@subvisual.com
Senior product & engineering studio and venture builder focused on Web3 and fintech. From Portugal, working globally. We help teams build and scale reliable products & companies. Trusted by Coverflex, Uphold, Qonto, Utrust, Protocol Labs, STX. Since 2012.
Loyalty programs reward brands more than customers.
$200B+ in unredeemed points. 30% breakage. Geographic locks. Arbitrary devaluation.
João Zamith wrote about how stablecoins fix this, and what it takes to build it.
Read the full article: buff.ly/8gU20jF
We just launched our new website! 🚀
We build products and the companies behind them. Now with two clear paths: Product or Venture Studio.
The work hasn't changed. We've been doing this for over a decade. Same senior team. Now it's clearer which path fits your needs.
👀 Take a look: subvisual.com
$200B in loyalty points exist globally. Most will never be redeemed.
Geographic locks, expiration, zero transferability, rules that change overnight aren't bugs, they're features.
In this clip, we explain the four structural problems.
Watch the full episode: buff.ly/UXkiMPF
What you'll actually learn on March 17:
- Distribution architecture for RWAs on Solana
- Production-grade Solana program patterns beyond Anchor
- Why AI agents can't open bank accounts (and what happens next)
In partnership with Shipyard Portugal
luma.com/rb40c93e
#Solana #SolanaDev #Web3
Maria Grilo breaks down the opening vs. funneling dynamic between designers and developers, and why getting devs involved early solves it.
Full episode with Davide Silva 👇
buff.ly/bBC6oL3
#Design #Development #Collaboration
48 hours until Starbase London 🌟
First international landing. Limited spots.
March 11 @ Encode Hub
Building something? Come work with us.
Link in comments.
luma.com/zobkbey5
#LondonWeb3 #Web3Builders #Starbase #CryptoLondon
🎤 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 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
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
