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The Fountain #4: Regulatory Hacking, Decentralized FDA, and *Literally* Building A New City

Hola from all the way of Roatán to your inbox! I'm particularly excited about this week's newsletter! (Apologies that it wasn't sent yesterday, Friday; needed a piece of information that had to be in this week's edition! 👀).

🏛️ Town Hall Recap · May 03, 2024

You can join in person or online every Friday at 10:30 am CT Honduras Time!
(Reach out to [email protected] if you'd like to receive a calendar invite)

Kudos

  • To the Social Layer Team – now, the community events that you RSVP can be added to your calendar!

  • To Victoria, Nelson, and Antonio for hosting a super fun karaoke night to wrap up the Safe Harbor Summit!

  • To Ixian, Christian, Kyle, Ramona, and Alejandra for hosting this legal engineering summit! (Recap info below)

On-Site News

  • We're moving the Vitalia City district to another location soon! More information below.

    • The cool and fun part? You can join us to help design and shape it to what you'd like to see. Imagine building it as if you were in Minecraft or Decentraland.

Off-Site News

  • We're partnering with EdgeCity and ZuVillage Georgia pop-up cities, we love their missions and we are super excited to lead the longevity biotech side in them!

    • We're currently building the program; if you have any suggestions or projects you'd like to showcase, reach out to [email protected]

💡 Vitalia Quick Tip!

All in one place: You can find easy access to all links and resources that we have in the Vitalia Linktree: linktr.ee/vitaliacity

🏗️ Upcoming: Bio-Contech Summit | May 24 - 26

I know we may say this every time, but… we're SO excited about this upcoming event! (It just gets more exciting every time!) lu.ma/contech24

This summit is to design what the new Vitalia district will look like!
Here are some quick updates on it so far:

  • We have 25+ guests confirmed, including Eli Dourado and Bryan Caplan! Have you saved your spot yet?

    • Step 1: Register here (join in-person or online). In-person is highly recommended!

    • Step 2: Get your access pass if you haven't already [click here for info]

    • Step 3: Make travel plans and get your housing [click here for info]

  • We're working with great startups that build physical spaces in network states!

    • Nomad Nation – Designing super cool nomad villages for decentralized living

    • Geoship – Build absolutely gorgeous bioceramic domes (shall we look into an upgrade to our current Vitalia Dome? 👀)

  • Kara is hosting online workshops to ideate the physical infrastructure, which happen every Wednesday at 10:30 AM CT (Honduras Time). [Click here to sign up]

If you're interested in becoming one of the early adopters in the new housing units in Duna Residencies (this is where the new district of Vitalia is going to be), please click on the button below for more information! tally.so/r/nrl67o

⚖️ Just Passed | Safe Harbor Summit Highlights

Recap:

We will soon post a recap article and video alongside the talk recordings! Stay tuned for that, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, where we will post them.

In the meantime, Falk posted a recap thread on why "it was something special" [click to read it on X]

🏆 Pitch Competition Winner:

On a great highlight, shout out to Mike Sinn who won the pitch competition at the summit with his project of a "Decentralized FDA": fdai.earth

If you know, you know! - This idea was actually on our list published just about a month ago of "Startups We Want To See At Vitalia", read here: vitalia.city/learn/startups-wed-like-to-see-in-vitalia

🌟 Community Spotlight

Introducing Citadelle: Revolutionizing Real Estate with Tokenization

Citadelle reshapes the future of property ownership and rentals by tokenizing real estate assets. Check it out here: CitadelleNFT.com

Until the next one!

Tails & the Vitalia Team

⛲️😁

PS – Feedback and ideas are always welcome. Reply to this email to share your thoughts!