By James Young, CEO and Founder, Collab.Land We've had a front-row seat to thousands of token-gated communities at Collab.Land over the last six years. Some exploded. Some plateaued. Some faded. What surprised me most wasn't the failure rate. It was the reason behind it.
Getting quality feedback from actual crypto users is really, really hard. They don't fill out forms. They ignore cold emails. They're allergic to anything that feels like marketing. So we tried something different. The problem with traditional outreach Most feedback tools were built for web2. Blast
From January 29, 2026 at 9:00 AM Eastern through February 2, 2026 at 9:00 AM Eastern, Collab.Land ran Pass the Tag, a live tipping tournament built on SmartTag 2.0. Twenty-five players. Four days. One goal: send as many successful onchain tips as possible. The numbers tell
By: Chibi. Right now, we’re running a tipping tournament inside Discord, powered by SmartTag 2.0, where players compete by sending as many onchain tips as possible. Brother, it’s been CRAZY. By the second day, the tournament channel had already passed 9,000 messages and almost 8000 tips.
by James Young, Founder, Abridged Inc., Makers of Collab.Land. Collab.Land started with a simple idea: ownership should mean something online. If you held a token or an NFT, you should be able to prove it. And communities should be able to act on that proof. That idea became
Collab.Land introduces Pass the Tag, a live tipping tournament built on SmartTag 2.0, our next iteration of in-chat, onchain transactions. This is a short, competitive game designed to do two things at once: * Give community members a fun, social way to play together * Put SmartTag 2.0 into
By Anjali Young. We are living through overlapping instability. Political authority is contested across borders. Economic security is uneven and increasingly fragile. Cultural consensus is thin. Technological change continues to accelerate while the systems meant to absorb it fall further behind. In Iran, months of unrest driven by economic collapse
Most people in crypto have learned to be cautious. That instinct is earned. Spam, scams, and low-effort outreach have trained people to ignore anything that feels out of place. Messaging does not have to work that way. At Collab.Land, safety is a primitive. It is built into how communities
By Chibi. Lately, I’ve been feeling pretty anxious. It’s been one of those stretches where the world feels loud, and my mind doesn’t really know where to rest. When I feel like that, I notice something about myself: I always end up in a community space. Sometimes
By James Young. Last year, I wrote a post admitting that Collab.Land’s story was not smooth, clean, or particularly impressive if you were looking for a victory lap. It was honest because it had to be. We had been early, wrong, stubborn, lucky, and occasionally right, often in
By Anjali Young. Online communities tend to form when the people around you aren’t interested in the same things you are, when the conversations you want to have aren’t happening where you live or work. That’s where I come from. I spent years in online spaces because
When a community needs something, we show up. The request for Backpack support came from the Monad community, one of the newest members of Collab.Land’s community of communities. They asked, we built, and now Backpack is fully live for every Collab.Land community that verifies with us. The