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@validotxyz @solquicks @thetitanmaker @islanddao @solana Well said ser 👏

This photo with @solquicks and @thetitanmaker perfectly captures what @IslandDAO is about. @solquicks has built a strong reputation in the @Solana ecosystem. He also happens to be strong in the gym. That feels like a good metaphor for IslandDAO. It doesn’t build for you. It puts you in the right environment to push harder, test your limits, surround yourself with ambitious people, and become a better version of yourself. Excited for v5. 🏝️

What happens when you bring ambitious @solana builders to an island, give them the right support, and enough time? They ship. At the latest @IslandDAO: > 280+ on-chain governance proposals executed through Realms and Ride > 37+ workshops and mentorship sessions > 32 projects presented on Demo Day via @SolanaEvents > 50K+ livestream views and 11K+ broadcast viewers > 14 of 17 teams launched new products or features > 14 shipped dApps on the @solanamobile Seeker > 9 found real users or customers Every team implemented the feedback they received. And 88% rated the experience 8/10 or higher. That’s what the right people, environment, and time can do. Stay tuned for v5!🏝

Want to start building apps for @solanamobile? Check out this video to learn how to install the Android development tools and confirm your machine is ready with Solana Mobile Doctor. 🧑‍⚕️ Chapters: 00:00 Preview the finished environment 00:11 Review the Solana Mobile setup docs 01:08 Verify Node.js LTS 01:26 Check the environment with Solana Mobile Doctor 01:44 Open the Expo setup guide 02:33 Install Watchman and JDK 17 03:21 Install Android Studio and the Android SDK 04:15 Add the Android SDK to your shell 04:38 Accept the Android SDK licenses 05:06 Verify the finished environment

Digital nomads can work from anywhere. But @islanddao might be the best “anywhere” you can choose.🏝️🇧🇷

The best Breakpoint conversations start before Breakpoint. Imagine arriving in London with people you already know, a project you’ve already moved forward, and momentum built over weeks, not minutes. That’s what @IslandDAO v5 in Brazil can give you ahead of @SolanaEvents Breakpoint. Live and build alongside the Solana community in Florianópolis. Meet, collaborate, and form real connections with @solana builders from @SuperteamBR, @SuperteamAR, and beyond. Then bring that momentum to London. IslandDAO gives you depth. Breakpoint gives you scale. Build in Brazil. Bring it to London. 🏝️→🇬🇧

Ride is one of those experimental projects that are hard to understand at first, but when you click with it - you're red pilled af. If you have strong convictions in any token on Solana, you can easily make profitable strategies on Ride. DM @AdrianBrz_ to onboard you.

It’s true that @solana has the most supportive and collaborative ecosystem in crypto But that’s because of certain people that go above and beyond to keep us in the lead @JosipVolarevic2 is one of those people. We took hours of his time to painstakingly create the new UI on @ridemarkets (you MUST see how the UX has evolved). His level of of detail and attentiveness is unparalleled Thank you for helping us Josip 🙏

Proud to say this! I’m bringing IslandDAO to Brazil with @SuperteamBR Thanks for the trust @Whalesfriend @takisoul @deanmachine @chmoxie @tonyboyletweets @0xB4b4 @thetitanmaker See you in Floripa soon

From a @solana feedback community to a global network state. @islanddao evolved when its members realized: The strongest ideas, projects, and relationships are built by spending real time together. Today, IslandDAO brings builders from around the world into the right environment, with the right people, enough time, and everything needed to grow, collaborate, and create something meaningful. Yes, there’s a pool. But the real value is what begins there and continues long after people leave. See you at V5 in Florianópolis🏝

@metasal @tonyboyletweets

@0xB4b4 @tonyboyletweets u can’t force me to test things - what is this? public crowd peer pressure?

a dapp that doesnt require 16 clicks, taps and fingerprints to move $5 who's buidling that?

@tonyboyletweets @metasal @metasal trust me u want in on this 🙌

@metasal Me

25hrs left to participate in the @islanddao IslandCapital 2.0 fund raise. pretty sure you have questions so here’s a series of tutorials to help you decide. - is this an investment? (NO) - is this raise for a new coin? (NO) - Leverage Without Liquidations (The Caller) - The Backer's Edge (YES/NO Dynamics) - The Token Flywheel - Stacking Size with the Multi-Fund Aggregator find the answers to the above questions and more in these tutorials, feat. @Whalesfriend

@deanmachine Indeed, it looks very promising. Looking forward to our next futarchy-inspired conversation!

@0xB4b4 You were one of the early ones ❤️ I remember our lengthy discussion about futarchy fondly. I think this answers most of the concerns I had

Most people will look at the new Island Capital raise and think it’s just another on-chain fund. I think it’s the beginning of a new ownership primitive. 1. This isn’t an investment. It’s a communal vault. You can withdraw your share of the treasury at regular intervals. That’s a subtle but important distinction. Today, thanks to @MetaDAOProject, we have mechanisms where markets can decide whether an entire treasury should be liquidated. But that’s an all-or-nothing decision. If one person wants to leave, today they usually sell their tokens. They don’t take their proportional share of the treasury with them. This is the first time I’m aware of where individuals can exit with their share of the treasury without requiring the project itself to wind down. That would have fundamentally changed the outcome for projects like @fairscalexyz and @ranger_finance. I think this becomes a new primitive that eventually extends beyond communal vaults to project raises themselves. 2. This is the most active form of DAO participation I’ve seen. Most DAOs aren’t dead because governance is impossible. They’re dead because participation is mostly symbolic. A whale or the team proposes. Everyone else reacts. Here, every token holder can become a capital allocator. In this vault, someone with $250 of tokens can direct a $2,500 treasury trade within predefined risk parameters. If they’re right, they earn 25% of the profits. Responsibility isn’t voted on. It’s earned. 3. This is only practical because of Solana’s composability. Under the hood this combines @realms, @JupiterExchange and soon @perps into a single coordination mechanism. This isn’t just about lower fees. It’s about enabling an institutional design that simply wasn’t practical before. 4. Why participate? I don’t expect this vault to outperform every memecoin. That’s not the goal. The goal is much bigger. Imagine if Vanguard had been designed from day one so that every participant could help steer capital, and the people with the best judgment gradually earned more responsibility. That’s the experiment. I don’t know if this is the future. But I think it’s worth finding out together.

Ursula von der Leyen has confirmed that everyone in the EU will need to use the EU's app for identity authentication before being able to access or post on social media websites. 🇪🇺 As an expert in online child safety, I am here to expose the misinformation and misdirection in von der Leyen's statements. Today von der Leyen said: "This is not about whether children can access social media, it is about whether social media can access our children". 💡The first part is true. This isn't about children. It's about surveillance and combating political dissent. A state that can't control its own citizens is more dangerous than a state rife with criminals. The second part is a PR soundbite that politicians are using like a campaign slogan straight out of 1984. 🇪🇺"The question is no longer if children face risks online, but what can we do to give children a safer start online". 💡No. You can't give children a "safer start" online any more than you can offline. In the offline world, the government doesn't enforce curfews or ban children from entering liquor stores, bars or restaurants. That's a parent's responsibility. The digital world should be no different. 🇪🇺"The age verification app is one of the tools to get it done". 💡This is a contradiction because she also said "It won't be foolproof". 🇪🇺"It's easy to use, it is privacy preserving and it is open source". 💡The app was compromised as soon as it was released. "Privacy-preserving" age verification is an oxymoron. You can't verify a person's age without verifying their identity. Where or how that age is shared afterwards is irrelevant. 🇪🇺"This is basically about putting back the power into the hands of parents". 💡More from 1984. The EU is doing the opposite. Parents are having their authority stripped by politicians who think they know better. Many parents are capable and unaffected by peer pressure, and they know how to use parental controls to block any app classified as 13+. Some teens are safe, their parents trust them, and the state has no business overruling that trust. 🇪🇺"We don't give our children keys to the car before they have their licence" 💡Comparing an app to a car is a false equivalence used to justify mass surveillance. Governments don't decide when a young person is ready for car keys, guardians do. 💡Forcing every adult and child into a biometric checkpoint just to use an app or website is not licensing drivers. It's the state seizing everyone's keys, locking the garage, and forcing every driver to ask a private company for permission to take a drive. 💡 This is a gross, unethical overreach that strips authority from parents while imposing state sanctioned identity verification on every adult who doesn't even have a child. 💡Additionally, people who pass a test, obtain a licence and drive a car aren't forced to use an app to constantly authenticate their suitability to drive. 🇪🇺"We do not let them buy alcohol until they are legally allowed" 💡False equivalence. We don't force every person to show ID at a shopping mall entrance just because a few people might buy alcohol with a meal at a restaurant. Some parents are okay with their 12 year-old going to the mall with friends while others aren't. Either way, it's their choice. Whatever irresponsible decisions some parents might make, every adult in the country shouldn't be forced to pay the price. 🇪🇺"It won't be foolproof" 💡This is all the proof we need to show that the EU and every government know that banning social media for teens won't protect them. When pressed by journalists about VPNs being used to circumvent a ban, politicians always state the ban isn't a silver bullet and will take time. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan went as far as to say "we know it's not the solution". 💡Either age verification works, or it doesn't. As a technical expert in this space, I can tell you there are no additional steps to take and no progress to be made. Either the approach does what it is supposed to do, or it's not fit for purpose. If they claim a bulletproof solution is coming, it can only mean one thing. They intend to ban or restrict VPNs to people who verify their identity. 🇪🇺"It will take time to invite the cultural change that is already taking shape in our society, just as it took time to outlaw drink driving, just as it took time to use seatbelts in the cars. Great change never happens overnight, but when it comes to our safety it is always worth it". 💡Comparing a social media ban and age verification to seatbelts is a completely broken analogy. Seatbelts are a safety feature that protects children while allowing them to travel in a car. A ban doesn't give kids a seatbelt. It kicks them out of the car entirely. 💡Instead of supporting parents who want to guide their own children through the digital world, this heavy-handed law strips away parental authority by banning the apps and websites that many parents are perfectly fine with and actively monitor. 💡Furthermore, enforcing these bans requires biometric age verification, which means forcing millions of adult citizens to scan their IDs, faces or credit cards just to browse the internet. That isn't a common-sense traffic law. 💡It's a digital checkpoint on every street. True safety means teaching kids how to navigate the digital world safely with real guardrails and parental guidance, not burning down digital spaces for everyone under the guise of protection. 🇪🇺☠️ The EU wants to ban teens from social media so every person is forced to verify their identity before they can read, share or post anything online. In their words, this is to protect children from dangerous content. 🇪🇺☠️ The EU wants to enforce "Chat Control" so every app has to monitor everything people say privately inside it, including apps with end-to-end encryption. In their words, this is to protect children from dangerous criminals. 💡Where this ends 🇪🇺 "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever". George Orwell, 1984.

@Whalesfriend @takisoul 🫡

@0xB4b4 @takisoul Thank you, sir. Get ready for a huge Brazilian party, no excuses this time. Full month

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE HALF MAN-HALF AMAZING @Whalesfriend! 🎂 Over the crazy years we’ve been working together, your endless positivity and good vibes water down my default grumpiness. Thank you for being an amazing friend everyone (not only whales) can have.

@takisoul @Whalesfriend Mr Taki I miss you dearly!

@0xB4b4 @Whalesfriend Mister Baba we miss you!