems 🫡
🇯🇵 ETHGlobal Tokyo Finalist | 🏯 Kura
Vault physical Magic cards, sell shards to verified humans, and buy 80% to take the card home.
Built by @orbuloeth
🔗 kuravault.xyz/
🏆 ethglobal.com/showcase/kura-…
If you are in Rome next week, join us for an open discussion on RWA Tokenization on Ethereum!
👉🏻 luma.com/gvzg802n
Almost one-shotted a whiteboard video on RWA on @ethereum with Opus 5.5.
I just gave him some context and asked him to do deep research first; then I slightly modified the script and voiceover. No more than one hour.
If you like it, I could make others!
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Wall Street Slot 🎰 the first fully onchain RWA slot machine
Built with @Frankc_eth at @ETHRome: a 3D-printed slot machine that pays out real-world assets on @base mainnet.
Prizes include tokenized $Apple, $NVIDIA, $Alphabet, $Amazon, $SpaceX and gold, plus @ensdomains registrations and @urbeEth Hub day passes. In the video the player hits Apple (AAPLc). Every spin is a USDC transaction, every result is revealed by the contract and verifiable on BaseScan.
Onboarding is @privy_io end to end: scan the QR, sign in on your phone, and you are playing. No seed phrases, no friction.
Every confirmed spin is also indexed on @arkivnetwork: a live seasonal leaderboard, a game explorer with every past round and its Base receipt, and a personal stats summary for each player.
The physical side runs on the @arduino UNO R4 WiFi: a PIR motion sensor wakes the cabinet, a real lever starts the spin, an LCD and LED strip react to every win.
Open Source repo and additional info coming soon!
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The 4th edition of @ETHRome was unforgettable. 🏛️
Watching builders ship code while sharing our custom brew at @urbeEth Hub was pure magic.
Huge thanks to everyone who stopped by, hacked, and raised a glass with us.
Keep building. Cheers! 🍻
#hackathon #craftbeergeek
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See you this week in Rome 🏛️
🗓 11 Sept · 16:00 📍 UrbeHub
Right before @ETHRome hackathon we gather to explore how privacy is approached, overlooked, and potentially strengthened within hackathon environments.
Register now: luma.com/kpcrvvlm
Organized with @urbeEth 🐺 family
Web3 Forum: RWA Tokenization 🏦
An @ETHRome side event
📍Urbe Hub, Rome
🗓️ September 10th, 6pm
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We're happy to welcome @arkivnetwork as a sponsor for ETHRome 2026! 🇮🇹
Web3 databases with blockchain features and guarantees. Arkiv brings queryable, tamper-proof, wallet-owned data to our 40 builders.
Grazie @arkivnetwork and see you in Rome! 🏛️
Apply here 👇
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The Bank of Italy, in its latest paper "Are Stablecoins Efficient for Remittances?", has just stated that on-ramps and off-ramps are the real friction when comparing TradFi rails with using @ethereum for remittances.
Ethereum is not the problem. The rails around it are.
