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GM! Been a crazy January! Our current $GUI lottery app has burnt $50M this week. The team have been working non stop on a totally new idea. We cannot wait to tease more but you are not ready. Instagram and Tiktok influencers ready to go from day 1 Streamers around the clock. Grid9 will be the new alpha. A new level of cook, and most importantly with people who want to see you win. That is the most important part. Cannot wait to tell you who our new partners are. What they have helped us achieve in 1 month is >>> than what has ever been done by our team in the past year. Who you partner up with, who you work with is the most important lesson of 2026. Choose them wisely. You are not ready. Buckle up to get lost in the Grid.

How to fix your life in one day. This and no phone.

@JungleSmith1 @Polymarket 🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻

Been an amazing 15 days into 2026 so far. - 1 book down - 300 more trades on @Polymarket with a net return on volumes around 14% - Vibe coded new data aggregators for my sports models - Deployed capital to new oversold stocks in the US markets especially after @realDonaldTrump interest rate caps on credit cards - Building something new and really exciting with @Nomadic_Rookie and @thecaptaingates . Will start teasing really soon! Will be a fun game Time to get moving and stay moving. Pun intended 😉 ⬆️

@JungleSmith1 You mean # 1 fan babe

Turned 32 today. Grateful for every year spent so far on Earth. Grateful for the numerous bull and bear markets that have taught me patience, perseverance and resilience. Grateful to every person who pushed me to be better and grow. Grateful to the friends and family I've met along the way, the relationships built, those who believed in me, and the things we've built together. Grateful for those who did not and for life giving me a chance to prove how wrong they can be. Looking forward to more life, growth, happiness, and health. Also ordered 20 books to read this year. Lastly, looking forward to new experiments and ideas to build, for what is life without experiments? For life is one big experiment, and luck finds those who try. Onwards

It’s been a tough year for alt tokens, especially after 10/10. Zooming in on the Aptos ecosystem, it’s been even harder. Founders and the community have been playing on "extra hard mode" due to sudden leadership changes, the 10/10 blackswan and experimental hurdles. At $GUI, we operated with a lean mindset. In hindsight, our limited resources meant we moved slower than we intended. We learned a lot of lessons this year. Business is tough, and acting in good faith doesn't always guarantee reciprocity. It’s a competitive environment where many look strictly at the numbers rather than the potential value you can offer. But that’s business. True talent lies in humanizing those interactions and seeing beyond the spreadsheet. The road to 2026 will be challenging, but we are making significant pivots. We’ve realized that building for a single ecosystem is limiting. Composability is the future; the modular "Lego bricks" available now mean the only limit is our imagination. We are shifting focus to build experiences that don't rely entirely on Crypto Twitter, but appeal to the wider world. We pitched this vision back in August, and while it didn't land with everyone then, that’s okay. Our guiding focus will be using modular blocks to create unique experiences around fun, gaming, and sports. These have been our bread and butter for a long time, and it’s time we embrace that fully. 2026 is about going back to the drawing board to create cool, exciting products that people actually want to use, having fun and generating revenue where it counts. That will take alot of soul searching from @Nomadic_Rookie I and @thecaptaingates and the holidays will be for that. Most importantly, we are letting go of dogma. When you remove the sunk cost fallacy of building in one place for three years, things become much clearer and you become more experimental. That was our biggest lesson of 2025: avoiding dogma. Build experiences. Build for people, not just for chains. And most importantly, build with those who value you and see the possibilities of working together. Merry Christmas to you all. Take this time to be with family and plan about the future. Onwards!

The GUI Team is the one I respect the most in this space. Maximum community focus, willing to take risks, and shipping non-stop through any market conditions. They weren’t lucky with the chain they launched on, but they’re definitely going to win big one day with their strategy and new focus. Holding my GUI and looking forward to any future ways to support.

Aptos, I'm done. This is where I give up. I'm giving up on being an Aptos-only guy because it has hurt me more than I realise. I am realising this after always trying to be on one side, thinking that maybe now things will get better, only to be proven wrong year over year. On August 19th, the @guiinuonaptos Lottery went live on Aptos. 106 days since the lottery is live and it has seen over 6850 tickets being sold, averaging about 65 tickets sold per day, and that in a market and ecosystem where you don't expect that much on a game that has real money involved and it's not on some testnet, but people playing with $GUI, and we couldn't be more prouder than this because take it back to 2023 and since then, GUI INU has done so much for the Aptos community that even today, the core supporters of the project have left Aptos yet they hold GUI because they want to support the GUI contributors and team. The number of tickets could have been easily inflated to 25,000, 50,000, or even more, but who are we trying to please with those metrics? We don't like washed fake metrics and will never do it; it is against our ethos because keeping it real has led us to make some of the hardest decisions we're making right now. Today, we are launching new games on the GUI eco, which will support multiple chains, including Solana and EVM, and we won't be exclusive to Aptos. That said, I will always keep AptoRobos, GUI INU, and Aptos Monkeys closest to my heart, and I won't ever stop working, because it doesn't matter where we are; what matters is what we do there. The support we are getting is close to none, and this has been happening for long, and I've sat and watched everything happen in front of my eyes while I felt like I am happy staying away from the drama where some of the supposedly big projects from Aptos are being invited with big grants, and they end up doing NOTHING but the ones that were always here have been given no support because the thought process is "where will these guys go, they have their projects so they are responsible for it, so not on us to retain them, and inviting new projects will add to the onboarding metrics we'd like to market as always, even if they don't do anything, aesthetically onboarding them will look good", but I always was a part of the drama even if not involved, because these things that happen hurt your projects without you even knowing about it. I could name several projects that were heavily supported both financially and socially, even via. Spaces that ended up doing nothing, and not even DeFi projects benefited users. Onchain metrics like revenue are good for projects, yet you only track them and do nothing that signals "users". But my fight is not against any projects; they are also trying in the same waters What was once a project that helped revive the vibes and community on Aptos is now a mere meme that only the community still wants to support, because either 1. We pissed them off by calling Aptos dead when it was (didn't hurt Bonk though, as Solana picked up on that meme and look at where Bonk is), or 2. They just don't want to support or retain the current set of builders, including us, because we don't align with the inflated metrics. What's hard to accept is that work must be done to acquire users, and that support must be provided to the projects. They cannot run the show alone when they don't hold treasuries like yours to define the marketing terms? In fact, the IBW 2025 event going on right now, we just skipped it because of the disrespect we got, and the sidelining we saw towards us last year, yet we never showed it here because we thought "these guys are having so many internal issues, what would they care about our feedback" because a few days after the event, the entire leadership changes happened, and since then, it's been too hard to do anything as a project on Aptos if you were already here. I am done trying to bullpost and will only work hard on the projects I am part of, because real support will come from ecosystem heads who see builders as they are, and whose work and passion can be understood by someone who has grinded to the same level. This may mark the bottom for GUI, because we will fucking make sure we reach a place where we earn back the respect, and we show people their place as well, because it hurts to see where we are and where we ended up by blindly believing, which shouldn't have been the case in the first place. And no, this is not just the token price prompting me to discuss it; it is one of the factors, as it should be. Aptos Foundation needs to do better in almost every department, be it the project due diligence or supporting them, be it the narrative marketing, or be it supporting the people who have been always here and created content, because NO, you cannot just after a long time say that the creators can go make content outside of Aptos, and then bring those followers from there to Aptos, because no, there's nothing to gain by doing so and for spending both time and efforts, and it's not my thoughts alone - a lot of other creators used to crash out in group chats when these things were technically relayed on calls and X Spaces and we used to think whether a mistake was made trying to bullpost Aptos, or be its supporter, or a builder. The answer to everything is the same, though, now that we see it. I am not someone who just came a few months ago to say maybe I don't know the whole picture, because I am here since the beginning and have seen everything, and thus it hurts further that I still decided to tag along despite everything that happened, and the price tanking at the same time, with us believers with huge bags having no other choice but to keep believing. Stop taking feedback through forms and private chats because they end up only being "heard" and nothing happens to work upon those. There is no hope left now. Aptos, please do better from here, and at least keep the ones that are still here happy.

GM ❤️ We're shipping the new $GUI games on/off-ramps this week. Slowly but surely, we're building the tools we always wished existed. As founders, we can only take things so far alone. What we truly need now are partners who see our work, understand our potential, and are happy to support NOT just with funds but with GTM, guidance, and the kind of backing a community-focused foundation is supposed to give its own builders. Quick stats so far: 6,850+ lottery tickets sold 1B+ $GUI burnt Active wallets with 12B+ $GUI circulating in winners And real daily stickiness we didn’t expect at this stage We're learning as we go, removing UX barriers, and making this whole experience smoother for everyone crypto native or not. Appreciate every single person riding with us. Let’s keep building.

Happy thanksgiving lovelies🫶☺️

Quick update for the $GUI gang - Another 15-20M $GUI burnt in the past few days due to the lottery app - Gearing up for our fast game launches in a couple of days - Working with payment partners to offer multichain access from day 1 Excited

Quick $GUI update - 37M $GUI burnt in the past 7 days on average - Adding 2 new games by end of month - Adding multichain support for deposits and withdrawals

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Helping with the branding and lore for @Tribalsdotfun They have some cool plans ahead and looking forward to designing the figures everyone will use Do follow @Tribalsdotfun for early alpha

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Last week, we hosted the very first @Aptos community event in Portugal, and it was a huge success! The proof of concept was achieved, and next year we’re planning to make it even bigger and more accessible to everyone in the community. It was an amazing day spent with so many people we first met online nearly three years ago. The goal now is to keep growing and expanding the community in real life. Absolutely loved the experience, and we’re definitely doing it again, on a much bigger scale!