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Welcome to ModaGarden, a week-long, community-powered retreat happening right after Builders Week Istanbul, organized by the ModaPalas and ZuBerlin teams.
ModaGarden is your chance to step away from the noise and dive deep into privacy, scalability, and frontier cryptography, all while surrounded by nature, brilliant thinkers, and timeless vibes.
A co-living and co-thinking retreat to work, learn, and grow at the edge of cryptography, privacy, and decentralized technologies.
Spend meaningful time with researchers, builders, cryptographers, academics, founders, and thinkers not just brilliant minds, but genuinely kind humans who care.
We create a space where you can flourish together, challenge assumptions, and inspire each other through shared curiosity, deep focus, and good conversation in one of the Turkey’s most beautiful locations, featuring educational sessions and a small historical tour.
In the rapidly evolving world of blockchain, we felt the urgent need to slow down, reflect, and reconnect with the past, with the future, and with each other.
While the pace of innovation accelerates, the ideas that truly shape civilization often begin in small groups, through intimate conversations, timeless philosophies, and brave experimentation.
ModaGarden aims to provide that space — a setting where pioneering developers, cryptographers, mathematicians, researchers, and thinkers can explore their fullest potential together.
Inspired by nature, history, and the spirit of ancient knowledge hubs from Agora to Alexandria, we believe that modern breakthroughs begin where curiosity, focus, and stillness meet.
We had two main reasons for organizing ModaGarden:
To slow down and connect.
Most events are busy and rushed. ModaGarden is a calm space for real conversations, deep thinking, and building meaningful relationships.
To spark new ideas in new ways.
Great ideas often start in small, quiet settings not big stages. We want to create that space, where builders, researchers, and curious minds can think, share, and explore together.