aid: friends-with-benefits
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/friends-with-benefits.png
name: Friends with Benefits
description: >-
  Friends with Benefits (FWB) is a token-gated social DAO and cultural community
  at the intersection of web3, art, music, and technology. Membership is gated by
  holding the $FWB ERC-20 token, which unlocks access to the community's Discord,
  local city chapters, IRL events, and editorial and creative programming. Backed
  by a16z crypto, FWB is one of the most cited examples of a social DAO. It is a
  community organization rather than an API provider: as of this profile it exposes
  no public developer API, OpenAPI definition, or developer portal, and its primary
  web presence (fwb.help) is a membership site. This entry was surfaced as an a16z
  portfolio company and added to the API Evangelist network as an enrichment lead.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/friends-with-benefits/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- DAO
- Web3
- Social
- Community
- Token-Gated
- Cryptocurrency
- Membership
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/friends-with-benefits-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.fwb.help
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence