🎤 Luís Freitas is the founder/CEO of Frames (financial infrastructure for AI agents), ex-CTO at Bitte & Mintbase, with a 95% win rate across 100+ hackathons. His talk is all about what happens when the buyer becomes software.

🎤 Peter Keay is a founding Engineer at DRW/Ergonia's new Solana DeFi project, previously at Anza (Solana Labs). Based right here in Braga. He's showing you how to make Solana programs 10-100x safer, cheaper, and faster, beyond Anchor.

🎤 Igor Sol is a full-time Solana builder since 2021, ex-Texture Finance founder, 10+ years TradFi (Morgan Stanley, $20bn PE Fund). He'll break down how to build a distribution layer for Real World Assets on Solana.

Speaker lineup for Braga Blockchain 🔥

March 17 | Braga | 6:30 PM | Our office | In partnership with Shipyard Portugal

RSVP → luma.com/rb40c93e

#Solana #BuildOnSolana #BragaBlockchain #Web3 #Blockchain

BBUG #8 - MCP in Phoenix, Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup Join us for an in-depth exploration of building MCP servers in Phoenix, where **António Silva** will share first-hand production experience from building these systems in t

BBUG #8 is happening March 26 at our Braga office 🚀

António Silva from Remote is talking MCP in Phoenix: how they built servers in Elixir, wired auth, and shipped it to production. Practical lessons from the field.

Register: meetup.com/bragabeam/events/313666565

#BragaBEAM #Elixir #Phoenix

Biggest shift in the crypto space in2025? For João Moreira (Mystic), it was the speed at which institutions embraced DeFi.

DeFi protocols now power earn features in major fintech apps and exchanges. Almost normal.

What surprised you most in 2025? 👇

buff.ly/NBC90Xd

Welcome, Sara and Nuno! 👋

Sara Silva joins as a Development apprentice, building her path in tech with a background in Solicitation, and now studying Web & Multimedia Development.

Nuno Coelho is doing a Product Design apprenticeship, turning complex problems into simple, intuitive experiences.

Starbase London // March 11 w/ @encodeclub.bsky.social

What you get:
🔹Open workspace at Encode Hub
🔹Builders working on real things
🔹Food

Building in Web3/fintech/crypto? Join us.

RSVP 👉 luma.com/zobkbey5

#LondonWeb3 #Web3Builders #CryptoLondon

🎙️ NEW CIHIIB episode: Bridging Design & Development

Maria Grilo (Designer) & Davide Silva (Developer) on how designers and developers can collaborate to make projects happen as frictionlessly as possible.

Listen 👇
buff.ly/bBC6oL3

The settlement layer: invisible backend infrastructure that makes stablecoin loyalty work.

Multi-brand coordination, automated rewards, cross-chain settlement, and compliance.

Programmable plumbing. Not glamorous. Essential.

From Stability Series Episode 2: buff.ly/Tcv5Toc

🌟 Starbase is going international

📅 March 11, 9:30-18:00 GMT
📍 Encode Hub, London

First landing outside Portugal. Full-day open office for builders.

RSVP: luma.com/zobkbey5

Stablecoins now account for half of Visa's transaction volume.

A16Z filtered out bots, wash trading, arbitrage, and MEV activity to get real usage numbers.

A couple of years ago, this would have felt like a fantasy. Now it's reality.
Full video: buff.ly/mSLBk82

#Stablecoins #Web3 #Crypto

Braga Blockchain is back on March 17 🚀

Deep dive into Solana: technical talks, discussions, and drinks with builders.

Rust veterans and newcomers are both welcome.

📍 Subvisual, Braga | 6:00 PM

RSVP → luma.com/rb40c93e

Let's build together!

Coimbra.js on Tuesday ✅

Mário Balça and Pedro Oliveira delivered talks on modern web dev. Good turnout, great conversations.

Thanks to Pink Room for hosting and everyone who showed up.

Next one soon 🚀

Thank you to everyone who joined us yesterday for ImpostorPM.

Great conversation on PM workflow and decision-making bottlenecks—practical, grounded, valuable.

Thanks to the facilitators and everyone who came ready to dig in. Looking forward to the next one!

Advice for crypto builders in 2026 👇

From our Web3 roundtable with João Moreira, José Pedro Sousa, and Tiago Martins:

• Learn ZK tech
• Use AI to build faster than ever
• Follow VC research
• Look for TradFi gaps in crypto

Listen to the conversation: buff.ly/LBGnPGq

2025 crypto review: infrastructure finally caught up

João Zamith (Head of Marketing @ Subvisual) breaks down:
→ Infrastructure
→ Stablecoins
→ Users
→ Regulation
→ What's Next

From "what crypto could be" to "what crypto is."

Watch: buff.ly/DZM4Vg5

How to Optimize Your Workflow to Speed Up Decision Making · Luma On February 26th at 18:30, we’re back in Braga for the first ImpostorPM of 2026, generously hosted by Subvisual. This edition brings together Product…

Tomorrow, 18:30 in Braga.

We're hosting The Impostor PM — How to Optimize Your Workflow to Speed Up Decision Making. Open conversation on moving from bottleneck to enabler.

Product people: register 👉 luma.com/rexf76vx

Stablecoins could fix loyalty programs: borderless rewards, real value (not points that expire), liquid & transferable, composable across brands.

The tech exists. UX, regulation, and brand incentives are the blockers.

buff.ly/bySY9Rd

Devs: What's your #1 green flag when job hunting?

(Asking because we're hiring a full stack dev and want our process to reflect what actually matters.)

buff.ly/HfTma4t

#hiring #devjobs

Coimbra.js speaker lineup 👩‍💻

🎤 Mário Balça — SaaS with React/Vue + Supabase

🎤 Pedro Oliveira — Stop vibe coding. Work with AI intentionally.

Feb 24 • Pink Room, Coimbra

luma.com/2q4yfskv

Coimbra.js • Feb 24 👩‍💻

Two talks on modern web dev workflows—production SaaS and AI-assisted development, done right.

📍 Pink Room, Coimbra • 6:45 PM GMT

Register: luma.com/2q4yfskv

Your loyalty points aren't really yours. They expire, lose value, get locked by geography, and disappear at the brand's discretion.

200+ billion in unredeemed points. What if loyalty cards ran on stablecoins?

Watch the full episode: buff.ly/E3amQt1

#LoyaltyPrograms #Stablecoins #RewardCards

We're hiring a full stack dev. You'll work on products we care about in web3 and fintech, using Phoenix, Rails, and modern frontend frameworks.

TypeScript frontend + your backend language of choice.

Apply: buff.ly/HfTma4t

What would you build if you didn't have to copy what came before?

With programmable money: instant payouts, keep more earnings, global collaboration, and cross-platform portability.

Not decentralization for its own sake. Sovereignty, stability, choice.

From Stability Series Ep 1: buff.ly/oMud934

The Only Question That Matters After "Does It Work?" - Content Hub Blog Written by

5/ If you're building right now: what are you doing with your window?

We wrote about competitive moats and timing →https://buff.ly/K9buB1r

4/ The race isn't to prove the market exists.

It's to build your moat before the market becomes obvious enough for everyone else to pile in.

3/ While they wait, you learn. You accumulate tacit knowledge. Build network effects. Create switching costs.

You use uncertainty to build structural advantages.

2/ Uncertainty.

Established companies don't chase uncertain markets. They wait for proof, clarity, and lower risk.

That's your window.

1/ Most startups don't have a moat when they start. They can't.

Network effects require users. Scale requires scale. Deep knowledge requires time.

So what protects you in those early days?