Network School - The Passport Scandal That Destroyed a Web3 Utopia

In this video, we break down the dramatic shutdown of Balaji Srinivasan’s Network School, an exclusive global co-living campus for tech founders, AI builders, and crypto nomads. Located inside Malaysia's infamous Forest City—a massive, mostly vacant $100 billion mega-project—this crypto utopia was supposed to be the blueprint for a future decentralized country. Instead, it ended with local authorities shutting it down overnight.We explore what Forest City actually is, how the Network School operated, and my thoughts on how a passport scandal and land-use disputes brought the entire experiment crashing down. Is the dream of the Network State dead, or is their sudden move to Kazakhstan just the beginning? Timestamps: 0:00 - Network School - The Crypto Utopia That Got Banned 0:22 - What is Forest City? (The Ghost City Backdrop) 1:42 - The Scandal: Why Malaysia Shut Them Down 2:56 - What the local media in Malaysia is saying 4:07 - My thoughts on the funding freeze attempt 4:36 - Relocation to Khazakhstan? 6:11 - How were they able to move so quickly (my thoughts) What do you think? Did the Malaysian government overreact, or was this experiment doomed from the start? Let me know in the comments! #networkschool #BalajiSrinivasan #ForestCity #CryptoDrama #NetworkState #TechNews