Zuitzerland hosts popup residencies and build sprints in the Swiss Alps.
The longer ambition is a Swiss village oriented toward d/acc and open-source acceleration.
It functions today as an experimental sandbox with a clear European mountain brand.
Zuitzerland residencies culminate in summit weekends with separate ticketed programming.
Swiss editions connect to the broader Zuzalu lineage of monthlong builder villages.
Zuitzerland summit weekends bill separately from longer residency weeks, with CHF pricing listed per event on the official site.
Zuitzerland - Swiss open-source popup village Zuitzerland A popup village organizer.
Ambitions to be a Swiss village for d/acc and open source acceleration in the Alps.
It organizes popup villages with a focus on defensive accelerationism (d/acc) principles.
Their mission is to create a permanent d/acc and open-source village in the Swiss Alps.
April 2025 Vitalik Donation Ethereum founder donates 274 ETH to support development as a long-term Zuzalu hub.
An Alpine popup sandbox for d/acc, open source, and future-society experiments.
A network state sandbox for pioneers in Web3, AI, biotech, brain-computer interfaces (BCI), and other frontier technologies.
It emphasizes d/acc and Swiss principles of governance and cooperation.
d/acc ( defensive.
accelerationism ) is a.
philosophy, proposed by Vitalik, that says we should accelerate.
technologies that strengthen defense, decentralization, and democratic control, so power and.
safety are widely shared instead of centralized.
Zuitzerland runs Swiss-themed popup residencies and summit weekends for the Zuzalu extended ecosystem.
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Summit weekends and longer residency weeks are billed separately on the official Zuitzerland site.
Location
- Zuitzerland's pop-up villages and events are centered in the Swiss Alps, Switzerland
Duration
- Zuitzerland v0.1, the very early iteration, ran for 1 to 2 weeks in 2024. The full-scale, inaugural pop-up city lasted 3.5 weeks
- Zuitzerland aims to evolve into a permanent community in Switzerland, allowing for indefinite
- May 2025 First Residency Hosted a 3.5 week popup village in the Swiss Alps with participants from 42 countries.
- May 2025 Build Week 35 projects submitted across governance, tooling, and resilience themes.
- 2025 Zuitzerland Summit Culmination event integrates residency learnings into long-term frameworks and tools.
Pricing
- • Zuitzerland 2025 Summit, the culmination event of the Zuitzerland Residency, cost CHF 359 ($450) for the weekend. No accommodation included.*
- • Zuitzerland provided a discount code for attendees
History
Zuitzerland was founded in 2024 by Isla Munro-Hochmayr, a web3 researcher and economist
By September 2024, it hosted Zuitzerland v0.1, a small pop-up village in Interlaken designed to prototype d/acc leadership and societal models
In May 2025, it ran its first full-scale pop-up city, Zuitzerland Residency, which served as an initial prototype for a permanent hub. It grouped 200 researchers, philosophers, and builders in an alpine ski resort
In 2025, Vitalik donated $500,000 in ETH to support Zuitzerland's development as a Zuzalu hub