On May 13, 2025, ninety-five registered participants showed up to the largest Chia community meetup to date in Toronto, Canada. The event was attended by a delegation from Chia Network Inc. (including Bram, Thomas, and Gene), many notable community developers, farmers both big and small, project founders, Permuto Capital team and partners, and even a Bitcoin core developer.
Big shoutout to all folks that travelled from around the globe to be there! The meetup was part of Canada Crypto Week and many attendees stayed to carry the good vibes through the rest of the week.
Stickers, caps, NFTs and more
Each attendee received a handmade button with their name and (often more recognizable) profile picture. Thank you to @steppsr for creating these!
Attendees also received a Chia Toronto 2025 baseball cap courtesy of Chia Network Inc. These caps had an embedded NFC tag that encoded a single-sided Offer File containing an NFT digital twin — a real world implementation of two recent CHIPs:
Ecosystem projects also handed out stickers and other collectibles.
Summary of Talks
Much of the evening consisted of talks from a broad variety of speakers. I’ll just provide a short summary of each as all talks were recorded and you can expect them to be made available on Chia Network’s official YouTube channel eventually.
Keynote: Gene Hoffman
Gene kicked off the evening with a keynote discussing a brief history of the Chia project so far and laying out the expectations on what the next year looks like from CNI’s perspective. He stressed the impact of the community and the importance of their role in achieving the collective common goal of creating demand and usage for secure block space. Gene ended with an announcement of the upcoming Cloud Wallet feature for US citizens to purchase XCH directly from the prefarm using their bank account via ACH.
This new XCH on-ramp is made possible by the new Clawback v2 standard (CHIP-0044) and will increase accessibility for individuals and institutions to acquire XCH that otherwise don’t have access to or are not comfortable using the limited number of centralized exchanges that list XCH. It is expected for these direct sales of the prefarm to offset sales through CNI’s market maker, and any excess direct sales can be balanced through buying XCH back from the open market.
“One Market Liquidity” by Yakuhito
Yakuhito (warp.green, TibetSwap, XCHandles, CATalog), walked through the history of AMMs on Chia from the first yakuSwap to the popular TibetSwap v2. He also discussed the opportunities he sees to improve efficiency of the current constant product model by leveraging his recent innovation of Action Layer and Slots.
Yak announced his upcoming project (simply called TibetSwap) that will have similarities to the Aerodrome incentive model and will support CAT-CAT pairs with concentrated liquidity pools. Yak is really showing that anything can be built with Chialisp!
“Cloud Wallet Sneak Peek” by Andreas
Andreas (MintGarden, XCHPay) presented on his recent work on the Cloud Wallet and gave a demo of the upcoming mainnet release and advanced custody with vaults.
“Kansas Garage Farm Tour” by Jake
Jake shared his experience of being a Chia farmer from early mainnet days to how he expanded to a large 12+ PiB farm in the great state of Kansas. This was certainly an entertaining and relatable talk for the Chia farmers in the audience.
“From community member to community actor” by ganbin
Ganbin shared his Chia journey by taking a walk down memory lane of notable events in Chia’s first four years. He shared his lessons learned and how his exploration of Chia’s capabilities resulted in him eventually becoming a part of Dexie‘s development team.
“Dynamic NFTs on Chia” by Monkeyzoo
Tim from Monkeyzoo gave a great presentation on how the Monkeyzoo team is expanding on the NFT standard to create limitless possibilities with dynamic NFTs. He also shared the future plans for Fusionzoo that leverages this technology.
“Silicon: A decentralized compute network for AI on Chia” by Paul
Paul (Silicon.net) presented an overview of Silicon.net (formerly Berkeley Compute) and announced their official launch of their first GPU NFTs on Chia that grant ownership to a professionally hosted GPU for earning passive income from providing AI compute. He also announced a giveaway for one of the GPU NFTs.
“Ecological Chia Farming” by Oleg
Oleg and his team previewed their upcoming “world’s first tree-backed Chia cryptocurrency pool” where every TiB will be backed by a newly planted Paulowina tree sapling in Costa Rica. They also held a raffle giving away 10 XCH to 3 lucky winners!
“Sage Actions: Paving the Way” by Rigidity
Rigidity (Sage Wallet, Fancy Fauna, Chia Network) introduced an upcoming feature of the Sage Wallet, known as Sage Actions. This allows users to combine actions (send, mint, assign, transfer etc.) arbitrarily to simplify multi-step processes. For example, one could take multiple offers at once to realize an arbitrage opportunity, or automatically split coins before making an offer. This could be an important step towards a more friendly user experience by abstracting complexities with the coinset model.
“Sols Lot Pro” by Matthew
Matthew (Sols Lot) presented an overview of how fractionalized real estate investing with Solomon’s Lot is possible. He also shared what to expect in the next 12-18 months which includes Sols Lot Pro on-chain accounts that are accessible through wallets across multiple chains, as well as Lease DACs and a possible Sols Lot stablecoin.
“XCHFlow” by Sabari
Sabari (Spacescan) presented an overview of XCHFlow, a new suite of payment tools to allow merchants to accept payments via XCH. Integration is available through buttons or links as well as plugins for popular ecommerce platforms like Shopify and WooCommerce.
“KOBA42 Latest Innovations & Updates #DevLIfe” by Dracattus and ArtWithHeart
Dracattus and ArtWithHeart (Mark and Ava, TangTalk Wireless, Dracattus) introduced their company, KOBA42, and all the impressive projects they’ve worked on. They shared how their workflow has evolved with AI tools and teased some new stuff as well.
“DIG Network Update and Future Plans” by Michael Taylor
Michael Taylor (DIG.net, CADTrust, Silicon.net) gave a recap of the progress on DIG.net so far with every impressive milestone met with loud applause. He highlighted not only his vision for how DIG can transform the internet, but also the contributions to the community during its development:
- CHIP-35: DataLayer Delegation Capabilities
- CHIP-41: Streaming Puzzle
- CHIP-??: Rewards Distributor Puzzle
The new CHIP will power the DIG utility CAT token and can serve as a model for other projects to launch a token to incentivize/reward usage and replacing clunky vesting schedules.
“Seedsnapp: The first tweet-to-NFT bot” by Josh
Josh (Catmos, Seedsnapp) shared his experience leveraging automation tools on top of Chia primitives to create the Seedsnapp tweet-to-NFT bot.
Bonus: Trent Martensen AMA
By popular demand, Trent (Permuto Capital, 3V Capital Partners) took to the stage to answer audience questions. Most of the questions centered around the upcoming Permuto product with the audience curious about the next few trusts, expected timelines, and future possibilities and implications of this new asset class.
Other Gatherings
Some of the best moments of the week came from the numerous ad-hoc lunches and dinners with all the Chia community members in town. Here are some other gatherings happening throughout the week:
Final thoughts
I’m thankful to get to shake hands with so many people I’ve only talked to on social media and spaces. Thank you again to all that attended from around the globe and to the presenters for sharing their experiences and projects.
I hear there’s already talk of organizing other meetups: Austin, Detroit, Miami, and of course Toronto 2026, so stay tuned!
Finally, please send me your photos to be included in this recap!
