Who will fight America’s future wars? 🇺🇸 Watch this segment with @profgalloway and Stephanie Carter as they tackle the social crisis impacting young men, the case for national service, and how Silicon Valley’s new "greed gland" is drawing top-tier talent into defense tech. 🔗 #AIExpoDC# #ScottGalloway# #TheExchange#

After the exchange between @NateSilver538 and @nikitabier, I did a little test to check whether that was true and, to my surprise, what I found suggests that link deboosting was indeed reversed. What I did is randomly sample 15 tweets by @nytimes between 2019 and today, compute the weekly average number of likes and retweets they got and plot the results along with a trend line. The idea is that likes and retweets are probably a decent proxy for reach and @nytimes only posts tweets with external links, so by looking at this, we should be able to see any changes in the algorithm with respect to how links are treated. As you can see, it's pretty clear that, starting around the spring/summer of 2023, posts with links started to be penalized and eventually they were completely nuked until the spring/summer of 2025, when a reversal of that policy seems to have started. To be honest, this isn't what I was expecting to find, so even if that's just a quick and dirty test and it's hardly a definitive proof, it's good news and I thought I should share the results.

Over the past week, #BloombergHouse# became a hub for leaders seeking clarity through data as priorities for the year ahead take shape. From headline speakers to interactive roundtables, the program brought together decision-makers across business, policy, and technology to turn uncertainty into strategy. The exchange extended beyond the stage, uniting attendees for networking, side conversations, and peer-to-peer meetings that connected insights to action. Thank you to our speakers and guests for making #BloombergHouse# a true hub for insight and collaboration. 🌐🤝 #WEF26#

Welcome to the Bitget AI Era. We aren’t just "adding" AI. We are Agent-Native. We rebuilt the exchange around agents to redefine the future of trading. 👥 1M+ users 📈 $1.2B+ volume 🛠️ 58+ AI tools Join us to build:

Back in the day, Chinese gold spot exchanges enforced daily forced liquidation and settlement, with long and short positions paying deferred fees to each other. The exchanges didn't directly collect this money, but when retail investors held a large long position and leveraged highly, the deferred fees became the platform's most stable, hidden source of income—retail investors paid long-term, and the platform indirectly benefited through trading volume and liquidity. The same applies to Bitcoin spot platforms now: They primarily rely on perpetual contracts(not pure spot trading), with long and short positions settling **funding rates** every 8 hours. When long positions are in the majority, they pay short positions; retail investors holding long positions for a long time are constantly paying. The exchange itself doesn't directly collect this money, but it greatly increases trading activity and open interest, indirectly generating transaction fees, liquidity, and user stickiness, indirectly becoming a large and stable source of income for the platform. The only difference is the terminology: back then it was called "deferred fees," now it's called "funding rates," but the essence is exactly the same。

🙏 LBankers, This week showed how quickly the industry is evolving, and how important it is to build beyond traditional exchange models. Growth today is no longer driven only by listings and liquidity. It is driven by culture, product experience, community participation, and real-world engagement working together. Here’s what we achieved this week: 1️⃣ International Recognition Continues to Strengthen LBank was officially awarded “Best Centralized Crypto Exchange 2026” by International Business Magazine. This recognition reinforces the momentum we have been building across platform performance, liquidity depth, market execution, and global expansion. These results are not built on short-term hype. They are backed by consistent execution, infrastructure growth, and user trust. 2️⃣ Nobody Sausage Continues Scaling Beyond a Meme Campaign 🌭 This week, the Nobody Sausage ecosystem continued expanding globally through trading incentives, participation mechanics, social engagement systems, and multi-channel amplification. What started as a meme collaboration is evolving into a full trading growth engine where culture, entertainment, and trading activity connect together. The campaign now creates a direct loop between: • Social exposure • Community engagement • Gamified participation • Trading conversion 3️⃣ The Exchange Narrative Is Changing Across the industry, products and trading infrastructure are becoming increasingly similar. The next phase of competition will be defined by culture, community, brand identity, and user connection. LBank continues positioning itself around a more youth-driven and socially native ecosystem through Meme/IP collaborations, interactive features, and community-first communication. 4️⃣ Pizza Day Campaign Rollout Begins This week marked the beginning of LBank’s Pizza Day global campaign rollout. Trading competitions, meme campaigns, IP collaborations, social activations, and community events are now entering full distribution across global and localized channels. The goal is simple: turn engagement into participation, and participation into trading activity. 5️⃣ Offline Ecosystem Expansion Continues LBank also continued expanding offline presence globally. From the upcoming VIP Splash Pool Party during SEABW Bangkok to educational trading events hosted at the LBank Labs Korea Lounge, the focus remains on connecting online engagement with real-world community experiences. What we are building now is not simply an exchange. It is an ecosystem where product, culture, trading behavior, and community participation continuously strengthen each other. That is where sustainable growth comes from. Appreciate everyone building with us. 🙏🫡 #LBank# #Crypto# #Web3#

Most people think they’re buying crypto directly from the exchange, but that’s not actually how it works. 👀 Exchanges simply match buyers and sellers through an order book. This quick video explains what really happens behind every trade. 📊⚡ Did you already know this?

I am a Web3 Ambassador at World Liberty Financial. There are 12 of us on the team page. 4 are named Trump. 3 are named Witkoff. The page calls us "the passionate minds shaping the future of finance." 600,000 wallets bought our memecoin. They lost $3.87 billion. The family collected $350 million in trading fees. It launched 3 days before the inauguration. 80% of the supply went to CIC Digital LLC and Fight Fight Fight LLC. I did not choose the names. I designed the allocation, the vesting, the timing, and the distance between the product and the President. The distance is my best work. I am the reason these events are unrelated. World Liberty Financial sends 75 cents of every dollar to DT Marks DEFI LLC. That is the family entity. Zero capital contributed. Zero liability assumed. I wrote this into the Gold Paper. Page 14. The lawyers bound it in white leather. The binding cost more than the due diligence. Justin Sun invested $75 million. He was facing SEC fraud charges. The SEC dropped the case. He is now our advisor. These events are unrelated. Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty to federal money laundering violations. He received a presidential pardon. The SEC dropped its lawsuit against his exchange the same week we listed our stablecoin. Then the exchange settled a $2 billion deal entirely in that stablecoin. These events are unrelated. Arthur Hayes, Benjamin Delo, and Samuel Reed of BitMEX pleaded guilty to Bank Secrecy Act violations. All 3 received presidential pardons. Then the company itself was pardoned. $100 million in fines. Gone. An American first. These events are unrelated. Sheikh Tahnoun of Abu Dhabi paid $500 million for a 49% stake that was never publicly disclosed. Then the administration approved semiconductor exports to his companies over national security objections. These events are unrelated. Everything is unrelated. I track the unrelatedness on a dashboard I built. The dashboard has 7 columns now. I am proud of the dashboard. On May 22nd, 220 people paid a combined $148 million to eat dinner with the America First president. Over half were foreign nationals. Justin Sun paid $18.5 million for the first seat. He visited the Executive Office Building the day before. I designed the seating chart. I put it on the Investor Confidence page. That page is doing well. The team page lists 3 Witkoffs. All 3 are Co-Founders. Steven Witkoff is the President's Middle East envoy. He testified as a character witness at the President's fraud trial. His son Zach runs the crypto operation. His son Alex is also a Co-Founder. I have not been told what Alex co-founded. The father runs the diplomacy. The sons run the platform. The family runs both. That is organizational efficiency. Barron is 19. His title is Web3 Ambassador. The same as mine. Donald Jr. called the conflicts of interest "complete nonsense." Eric launched a Bitcoin mining company called American Bitcoin. America First. The mining partner is Hut 8. Hut 8 was founded in Canada. America First means the name. On March 6th, the President signed Executive Order 14233 creating a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. The order directs the government to hold Bitcoin. The President's family holds billions in Bitcoin. The executive order appreciates the President's assets by presidential decree. I did not write the executive order. I made sure it looked unrelated to the portfolio. Trump Media put $2 billion of Bitcoin on its balance sheet. The ticker symbol is DJT. His initials. The press secretary said it is absurd to insinuate the President profits off the presidency. Forbes calculated his crypto holdings exceed the combined value of Mar-a-Lago and Trump Tower. I would call that absurd too. That is my job. 600,000 wallets bought in. 1 of them asked why she could not withdraw her funds. I told her the protocol was experiencing dynamic market conditions. She asked what that meant. I sent her the Gold Paper. She said she had read the Gold Paper. I muted her channel. Dynamic means the conditions change. The condition that changed was her access. A congressman called us the world's most corrupt crypto startup operation. We put it on a coffee mug. Ironic merchandise. $45. The revenue split on the mug is also 75/25. My own tokens vest on a different schedule. I wrote that schedule. That is not in the Gold Paper. The memecoin funds the family. The family funds the platform. The platform funds the stablecoin. The stablecoin funds the deals. The deals require the pardons. The pardons free the partners. The partners fund the platform. The President signs the executive orders. The executive orders inflate the assets. The assets fund the family. I am the reason these events are unrelated.

Kraken's Parent Company Has Cut Some 150 Employees... According to a report from CoinDesk, the parent company of the industry-leading @krakenfx exchange has laid off some 150 employees in an "optimization effort". The exchange joins a long list of major crypto firms to have cut large numbers of team members - a list which includes @cryptocom, @Gemini and, more recently @Dune.

Alignment beats extraction. On most blockchain networks, you pay three companies just to trade. The chain takes a transaction fee. The exchange takes a trading fee. The bridge takes a spread on the way in. Three teams, three cuts, no shared incentive with you. 🧵 1/5