11/25/25 Uplink Community AMA

Summary of Discord AMA, November 25th, 2025.

Uplink participants:

• Claudia Olah, CMO

• Mike Post, Community Manager

Thank you to all of the community members who attended! [AMA begins]

Mike: Welcome, everyone, to another Uplink community AMA! Thank you all for being here. First off, I’d like to do my usual thank-yous; I should do them now because I sometimes forget otherwise, then end up doing them in the middle of the AMA instead! First off, a big shout out to our community moderators, tranminhdat, NAEL, azureblue, and Edgar, who do a lot to keep the lights on around here. We couldn’t do it without you! Also to our ambassadors for all you do, whether in the community or toward spreading the word about Uplink on social media and beyond. We're always taking applications for the ambassador program. We typically try to select a few each month. So if you're interested, check out the ambassador info channel you find that's in the resources section. And finally, a big thank you to everyone else for being part of the Uplink community!I’m here today with Claudia Olah, Uplink’s CMO. Claudia, is anything else you'd like to go over before we kick it off here?Claudia: Just a summary of what we're going to be talking about today. I know a lot of you who have been with us for a while have been wondering what's next. We want to address all of that today and also kind of tell you guys what we've been focusing on and give you as much information as possible, and to get you excited for what's coming in the next few months, or maybe just a month or two depending on when we can finalize everything and get the word out there. So there's a lot to update you guys on, and we're going to try to do our best to update you with the information that we're allowed to share. When we are able to share all the information later on, you’ll completely understand what we've been doing throughout 2025! It's been very exciting.

Mike: It has been exciting, and we are very much looking forward to sharing that information when we're able to.

Let's get rolling with the questions! We’ll first answer the question that we probably receive most frequently, and which any project in our position receives most frequently, which is when TGE? We always keep this information updated in the project FAQ channel. At this point, we’re currently targeting early 2026, but this date, of course, as for any project’s TGE plans, is an estimate that’s going to be subject to change based on development timelines and market conditions. We wish we could give our community a set date, of course; any project does. But these things are always fungible and there are also plenty of details that we’re legally unable to share at this time. Again, this is the case for the vast majority of projects looking forward to a token launch. We’ll share more details when we release the whitepaper before TGE. And also anything about a potential airdrop. It's not a matter of us not wanting to share; it’s that we’re legally prohibited from doing so at this time. As soon as we have any details, our community is the first to know, and we'll share them with you as early as we can. You guys will always have the latest news first.

Claudia: Another question was if there's any update or sneak peak at the tokenomics. Basically, the core structure of how we built the ULX token is based on the telecommunication business model, and it does have the ULX token centered throughout the entire platform, but we also have a credit system on-platform that allows you to purchase data. So these will both kind of simultaneously work together in our token economy. But any update on this is going to be released in the whitepaper we plan on sharing prior to TGE. We're redoing a lot of the documentation that we have that's already out there. You guys see the Uplink docs, we have the litepaper, and a lot of these are just really evolving documents. So we're planning to have kind of a new look and a bunch more documentation for you guys in Q1 to give you more information. And the whitepaper is really going to clear up a lot of this information for you guys. So yeah, very excited to release the whitepaper next year.

Mike: Another question: what are the mechanisms that are in place to prevent early dumps and encourage staking usage or reinvestment? Basically, enterprise and real on-chain platform movement is our priority. A lot of TGEs fail because they use the TGE to raise money; supply is just sold to investors and treasury sold to markets, and that means massive sell pressure when things go badly. We have no plans to do anything like that. We plan to build a sustainable ecosystem here. So ours is going to look like a cyclical buying structure from enterprise demand and existing router supply, to make it useful and allow a community and key earners to earn from it. We are looking at a long-term growth mindset here for this network to be around for a very, very long time, ideally until the sun explodes.

Claudia: Well said, Mike!

Mike: Well, technically not until the sun explodes. As it turns into a red dwarf, it'll grow to envelop the Earth, and at that point the network might have issues provided that we haven't moved it first to farther out in the solar system.

Claudia: And I know you guys have been waiting for TGE. We originally targeted the second half of this year for it. That was the goal. But we've been really focused on the enterprise platform, namely building out the enterprise platform, which is really important because it's going to add that enterprise demand, connecting that with supply and rallying real use for the token once it launches. This is the most important thing, that we're here for the long term, and I think that kind of the key point is that our key priority for the token is to make it useful on-chain so that it's here for the long term and the growth will naturally come. The next question I think actually is for you, Mike. What can you tell us about how the airdrop mechanism plays a role in building the initial ecosystem? We had multiple questions about a potential airdrop.

Mike: Yes. We’ll consolidate all of the answers into an answer to one of the questions we received: what can you tell us about how the airdrop mechanism plays a role in building the initial ecosystem, attracting organic users and ensuring that community participation goes beyond reward seeking and contributes to the platform's growth? First of all, that's a great question. And it's another one on which we wish we could give super detailed information, but anything regarding a potential airdrop has to wait to get past the standard legal implications. So as always, whenever we have more information, we'll share it with the community first. We can certainly say regarding any potential airdrop that community members who are directly contributing to building the Uplink community brand and ecosystem will be rewarded prior to TGE.

Claudia: Alright, now let’s get to some tech questions!

Mike: Now into tech questions. Thank you as always to everybody who submitted questions; we got some particularly good ones this time. Claudia and I spent a while looking at them and discussing them yesterday. Most of these I'm going to kick over to Claudia. So first off, what challenges on the technical side have been the toughest recently and how are we approaching those?

Claudia:What we're building is not easy. Everything that we're building is completely new. We're tapping into existing infrastructure, connecting all of it onto one platform. That is a lot of work. So it's a constant challenge. I'm not going to lie, that's why we've been working at this basically all year. But it's something that our team has been working successfully on. We first launched two years ago with the Fortune 500 company that we're working with, and now we're doing this groundbreaking implementation in a city that I cannot name yet – we’ll share as soon as we can! – and the tech is working. The enterprise side is doing really, really well. When we put any of these processes forward, our tech team is doing what normal tech teams do. We do research, then implementation, we adapt, we figure out the right path, and then we're able to execute within a few weeks. We have a great tech team. We've built up the tech team this year too, so we're able to move faster, and it's been really showing in the last maybe five months, six months. So we're really, really excited to share soon what we've been able to build and what our team has built.

Mike: Exciting times indeed! Yeah, this is something that happens to any ambitious project. You start with an ambitious vision and then you say, well, I want to add this, or one of your potential big enterprise customers says, well, we'd like you to add that. And so your vision just grows and grows, and it's a good problem to have, but it does extend the timetable.

Claudia: The development process has been about delivering the core things that telecommunication companies and enterprises in the telecommunication space have wanted and no other project has been able to deliver yet. That's kind of the most I can share right now. But we've been able to deliver two of those core things so far, and then we should have another coming month or two. So we are really almost there. It's on the horizon. And once this is complete, we’ll have testnet launch and then we’ll be gearing up for mainnet and TGE, which will be not long afterward. So we are really, really close and we're really excited to be this close. Once we have actual dates that we can share with you guys, we will share them with the community first.

Mike: Indeed. Alright, moving on to the next one: what are the biggest DePIN challenges Uplink faced and how will they be addressed? For those of you unfamiliar the term DEPIN, it stands for decentralized physical infrastructure.

Claudia: So actually most of the challenges we’ve faced were building the actual product. Our platform is a marketplace for the tools and solutions that we provide. Not every aspect of that is going to be on-chain, but the parts that are on-chain are going to be really cool. I don't know how to say that any other way. It's not just going to be a mirror of activities, so it's going to be really, really, really awesome. We are chiefly focused on the actual product itself and making sure that we get this a hundred percent. That's part of why it’s been taking longer than expected: because we’re doing a lot of due diligence, a lot of implementations just to make sure it's done completely right because we have such large partners, not just with the Fortune 500 company, but also the other partners that we've been working with. So there's a lot of pressure to make sure things are done correctly the first time. And then as far as other DePIN challenges, we have a strong partnership with Avalanche, which a lot of you are aware of. We're the first DePIN project to launch on their platform. So we have a ton of support from them and we trust that they will help us through any DePIN challenges that we might have going forward. The 9000 upgrade makes it a lot easier.

Mike: Yeah, Avalanche is awesome. Building on Avalanche is awesome.

Claudia: They make it easy for companies like us and for enterprises. That's a big reason why we we’re building on Avalanche.

Mike: Onto the next one. Great answer, Claudia. So of course one of our advantages in Web3 is scalability that's often lacking in traditional Web2. What are the long-term scalability plans for Uplink’s decentralized wireless network, especially when we're onboarding millions of routers from various regions with different infrastructure reliability, and how are we going to be ensuring uptime and that scalability along with security as the network grows?

Claudia: Right. This is a great question. The questions this time were phenomenal. The main thing I can say about our long-term scalability plans and how we're onboarding millions is that we’re doing so slowly and carefully at first, which is why we've been working on the enterprise platform for an entire year, this entire year, the wireless networks, we already have a gold standard. So if you think of the WBA and think about telecommunication companies, you can be unconcerned about what's happening with your data because there's a gold standard of security and uptime. And in order to do our job and to make sure that we can grow at scale and at that level, we have to meet them at that level, which is why we did 18 months of due diligence with the Fortune 500 company that we partnered with prior to signing a global contract with them. We had to complete this in order to sign the global contract. We signed a global contract late last year, if I’m remembering correctly. I think that was the announcement before we came into the new year.

Scalability as a network would be largely dependent on the Uplink platform itself and the blockchain partners we have, which is why we chose Avalanche. So when we total all of these things, we have this gold standard of connectivity that we're going to provide and we also have the blockchain that's going to help us as well. So it's really like a recipe for success.

Mike: Yeah. Next question: what offline or low-bandwidth solutions are we building for users in connectivity deserts, areas with very, very low connectivity, as this will help the project gets to a wider reach without having to be limited to western countries, and instead be able to extend into more countries? Uplink has to take over the globe! Absolutely agree.

Claudia: Yeah, that's the goal. Just kidding. So we already actually have deployed routers and solutions for routers in an entire country in South America. We're very familiar with this issue and we saw that enterprises needed better connectivity to gain more customer retention, better bandwidth in areas where it's needed and where they didn’t really have it previously. Think like remote jungles and villages and areas like that. So we've done this before and because we're able to utilize existing infrastructure that was already out there and connect it onto one platform, we were able to increase these numbers significantly, which is represented by some of the numbers that you can see on our website right now. So we are able to do this and we proved that we're able to do this about two years ago, which is very helpful. That experience is going to help us do this on a large scale across everywhere, anywhere that actually needs connectivity, where there's enterprise demand. Usually, telecommunication companies are like, Hey, this is where we have poor service, we need more connectivity, answer’ll pay you for it. That’s actually why we created the Surge feature on our platform: because it’ll allow us to incentivize the community to deploy connectivity in areas of need.

It also means an enterprise of routers. There are a lot of companies that have come to us who have hundreds of routers and they would like to become part of the network as well. Think like the WBA; we've got three million routers through them. Think, for example, like city halls or people who have routers all over a city. Those are the type of routers also that would be considered the supply that's going to help bring the connection and the usability and make the quality of service better for everybody, and provide a service that a lot of enterprise and telecommunication companies will pay for.

Mike: Indeed. And then the last one: there were reports of issues with points loading on the app and the web portal due to bugs. What steps being taken to resolve this? So just some quick background. We're absolutely aware of some intermittent issues with the platform. It's extremely helpful when you guys report them. Thank you. It's most useful if you open a ticket just with your Uplink nickname, just so we have as much information as possible. These are all frontend issues, meaning that they only concern the display. None of these have anything to do with the data stored on the backend; that's always correct and safe. Early on, we made the decision to utilize a partner to build the frontend of our community points platform. That partner gathers limited information from our core platform; we manage the backend in its entirety. On rare occasion, that frontend develops issues with displaying points information from the backend, We hear about it from you guys, and the team gets in touch with the partner to have it fixed as quickly as possible. After the expansion of the enterprise platform and the launch of testnet, we plan to update the entire app and the points platform. Those issues should come to an absolute halt at that point.

Claudia: Yeah, this will not be forever. Let's say it that way. This is a temporary situation for right now while we're working on the enterprise platform. We try to have our partner solve these issues as quickly as possible, like Mike said. It is no reflection of what we've actually built on the core platform itself where points are concerned; all the frontend does is fetch the points for display. If you have any questions about who our partners are or anything else regarding that, please put them in the chat and we will go over any of them.

Mike: Thankfully, they're very intermittent issues, but we understand it's a little bit jarring when it comes up and the app suddenly tells you that you’ve got zero points. Keep in mind that your points are always safe on the backend, which is operated exclusively by Uplink. Okay, so let's move on to some marketing-related questions.

Claudia: I'll ask the question! In a highly competitive ecosystem, having a great product isn't enough without a clear growth strategy. What is Uplink’s strategy for increasing user adoption, building collaborations with other projects, and expanding community outreach?

Mike: Great question. So marketing obviously is extremely important, but it’s nothing without a good product, and the Uplink platform and our mission really speaks for itself. That said, at the end of the day, we're a decentralized marketplace and we are always looking to collaborate with more projects and to bring on more solutions. Our advisors, investors, and connections within the DePIN and telecommunication space are always feeding us new partnerships and alliances to be part of. But we also receive a lot of good opportunities through the community, from people who connect us with potential partnerships, for which we are super grateful. So please keep them coming, whether they’re connections or simply ideas. For example, Mike, Claudia, we think it'd be great if you spoke with project A or project B, because they could be a really great fit either just for marketing or also for what you're building in terms of the platform itself. It's always super valuable feedback, so please get in touch.

Claudia: I love all the feedback and I love all the connections you guys send us, so please send more.

Mike: Yeah, for sure. I mean, you guys are all part of this. If you ever have any thoughts for us, any thoughts on things you think we should do, ways in which you think we should improve, really anything, don't be shy, please. Whether it's just pinging me on the server, opening a ticket, whatever else, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.

Claudia: Just to add a little onto that, an example is the GEODNET collab that we had in Japan and Korea. It’s an example of a collab in which another project can offer the community something and we can simultaneously target specific areas through Surge. That's the best type of marketing partnership. We can actually give the community a lot from that, and we're able to do something that a lot of platforms can't do right now. So that's a big one.

Mike: Yeah. Now this is an interesting question and yeah, it's something that'll probably expand upon further now that somebody asked it: what inspired the creation of Uplink? I'd love to of course hear more of Carlos talking about that. It’s Something he's super passionate about.

Claudia: Carlos has talked about this on camera a few times, one of which was on the NASDAQ floor. As for the story itself, Uplink was created by two founders, our CTO and our CEO, Carlos Lei. They originally come from Porto, which they call a mesh valley. At one point, they were building software solutions for telecommunication companies in the form of mesh networks, and they were at a hotel and wanted to connect to wifi, but the available wifi was terrible. They realized that they could gain far better connectivity by connecting the wifi to the cell tower outside of the hotel suite. But they weren’t able to, because it was a different company than the router that was provided in the hotel.

So that's kind of how this whole idea came to surface: why can't I connect to all existing infrastructure that's already out there? The Uplink name itself came from this idea of linking up to the stars, connecting to anything that's out there. And it came from a vision of one of our late advisors who unfortunately passed away, who was a really close friend of Carlos. So that’s a short version of the story. And Uplink really aims in solving connectivity issues with a decentralized marketplace for tools and solutions. So it does kind of come full circle when you think of it that way.

Mike: Indeed and yeah. Okay, those are all the questions in that category.

Claudia: Sorry guys, we're going really fast. There's just a lot of questions.

Mike: Next question: over the next 12 months, what specific milestones beyond just user and registered router counts does the team believe will clearly demonstrate Uplink’s differentiation and superiority compared to other competing DePIN projects?

Claudia: I really love this question. We're entirely focused on our enterprise partners and real revenue. That doesn't mean the community doesn’t come first, and it doesn't mean telecommunication and connectivity doesn't come first, but in order to deliver all of the things that we've said that we're delivering, we need to prioritize the enterprises, which is the demand that's actually going to pay out the community and pay out the supply and the real revenue that's going to be generating from these enterprises. So those go hand in hand. That's our main focus right now. We've proven the tech, we've reached the phase at which the tech actually works, and now it's just about scaling as fast as humanly possible, and it's exciting that we can actually speak about this now.

In March, we launched the app and began the registration phase, which has helped show us where the community will be able to provide connectivity. I think we're at almost 4.5 million routers today. That's crazy exciting. Right now, we are in a phase at which our tech is mature and we're focused on revenue and growth and scalability, and that's super, super exciting and it really sets us apart from a lot of DePIN projects, especially when you look at a lot of projects that haven’t generated any revenue until after they launched a token. We aren't prioritizing that. We aren't trying to be that. We’re trying to be a marketplace for telecommunication from the beginning, from the get go. And that's why we prioritized that this year. And that's why our TGE has been pushed back. Once we achieve this, we can actually open up the tech to everyone, and that's really our goal right now. It’s a really exciting time right now. The numbers that we're seeing from the contracts that we already have in place, I'm trying to be very careful of my language here, are already fantastic.

So it's a very exciting time for Uplink and I can't wait to share with you guys. There will be some really big announcements coming in the near future, and once you hear them, you'll understand why we're so excited. There are a ton of use cases that will be coming out of this, and we can't wait to share them with you guys. And then the Fortune 500 company’s name will be revealed. We'll be able to tell you more about that too after we share the use cases. By the way, I am confirming that we have the Fortune 500 global contract along with a bunch of other contracts as well. So yeah, there's a lot going on in the company right now and we're just really excited to have this sustainable revenue and growth that Uplink needs.

Think about all of the existing infrastructure that's out there in the world and that we'll be able to tap into that. That is massive. That is going to completely upend the telecommunication space. We want to be super inclusive. We don't want to be superior; we want to connect everyone. We want to be that marketplace where everyone can come and find a solution that works and you're seamlessly connected and have a great quality of service. That's the goal. If you're already investing in a router, you’ll be able to offset a lot of that cost by participating in the Uplink network. And that's our minimum goal.

Mike: Oh, that's a great answer. Better than I could have done, for sure. I think your passion for the vision really shines through there. So the next question: how will Uplink maintain sustainable rewards as the network grows and user participation increases? I'll take this one. Right now, our rewards are entirely based on building the ecosystem: that's registering routers, that's referring more people to the platform, that's participating in events and on social media. Once the network is live, this is going to change, and key contributors will be rewarded, and rewards will be based upon network growth and sustainability. That, too, will be further explained in our whitepaper, which will be released ahead of TGE.

Claudia: Yes. I can’t wait for the whitepaper. We had a version of the whitepaper written earlier this year, but it was too vague. Now we can be completely specific on how we're building what we're building. We know what it is, how it's going to work, and how to incorporate it in the entire ecosystem and make it scale. We can refine the existing whitepaper before it becomes public and get a lot more clearer about how we're building what we're building. So it's going to be exciting when you guys see it.

Mike: So, moving on: what key objectives and performance are prioritized to evaluate the availability and reliability of the network throughout the project lifecycle?

Claudia: Our tokenomics and our entire system is built on a three-proof system. We've talked about this in earlier interviews like last year, maybe the year before, more information regarding the weight of the rewards, ensuring performance stability and uptime will be shared on the whitepaper regarding this three-proof system.

Mike: And this is one we get a lot: where do you see the project one year from now?

Claudia: I see Uplink completely transforming the telecommunication industry as we know it. We're very close. There are government entities already even talking about the stuff that we can do. So it is very, very exciting and we're really close. But yeah, definitely a year from now we will be completely transforming the telecommunication industry, which is great to say.

Mike: For sure. And what is the long-term vision for the protocol and its role in the DePIN space?

Claudia: We want to be the decentralized marketplace for connectivity solutions. That means working with every project and with hardware and software solutions that are available to solve these gaps in the market and to solve those gaps geographically. So much of what we're solving has never been done before.

Mike: Right on. Alright. Some ecosystem questions. Can businesses or working spaces participate and earn at larger scale? Yes, absolutely. We encourage it. And if you know of somebody who's interested, please have them reach out to us by email at [e-mail] or just open a ticket and we'll take the information. We're very appreciative of these connects. These are extremely helpful. Next question: Claudia, can you give us an update on the business side of the Uplink platform?

Claudia: We have some really big partnerships. This is not including the Fortune 500 company that we already have a global partnership with. We haven't released the name, and we know we keep saying shortly, but we will be sharing the news of this prior to TGE. We’ve closed the terms of the agreement, we’ve signed the agreement, terms need to be established and then that's pretty much done. We’ve got a bunch of new partnerships in the pipeline. That's an entire city that we can't be specific about just yet, but it's a very large partnership and we have a bunch in the pipeline after that once we close out this pilot. The pilot is already in the works, and it's been super successful.

People are very excited to see the results from what we've been able to build in the pilot. And once we can share this information, we will share it in a case study so you guys can learn more about it, and we'll explain it on socials so that you guys can understand what exactly it means. And our hope is to have a bunch more already generating revenue before we actually announce it. There are a lot of big announcements coming.

Mike: Absolutely there are. So our next question: I know Uplink wants to be the marketplace for connectivity, tools and solutions. Can you elaborate on that vision? Who will be the supplier and who will be the consumer and also how much of that vision is complete? Another a great question.

Claudia: Yes, that's a great question. We lean on the software side of connectivity solutions. So that's where our company started with the mesh network, et cetera. On the supply side, we have not only the community, which is you guys registering routers at home, but also large scale router providers that already exist. So think McDonald's, Starbucks, coworking spaces, like the question that we answered earlier. On the demand side, we have enterprises that need connectivity. So think of any company that needs to connect for anything, and telcos and et cetera. We've received a lot of interest on the supply side in the community, in the form of registered routers, and with partnerships like the WBA, which already granted us access to three million verified routers across the world. And that's just with one partnership. On the device side, we have built out the platform.

We're already testing it in an entire city, like I've said, and with some very large partners. So now it's just really all about scaling and growth and additional revenue and building testnet to connect the supply and the demand. So now you can see full scale, we built out the supply with you guys and with WBA and other enterprise partners of routers. We’re still building that, but that was the core build, the foundation build. Now we have the enterprise platform side, which is the one we're doing both in the city I mentioned and with other partners. And then it's about connecting these two so that supply and demand could actually be earning from each other simultaneously. We've proven it on a small scale, but large-scale connection of them is going to be pretty easy. And then putting it on testnet.

So actually doing all of this, connecting them, and putting it on testnet is going to be a simultaneous build for us. So it's really, really close on the horizon. And then once we do this, we can go deeper into the community side, which is on the supply side, the registered router side of the platform, which involves improving the app by building solutions that directly include the community-registered routers. Turning those registered routers into verified routers will be a big, big win and will get you guys earning on the platform as well. So it's not just these already verified routers – we also need to verify all the routers that you guys have registered on the network too. So we will be building this out not only from our team, but also from the help of the community. And it's going to be a team effort. I’m very excited for this stage that we're in right now.

Mike: Speaking of the stage we're in right now, another question, when will testnet launch and how long will it last before mainnet? Testnet is pretty close on the horizon. We’re excited to say that we just need to finalize one piece of the enterprise platform before we secure and announce a date. But we are very close to being ready for testnet, and then hopefully mainnets.. Of course, you never know with testnet; the idea is to work out all the bugs and ensure the platform is 100% ready. But we'll have more information to share closer to when we announce testnet launch.

Claudia: And we do have an internal date for this. It's very, very soon. We'll know more after the holidays and we'll hopefully be able to share an actual date with you guys soon after that.

Mike: Absolutely. What new app features can we look forward to next year?

Claudia: The plan for the app is to look at it with very fresh eyes in 2026. The goal of the app is to connect with our enterprise platform so that the routers can begin earning on-chain. There are a few features that we have promised to the community that have been on hold for obvious reasons, but they're still very much on the agenda. For example, we've talked about scanning, which is much like Pokemon Go. That is still a huge priority for us, alongside some other app features. It’ll be a very large update that also addresses some usability concerns that users have intermittently experienced. But this will have to wait until we can actually update the entire app. This will come at some point after Testnet,when we're hopefully gearing up towards TGE. That's the plan right now. We’ll let you know as soon as we have more information.

Mike: Speaking of technical updates, when are we planning on releasing an updated technical roadmap?

Claudia: We're working on updating the roadmap right now. As you can probably tell, there are a lot of moving parts and we want to finalize a few things before we release a new roadmap regarding that. All of our documentation will be updated shortly. We can't wait to release all of this to you guys so you can have a better picture of what we're building, how we built it, and what the upcoming months will look like. We just need to finalize a few of these items before we go into 2026. So there will be a very much improved, very more transparent Uplink in 2026, I promise.

Mike: A quick question about finance: how much have we raised at this point?

Claudia: We raised $10 million in 2024 in a round led by Framework Venture. We are in the middle of a new round right now since earlier this year. And we should have an update for this most likely early next year. We are currently planning on closing this out in quarter one. We’re waiting before finalizing this round to see what's going on with the market and where the company stands after we figure out these revenue stream numbers.

Mike: Next, we've got a couple of questions about the NFT here. And we're just thrilled that how enthusiastic you guys are about the NFTs. First question: the Uplink NFT has six distinct parts; we've arrived at version two, which was released at the end of October, and I'd like to know the upcoming distribution plan, specifically the community event schedule. To answer this: we haven't planned out the entire community event schedule through to version six of the NFT. We don’t plan quite that far in advance. The idea is to give the community consistent opportunities to earn these. And if any of you have any ideas about events you'd like to see – for example, we think it'd be really cool for you to hold this sort of contest or that sort of contest or we can play these other games – then please let us know, because really we want to tailor these events to the community. So if you have ideas, just open a ticket. We'd love to hear them. We want to make this as community driven as possible, all of it. Next up: what are the benefits of your NFT? Can you provide more details about Uplink’s future plans regarding the NFT holders? At this point, we don't have plans to add any utility to the Uplink Community NFT series. You never know, things could change. But at this point, we have no plans to do so.

Finally, will we be launching more NFTs in the future? Hard to say. You never know when it might be useful to have a different series that does have on-platform utility. So it's always a possibility. It's nothing we've planned out quite yet. Claudia, here’s a question about Surge, presumably from a member of our community in Brazil: could we have a surge event in Brazil at some point?

Claudia: Absolutely! If you check on our Twitter, we actually hold polls regularly to gauge interest from the community on Surge. Right now, our Surge is completely marketing related, because it's not a full implementation of where we need connectivity solutions for enterprise or telcos. It’s currently a simulation of what Surge will look like when the platform guys live. Anywhere that you guys would like to see Surge, we could potentially implement an event there. A better pull for it is if, let's say, a company in Brazil wants to offer something for targeting a specific region in Brazil, like we did with GEODNET, we could potentially target some cities in Brazil, activate Surge there and give something away to the community in those areas too. We like to prioritize these types of campaigns with you guys to give you guys some additional rewards beyond just points in Surge events. But we do also activate Surge for specific community events or community interests right now. So just follow our Twitter and we will be sure to share more information about Surge there.

Mike: And just to clarify, because I know there have been some questions about this: Surge is ultimately, when the platform launches fully, going to be driven by connectivity needs, and will provide additional rewards for providing real connectivity where the network needs it most. Right now, it’s just a simulation, so we just give additional points to routers registered in a Surge area. Next question: how is the community actually contributing to the network at this point? The network isn't live right now. Registered routers basically equate to interest in contributing to the network once it goes live.

Another one: is it possible to organize groups using an app? On my phone, for example, I create a group, my friends join it and we get a boost in points. I think this is about referrals. You can just do referrals directly through the app. I understand the question is asking if one can bulk refer people? We'll look into adding that functionality later, development timeline permitting. But at this point you can just do it directly through the app. Just have your friends, family members, acquaintances, people you meet on the street, or whoever else sign up for the Uplink app through your referral link and you will get a percentage of the points that they earn and that their referrals earn and that their referrals’ referrals earn. Here's a fun one, Claudia: can one become the wifi whale of my area or is the title reserved for somebody with a certain number of routers?

Claudia: Yeah, wifi whale would be hilarious. What we said from the start about earning through our platform, especially when the network goes live, is earning from your excess router bandwidth. So will that pay for your salary rent? Depends on the need of the network, how many routers you own, a variety of factors. Uplink is not promising any of this, but we do promise to reward our early contributors for helping us build the ecosystem. So keep that in mind. More information about how much you'll earn per router in the location that you're at will be shared with the community from our whitepaper and you can calculate it out that way. I don't know if personally I would be able to calculate it out that way. I see it more as a beneficial passive income for something I've already invested. So I've already invested in my router, I'm already paying for this every single month and Uplink will help offset my costs, and that's me as one person owning one router.

Mike: Indeed. And the last of our pre-submitted questions: will there be upcoming social missions on the Uplink app?

Claudia: Yeah, always. We regularly update missions on the Uplink app with our upcoming announcement news. When we put out a press release, we put it as a mission on the app. We do this because we want to get the community involved in what we're doing. So check regularly on the portal or the Uplink app for new missions! That is the only place you're going to find them; we don’t post about it on Discord or Twitter. If that's something you'd want to see, please put it in the comments. Speaking of socials, there is a social question for you, Mike: I think we need more active and discord, more karaoke game to connect everyone. What do you say about that, Mike?

Mike: We're always appreciative of ideas for new events. There are always some considerations where types of games are concerned. We want these to be events that are equally accessible to everybody. We are thrilled to have a very international community, with people from all around the world. The international character of the community means that some events that rely too much on being fluent in a given language are unfair and therefore less practical. We want our events to be equally accessible to everyone. We always love to hear your ideas. We'll do whatever we can to make them work. We want our events to be community-driven.

Claudia: Mike is looking into games in addition to poker that everyone can play.****We know that poker is very popular, but some variety could be nice for those who might not enjoy poker.

Mike: I’ve got something in the works. Another question: Mike, when are you showing your face in the AMA? I believe we agreed that that would be when we announced the TGE date. I actually did buy a snazzy new webcam recently to replace my old one from 2017. To answer the rest of the question: I'm not sure that I can promise to marry your sister at that point. But the face reveal, absolutely.

Claudia: Yeah. The face reveal will come when we release TGE date, don't forget. So when you see Mike's face, what's coming?

Mike: Indeed. Next question: when will the wallet connection and on-chain event tracking features be fully functional?

Claudia: On-chain event tracking will go live when we launch testnet. As for wallet features, I’ll need to ask the tech team; it’s not that we don’t know, but rather just that I don’t know. We will have this on a roadmap for you guys so that you'll know the order of events that things are happening in, because we do have a clear idea of this now. So yeah, please stay tuned for a lot of those answers. But the answers are coming. They're coming very soon. There was someone who put a really thoughtful response in here. It talked about how we should upgrade the interface and bring a more satisfying experience to users.

I absolutely agree. It's better to change it now for later and to fix some of the bugs. I absolutely agree. As I mentioned, we partnered with another company to create the app frontend. The idea of this was to have a point system that could get you guys involved and start earning for potential rewards right before TGE, but it's been obviously a more prolonged development cycle than we had planned. And we've had a lot of data use on the platform and that has caused a lot of the problems that you have seen – they’ve been from our partner changing cloud providers or making other infrastructure changes to accommodate the data. We’ve been on top of these issues as soon as we’ve become aware of them, but we must wait for the partner to fix them; they’re outside of the actual Uplink platform.

When issues do arise in the platform itself, we typically fix it within an hour. Our backend is working extremely well, and we can see that all of your points are there exactly how they should be. So if the front end is not showing you or displaying the points that you have earned, please open a ticket with us. We want to be able to have as much information as possible to hand to our partner as they work to fix the frontend.

But as I’ve said, this is a short-term solution. Once our tokenomics are active on the platform, this will no longer be an issue, because the frontend will no longer be necessary. In the meantime, we apologize for any issues you’ve endured. In a perfect world, you guys would have a seamless experience and never have any problems with the app, and we wouldn't have to deal with any issues. But that's just not a perfect world. We're in a startup and this is the reality at this point in the development process.

Mike: We do our best and the quicker we hear about it from you guys, the faster we can deal with it. But in the future, if you ever log in and you see that your points aren't displaying, be aware that this is always a frontend issue. We handle the backend and your data is always safe.

Claudia: I will say regarding points, it's not really a question, but just a reminder, if you are earning points from routers that aren't actually routers, like hotspot devices, et cetera, and you found a loophole in the system, those routers will not count toward pre-TGE rewards.

Mike: Yeah, we're going to have very robust measures in place to ensure the integrity of the point system prior to TGE. On any system like this, there are going to be people who find loopholes. Anyone who exploits them will not receive rewards.

Claudia: I do want to say one thing because people are hearing early 2026 and are assuming that's Q1 or January: it’s not going to be in January. It’s a terrible month to hold a TGE, and everyone's going to be on vacation through the early stages of it, so that is not happening. But we are hoping for early 2026, and as soon as we have the date for that, we'll let you know well before the date itself. We can’t say that it’ll be in quarter one for sure. That would be great. But early 2026 is what we're currently aiming for.

Mike: Another question: how do we envision the future of interoperability across blockchains? I'm not sure if that refers to whether or not we will be on other blockchains. And also what makes us fundamentally different from the other data and connectivity networks? I think the first question refers to whether or not we'll be on other blockchains. The answer is yes.

Claudia: Ultimately. Yeah, the answer is yes. We're starting with Avalanche, but we don’t plan to be exclusive to Avalanche. We plan to be fully interoperable, not just on routers hardware, software, and every device that’s currently out there, but also on blockchains.

As for what makes us different, I think that the biggest impact statement is existing infrastructure. We’re not limited to convincing a community to purchase hardware in order to connect. We’ll be able to connect to any piece of existing infrastructure. That's the goal. The potential of that is huge in terms of what we can connect with and how easy it will be for people to connect on our platform.

Mike: Another question: are we on track with the timeline? We covered this early on in the AMA, but especially with projects as expansive as this one, it’s hard to start out and say that we’ll definitely have this all worked out by a certain date. That’s a lot easier if you’re doing something that’s very simple. But when you're building something that's never been created before, that's much less applicable of a concept. And also when you have our business considerations of telecom companies and of enterprise partners coming in and saying, We'd like you to add these features, that's going to extend your timeline a little bit, because it’s essential to the platform that we do so. As a result, we never really had a strict timeline, given those things in mind, but as Claudia has noted, we've got some really exciting announcements coming up where the tech is concerned.

Claudia: Earlier this year, we did plan fullheartedly on doing major app updates. But then we got into the core of what we're building and what we need at the enterprise level. We realized we really needed to prioritize that. But unfortunately, that's not something tangible that you guys can see right now until we release it. Building that has been our priority in 2025.

Mike: Absolutely. And I love this question: what can people do to contribute more to the project? Register more routers, refer more friends, family members, strangers, whoever. If you have people you think we should be in touch with for partnerships, or connectivity companies, let us know. Participate on social media; interact with our posts on Twitter. Be active here in our Discord community. Apply for the ambassador program; we can’t select everybody for the program, and we're continuing to grow it slowly. But our ambassadors are a huge part of things. We really appreciate them and everything they do.

The final question is, basically, what are the biggest risks that we anticipate? That’s a tough one – you never know what’s going to arise in this industry. You’ve got to deal with it as it comes.

Claudia: I’m not sure at this point. Right now, we’re laser focused on building. And almost nothing else matters. People need telecommunication. That's something that we know we need to be able to connect. We need to be able to be online. We live in a very online world right now, and that is not going to change. But the way that we connect is going to need to change, given the amount of data that we are consuming. We're not just watching videos online anymore. We are actively using AI. We are actively needing smarter, more efficient systems, and telecommunication companies can't keep up. And that's a reality, that's a fact and that's not going to change. So because of that, we do have a really strong purpose, and that’s going to remain the case.

The need will be there, the demand will be there, the supply is there. So I suppose that the risks are those that all Web3 projects are focused on: market conditions, making sure the platform is sound, making sure that we have a cyclical economy before we even launch a token. We have revenues already on-chain providing connectivity and demanding connectivity. So that is why we focus the way that we do. Few of the tokens that launched in 2025 showed much promise. It’s been a little while since we’ve been in a bull market. Bitcoin has gone up, but most other tokens have not followed. But really none of that has anything to do with us leading into 2026. We are laser focused on enterprise, we're laser focused on our telecommunication platform, and that's really all that matters. There is a huge need and there always will be a need. So think of that.

Mike: Absolutely. So with that, we’re going to conclude today’s AMA. Thank you all so much for coming. We definitely set an attendance record today. We are very grateful for your attention, your enthusiasm, your support. We know there are a billion other projects there you could be giving your time and attention to. We're very honored and appreciative that it's us, and we are really looking forward to justifying your confidence in us. Thank you for being part of the community! We’ll catch you in the next AMA.

**Claudia:**Thanks, everyone!

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