Two weeks into its journey, @RebateLaunch has shared three figures that deserve more than a quick glance.
Each one tells a different part of the story.
🟣 Buyer incentives
26,012 purchases generated $254,000 in bonus tokens, valued using each token's all-time high.
🟣 Holder distributions
$28,500 was distributed to holders through 120,403 payouts.
🟣 Supply reduction
35.3 million robinhood:0xb7ff57631b97000d950236ef63bd463da5beba7e tokens have been burned, representing 3.53% of the original 1 billion supply.
What interests me is how these three mechanisms serve different purposes.
Buyer bonuses improve the initial token allocation.
Holder distributions connect participation to trading activity.
Burns reduce the reported token supply.
Together, they form three distinct parts of Rebate Pad's economic design.
But there is an important detail worth keeping in perspective: valuing bonus tokens at their all-time highs reflects peak market value, not necessarily the amount buyers could have realised by selling.
The bigger question is what happens next.
Can trading activity sustain holder distributions? Can liquidity support growing participation? And will these incentives continue attracting users beyond the initial excitement?
Two weeks of activity provide an encouraging starting point, but long-term consistency is what will really matter.
The numbers show what has happened. The next phase will show whether the model can sustain it.
That's what I'm watching with Rebate Pad.
I would rather build one useful skill deeply than collect ten certificates I cannot apply. The ability to solve a problem and deliver results will always speak louder than a list of qualifications
Happy thirty Thursday
Building a prediction platform is not only about giving people markets to participate in It is also about making sure users can verify what happens behind every prediction.
That’s an area where @sight_hood has caught my attention. Its focus on transparent outcomes personal wallet control and the development of SightEVM points toward a broader infrastructure vision.
Features can attract initial interest, but reliability is what gives people a reason to stay.
I’ll be watching how Sight turns its technical foundation into lasting user confidence.
Who told Nigeria's Ezenwanyi that they have to bathe their bodies with powder to look like that? 😂 Abi, is it a taboo for them to appear neat and clean before their gods?
They have literally taken over TikTok😂😭
My gender when our mental health is finally being discussed 😭😂
He said "I spoke your love language you didn't understand mine" and then dropped a whole TED Talk with melody.
November is men's mental health month too, let that man speak!
I fucked my wife's sister, and there's no way to say it that makes it sound better. My name is Derek Hollis. I'm 38 and I live in Columbus, Ohio. I'm not writing this to make excuses. I'm writing it because I've spent months replaying how a man who loved his wife ended up doing something this low.
Carla and I had been married eleven years. We have a daughter, Maya, who's nine. Carla is a nurse, and for the last few years she's worked nights more often than not. I'm a project manager for a construction firm. On paper we were fine. In practice we passed each other in the hallway and traded updates about school pickups and grocery lists.
Carla's younger sister, Tessa, was 33 and went through a bad divorce about a year ago. Carla asked if she could stay with us until she got back on her feet, and I said yes without a second thought. Tessa had always been easy to be around. She was funny, she helped with Maya, and she'd leave coffee out for me in the mornings. After months of a quiet house, it felt good to have someone around who actually talked to me.
I'd like to say I saw it coming and fought it. I didn't. It crept up on me. Late conversations in the kitchen while Carla was at the hospital. Jokes only the two of us laughed at. Her telling me about her divorce, me telling her I felt invisible in my own marriage. We were each other's audience, and I mistook that for something more.
The night it happened, Carla was on a double shift and Maya was asleep. We'd been talking for hours. Nobody made a speech or a move. We just stopped pretending. I knew exactly what I was doing, and I did it anyway.
The next morning Tessa wouldn't look at me. I told myself it was a one-time thing and we'd never speak of it again. I believed that for about two weeks. Then it happened again, and again after that. For almost three months I lied to my wife with a straight face, kissed her goodbye before her shifts, and sat across from her sister at family dinners like nothing was wrong.
The thing I can't forgive myself for is how good I got at it. Lying came easy, and that scared me more than the affair itself.
It ended on a Tuesday. Carla came home early because a shift got cut, and she found Tessa and me in the kitchen standing a little too close, a little too quiet. She didn't say anything at first. She looked at me, then at her sister, and I watched her put it together. Nobody had to confess. Our faces did it for us.
"How long?" she asked.
Tessa started crying. I said, "Carla, let me explain," and she cut me off.
"Don't. How long?"
I told her. Almost three months.
Carla didn't scream. She walked to Maya's room, checked that she was still asleep, then came back and told Tessa to pack her things and be out by morning. Tessa tried to say she was sorry. Carla said, "You were the one person I never had to worry about," and that was the end of that conversation.
Then she turned to me. "You can sleep at your brother's. I'll tell Maya you're away for work."
That was all. No thrown dishes, no shouting. I almost wished she'd yelled, because the quiet was worse.
Tessa moved out the next day. Carla's family found out within a week, and her mother called me and said four words before hanging up: "I'm ashamed of you." My own brother let me stay on his couch, but he didn't pretend to understand. He asked me one thing: "Did you even like her, or were you just lonely?" I didn't have a good answer.
It's been four months. Carla and I are in counseling, mostly so we can figure out how to co-parent no matter what happens. She hasn't decided about the marriage, and I've stopped asking. I see Maya on weekends, and every time she hugs me goodbye I feel it in my chest.
Carla and Tessa haven't spoken since. That's maybe the worst part. I didn't just betray my wife. I took her sister from her too.
On our way home after meeting our first grandchild, my husband suddenly told me to lock the car doors.
“Why? What happened?”
“Just do it.”
He kept checking the rearview mirror, even though there was no car following us.
We had barely spent 30 minutes at our son’s house. Everything seemed normal until my husband noticed something strange.
When our daughter-in-law brought the baby into the living room, she looked terrified.
Not uncomfortable. Terrified.
Every time our son entered the room, she stopped talking. When he left, she would quietly whisper to the baby and look toward the door.
I thought she was simply nervous about being a new mother.
But my husband had noticed something else.
“Did you see how she flinched when he reached for the baby?”
I remembered it clearly.
Our son had reached out to carry his child, and she instinctively pulled the baby closer before quickly apologising.
My husband was silent for a moment.
Then he said, “I think we need to speak to her privately.”
That evening, I called our daughter-in-law.
Before I could even ask how she was doing, she burst into tears.
“Please, Mum. I need to tell you something, but you must promise not to tell your son.”
My heart started racing.
“What is it? Is everything alright?”
She took a deep breath.
“Your son hasn’t been coming home every night. Sometimes he disappears for days, and when he returns, he tells me he’s been visiting you and Dad.”
I was speechless.
Then she said something that made my hands go cold.
“He told me you both already knew about the other woman. He even said you helped him pay for her apartment.”
I looked at my husband.
He slowly shook his head.
Then our daughter-in-law whispered:
“That’s not even the worst part. The woman he visits is the person who helped us adopt this baby.”
When the truth hits the dinner table…
This brave little girl just exposed her stepmom’s secrets in the most unforgettable way. 🫡 You won’t believe how it ends.
During The Goop Guide Podcast, Gwyneth Paltrow seemingly dropped a major hint about her return as Pepper Potts in 'Avengers: Doomsday'. 👀
She said:
"I had an experience relatively recently where I was like, again, what am I doing? What movie is this? Who's this character?"
Could Pepper Potts be suiting up as Rescue once again?
Marvel fans, are you excited to see her return?
DAVID LETTERMAN: “Aren't you supposed to be in rehab now?”
LINDSAY LOHAN: “Do you not watch anything that goes on?”
[Lindsay explains that her treatment is scheduled to begin on May 2.]
DAVID: [Asks how long she will be there.]
LINDSAY: “Three months.”
DAVID: [Asks how many times she has previously attended rehab.]
LINDSAY: “Several.”
DAVID: [Presses her about what will be different this time and what issues the treatment will address.]
LINDSAY: “We didn't discuss this in the pre-interview.”
[The audience laughs, but Letterman continues questioning her.]
DAVID: “Do you have addiction problems?”
LINDSAY: “Now you sound like Dr. Phil.”
DAVID: [Asks whether alcohol is involved.]
LINDSAY: “We've discussed this in the past.”
[Lindsay explains that working makes her feel happiest and healthiest. She says she wants to concentrate on her career and views the upcoming treatment as a positive opportunity.]
[Later, Letterman brings out notes about Lindsay's past legal troubles. She takes the pages from him and jokingly reads some of the questions herself.]
[The conversation eventually changes tone. Letterman praises Lindsay for having the courage and composure to appear on his show despite the jokes previously made about her.]
[Lindsay becomes emotional, and Letterman offers her a tissue.]
She was just 26, sitting opposite one of America's most famous late-night hosts.
Lindsay Lohan had come to promote her new movie. But David Letterman had some very different questions prepared.
But here's what makes the interview complicated: Lindsay didn't just sit there helplessly. She challenged the questions, made jokes of her own and eventually spoke seriously about taking responsibility for her past.
Then Letterman surprised her with a genuinely kind moment that brought her to tears.
Was Letterman doing his job by asking difficult questions about a public controversy?
Or did he cross a line by turning someone's treatment into late-night entertainment?
The moment he tries to go back into his office, he witnessed a first degree murder, he was in shock after he discovered they are already spread in the building.
I f*cked my mommy's best friend, and it was nothing like I thought it would be.
I know how that sounds. Trust me, I've said it to myself in the mirror enough times. But the story isn't the one you're picturing, and that's exactly why I'm telling it.
Her name was Diane. She'd been my mother's best friend for thirty years. She was at my christening, my graduation, and my father's funeral. When I was a kid, she was the one who slipped me twenty dollars and told me not to tell Mom.
I was twenty-eight when things shifted. I'd moved back to my hometown after a breakup, and Diane, divorced for six years and living two streets over, started dropping by with soup, leftovers, and excuses. I told myself it was kindness. She told herself the same thing, I think.
One night in October, my mother was out of town at my aunt's, and Diane came by to return a casserole dish. It was raining. I asked her in for a glass of wine because it seemed rude not to. We sat at my kitchen table for three hours.
Here's what I'd pictured, because it's the whole point. For months I'd carried around a version of Diane in my head: confident, a little dangerous, a woman who knew exactly what she wanted and took it. She was fifty-three, glamorous in a way that felt out of reach, and some stupid part of me assumed everything about her would match that image.
It didn't.
She was nervous. Her fingers kept finding the stem of her glass, turning it, setting it down. She laughed at the wrong moments and then apologized for laughing. Around eleven, she said quietly, "I haven't done this in a long time. I don't know what I'm doing."
Something in me shifted right then. The fantasy dissolved, and a real person was sitting across from me, afraid I'd find her ridiculous.
"Neither do I," I said, and it was truer than I expected.
I won't describe what happened next, because it isn't the part that matters. We were two adults who made a choice. What I remember isn't what I'd imagined. It was slow and a little awkward, and she kept checking my face to see if I was okay. Afterward she lay there with her arm over her eyes and said, "God, I'm sorry. I'm not very good at this anymore."
"Don't say that," I told her. "You're sweet."
She laughed, then cried a little, and I held her. Neither of us spoke for a long time.
That was what I hadn't been ready for. I'd expected the thrill of something forbidden. What I got was tenderness, and it was much harder to walk away from than a thrill would have been. She told me about the years after her divorce, how the house got so quiet she'd leave the television on just to hear voices. She said she'd been lonely in a way she couldn't explain to anyone, least of all my mother, who'd always seen her as the strong one.
My mother. I kept circling back to her all night.
In the morning, Diane made coffee in my kitchen like she'd done it a hundred times, which she sort of had, just never in a T-shirt of mine with her hair down. She sat across from me and said, "We have to talk about this like adults."
"Okay."
"I don't regret last night. But I'm not sure what it was." She wrapped both hands around her mug. "And your mother is my oldest friend. I can't build something on top of a secret I'd be hiding from her."
I'd been thinking the same thing, and hearing it out loud made it real. I told her I didn't know what I wanted either. I knew I'd been drawn to the idea of her for a long time, and I knew now that the idea had been smaller than the woman.
We agreed not to rush. We didn't see each other for two weeks, which was the longest two weeks of my year. She texted once, a photo of her garden with the caption the tomatoes finally gave up, and I wrote back that I was glad. That was all.
When my mother came home, she sensed something right away. Mothers do. She cornered me in the kitchen on Sunday and said, "You've been strange since I got back. Is it the breakup?"