Faces of Web3: Danielle Marie, All Things Blockchain & EvolvH3r
April 29, 2026
Key takeaways
- Danielle Marie is a serial founder of All Things Blockchain and EvolvH3er, a Web3 mentorship programme for women entering the industry.
- She has delivered blockchain education to hundreds of students at TAFE Queensland and is a certified educator with an advanced diploma qualification in blockchain.
- The societal opportunities in Web3 that excite her most are unbanking the unbanked and using on-chain hashed identities to prevent AI-era deep fakes and identity fraud.
- Her biggest advice to women entering Web3: find a mentor, prioritise education, and show up consistently at meetups, Discord communities, and Telegram groups, because that is how most Web3 jobs are actually filled.
Danielle Marie, founder of All Things Blockchain and co-founder of the Web3 mentorship programme EvolvH3r, didn’t set out to become one of the most dedicated educators for women in Web3. After arriving in Australia in 2014 and looking for work that offered flexibility and didn’t chain her to a hospitality shift, a contact from an online network marketing business introduced her to Bitcoin, and the rest is history.
That discovery led her in a direction she didn’t anticipate, starting with her own personal educational journey, completing a diploma and advanced diploma in blockchain, becoming a certified educator, and has since delivered blockchain education to hundreds of students at TAFE Queensland.
Her professional motivation is simple and, by her own admission, not financial: it’s the message from a student who got a job, or the woman who finally felt she belonged somewhere, that what keeps her going. When she’s not in front of a screen, you’ll most likely find her at a yoga class, ideally in Ubud, which she’s considering relocating to temporarily.
Getting into Web3
How did you get started in the Web3 space?
After moving to Australia in 2014, I was looking for a way to stop working in hospitality and find something I could do remotely, from anywhere with an internet connection. A contact from an online network marketing business introduced me to Bitcoin, and the more I learned about blockchain technology, the more I felt like this was the future of finance and payments.
I didn’t want to miss it. I’d already felt like I’d been too late to the social media boom and the early online business wave, so when I recognised what blockchain could become, I sold my existing businesses and made the leap.
What was your motivator to move into Web3?
It was really about finding financial security and the freedom to work from anywhere in the world. But beyond the practical side, I genuinely believed, and still do, that blockchain is potentially the future of the financial ecosystem and payment rails. Missing that felt like a much bigger risk than making the change.
Web3 today
How do you define Web3?
When I’m teaching beginner classes, I keep it as simple as possible: Web3 is the next generation of the internet, powered by blockchain technology.
What makes it different from what came before is that this iteration gives users actual control and ownership: through tokenised systems, you can own your data, your assets, and your digital identity.
That shift from being a user to being an owner is what changes everything.
What are the biggest societal opportunities that Web3 brings?
The one that excites me most is the potential to unbank the unbanked, to bring financial access to people globally who have been locked out of traditional systems. Financial inclusion on that scale is a profound opportunity.
I’m also really interested in what blockchain can do for digital identity.
We’re already seeing technology like facial recognition used at airports, and I think hashing identities onto the blockchain could be a powerful tool to prevent deep fakes and fraudulent scams, the kind of identity fraud that’s becoming increasingly dangerous as AI improves.
The security implications alone make this one of the most important use cases to watch.
What are the biggest challenges the Web3 community faces?
The biggest challenge is adoption, and everything that makes it difficult. The industry is still overwhelming, noisy, and overly complicated for most newcomers. That is a real barrier.
But there’s also a technology gap that doesn’t get talked about enough.
A lot of the conversation in Web3 happens in Western contexts, assuming everyone has a smartphone and a bank account and reliable internet. Much of the world is still operating on cash and cheques, and if we can’t bridge that gap, the network effect we’re all counting on is going to be much harder to achieve.
Career and lifestyle
What are some career highlights in Web3?
Becoming an educator has been the biggest one. Completing my diploma and advanced diploma, and then actually delivering blockchain education to hundreds of students at TAFE Queensland, felt like everything coming together.
But the highlight I’m most proud of is coaching and mentoring other women in the space.
There’s one I think about a lot: a woman I mentored who went on to replace me as the main trainer at TAFE Queensland. Watching someone you’ve supported step into a role like that is a different kind of success, and that is the one that stays with me.
What’s coming up for you and your businesses in 2026?
All Things Blockchain started as a local grassroots community, and in 2026 we’re focused on building it out into a global online education hub, with free education and a real online community at its core. Accessibility is everything to me, so making that free matters.
For Evolver, we’re launching our first official Web3 mentorship cohort this year, which will include scholarships through education sponsors. We’re also launching a new mentorship club in partnership with Diana Rodriguez (Nani Crypto), to offer more accessible mentorship options for women who might not be ready for a full cohort programme yet.
What inspires you to stay motivated professionally?
It’s not the money, I’ll say that much; it’s the positive feedback.
When a woman I’ve mentored sends me a message to say she got a job, or someone who came to one of my events tells me it changed the direction of their career, that is the thing that keeps me going.
The personal impact of what I do is the motivator, and everything else is secondary.
When you’re not working, where would we find you?
You’d most likely find me on a yoga mat. I have a particular fondness for the Yoga Barn in Ubud. Outside of that, I’m usually outdoors: walking, getting sun on my face. I spend a lot of hours in front of a computer, so I need the counterbalance.
Women in Web3
What are some of the benefits for women getting involved in Web3?
The opportunities in Web3 are genuinely open to everyone, and it is not a gender-specific thing. But there is a practical advantage for women right now: the industry knows it’s male-dominated, and there’s real demand for diversity.
Women bring a different dynamic and energy to a team, and forward-thinking companies in tech and crypto actively value that. So while it’s still a space we have to push into, the door is more open than it’s ever been.
What motivates you to encourage more women into Web3?
When I started, I was almost always one of only a few women in the room. That was isolating in ways that are hard to explain unless you’ve experienced it. I wanted to create the community I wished had existed for me: a space where women in Web3 can connect as industry peers, share their stories, and support each other without having to fight for the right to be taken seriously. I think of it as a social good initiative, because a more supportive ecosystem produces better outcomes for everyone.
What is one piece of advice for a woman thinking about Web3?
Find a mentor, or at minimum an industry buddy, someone you can learn alongside and do peer research with. Beyond that: prioritise education, and get actively involved in the community. Go to meetups, and join the Discord and Telegram groups. A lot of Web3 jobs are filled through internal recommendations and networks rather than traditional job applications, so the connections you make matter more than most people realise. Don’t underestimate the power of simply showing up.
Find Danielle and her projects online:
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