ElixirConf EU 2026 speaker highlights:
- José Valim
- Chris McCord
- André Albuquerque & Sofia Silva
- Kimutai Kiprotich
- Andrea Leopardi
- Zach Daniel
Málaga, April 23-24. Proud sponsors. www.elixirconf.eu
David Lange has been learning Elixir. Coming from a JS background, he wanted to test how Phoenix handles real-time. So he built live cursors plus a confetti blast on click.
Phoenix channels + Presence make this kind of thing surprisingly straightforward.
New on our content hub: buff.ly/5a6C1co
2/ The UAE completes the picture with four regulatory bodies, multiple licensing paths, and the most direct access to Middle East, Africa, and South Asian markets.
Part 4 of the Stablecoin Regulation Playbook: buff.ly/mmCBUy4
#stablecoins #web3 #regulation
1/ Singapore, Hong Kong, and the UAE all require the same things from stablecoin issuers. The compliance floor is nearly identical across all three.
What separates them is what they offer in return. Singapore and Hong Kong first ↓
One week until Agents Day Braga.
Workshops, mentors, demos, and awards.
April 15 · Braga
Register → luma.com/2usmuxg6
What if a teenager's allowance had rules built in? Not as a punishment, but as an agreement?
100 USDC/month. Category limits. 20% auto-saved. Real autonomy within real boundaries.
That's one of four use cases we cover in episode 3 of the Stability Series: buff.ly/MfGGj2I
#stablecoins #fintech
14 years ago, we started in Braga with a small group who wanted to build things properly and work with people who gave a damn.
That's still the whole idea.
Thanks to everyone who's been part of it. 💙
Last call: 2 free tickets to ElixirConf EU 2026.
Students only. Random draw. Deadline Sunday.
Student email + any GitHub project with Elixir code and you're in.
Apply: www.notion.so/330caae58631...
Introducing Starbase Deep Space. Starbase's new end-of-day series. One theme, specialists worth listening to, grounded conversations.
Edition #1: How AI is reshaping financial services
📅 April 24, 18:00-19:30 GMT+1
📍 Pink Room, Coimbra
RSVP: luma.com/ip3g8e0t
Join Starbase too: luma.com/eyhh2wlt
Part 4 of the Stablecoin Regulation Playbook is live.
While the US and EU debated, APAC built.
Singapore 2023 → UAE 2024 → Hong Kong 2025. Three operational licensing regimes were finalized before most Western frameworks.
Read the full article: buff.ly/MRRnKno
#stablecoins #fintech #web3
Traditional loyalty points aren't money. They live in a brand's database, and you borrow them back.
What if you earned actual stablecoins instead? Yours. Globally. Instantly.
Not a patch on the existing model. A rewrite.
From Stability Series Episode 2: buff.ly/kXPqNrF
How Agents Day Braga works:
10 AM — welcome coffee
11 AM — workshop
2 PM — build with mentors
5 PM — demos
6 PM — awards
Teams of 3 or solo. Repo created on the day.
Free · April 15 · Braga
→ luma.com/2usmuxg6
8/ A lot shipped in March. More coming.
By the way, we're hiring. If you want to be part of what we're building: jobs.subvisual.com
7/ Four things published in March:
→ Can I Have It in Blue? S2E3
→ Megan Keyser on product ownership in practice
→ How stablecoins could fix loyalty programs
→ Stability Series, Episode 3
All in content.subvisual.com
6/ We welcomed two new apprentices this month, Sara and Nuno. The team keeps growing!
5/ We're joining Guardian Labs EU as a development, investor, and venture partner. Guardião protects Portuguese families from phone scams and fraudulent SMS. Proud to be building this one.
4/ We rebuilt subvisual.com. Two paths, one team: Product Studio for focused collaborations, Venture Studio for founders building the whole thing.
2/ Starbase went international for the first time. London with Encode Club. Braga Blockchain: Igor Sol, Luís Freitas, and Peter Keay on Solana. Marmela brought Braga BEAM #8 to our office, with António Silva, on the MCP servers in Phoenix.
1/ Here's what happened at Subvisual in March 🧵
Thank you to everyone who joined us for Braga BEAM #8 last week! 🚀
Great turnout, great talk. It was great hearing António Silva walk through how Remote built MCP servers in Phoenix.
Thanks to the Marmela team for organizing, and everyone who showed up.
Until next time 👋
#BragaBEAM #Elixir
buff.ly/YgbxS5L
3/To get any compliance at all, you need surveillance. Receipts. Justifications. Nobody likes being watched. But that's the only tool we have today. There's a better model.
We walk through a better model in ep. 3 of the Stability Series 👇
#stablecoins #fintech #web3
2/ Enforcement costs billions. Feedback arrives weeks late, after the learning moment has passed. No expense reports, just full control and hope, or elaborate bureaucracy. No middle ground.
1/ Every time you give someone money with expectations attached, you're fighting a system that was never designed for this. Five problems, and none of them are edge cases. 🧵
We're sponsoring ElixirConf EU 2026 and giving away 2 free tickets to students.
José Valim. Chris McCord. 40+ talks. Málaga, April 23-24.
All you need: a student email + a GitHub project with Elixir code.
Apply: buff.ly/0rX4rzj
Deadline: April 5. Winners announced April 6.
"Why not just reward customers with Bitcoin?"
Because you can't build loyalty on volatility.
Customer earns $100 in ETH. Three weeks later: worth $73.
Stablecoins fix this. 100 USDC = $100, always.
How to build it: buff.ly/edtyey0
Agents Day Braga 🤖
A full day of building with AI agents: practical workshops in the morning, hand-picked mentors available throughout the day, a demo session in the afternoon, and awards at the end.
Apr 15 · Subvisual office, Braga
Registration open → luma.com/2usmuxg6
#AIAgents #DevsPT #TechPT
Starbase keeps moving. Next stop: Coimbra, co-hosted with Pink Room. Full-day open workspace for builders. Bring your laptop and whatever you're building.
📅 April 24, 9:30-18:00 GMT+1
📍 Pink Room Office, Coimbra
RSVP: luma.com/eyhh2wlt
#Blockchain #Web3Portugal #BuilderCommunity
You can give someone money. Or you can do it with rules built in that enforce themselves, without anyone watching over anyone's shoulder. Right now, those are two different things. We want to change that.
Episode 3 of the Stability Series is live: buff.ly/1IKJbCY
#stablecoins #fintech #crypto
BBUG #8 is tomorrow 🚀
António Silva from Remote on MCP servers in Phoenix.
Food & drinks at Subvisual, Braga. Free.
Thu Mar 26, 18:00
meetup.com/bragabeam/events/313666565
#BragaBEAM #Elixir
