About Invisible Garden

Invisible Garden is a traveling academy for Ethereum developers. Since 2024 it has run as a series of pop-up dev cities: a few weeks in one place, a cohort of builders, and mentors who teach in the room rather than over video.

The name comes from two ideas. The Invisible College, the seventeenth-century group of natural philosophers who shared their work openly and became the Royal Society. And the Infinite Garden, the way Ethereum people describe an ecosystem that keeps growing without an owner.

What we do

We connect builders with mentors who work on the problems they want to learn. The work is open source, and it stays open source. Talent decides who takes part, not budget: previous editions have covered accommodation and co-working for the builders who were selected.

Two gatherings have happened so far. Chiang Mai in 2024 and Buenos Aires in 2025, with 125 builders on site between them, more than 150 workshops, and around 60 open-source projects and research outputs. The recaps carry the detail.

How it is run

Invisible Garden is the community around these gatherings: the mentors who teach, the builders who come, and the organising team that puts each edition together. Each edition sets its own focus. For 2026 that focus is AI, robotics, zero knowledge proofs, post-quantum cryptography, and formal verification, with Ethereum as the common ground.