Lonis

1 yr ago, I rescinded my US O1 visa, left my startup, and moved down to Próspera to build a city from scratch. It’s a zone with very special laws, regulations, and taxes. It has raised almost $200M, incl from Coinbase, Peter Thiel, and created 3000+ local jobs 🧵

@fgonzalez1978 @EconClubofMiami It was great to chat and work together!

FUN FACT: of the 33 speakers we had on stage at the Miami Economic Forum, a full day international finance conference hosted by the @EconClubofMiami on February 27, only ONE was not able to make it. But it wasn’t his fault. As he was preparing to leave Honduras, the airline told him and his fellow passengers that there was a problem with the wing. As someone who has spent his life and career as an innovator, he and I both know the wing is kind of essential to the airplane. So his flight was delayed a full day and he didn’t make it to Miami until after the forum ended. I had spent many months in communication with Lonis, who serves as Head of Growth for @ProsperaGlobal, the special economic zone on the island of Roatan in Honduras. Luckily, the founder and President of Prospera was already here in Miami along with another fellow panelist, so the audience didn’t even notice. But I did. When I learned @_Lonis_ was still in Miami the following day, on Saturday, and staying not far from where I now live in Brickell, we made plans to meet up for lunch. While my energy was totally poured into that full day event, I was hoping for a do nothing day, but the great lunch meetup and conversation with Lonis re-energized me and I’m glad we could finally meet in person. He may not have been able to speak at the Miami Economic Forum, but I was privileged to be a one man audience across the table and learn more about his home country of Denmark, his previous experience building a startup and working from Silicon Valley, and his new life living and working from this experimental city in Honduras, where he is now part of the team bringing more people there to live, work, and invest. I am very grateful I get to meet such interesting people — even on my day off. Then again there are no days off when you’re a brand new Brickell tour guide.

@ProsperaGlobal @FIDE_chess @HansMokeNiemann @chessleinier ‼️‼️

The largest chess tournament in Central American history is launching as part of Próspera, in partnership with @FIDE_chess Total prize pool: 2 ₿TC Winner: 1 ₿TC We're looking forward to welcoming the world's top 20 chess players @HansMokeNiemann, @chessleinier, and more!

@s8mb Setting up a Prospera.co zone in Europe would enable this!

Europe needs to get a lot of compute built, or it risks being cut off from the most important technology of the century. There's plenty of demand from American companies to build if a handful of unforced policy errors can be reversed.

@Simon__Grimm Setting up a Prospera.co zone in Europe would enable this!

New post. American AI companies won’t move to Europe. But we can work to have them deploy compute on European shores. Data centers bring investment, tacit knowledge and some amount of leverage. We should welcome all of those things. The Commission and some national governments have been trying to build data centers themselves. I believe these efforts are flawed—a multilateral institution is not set up to orchestrate the construction of massive infrastructure projects. The Commission’s “AI Gigafactories” are not moving forward, because companies like Siemens and SAP simply do not require that much capacity. But there are entities out there who share some of the values of European nations, and who need more GPUs: American AI companies. Constructing data centers in the United States, where the government threatens use of the Defense Production Act carries a slight risk premium. Building multi-billion compute projects in UAE, a country that gets bombarded with Iranian drones, might also look less attractive. In comparison, Europe is looking better each passing day. Now there’s always the danger of falling into euro-cope. But working to get American companies to build facilities in Europe is far easier, compared to statist compute projects that don’t go anywhere. There’s plenty of obvious work here: make European governments AGI-aware, ease permitting, and shift the Commission from pursuing demand-side to supply-side measures. I lay out more details here: simongrimm.substack.com/p/building-lib…

@NiklasAnzinger @pcekerevac @patrissimo @erickbrimen @gabedelgadoa @JMilei @nayibbukele @JraissatiJorge @FrancisSuarez @TimDraper ‼️‼️

Can Latin America lead in the most important industry in the world? The industry that spends 30% of world GDP, decides war and peace, and the foundations for prosperity or poverty? The answer starts here. Introducing the Liberty & Acceleration Zones Summit 2026, March 25–28, in Prospera, Roatan, Honduras /1👇

I'm claiming my AI agent "LonisBot" on @moltbook 🦞 Verification: lagoon-5ASN

@felixrieseberg @gabemulley What about the Google workspace connectors?

More subtle-but-useful improvements to Cowork: • The Slack connector is now available to all paid plans, so Cowork can pull in context directly • Connecting Cowork to Chrome is now more automated, requiring fewer clicks and overall more stable (thanks, @gabemulley!) • We've made MCP connections, both local & remote, more stable. Also, MCP apps (@sean_t_strong)! • More stability fixes, like support for custom CA certs for enterprise proxies • Added a toggle to enable extended thinking

@James_of_Arc @ProsperaGlobal Thanks for having me!

What would you do when you've made it? @_Lonis_ of @ProsperaGlobal considered everything before embarking on what he thought was the world's most important work... It started with "resigning my US Visa"... Listen to the full episode to find out what came next.

AI will produce miracle cures, but only in frontier jurisdictions like Próspera will they actually reach people in need faster than the 10-12 year FDA cycle allows

@louisvarge @andysz Indeed I can take no liability for this choice of font

@andysz @_Lonis_ this is MY proud design

(we should add designer on there too)

More than 150 investors, entrepreneurs, and enthusiasts came out to the Próspera events in Berlin and London last week San Francisco event coming up next week - sign up to lock it in! 👇

@itsalfredw What does Listen teach you about Listen Labs

Today, Listen crossed $100M in funding. Building is easy now. Knowing what to build isn't. Our AI finds and talks to your users so you don't have to guess. See how Sweetgreen, Microsoft, and Replit use it:

@ProsperaGlobal 👀👀

The Industrial Revolution took off in England almost three generations earlier than anywhere else in the world. Learn how we drew inspiration from its institutions in designing Próspera's framework.

@NiklasAnzinger @ProsperaGlobal ‼️

Berliners & Londoners - wanna know what's happening in @ProsperaGlobal? The core team (e.g. @_Lonis_) and residents will be in Berlin (Jan 7) and London (Jan 9) for an event with updates, ways to get involved, and what’s ahead. Ask them about the Infinite Games! Signup 👇

@da_fant 👀

@ProsperaGlobal 👀👀

Próspera World Tour continues: In January, the core team will visit major cities to host Próspera events: Berlin - Jan 7: luma.com/ukqvnest London - Jan 9: luma.com/w2jap3yu SF - Jan 21: luma.com/prospera-in-sf

It was great to host @VitalikButerin in Próspera!