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. 🏝️→🇬🇧

I extended my own stay from one week to two after my first day there. Every new iPhone gets better because it builds on what people loved and what needed improvement in the previous one. I see IslandDAO the same way. Each version gets more refined because the team already knows what brings the right people together and creates an environment where meaningful things can happen. So yes, I’m looking forward to seeing what V5 becomes 🏝️

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🏝

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

recap from @islanddao where our co-lead @withmewtwo spent some time connecting with builders, networking with founders, learning from the best and growing the solana ecosystem what was your experience and memories from the island?

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.

We had an amazing day at the @SuperteamTH coworking session today Superteam asked us to give a workshop on how to ship on @solana without getting hacked 💥 So we flew to Bangkok, gave the workshop & spoke to some amazing fellow builders and founders Great to see the interest we are getting from early stage founders to get audited by @proofofexploit Excited to keep the momentum going, improving our product and helping more builders ship securely! ⚒️

Almost 24hrs into the IslandCapital raise. 48hrs left. Not the momentum we were hoping for, but honestly it does not matter. We will move forward no matter what. One important distinction about IslandCapital 2.0: This is NOT an investment raise. This is NOT a launch of a new coin. This IS an opportunity for you to experience an entirely new primitive that takes capital coordination to a different level of sophistication and potential. For everyone participating (or consider participating), you get to hold, bet, call your conviction on assets via the amount of capital you put in AND you get to exit whenever you want during the frequent intervals we've set up. I know this is not a concept folks are conditioned lately, especially with a million different things going on, to name a few from just the past 24hrs: - @MetaDAOProject raise for @crediblefin - @JupiterExchange Gacha launch - heck, even @VelocityDEX beta launched yesterday - @jtx_trade launching today If anything, this proves that distribution is the undisputed grail that everyone is fighting for in this space. Participating in IslandCapital 2.0 gets you access to one of the most exciting things in crypto rn. And the best part is you can spectate (and reap any upside), participate, get heavily involved or just exit; Name other set ups that give you access to a trading group of giga brains in a decentralized, permissionless way and so many levels of involvement I know for many of you this means nothing, but you will not change my mind that this is the way for a future of crypto with any hope in fulfilling its cypherpunk promise. I'm proud and pumped for our team and community for fighting tooth and nail to get @ridemarkets and @islanddao the attention they deserve. And you know what, this will not get the attention of heavy hitters like @toly, @vibhu , @calilyliu @MacroMate8 or @ramzyyalii but i'm being loud anyway because I believe in what we are building. We keep moving forward. This is the @solana way. These are the two most exciting things I've ever worked on and it would make me beyond excited if you checked them out. I'm always here to help and answer any of your questions. Can't shut me up whenever I start talking about the things I'm most passionate about. Onwards and upwards.

Even though the season is over, the shipping never stops! 🏝️ V4 dropped an impressive foundation - now our builders are shipping harder than ever. Island fam holding it down at @SuperteamTH events!

Some places don’t just host events… they create memories you’ll carry forever. @islanddao , thank you for the warmth and the feeling that everything was alive. This one’s for us.

Spent two weeks at @islanddao in Koh Samui and it was one of the best decisions I've made this year. Met builders and had countless conversations around Solana infrastructure, security, stablecoins, developer tooling and left with way more questions than answers. Got to meet incredible people like @readylayerone @cyphernetician @r0bre @ailto_s @validotxyz @Frame_tailor_ @gyan_w3b and so many other amazing builders Sometimes the biggest value isn't a workshop or a keynote. It's living with people who are obsessed with building. gm 🌴

For me the celebration of 1000 epochs of @solana jives so well with one of the things I love the most about the IslandDAO DNA; at its core are the groups of power users, obsessed the endless experimentation, tinkering with all kinds of Solana tech. That’s why @islanddao is so much more than the event. The IslandCapital 2.0 raise has nothing to do with the events, yet it excites me just the same. It’s about capital coordination using an entirely new primitive that allows for a schema that syndicates, trading groups, investment funds of the past didn’t even dream of. Incredibly bullish to be constantly exploring the boundaries of new tech and human coordination on the best blockchain out there.