Received a donation of 500,000 US dollars from V God, and learn about the Internet National Sandbox Zuitzerland

Author: Scof, ChainCatcher

Compiled: TB, ChainCatcher

On April 3, Vitalik Buterin once again supported the future he believed in with his actions. 274 ETH, about $500,000, were transferred directly to Zuitzerland's experimental project developer. There is no overwhelming publicity, nor is it a big financing - it is just his usual style: take action when you see something worth supporting.

What is Zuitzerland? What does it have to do with the Zuzalu and Edge City that God V has supported before? Why are so many builders, researchers, and creators paying attention?

What is Zuitzerland?

Zuitzerland is an experimental project dedicated to exploring possible paths to future societies. It combines cutting-edge technology, decentralized governance and the advantages of real systems to build a "network state sandbox" to provide a real social experimental field for builders, researchers and creators around the world.

Switzerland, where the project was initiated, is known for its more than 700-year tradition of local autonomy and direct democracy. It has a stable system and high social trust. It is a rare "sustainable governance" sample in reality. Zuitzerland hopes to use this institutional soil and combine Web3 technology to practice a new replicable and verifiable social structure.

It can be said that Zuitzerland is the continuation and evolution of Zuzalu's concept. Zuzalu is the pop-up city experiment launched by Vitalik in 2023, attracting pioneers in the fields of Web3, AI, biotechnology and other globally within two months. Its impact far exceeded expectations, spawning extension projects such as Edge City, while Zuitzerland took a step further -establishing a long-standing permanent node to put Zuzalu's spirit into the real governance system.

The project provides participants with co-creation and testing platforms through resident plans, pop-up events, hackathons and other forms, focusing on cutting-edge directions such as Web3, AI, biotechnology, privacy computing, and brain-computer interfaces. It tries to answer a key question: Can a technology-driven, distributed but resilient society truly operate in the real world?

Zuitzerland's Practical Path

1. Turn "governance" from concept to reality

At present, many decentralized projects and organizations face governance difficulties: advanced concepts, but lack real-life application scenarios and effective experimental platforms. Zuitzerland provides a small-scale, controllable real environment where new social structures and governance mechanisms can be tested realistically. This is not just a discussion of how "DAO" works, but allows people to live, collaborate, and govern themselves in a real space, and constantly optimize the system.

The institutional foundation of Switzerland provides a solid reference here. Zuitzerland draws on the experience of Swiss democracy, such as referendum, local autonomy, small-scale trust networks, etc., to provide a realistic template for decentralized governance.

2. Provide a platform for innovators from different backgrounds

Zuitzerland is aimed at three core groups:

• Builders and actors: such as Web3 developers, DAO participants, where they can test new tools and form communities.
• Experts and researchers: Policy makers, economists, and sociologists can observe or participate in real-life social prototype experiments.
• Creator: artists, philosophers, and cultural narrators inject humanistic depth into technological construction.

Zuitzerland does not pursue "popularization", but provides a space for "in-depth interests" who are willing to participate in future experiments in person.

3. Promote "safe technology acceleration"

Zuitzerland advocates the concept of "Defensive Accelerationism (d/acc)", and technological acceleration must focus on security, boundaries and long-term resilience. In the current rapidly changing technological environment, how to maintain basic order while innovating and avoid systemic risks is the core issue. Switzerland's stability makes it an ideal test site for d/acc experiments.

4. Provide limited but authentic support and opportunities

Applications will be open to the project, and applicants who are actually willing to participate but have limited financial conditions will be given priority. Some scholarships support accommodation and other fees (excluding transportation), and applicants need to have the willingness and ability to participate for a long time.

In addition, Zuitzerland uses NFT holders as part of support screening, and participants can support projects through Juicebox and gain priority, in line with the community-driven logic advocated by the project.

Project follow-up plan

Zuitzerland’s event will start from May 1 and last throughout May, with a series of special weeks, workshops, summits and hackathons focusing on core themes such as community co-building, Swiss governance, cyber nations, cutting-edge technology and future lifestyles. The cost of participating in this project is roughly CHF 650-2500 per week.

Participants will jointly discuss social prototypes, technical applications and institutional innovations, and conduct project development and results display in the last week. The entire process progresses from concept exploration to practical prototypes, and progresses layer by layer to form a complete experimental closed loop.

(This article only introduces early projects and is not used as investment advice.)