Zuzalu, the two-month invite-only gathering that Ethereum blockchain co-founder Vitalik Buterin helped initiate last year at a seaside hamlet in Montenegro, has inspired a new grants program aiming to foster spinoff events known as “Zu-villages.”
The aim of the program is to continue the “growth of the pop-up city movement” and “support technology-driven projects,” according to a post on Gitcoin, a blockchain-focused crowdfunding platform for open-source software projects that has received funding in the past from Buterin.
Some 250 ETH (about $590,000) is available during the first quarter…