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Zuzalu was a landmark two-month popup city held in Montenegro in spring 2023, co-founded by Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin. It gathered approximately 200 long-term residents including cryptographers, longevity researchers, governance theorists, and builders, to live and work together in an experimental community setting.

Zuzalu pioneered the popup city model and ZuPass, a zero-knowledge identity credential used by residents, and catalyzed an entire wave of successor projects that established the vocabulary for the modern network state movement.