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Change my mind 🤺 Climate conservation is a reactionary move in the chess game we initiated against nature 🌏 Longevity is an anticipatory move for the “undefined” outcome of this chess game ♟️ Climate resilience should not exclude funding research and tech that will exponentially scale human adaptation for our changing environment - just like we have used Mendelian methods to change crops to support global consumption, we can also increase adaptational vigour in ourselves. It’s the survival of the fittest and we shouldn’t leave out this tool in our kit.

@0xJustinnn @sqrDAO Whoooooo lfg

gm everyone, just wanted to announce that i'm joining @sqrDAO to help run their social media and partnerships! for the past two years i've been a proud member of sqrDAO, contributing behind the scenes for the community. now i want to step up - actively bringing more support to builders in this market, and spreading the community spirit to more builders. having worked with sqrDAO from both sides - as a client (@LiskSEA) and internally - i gotta say i'm very bullish on where they're headed. their dedication and resourcefulness are part of the inspo tying me to the team. thanks sir @sqrdao_intern, for the chance to contribute! so whether you're a builder who needs help with narrative/or finding the right circle, or a team looking to expand into Vietnam and SEA - my DMs are always open!

@david_in_web3 @SuperteamVN Whoaaaaaaaaa LFG!!!

After nearly 6 months of rebuilding behind the scenes, @SuperteamVN is quietly getting back to work. This time, with a stronger focus on supporting high-quality products, serious builders, and the next generation of founders coming out of Vietnam. A lot more to come. 🇻🇳⚡

I’m telling my friends this is my financial value to them

Have you ever wondered why Da Nang keeps popping up in Web3 conversations? 🧐 We've been bullish on Da Nang for a long time. The people, the policies, and everything in between create the perfect environment for startups. From supportive infrastructure to top-tier talent, this city is built for innovation. Let's dive into a few reasons why we keep believing in our coastal city! 🏝

@idyllicmusing I remember learning maybe 2 decades ago that we trace anthropological lineages through maternal DNA, so it only took us that much time to arrive at this conclusion…

Society tells men that they need a son to "carry on the bloodline," but genetically, the opposite is true. Every single human inherits their mitochondria exclusively from their mother. Upon fertilization, the egg destroys the sperm’s mitochondria in a total wipeout. Because of this, only your daughter can pass your mitochondrial DNA on to the next generation. When your son has children, his wife’s egg will destroy his mitochondria, ending that line instantly. Furthermore, to make a son, a father gives his Y chromosome. The Y chromosome is a genetic lightweight, carrying only about 60 to 70 functional genes that mostly just act as a biological switch to trigger male development. To make a daughter, he gives his X chromosome. The X chromosome carries over 800 critical genes regulating everything from brain development to tissue structure. When a father has a daughter, she receives 100% of his X chromosome. Because a father only has one X to give, it doesn't get scrambled or diluted during reproduction, so then, it is copied and passed to her perfectly intact. A son receives absolutely zero X-chromosome DNA from his father. It aligns with an old, blunt anthropological saying: "Maternity is a fact; paternity is an opinion." If you want your actual biological lineage to survive, the future belongs entirely to daughters. 1/

@brian_armstrong @byersblake Sign me up!

Aging is arguably the root cause of most major diseases (loss of function in our cells). Four years ago, we made a bet that aging was treatable, and NewLimit was born. NewLimit now has a prototype drug that reverses the age of some human cells (restores function they had when they were younger), and a clinical trial scheduled for next year (with more drug candidates in the pipeline). Grateful to Founders Fund, Thrive, Greenoaks, and the rest of the investors for this latest round. @jacobkimmel and the team are just getting started.

@sebestdebest Agreed, humans using energy to not produce anything useful for the whole of humanity is a legit misallocation of resources. It’s almost like that sentence is a blanket for the existing flaws of human character that tech amplifies

@bytesbybree Unfortunately ai prompting is contributing to global warming

Change my mind 🤺 Climate conservation is a reactionary move in the chess game we initiated against nature 🌏 Longevity is an anticipatory move for the “undefined” outcome of this chess game ♟️ Climate resilience should not exclude funding research and tech that will exponentially scale human adaptation for our changing environment - just like we have used Mendelian methods to change crops to support global consumption, we can also increase adaptational vigour in ourselves. It’s the survival of the fittest and we shouldn’t leave out this tool in our kit.

@sirshibaninja @oneofusgang @ara5aka Credit must also be given to the king of heat waves here hahaha

@bytesbybree @oneofusgang @ara5aka Honestly, at that heart rate, if you aren't sweating, you're probably a robot. Solid grind.

“It's real sweat. I'm a high-performance athlete. Athletes sweat. Sweat, baby! Ki-ki-ki-ra, sweat, sweat” — said someone, probably Nice to see a different chart with @oneofusgang @ara5aka in this market

Got dropped like a hot new token onto a few conferences coming towards the end of the EMpower residency by @LiskSEA and @sqrDAO Coming from 4 years of the web3 conference route, especially Token2049 in Singapore, signal here is legit way higher because of the quality of builders and conversations, with location and the market itself being a natural filter. Much gratefulness to @sqrdao_intern for the opportunity to riff on my favourite drums of RWA and DeFi yields with @stan_ngx and @hanjaycrypto and meeting all the shapers of the future here in Da Nang 🫶 Props to @thesensedotsol for their sickkkk vidddds ⚡️

@validotxyz @oneofusgang @ara5aka That’s such a ✨ perfect ✨sentence of two of my favourite philosophies! 🥹

@bytesbybree @oneofusgang @ara5aka You just can do things, especially if you are getting ready for a zombie apocalypse😅

531 days ago, I had my first chat with Ecosystem Lead @alxs0x @LiskSEA about delivering an incubation programme for their builders based on web2 programmes I had delivered for Singapore universities back in 2020 - 2021. On 11 May 2026, I touched down in Da Nang and met the first cohort of builders they are empowering in collaboration with @sqrDAO as one of their 8 mentors. @fystack is one of the super cool local teams building a bridge for solutions to bring financial access to the people. Culturally, while the builders like @thicody set themselves apart with their approach to mentorship, their intrinsic drive and brilliance still serves. Excited to continue watching one of my top picks for fintech from the cohort as we move on into the next 3 months of acceleration!

Digital Assets and RWA enterprise signals from Unchained Summit are highhhh w/ Justin @AvaLabs, @tjstebbing @DogecoinFdn, @jtchui_abroad @hashgraph and @nibel_eth @base

@theVincentQ Hey @theVincentQ! I have a pretty vested interest in seeing how AI can scale what I’m doing with my own health for the past decade and for friends, would love to have a cuppa over this and connect you to other builders in SG too :)

Calling all founders, indie hackers, AI builders, and developers in #Singapore 🇸🇬 For the past few months, I’ve mostly been building alone here in SG. But recently, I started noticing that quite a few people quietly liking and engaging with my posts are actually builders based in Singapore too. Honestly didn’t expect there to be such an active builder community here 😄 So just wanted to say hi and connect with more local builders. I’m Vincent — currently building: 📱 Orangee (AI nutrition coach) 🤖 AI-native workflows & agents 🧠 systems for founders and builders Would love to meet more people building in SG. Just say hi 👋 or drop what you’re working on below👇

@agvbtc @validotxyz @MonkeDAO And you too! Looking forward to seeing what parts of AI you will research to benefit us all ^_^

@bytesbybree @validotxyz @MonkeDAO it was great to meet you!

Crypto-coded: Step 1: Connect with someone in a crypto fitness community based in Da Nang who also knows the key community builder co-founder @sqrDAO

Shared my thoughts on AI and my two bets on energy use with @qbuttonphd yesterday after watching the projects I mentored @sqrDAO @LiskSEA EMpower Residency pitch at the DAVAS Summit. I’m betting on increasing efficiency of energy creation and also frameworks for allocating energy, like how batching transactions for blockchain saved gas.

@heyrimsha Thank you for this gem!

A kid from Singapore who grew up training to be a concert pianist became one of the most important AI researchers alive, quit Google to start a frontier AI lab with 20 people and $60 million, built a model that competed with GPT-4 in a year, then walked away from the unicorn he created and went back to Google to lead the team that just won the International Math Olympiad with an AI. His name is Yi Tay. Almost nobody outside the AI research world knows it. Here is the story. Yi grew up in Singapore. He earned a classical piano performance diploma from Trinity College London in 2012 and almost became a professional musician. He went into computer science instead, did his PhD at Nanyang Technological University, and joined Google Brain as a research scientist. There were almost no Singaporean researchers in frontier AI at the time. He used to say he was on an uncharted path. At Google he became the co-lead of PaLM-2, the brain behind Google's entire AI stack. He invented UL2, a pretraining method now used across the industry. He invented Differentiable Search Indexes. His work shipped inside Google Assistant, YouTube, and Search. When ChatGPT launched in late 2022, Yi made a decision that shocked the research community. He left Google. In 2023 he co-founded Reka with researchers from DeepMind and Meta. The headquarters was in San Francisco, but the team was scattered across Asia, Europe, and the US. They had no big-tech backing. They had 20 people total. They had $60 million in funding. For context, OpenAI had around 600 people working on GPT-4. Google Gemini had 950 co-authors on the technical report. Reka had fewer than 5 people on pretraining. Yi lived nocturnally for 639 days. Five cups of coffee a day. Takeout twice. He gained 15 kilograms. He had a newborn baby. He worked across time zones his entire team was spread across. He built infrastructure from scratch in places Google had taken for granted. In May 2024 Reka Core debuted at number 7 on the LMSYS leaderboard. The only GPT-4 class model on the planet that was not trained by OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, or Meta. A 20-person company with 5 people on pretraining had just shipped a frontier model. Alibaba Cloud, NVIDIA, and Oracle became partners. The company hit a $1.3 billion valuation. Then in November 2024 Yi did something nobody expected. He walked away. He posted a quiet note on his blog titled "Returning to Google DeepMind." After 639 days of building one of the most respected frontier labs outside the big four, he went back to the company he had left. He wrote that he had learned more than he ever thought possible. He did not explain much else. Google made an extraordinary bet on him. They let him build something nobody else in the industry has, a DeepMind lab in Singapore. Yi runs it with Quoc Le. The team focuses on reasoning, reinforcement learning, and post-training for Gemini. It started with a dozen researchers. It now has over 300. Last summer, Yi's team led the effort that won the International Math Olympiad gold medal with Gemini Deep Think. The model solved IMO problems in a live competition, the kind that fewer than a hundred humans on Earth can solve under time pressure. His team also drove the work behind Gemini's ICPC 2025 gold medal. Yi still lives in Singapore. He still plays piano when he has time. He calls himself a global citizen who does not identify with any local AI scene. He has been at Google for nearly 14 years if you count the Reka detour. He says the Singapore lab is just getting started. A pianist from Singapore co-led the model that powered Google AI, left to build a frontier lab with 20 people and beat models trained by armies, walked back into Google, and is now running the team that just taught a machine to win Math Olympiad gold. The most influential AI researcher you have never heard of is sitting in a Singapore office right now, training the next generation of models that think.