Dear Uplink Community,

This was the year everything clicked. In 2025, Uplink didn’t just grow, we executed. What started as momentum in 2024 became conviction, scale, and proof. Much of what defined this year happened quietly, behind the scenes, but its impact is now impossible to ignore. We didn’t take the easy path. We veered off course deep into the unknown, and built something that hadn’t existed before.

And, most importantly - it is working.

Early this year, we launched the Uplink App. Within the first week, more than 40,000 routers were registered globally. That moment set the tone for everything that followed. By the end of the year, we surpassed 5 million registered routers worldwide, far beyond what we had projected. This growth didn’t come from incentives alone. It came from belief. Belief in the idea that the infrastructure already exists, and that people want to participate in building a better, more resilient network.

While the community was growing rapidly, our team was focused on building what had to work at scale. We expanded our technical organization by over 25%, aligned our product and engineering efforts, and focused relentlessly on turning a complex vision into a system that works in the real world. The technology matured. The platform hardened. The impossible became operational.

At the same time, our work with enterprise partners accelerated globally. What began in Latin America started extending well beyond it, bringing us closer to our goal of supporting connectivity at a truly global scale. We also closed an exceptionally successful city-wide pilot with a leading telecom partner. The results exceeded expectations and confirmed what we’ve believed from the beginning: decentralized connectivity with existing infrastructure can perform at enterprise level.

As I’ve said before, the technology is now mature. Our focus has shifted to real revenue and real growth. The next step is testnet our Token Generation Event (TGE), which we expect early next year. That moment marks when the network goes fully live and we open it up to the world. From there, it’s about scale, sustainability, and impact.

Throughout the year, what we’ve been building started to resonate beyond our ecosystem. Uplink was featured in publications such as Forbes, Cointelegraph, CoinDesk, Benzinga, and BeInCrypto. This wasn’t about attention. It was about validation. Validation that the problem is real, and that the solution we’re building matters.

None of this would have been possible without the Uplink community, team, partners and investors. Every router registered, every conversation, every contribution helped move us forward and will bring us into our future development. The growth we saw this year belongs to you. You showed up. You believed early. And you helped turn an idea into infrastructure.

2024 was the year we built quietly. 2025 was the year it started to take off. And, 2026 will be the year we deliver on what once seemed impossible.

We can’t wait to show you what comes next and to share evidence and case studies on the progress we’ve had so far. Let’s just say, we’ll be starting off 2026 with a bang.

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Stay connected.

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Carlos Lei
CEO & Co-Founder, Uplink

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