One year ago, we launched the $2B Trust Project. Today, we’re sharing what that commitment has delivered 👇 ✅ First major crypto exchange to achieve SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 27701 & CCSS together ✅ MiCAR license secured in Austria ✅ 42+ consecutive monthly Proof of Reserves reports ✅ Stronger user protection with passkeys, Address Book Only withdrawals & AI-assisted security ops Trust isn’t a campaign. It’s infrastructure. Read the full $2B Trust Project Annual Review:

Kraken is deprecating its existing cross-chain provider and migrating to @Chainlink CCIP as its exclusive cross-chain infra to secure Kraken Wrapped Bitcoin (kBTC) & all future Kraken Wrapped Assets. Kraken chose Chainlink CCIP because it offers enterprise-grade infrastructure with strict security & risk management requirements, including: • ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 certifications • Secure by default architecture • 16 independent nodes • Native rate limits, and more. Together, Chainlink and Kraken can help accelerate the global adoption of crypto by unlocking utility and distribution for all Kraken Wrapped Assets across DeFi. For kBTC customers, no action is required. More details on the migration process to follow on official Kraken channels.

My 36th flight of 2025 was fram2. My 36th flight of 2026 is an Ultimate Aviation helicopter (ZS-RDW) flight from Icetugs Argus to Bouvet Island. This is my 1146th flight of all time. Bouvet Island (ISO 3166-2:BV) has become the 150th (of 249) country/territory I have visited. 🇧🇻

KRAKEN MIGRATES WRAPPED ASSET INFRASTRUCTURE TO CHAINLINK CCIP @krakenfx is officially deprecating its legacy cross-chain provider to integrate @Chainlink CCIP as the exclusive infrastructure for Kraken Wrapped Assets. This migration begins with $kBTC and will extend to all future tokenized products, enabling secure distribution across global DeFi markets. Kraken selected the CCIP standard to meet strict institutional risk management requirements, leveraging its ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 certifications.

🙏 LBankers, This week reflects a clear shift in how we scale, not just through product and markets, but through culture, interaction, and long-term trust. Here is what we moved forward: 1️⃣ Nobody Sausage Partnership Goes Live 🌭🕺 We officially launched our strategic partnership with Nobody Sausage, bringing a new layer of culture into the LBank ecosystem. This was not a standard announcement. It was executed as a full-stack campaign across teaser content, official rollout, interactive experiences, and global PR. At the core, a simple idea, crypto does not have to be rigid. It can be expressive, chaotic, and engaging. From the mini-game activation to multi-platform distribution and media pickup across major outlets, the campaign created a closed loop from attention to participation. This is how we approach brand now, not just visibility, but interaction. 2️⃣ Bullet Comments Feature, Trading Becomes Social 💬 We introduced real-time bullet comments directly into the trading interface. Users can now share market views, react, and engage with others in real time, across languages. This is a meaningful step forward. Trading is no longer just execution, it becomes a shared experience. Information flows faster, sentiment becomes visible, and the platform becomes more alive. 3️⃣ Global Expansion, Sharper Execution 🌍 Across key markets, the focus remains clear, better structure, better conversion, stronger communities. We continued building KOL pipelines, strengthening partnerships, and preparing the next phase of user acquisition. At the same time, fiat onboarding campaigns and localized initiatives are improving how users enter and stay within the ecosystem. The direction is consistent, less fragmentation, more coordinated growth. 4️⃣ Asset Marketing at Scale ⚽ We launched Score Rush Fiesta with a $300,000 prize pool, combining crypto with global sports narratives. Campaigns like this are not only about rewards. They bring new users in, activate trading behavior, and connect LBank to broader global audiences. Distribution across social, communities, and media ensures both reach and depth. 5️⃣ Security, Reinforced Foundations 🔐 We shared an updated view of our security framework. 10 years, zero major incidents. Supported by: • $100M risk protection fund • ISO 27001 certification • Partnerships with CertiK, SlowMist, SumSub, and Elliptic Security is not a feature. It is the base layer that allows everything else to scale with confidence. We are building across multiple dimensions at once, product, culture, markets, and trust. That combination is what creates long-term momentum. Appreciate everyone building with us.💛🌭 #LBank# #Crypto# #Web3# #LBankWeekly#

Every time Google Maps gives you directions, your phone does this. 14,671 streets searched to find a single 2.3 km route across Naples. It's called Dijkstra, the undefeated king of shortest path since 1959. Until last month. For 66 years, every GPS, every flight booking, every internet packet route ran on the same algorithm. In 2024, Robert Tarjan and four co-authors won Best Paper at FOCS proving Dijkstra was optimal. The world's most-used algorithm, certified untouchable. Eight months later, a team at Tsinghua led by Ran Duan published a paper proving them wrong. The catch is in what "optimal" means. Tarjan's proof showed Dijkstra is the fastest possible algorithm IF you have to output every point sorted by distance. The Tsinghua group noticed something the field had quietly assumed for 41 years: finding the shortest path does not actually require that sorting. The problem just asks for the distances. They combined Bellman-Ford's batch updates with a recursive partial ordering trick from Duan's own 2023 paper. Instead of sorting the frontier, they cluster the boundary nodes and only explore the representatives. The new bound is O(m log^(2/3) n), beating the 1984 ceiling. Best Paper at STOC 2025. The reframe came before the algorithm. Tarjan did not prove Dijkstra was the best shortest path algorithm. He proved Dijkstra was the best sorted-output shortest path algorithm. The field treated those as the same problem for four decades. They are not. Every speed limit you have memorized has a definition wrapped around it. Crack the definition and the limit breaks. The world's most settled algorithm just got beat by someone asking what problem it was actually solving.