Jaafar Saied

We are pleased to welcome @ZodiaCustody to The Hashgraph Association Membership Program. As institutional digital asset infrastructure continues to mature globally, Zodia Custody joining the ecosystem is another strong signal of growing institutional engagement across Hedera. Looking forward to working together. #Hedera #DigitalAssets #Web3

What does the THA Membership Program actually offer? In this interview with @thehbarbull, THA Memberships Lead Ismail Amara breaks down how the program supports enterprises, startups, investors, universities, and builders through ecosystem access, certifications, introductions, events, and more.

OKX joins The Hashgraph Association Membership Program. One of the world’s leading digital asset platforms is now part of a growing ecosystem of enterprises, infrastructure providers, institutions, and builders working across Hedera. Looking forward to collaborating on ecosystem growth and real-world adoption.

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Tunisia’s largest microfinance institution is now using Hedera-powered infrastructure for client loyalty rewards. The Hashgraph Association and Enda Tamweel launched a program that rewards timely loan repayments while encouraging positive environmental and social behavior. Built on Hedera for transparency, traceability, and scalability. A strong example of how DLT can support real financial inclusion use cases.

What a week in Paris 🇫🇷 Kicked things off with a dinner at Château de Versailles, the perfect way to set the tone. From there, spent the week connecting with institutions and welcoming new members to the THA membership program. @ParisBlockWeek @The_Hashgraph @DarBlockchain

Paris Blockchain Week confirmed what the market is already showing. Institutional engagement with DLT is accelerating, and the conversations at PBW made that very clear. THA President @YoussefiKamal was on the ground with Web3 leaders and ecosystem builders discussing real-world adoption and the infrastructure required to support it. With 100,000+ registered members and a growing education offering, including the Hedera Business Foundation course, THA is continuing to support the growth of the global Hedera ecosystem. Next stop: HederaCon on May 4 in Miami Beach. 🇺🇸

Paris is where capital is being allocated this week. 10,000+ decision makers 70% C-level 36,000+ meetings happening behind closed doors Institutions and infrastructure are aligning around the next phase of digital finance. Dar Blockchain co-founders @Mohamed_Mnif and @Jaaf__Aar are on site @ParisBlockWeek, positioning Africa within these global capital flows.

Welcoming @EarthlingsLand to The Hashgraph Association as an Ecosystem Member. Earthlings is building the first open world gaming metaverse on Hedera, with free-to-play gameplay, true digital asset ownership, and a dual token economy where players own land, trade assets, and shape the world. Growing the ecosystem, one builder at a time. #Hedera #Web3 #Gaming

Most professionals do not need to become blockchain engineers. They need to understand where distributed ledger technology creates real business value. That is exactly what the Hedera Business Foundation course is built for.

Dar Blockchain is at @EthCC Cannes. Europe’s largest Ethereum gathering, with 6,500+ builders and 400+ speakers shaping what comes next. We are on the ground connecting with builders, partners, and ecosystem leaders across AI, infrastructure, and real-world adoption. If you are around, reach out and let’s meet.

I placed $1.5 billion in futures at 6:50 AM. Fourteen minutes before President Trump's Truth Social post. That's generous. Usually, I get five. The S&P was barely breathing. Premarket Monday. The kind of quiet where a single order echoes through the entire book. I bought $1.5 billion in futures. The index moved 0.3% on my entry alone. That's how thin the market was. That's how empty the room was. At the same time, I shorted $192 million in crude oil. Then I sat there. Three screens. One coffee. The futures blinking green on the left, the oil contract bleeding red on the right, and in the center, a Truth Social feed set to refresh every four seconds. Fourteen minutes is a long time when you know what's coming. Not because I was nervous. Because I was early. At 7:04 AM, the president posted. Productive discussions. Five-day halt on strikes. Peace talks with Iran. S&P jumped 2.5%. Oil cratered 6%. My position gained $60 million before most Americans' alarm clocks went off. Good morning. Iran later denied that the talks ever happened. Called it fake news. The speaker of their parliament accused the president of manipulating financial markets. The talks might not be real. The sixty million dollars is. The analytics accounts flagged it within the hour. "Unusual activity." "Orders 4-6x larger than anything else trading at the time." That's their word for it. Unusual. My word for it is Tuesday. They always flag it. That's their function. Flagging is not investigating. Flagging is the system's way of noting that it saw something, documenting that it will do nothing, and calling that process oversight. The actual investigation is conducted by the CFTC. The CFTC has one commissioner. Out of five seats. One. The other four chairs are empty. Not vacant. Emptied. There is a difference. Vacant means nobody applied. Emptied means somebody decided the body responsible for policing futures markets should not have enough members to hold a vote. That's not negligence. That's architecture. You know what we call this pattern on the desk? TACO. Trump Always Chickens Out. Escalate on Friday, capitulate on Monday, and extract in the window between the decision and the post. It's so reliable, we named it. We have a private Slack channel. #taco-tuesday. It updates automatically when Truth Social pushes a new geopolitical keyword. We don't teach it as insider trading. We teach it as a market structure. New analysts learn it in their first week. By the second week, they stop flinching. The phone rang at 6:47 AM. Three minutes before I entered the position. The call lasted ninety seconds. Ninety seconds of context. $60 million of outcome. You call that insider trading. I understand why. Insider trading is the word you learned. It's the crime from the movies. The whispered merger at a cocktail party. Four hundred shares of a mid-cap pharmaceutical. That gets prosecuted. That's the version of this crime the system was built to catch. What I do is different. I place $1.5 billion against a war decision made in a room I have the phone number to. On a platform overseen by a commission with one member. In a market where the president's social media account is the most powerful price-setting mechanism on earth. That's not insider trading. That's infrastructure. You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your brother-in-law. I made $60 million trading on a war. The difference is not the crime. The difference is the decimal point. Americans paid for this war with four-dollar gas and sixteen billion in taxes. I paid for a phone call. We are not in the same economy. Last month, $529 million was wagered on Polymarket's Iran strikes market. Six accounts pocketed $1.2 million. Deposited funds the same day. Hours before the bombs fell. One account cleared $553,000 at 17% odds, seventy-one minutes before public confirmation. He has not placed another bet since. The president's son sits on Polymarket's advisory board. Two federal investigations into the platform were quietly dropped this year. Twelve government officials sold stocks in the weeks before the tariff crash. All of them reported the sales after the deadline. Nobody calls any of that insider trading. They call it prediction markets. Delayed disclosures. Portfolio rebalancing. I call it the junior varsity version of what I do with futures. An Oxford law professor called it the most far-reaching securities fraud in history. We call it the window. Tomorrow, this will be gone. Buried under a new tariff. A new ultimatum. A new TACO. Next Monday at 6:50 AM, I will be here again. Coffee. Three screens. The phone. The ninety-second call. The fourteen-minute window. The game isn't rigged. Rigged implies something broke. Nothing broke. Every component is functioning exactly as specified. The one-member commission. The anonymous platforms. The four-second refresh on the Truth Social feed. The phone that rings at 6:47. I didn't exploit a flaw in the system. I am the system.

21M Bitcoin is a myth 😱

Jane Street’s secret trading technique is to accumulate shares, then dump them in seconds to crash the price and profit from shorts. They ran the same 10 AM manipulation algo in Indian markets and made $4.23 billion, which led to a temporary ban by the Securities and Exchange Board of India. Their playbook is simple: 1) Have billions of dollars from investors 2) Buy spot Bitcoin at, say, $68k 3) Open massive shorts via options or derivatives 4) Sell large amounts of BTC in minutes with algos, combined with low liquidity or negative news to trigger panic selling 5) Price crashes to $62k 6) Close shorts for massive profits while losing just 5% on spot 7) Buy spot Bitcoin again at $62k, squeeze shorts, and create FOMO to push price higher 8) Open massive shorts again... Rinse and repeat. In India, Jane Street still has $560 million frozen in an escrow account with SEBI, and the manipulation case is ongoing.

Ramadan Mubarak to our community, partners, and builders. A month of reflection, discipline, and intention. Values that also shape how we build, collaborate, and move forward together. Wishing you and your families peace and clarity in the weeks ahead.

FedEx joins the Hedera Council 📦 With operations in 220+ countries and 15M+ shipments daily, FedEx brings unmatched supply-chain expertise to Hedera governance; advancing trusted digital infrastructure at global scale. This milestone reinforces our vision of accelerating enterprise adoption of the Hedera through secure, verifiable data sharing, at the speed of digital commerce. Read more: is.gd/Z6762Y #Hedera #SupplyChain #Enterprise #DigitalInfrastructure

At Dar Blockchain, architecture comes before scale. Hatem Azaiez leads our technical direction with disciplined engineering and a focus on building infrastructure that holds in the real world.

Yesterday at ENISO University. An on-campus session with students. We keep working where it matters: inside universities, with people who want to build and understand the technology.