Cassius Dottin

[ickas @ickasdev]

One day. One room. Devs, designers, marketers, founders, all building with AI from scratch. We're hosting the AI Hacker House: Solstice Edition in Porto and I couldn't be more excited. Free to join, spots are limited, food and drinks included.

Let's build together. See you there? 👇

https://t.co/eckVLd6daW

[Cassius Dottin @CassiusDottin]

@JakeGagain Sounds like you passing gas from the mouth.
And it smelling pretty bad

[The Garden ⛩️ @taikaigarden]

@VivaTech 2026, done. ✅

Our team spent last week in Paris, at one of Europe's biggest tech and innovation events. Good conversations, good energy, and a proof of what Garden can do.

The platform is live, projects are launching, and we're just getting started. 🇫🇷

[Mario @hypermarioal]

I killed my own company and rebuilt it.

@LayerXlab started in Web3. Today it's an AI studio.

Talked through the whole thing on Decoding AI: AI agents for SMEs, vibe coding, and why the winners will be AI-native from day one.

Full episode bellow. 🎧

[Cassius Dottin @CassiusDottin]

@hypermarioal Awareness is key. You see things from a new perspective with a new set of eyes. Very impressive. Keep on shipping. Plant the seeds and watch them grow. From the darkness right into the light. Keep on keeping on. Keep fighting the good fight. The future looks bright! SUPER MARIO

[Mario @hypermarioal]

The highest ROI activity in AI right now isn't on your screen.

Two days at SIM Conference in Porto. No laptop, just people. I came back with the one thing the timeline never hands me: clarity.

The firehose tells you what's loud. A room full of people you trust tells you what's true.

Wrote about what that actually looked like.

[TAIKAI @taikainetwork]

𝗪𝗲’𝘃𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝗷𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗧𝗔𝗜𝗞𝗔𝗜: 𝗮 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗠𝗖𝗣 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿. 🔗

This makes TAIKAI the first agentic hackathon platform, where AI models like @claudeai, @OpenAI's ChatGPT, and @GeminiApp can connect directly to the platform and take action on your behalf.

And this is only step one.

Next up: something even bigger, the first hackathon where AI models compete against each other. Stay tuned.

[TAIKAI @taikainetwork]

Big prize update for the @CopernicusLAC Hackathon in Panama. 👀

The opportunity just got bigger: beyond competing, the winning project may advance to a pilot phase with support from the IDB, with up to USD 50,000 in funding to turn your idea into real-world impact.

[Helder Vasconcelos ⛩️ @heldervasc]

Heading to Sim Conference this week. 🤝

Representing @LayerXlab , we’ll be around on May 14th & 15th. 

If you're implementing AI systems,Inference Infra, or AI agents in your company, come talk to us.

Don’t miss:
➡️ You’ll also find the LayerX team at the Showcase Room, Booth 44, on May 15th.

See you in Porto! 🙌 🍷

[Mario @hypermarioal]

https://t.co/OdPPg7eXSM

[TAIKAI @taikainetwork]

𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁. 💸

Spreadsheets for registrations, forms for submissions, random tools for comms and judging…

It does not feel expensive at first but it adds up quickly, in time and money.

Using one platform just makes things simpler. And by simpler, this means less tools to manage, less overhead, a smoother experience overall.

Maybe it is time to stop patching things together.

TAIKAI could be the simpler way to run it. 👀

[Helder Vasconcelos ⛩️ @heldervasc]

Do you want to give your blog a voice ? 🔉

How we turned posts into audio with open models, locally, on a Mac with mlx .

At first it might seem easy.

Grab the first text-to-speech library you find, point it at a markdown file, and let it talk.

We tried that early on, just to feel the shape of the problem.

The result was instructive. By instructive I mean: it sounded awful.

I wrote an article on @LayerXlab detailing the entire process, from the three stages pipeline, to how we run it on a laptop.

https://t.co/2qSjops9nO

[TAIKAI @taikainetwork]

What if your next project had real impact directly from space? 🛰️

The 3rd CopernicusLAC Hackathon is live on TAIKAI. Organised by @CopernicusLAC Panama - a joint initiative between the @EU and @ESA under the Global Gateway project - tackling food security across Latin America and the Caribbean.

No experience needed. Just a team and a problem worth solving.

[TAIKAI @taikainetwork]

Hackathons always felt like a developer thing.

That's old.

The teams winning today aren't the most technical. They're the ones who understand the problem best.

The technical side? You can delegate that now with @claudeai.

Dive into this guide for non-developers who want to actually compete 👇

[Cassius Dottin @CassiusDottin]

@ZoyaCritchley @BitMartExchange Maximum August but could blast off tomorrow. That's the way I feel. Oracle eyes

[Zoya Critchley @ZoyaCritchley]

@CassiusDottin @BitMartExchange It seems you've been watching this coin for quite some time? How long do you think it will take before it explodes?

[Cassius Dottin @CassiusDottin]

@JakeGagain Trump

[Cassius Dottin @CassiusDottin]

@AltcoinDaily Blue pill me

[The Garden ⛩️ @taikaigarden]

2026 for TAIKAI so far:

🌍 14 countries.
🖥️ 6 hackathons.
🧩 A lot of big ideas and people who just wanted to build something real.

The map keeps growing, and so does the community.