National Web3 Women's Day, Part 3: Proof of Humanity, Fraud Portals, and a Token That Started With a Pedicure

Opening the hour, Kara (SI3) used hanna.shefi.eth's progress as the case study: a fine-art background, a blockchain grant, learning to vibe code, and nine months of showing up to classes while juggling everything else. She framed it as the thing she sees repeatedly in community programs — "you get out what you put in" — while acknowledging that community-led work can feel undervalued in an increasingly institutional industry. Hannah followed 4:31 with the outsider's view: no business background, no tech background, and nobody ever asking her why she was there.

Bee (Bee LA — @wonderwox)^* described building an NFT project you actually play with: 1,234 cards plus jokers on Solana, a weekly "build your best poker hand" game built by Morgan, art by VERONIKA, and a printed physical deck where each card maps to an NFT. Season two is live; the team pulled off a chain-agnostic rooftop mixer in New York with a live dealer, and Miami is next in December. Her aside that she "did not plan to have a female dominated team… also shout out Chase" earned a gentle ribbing from the stage 12:09.

Kara's own arc: Wall Street and London banking, then Silicon Valley emerging tech, then 13 years of women-in-tech community leading, now based in Mexico City. SI3's name doubles as the Spanish "sí" — saying yes to Web3, saying yes to her, and visibly seeing her. SeeHer DAO aggregates 50 women-led communities (Phoenix Skilled Women in India, Her Story in China, Web3 Kyrgyzstan) with the goal of becoming a discovery portal and launching formally next year with its own treasury 21:54.

Divine (She$alesAfrica) joined after listening since hour one: medical field → tech → marketing, communities and spaces on Sui. When she mentioned she used to host spaces constantly and missed "the degen talk, the crashing out when Sui goes down," the room decided she was family. Morgan predicted her future precisely: she'd come back having launched ten NFT projects "and we're all going to zero," and everyone would say welcome home 40:26. Asked what the room could do to help, Divine requested a second passport, which sent Morgan into a spiral about having a guy who knows a guy — possibly the one in the captain's hat with the face tattoos 38:13 — and Iana extended a standing invitation for the girls to go to a castle in Italy and count gold and treasure 39:23.

She ended on the theme she'd been invited to speak on: creative power as something innate to tap into "in web 3, in motherhood, in girlhood, in friendships" — the bridge from being a user of the space to being a creator in it.

Thirty-five years of designing for manufacturers, writing for publications, building makerspaces, Second Life in beta, and five completed off-world missions via her lunar cargo cards. Her pitch to the builders in the room: in the age of AI, notarize everything — the pigments, the cobalt source, the layer-by-layer process, the GPS coordinates, the story. She described a piece embedding the analog skills needed to rebuild civilization off-world, and the moment a Japanese family handed her a pocketful of 500-year-old indigo seeds at a Maker Faire with no children to pass them to 1:01:43. At 55:06 she told Starboss's story — a closed head injury from a drunk driver, and relearning speech by listening and then unmuting in spaces.

Bronze cited more than $11B in reported US crypto losses in 2025, over 181,000 complaints, and an average loss north of $62,000 — then pointed at the gap: we tell victims to file with IC3 and then nothing. XRPD's free fraud portal helps victims document incidents, trace movement across chains, prove chain of custody in a tamper-evident way, and generate the freeze packets exchanges actually require. Explicitly not a recovery service and never taking custody. Lady Blue, a Chicago law enforcement supervisor with a financial crimes background, confirmed from the other side that most departments simply aren't equipped yet 1:19:07.

From Loaded Lions to asking "where were the other women?", through Hood Street spaces where an ape asked for the mic and the room filled, to building with Suited Ape Society and forming Hood Girls. She named everyone — mods, partners, and the men who "put women in the partnership deck… they pass me the mic and they don't take it back." Then she gave away a free-mint ape with a $100 floor, while Hondro spun the wheel in the Jumbotron.

Calling in between farm tasks ("my schedule is not my own schedule anymore. It is the schedule of the plants"), Quakk described coming into Web3 in February 2025 by way of being scammed in real life, then building an NFT + token project funding a mixed-use conservation resort — ticketing, ownership, saunas and cold plunges, adult-sized jungle gyms, transparent on-chain splits to conservation, charity, artists and community. Also: a coloring book, a trading card game, 50-plus ducks fed monthly, and a firm PSA that bread is bad for them — try frozen peas 2:02:24. Her five-quacks lore doubles as her thesis: nobody should wear all the hats 2:02:24.

TOEZ's founder: full-time accounting job, a plaster distribution business shipping 50-pound pails, no plan whatsoever to launch anything. Twenty-five dollars from her brother at the end of 2024, a TikTok live, a photo of freshly pedicured feet, and a thought — what if feet represented people's different journeys? "Different feet, different roads, same journey." She launched TOEZ on April 1, built Toeslandia, and launched Dozilla as the second-ever token on a brand-new launchpad — and the first by a woman.

Morgan brought him up deliberately for a room full of marketers and grinders. Pixio and "machine" come out of an education nonprofit putting AI tooling into classrooms — subscriptions fund free student access. He demoed the pitch for agent teams over single chatbots, computer-use on desktop, agents with their own phone numbers, and the cost argument ("it's not about the name like this isn't like buying a pair of jeans"). Then he gave the whole room Pixio codes and handed Morgan five free months of machine, which she immediately handed to Nick because she knew everybody and he knew nobody 2:57:31.

Francine, a farmer and founder, described a farm-to-fork recipe app with a decentralized marketplace for livestock, soap, tallow and leather goods, an AI-slop filter, and a points system rewarding home cooking with grocery gift cards to fight food insecurity. Her stat landed hard: 77 farms lost a day, five million in a century. XRPD lit up — a former Etsy seller who's been waiting for exactly this 3:09:43.

Dr. Cole (MIDAS Community) explained the project's origin — degens who got rugged one too many times and wanted something led with integrity — and then used her psychologist hat to run a wellness check on a room ten hours deep: have you eaten, had water, taken a break. The hydration diagnostic involved elbows. The segment dissolved into a long, very tired bit about psychologists vs. psychiatrists and whether ChatGPT could walk someone through a lobotomy 3:25:35.