Awen’s North America Hub: nine months of Intersect Community Hubs
From September 2024 to June 2025, Awen ran Intersect's North American Community Hub, the last of six regional hubs to launch and the one with the smallest USD budget. The program post-mortem, which we compiled for Intersect's Membership & Community Committee, shows what that budget produced.
In nine months, Sep 2024 to Jun 2025
The most of any of the six hubs
GM2025, the first DRep debate of 2025
What we did
We ran the hub for nine months on a $25,000 first-phase contract. In that time we:
- Hosted 18 events and town halls, including monthly X Space town halls that drew up to 326 listeners.
- Produced GM2025 in Fort Myers, the first DRep debate of 2025, with 44 people in the room, 22 online and more than 3,000 watching the livestream.
- Ran the official Cardano side event at Consensus Toronto, with 501 registered, alongside Draper University, Sundial Protocol, Rare Network and Clay Nation.
- Brought the Annual Members Meeting to Austin in October 2024.
- Completed nine milestones, each signed off on an Intersect milestone acceptance form.
Members
The hub region counted 239 individual members, 225 associates and 6 enterprise members by March 2025. Six enterprise members is the most of any hub, 38% of the enterprise members across the whole program.
Cost
On cost, North America came in at $104.60 per individual member, the second lowest of the hubs paid in US dollars and less than a third of the most expensive.
See the events
- Intersect Annual Members Meeting, Austin (Oct 2024)
- GM2025, Fort Myers (Jan 2025)
- Cardano X Consensus 2025, Toronto (May 2025)
The full report covers all six hubs (Japan, LATAM, Sri Lanka, Africa, Europe and North America), the funding behind each one, return by hub, and every source it draws on.