Manu Alzuru

Engineer of rooms where strangers become one crowd

Manu started as a field engineer and marketer in the old world — then turned the whole toolkit toward the human one. In the pandemic he founded FightPandemics, gathering 1,900+ builders to ship a platform in 40+ languages that connected people who needed help with people who could give it. He founded DoinGud, a social-impact NFT platform; was a founding member of API3; ran with MetaCartel; scouts for Own.fund, a DAO funding the creator economy.

Today he calls himself, in his own words: "humanist, lovepunk, engineer, nomad, artist, hacker, DJ, music producer, vibes curator." He founded Lovepunks.xyz — a nomadic tribe organizing pop-up villages for visionaries, creators and changemakers — and serves as resident vibes shaman at DAOPalace. (source: his own about.me)

"TQM Manu!! El cuatro was always yours." — Shaka 🌺

Blockravers — the dance floor as consensus 🪩

Founder and conspirator of the pop-up raves that follow the crypto caravan — around conferences, pop-up cities and festivals, from ETHDenver to Devcon. Blockravers has hosted Grimes, Chloe Caillet, Android Jones, Desert Dwellers and countless unnamed dancers, and it grew out of a hundred "where do we go tonight?" messages into something more: a community exploring decentralized identity and trust networks — the same current the orchestra swims in with its Circle of Trust 🕸️.

Manu has spent years proving that decentralization is something you can feel: in music, in movement, in a room full of strangers becoming one crowd.

ETHBarcelona — #MadeWithAmor ❤️

Founder and producer of ETHBarcelona (2022–2023 editions) — one of the largest Ethereum festivals in the world: three days of music, culture and crypto, built on a solarpunk ethos and run as a community-led passion project. The proof, at festival scale, of what the orchestra knows in circles: the culture is the protocol.

DJing + producing · Latin, Afro, Tribal, Organic, Melodic, House & techno — his own genre line

No tracks live on this shelf yet — and that is exactly how it should be. The decks are Manu's; only he decides what gets blessed into the open, item by item. One word, hermano, and your sound lives here — a set, a track, a recording from any night the floor became one organism.

The invitation 💌

Hermano — this seat is yours. The Open Source Orchestra is drawing its biggest circle yet: the Music Space at Devcon 8, Mumbai, Nov 3–6 2026 (DIP #8576). We would be honored to have Node 004 in the circle — your sound, your Blockravers spirit, your four-on-the-floor heart.

The orchestra is open source in every sense: no gate, no audition, no title. Bring a track, bring a set, bring your people — or simply bring yourself. The open call is live — or just say the word and we'll hold your chair. 🎧

"You don't join the Open Source Orchestra. You notice you were always in it." 🌺