.@chainlink doesn’t tokenize assets. So why is everybody relating Chainlink to real-world asset (RWA) tokenization? It’s actually quite simple: The Thesis: Let’s start with a baseline hypothesis: There will be many, many blockchains in this world. In the public blockchain world, we already have layer 1s, layer 2s, layer 3s, zk/optimistic rollups, sidechains, appchains, subnets, supernets, and more. In the private blockchain world, we have individual companies creating their blockchains to make their own operations more efficient (more on this later). Citi, JPMorgan, ANZ … the list goes on and on—and is continuing to get bigger. Fun stat: 97% of institutional investors think that blockchain will revolutionize asset management processes. That’s why there will be so many private blockchains. If you agree with this thesis, you should look into Chainlink. If you don’t, you probably have a “one-chain (or layer-1) to rule them all” outlook on Web3. I think that’s wrong, but we can part ways here and see who’s right in the future. The Problem: Tokens are created on blockchains, period. This is where the difference between tokenization (as a simple one-and-done memecoin) and real-world asset tokenization becomes very important. In crypto, a native token is often equal to the asset. 1 Dogecoin = 1 Dogecoin. The same is not true for a token like a stablecoin (which is the first entry point for many financial institutions). 1 stablecoin doesn’t always equal 1 dollar, but a dollar's worth of value. There are reserves of the actual asset (dollars) or other types of collateral (crypto-native, T-bills, etc) backing the stablecoin. Your stablecoin’s value is dependent on the value and liquidity of the actual reserves. This is maybe the most important nuance to understand in order to navigate real-world asset tokenization: Always understand what the token represents in reality. But then that leads to another natural question: How do you know what’s backing a token? Answer: You can’t. Because there’s no native connectivity between blockchains and the outside world. The asset behind a real-world asset? That’s in the outside world. But let’s go even further than that. Let’s say a bank has created a tokenized asset that represents a real-world asset on its own private blockchain. Now what? Well, they’d want to sell that tokenized asset. That’s the business of banks and capital markets: package assets into different formats, with different yields and different specifications, and then sell that asset to someone. Maybe it’s another bank, maybe it’s a hedge fund. Doesn’t matter because there’s a wild range of counterparties out there. But they need access to counterparties. Again, that’s the business of finance: selling assets you make, buying assets you didn’t make. So what good is tokenization if you can’t sell those tokenized assets? All those efficiencies and cost-savings mean literally nothing. But it turns out, banks can’t access counterparties because, again, their blockchain can’t access the outside world. Unless they have one of two things: 1. Their counterparty on their blockchain. 2. Connection between their blockchain and their counterparty’s preferred blockchain/system. This is where the hundreds of chains become relevant again. Yes, it’s possible that a single bank will have a single, or even multiple, blockchains where all the other banks go to be counterparties. Is it likely? No, because blockchains are useful for aligning internal operations and asset flow in internal systems (which requires their own blockchain), and also because they wouldn’t want to cede that kind of power and control over the platform to another group of validators. That’s why we’ve seen consortium blockchains, but even those have their limits to how many banks you can attract. How about multiple consortiums for different geographic regions? Well, we’re back to the hundreds of blockchains, and that’s only the private chains. So #1 is unrealistic, and even if it plays out, you’ll have at least tens, if not hundreds or thousands, of megachains. Then you have #2: Connecting different blockchains, and blockchains to external systems, through a cross-chain solution—because not everyone has a blockchain, but they might want access to tokenized assets on another blockchain. This seems to be the route that makes the most sense. The Solution: Well, I’m obviously going to say Chainlink CCIP is the cross-chain solution, but I want to explain the why because that’s the most important part. The first reason is that CCIP is secure. Secure in a way that other cross-chain solutions aren’t secure. Not when you’re aiming to underpin millions, billions, trillions, and even quadrillions of dollars worth of transactions. If there’s one takeaway you get from this section, it’s that security is king when it comes to cross-chain. And Chainlink leads in this category both by virtue of being reliable and secure for years on end, and due to the addition of a third network known as the Risk Management Network. There are a lot of resources out there on why CCIP security is so good, but I’d recommend the five levels of cross-chain security blog: blog.chain.link/five-levels-… The second reason is that Chainlink can provide a range of supporting solutions to tokenized real-world assets. Remember that every tokenized RWA needs to be backed by the actual asset. Chainlink Proof of Reserve can bring that reserve data onchain, proving to counterparties that the token is actually backed. So now I’m a counterparty and I know this asset is backed. This is the bare minimum. But the asset needs a bunch of data past proof of reserves. Is it a globally liquid asset? Great, what price are we going to use? Maybe a decentralized, volume-weighted price set up by a credibly neutral entity—i.e., Chainlink DONs and Chainlink Data Streams. Simply put, as the asset flows across multiple cross-chain transactions between many bankchains, every party wants to know who made the asset, what price the asset trades at, and what the asset entails (what’s the yield? Who is the underlying counterparty? What assets are being packaged? Who owns each of these original assets/liabilities? Etc.) In essence, the Chainlink platform provides a full suite of services that enrich and update the critical data necessary for tokenized RWAs to function at scale. Each service has the best security in Web3, is built to scale, and puts minimal work on the side of institutions to actually use (this is insanely important). Combine all of those, and you have a solution that banks actually want to use, can scale in security with their needs, and provides a logical, low-cost path to plugging into the larger economy of blockchains that will inevitably appear.

The @chainlink news with @jpmorgan today in a nutshell: Institutions are coming to buy our coins---and they're using Chainlink to do it. Slowly, then all at once. Let me walk you through the significance of what just happened: It's really, really simple. JPM's private blockchain is called Kinexys. It offers payment services to businesses that patch up the TradFi stupidities we always talk about--real-time settlement, 24/7 operations, etc. Classic blockchain > TradFi solution, just private. It does $2B a day in volume, $1.5T total. Businesses use it for real stuff, like moving money between countries. And you've never heard of it because it doesn't matter to you. But today, Chainlink showed that JPM (and all its customers) can buy coins on OUR chains. On Ethereum, Avalanche, Base, Solana, Ondo, whatever--as long as the chain is connected to the Chainlink standard. Props to @OndoFinance for being a huge part of this. JPM successfully bought an Ondo-powered US Treasury Bond on testnet. You didn't think they were going to buy $ETH immediately, did you? Just think about what it means. Are you a chain or an app with a focus on RWAs and want to sell to institutions? Welp, JPM uses CCIP to connect to chains, gotta use Chainlink. Extrapolate that. How can I get banks to access to ANY asset on ANY chain for ANY reason? Welp, they use Chainlink so if that's something I want, I gotta use that. Extrapolate that even further. Compliance and regulation checks come in. They require common-sense checks like proof of reserves and data syncing across chains. Welp, I'm using Chainlink for cross-chain anyway AND wait... There's a simple way to deal with compliance, data, cross-chain, DvP, and anything I can think of in one convenient platform? Welcome to Chainlink CRE. We're in the top of the first inning now. Everything before this was practice. The game has started, and Chainlink is the stadium where everyone is starting to play.

.@chainlink CCIP is clearly the key to RWA tokenization at scale. While this usually refers to capital markets, the @VodafoneGroup announcement today provides a hint to the larger vision of CCIP in global trade. The potential is insane: THE USE CASE: Bill of lading (BoL). Anybody who’s been involved in physical products and the transfer of physical products across long distances knows what this is. It’s effectively a legal receipt that details everything that’s in a shipment (type, quantity, destination, etc). To hand off a shipment from company to company, you need the bill of lading, period. What did this Vodafone proof-of-concept do? It tokenized the bill of lading. It’s actually such a simple use case: A bill of lading is a receipt that requires signatures and has important data attached to it. Super easy to tokenize, and it makes perfect sense because you’d want cryptographic signatures involved and secure infrastructure behind it to ensure that the BoL only gets passed along if conditions match (a perfect smart contract use case). And currently, the processes behind transferring bill of lading has a lot of red tape and security measures. It makes sense, since it’s literally a legal receipt that shows you are authorized to carry/ship the products in question. Tokenization should theoretically make the handoff process much more efficient since all the security processes can be abstracted by the sheer efficacy of blockchain tech when it comes to security-sensitive use cases. The root problem—and why this hasn’t taken off—is interoperability. If I can’t easily send a tokenized BoL to my shipping company, and they can’t send it to another shipping company that handles another part of the delivery, then the whole point of tokenization is moot. Tokenization is supposed to make delivery more efficient. But I’d need them to be on my blockchain to start. Maybe it’ll work for bigger companies to an extent, but there’s a fundamental problem with needing people to use my blockchain platform for me to do business with them. Enter CCIP. Chainlink CCIP facilitated the “seamless exchange of crucial trade documents across diverse platforms and blockchains.” First off, it’s pretty clear to me that this PoC wasn’t just about blockchain-to-blockchain interoperability, but interoperability between blockchains and other types of platforms. This is awesome because that means CCIP is being used not only to send information and value across enterprise blockchains, but also proprietary systems that are not blockchains. CCIP is the only solution that can bridge the gap between blockchain and non-blockchain systems, which means at scale, you could use CCIP to help facilitate all global trade no matter what level of blockchain adoption they’re at! This industry currently represents tens of trillions of dollars, and I think it’s safe to say global trade will likely grow over time. Pretty neat. Disclaimer: The only information I’m working off of is today’s press release and the SmartCon presentation, probably like most of you. All opinions are my own.

$81,000 I will not elaborate

nobody on ct understands what this means btw you are not serious people

yeah this literally has @chainlink written all over it if not to put the data onchain, it’ll be to move the data across chains if not Chainlink then who?

going to cook up a giant @chainlink thesis mega blog an all-in-one resource to understand just how huge some of the players Chainlink is working with actually are example: the DTCC my jaw unironically dropped when I researched and found out what they do

The way to think about the strategic $LINK reserve imo is this: It’s stupid to only look at current buybacks without considering growth in buybacks over time The switch has been flipped. It’s painfully obvious. Imagine (and trust me, i was not part of these convos) that they launched this entire thing and made a huge splash on CT without thinking this through and projecting what it looks like 6 months, 1 year, 5 years from now? That would be pretty stupid. And Chainlink isn’t stupid. Any fud on current buyback numbers (not seeing much) is from the monkey brain CT crowd. But as a general rule of thumb, one must always think ahead. and @chainlink always thinks and plans for the long term. I don’t know anything about revenue or when it’ll come online but I know 1) the caliber of institutions Chainlink works with 2) that $LINK will capture current/future offchain revenue from them via buybacks 3) that they chose to announce these buybacks publicly and set an expectation for recurring buybacks I know how to connect the dots. regulation is here. Chainlink has motion. the entire global financial system is the limit. few

Since CCIP launched, I’ve been waiting. My two favorite projects. Both kicking ass, never crossing paths. Today is the day: @Ronin_Network fam 🤝 @chainlink marines. Two INSANELY strong communities come together for the first time. What y’all need to know about each other: Marines: Meet Ronin If you’re a Chainlink community member, you probably don’t pay attention to gaming. I once launched a poll for my Chainlink-dominated followers and asked if they play games—the answer was overwhelmingly no. But if there’s one name you should now know, it’s Ronin: THE blockchain for games. A brief history: Ronin was an Ethereum sidechain launched by Sky Mavis, the company behind the first—and to this day, the only—hit game in Web3: Axie Infinity. It broke @ethereum. Then market dynamics happened to Axie. The Ronin Bridge got hacked by North Korea. That should be game over… right? Maybe in another world. Since its hack—which is probably the only thing most marines know about it—Ronin Network has: • Become known as the ONLY gaming blockchain with actual gamers (2.9M monthly active addresses, real users) • Accrued enough success and renown that new and upcoming games fight to be onboarded to Ronin—with many failing to make the cut • Iterated on its initial success with Axie to pioneer cutting-edge Web3 gaming economies—with fast changes that come from being deep in the trenches with its community • Closed the loop with a Ronin-specific marketplace (called Mavis Market) that serves as an all-in-one-hub for gaming tokens and NFT transactions • Launched a seamless, user-first mobile wallet that I personally—alongside many other Ronin users—love (~27M addresses, ~1B total txs) • Outlined a vision to build a zkEVM-powered, layer-2 gaming ecosystem that vastly scales their network to support up-and-coming games • Provided games with the ability to remove the single, most critical barrier to adoption: gas fees—which can now be subsidized by game studios • And so much more The results over the past two years speak for themselves. But if there’s one thing that I’d really like to highlight, it’s this: Ronin is a blockchain by gamers, for gamers. Gaming is Ronin’s one singular focus. And in this regard, they’re absolutely kicking ass. If you were to become a Web3 gaming analyst, you’d quickly make this observation: Ronin is the only blockchain with a dedicated, expansive, and focused community of gamers. Real users. Good games. Fly, meet wheel. Ronin Fam: Meet Chainlink I’ve established above that Ronin is simply a standout in the Web3 gaming world. Probably THE standout (that’s my subjective opinion). Managing a blockchain is hard by itself, but to manage cross-chain infrastructure? That’s a different beast—and nobody knows that better than Ronin. Since 2022, Ronin has transformed itself into a security-first blockchain. There’s no harder lesson than being victim to one of Web3’s largest and most prolific hacks—but Ronin has learned from its mistakes and become one of crypto’s best (if relatively unknown) comeback stories. Today’s blockchains have proven resilient against attack, but the dark history of cross-chain bridge hacks shows that bridges are still a critical weak point for crypto at large. Security isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s a necessity. That’s the lesson every long-term builder in Web3 comes to learn. And that’s precisely the motto that has catapulted Chainlink to become as big and far-reaching as it has. That’s why I’m over the moon today. Ronin’s validators made the smart choice: They chose CCIP as Ronin’s canonical cross-chain infrastructure. All it takes is one video to understand the kind of security CCIP brings to the table: nitter.app/chainlink/status/17566… Simply put: Chainlink provides best-in-class security in areas of crypto where security is damn hard. And it’s the best in the business at doing so. What It All Means What happens when you take the biggest (and most focused) gaming blockchain and combine it with Web3’s most secure cross-chain infrastructure? Focus. Ronin gets to focus on what it does best: Onboarding games, gamers, and pushing Web3 gaming to new heights. I truly believe gaming is a fundamental cornerstone of a natively online economy—and there’s no better way to describe Web3 than that. There’s a wide-open ocean of opportunity in the Web3 gaming space, and Ronin is well-positioned to capitalize on it. Chainlink focuses on the infrastructure part—the boring, but essential pieces of the puzzle that Ronin needs. And it provides Ronin and its users with peace of mind that’s seldom available in our industry. I could talk for hours about this next part, but I’ll keep it short. The Web3 gaming world is very small (comparatively) to the rest of the onchain world. That’s no surprise when the rest of the onchain world is largely finance: a game where money is repackaged, invested, and leveraged over and over and over. The coming wave of RWAs will only make this game larger. CCIP broadens the scope for Ronin. It enhances access by immediately connecting users abroad (on other chains) to the Ronin Network, and vice versa. CCIP enables new possibilities. Today, Ronin is a gaming chain. It will continue to be a gaming chain. But with CCIP, Ronin’s digital assets can become a staple of the entire onchain economy—available to buy, sell, trade, lend, etc on any chain in existence—but always with Ronin as its true home. This is truly the start of something magical, and I’m very grateful to sit right in the middle of both. I am part of both the Chainlink and Ronin communities, and I’m a big believer in both projects. Personally, today is indeed a very special day. Onwards and upwards.

marines watching all of CT realize @chainlink is the real deal after the strategic reserve announcement

half a $LINK will eventually be worth $40,500 which means this @bankrbot airdrop I’m about to do is a $40K airdrop comment below for half a stinky you can just tweet money btw

Let me try my best to explain the significance of @mastercard x @chainlink. Because the more I think about it, the more excited I get. Base level: 3,400,000,000+ cards can now directly buy crypto. No intermediary CEX, no KYC, just straight to DeFi/your wallet. Already a game-changer for reducing user friction. Malding that I don't own a Mastercard btw. Next: Expanding what can be bought. -Pay for any blockchain's gas fees with a card (huge for onchain businesses). -Pay for NFTs with a card. -Pay for smart contract deployments with a card. -Place a PolyMarket bet with a card. -Infinite other use cases, and up only with the onchain economy. This requires the same connections that exist between Chainlink <> Chainlink users <> Mastercard, just with different assets/products/apps. Ideally, any person launching a crypto product (whether that's an NFT, a prediction market, or a DeFi protocol) can integrate Mastercard in the future via Chainlink. Final: Switch it around. -Pay your Mastercard credit card bill with any crypto asset (payment abstraction). -Swipe/tap anywhere that takes Mastercard and it draws from your stablecoin balance. I'm not sure what's required to make this happen. But this is the unlock I've been waiting for. No cap, this is unequivocally the biggest step toward mass adoption we've seen in a long, long time. And it's powered by Chainlink. like @nullpackets likes to say: In all of this Mastercard news, have you seen a mention of a single blockchain? Max abstraction begins now.

first time using the ticker. big moment. $LINK reporting for duty

Nobody on this app understands @chainlink even the most knowledgeable crypto-natives will be like "it's just an oracle, right?" I don't know what your vision for crypto's endgame is, but for me it's a world where every asset I currently own lives onchain. Which chain? All chains. Through chain link. There's one asset, one canonical asset, on all chains. That's why security is Chainlink's #1 specialty. That's why 2,800,000,000 has been hacked from protocols trying to do Chainlink's job by themselves. Now imagine a bank getting hacked for all of its customer's money. They'll never let it happen. It all comes back to chainlink.

gm absolutely overwhelmed by the positive response here @chainlink is inevitable

You might've heard the term "verifiable web" across @chainlink content recently. The vision outlined by Sergey is clean and logical—this term will likely replace "Web3" in the future because it perfectly encapsulates not only what Web3 today is about, but also what it will be about in the industry’s long-term future. It is why Chainlink is the most important project in this space. To understand the verifiable web (at least to the degree that I understand it), let’s talk about a simple word: Truth. A word that’s used to impose a definitive reality on a statement. When we say something is the “truth,” we mean that that something is an accurate and definitive view of reality. By definition, truth is something that’s virtually impossible to 100% know for certain. Semantically, we can only get closer and closer to the truth because of unknown unknowns. A very clear example of truth is Chainlink Data Feeds, which provide price data through a decentralized and cryptographically-secured mechanism to always arrive at the truthful answer. In this case, Chainlink Data Feeds have defined truth in price data as a volume-weighted average price that’s aggregated from hundreds of data sources through premium data aggregators and delivered by a decentralized set of node operators in a DON. This is the key to understanding the verifiable web: the establishment of specific truths, powered by cryptography and decentralization. With blockchains, you know for certain (thus cementing it as truth) that a wallet cannot double spend without effectively taking majority control over whatever a blockchain’s consensus mechanism is. But the oracle problem is much harder—and much larger—than the cryptographic truths that blockchains can power. While blockchains cement cryptographic truth of a transaction’s validity, the deterministic execution of a smart contract’s code, and state changes, oracles aim to provide cryptographic truth of the real world. This is incredibly hard because there are an infinite number of different things in the real world. Providing proof of accurate price data is different from providing cryptographic proof of randomness which is different from providing proof of reserves. Each one must have a tailored approach. This is the vision of the God Protocol, as described in @ChainlinkGod’s blog many years ago. Smart contracts and blockchains deterministically execute an agreement with inputs that are determined by the oracle. The oracle is a key and crucial mechanism—it is the eyes of this deterministic judge, the arbiter of truth that decides the outcome of an agreement. But there are so many different truths to create. There’s no possible way Chainlink Labs by itself building Chainlink services can provide cryptographic proof of every single type of data/computation that will eventually be needed as the entire world inevitably moves to blockchain-secured agreements. But Chainlink’s OCR 2.0 consensus mechanism is the foundation for the Chainlink Platform, which aims to empower developers to build their own forms of cryptographic truth using DONs. A key example of this is @spaceandtime, which provides cryptographic (zk) proof of SQL that’s verified by Chainlink oracle networks for its query results. This is computational truth, tailored specifically to an SQL computation and query result. Not something that Chainlink services natively have available, but rather one that’s been built by Space and Time using Chainlink. This marks the very beginnings of this kind of expansion of the Chainlink Network’s capability to verify a vast range of cryptographic truths. This is the verifiable web: an Internet of (smart) Contracts with connected oracle networks that prove both the veracity of the input and the deterministic execution of agreements through smart contracts. Where will this be useful? Whenever verification and determinism in needed in the transfer/non-transfer of value (important: not money, but value). An existing use case is something like @AaveAave’s lending protocol, where price data continuously verifies whether liquidation should occur (or not occur). Take it a step up, you’re verifying weather for deterministic insurance payouts. Take it two steps up, you’re verifying shipping data to deterministically settle invoices between manufacturer, supplier, and shipping entities. Take it five steps up, you’re verifying and executing someone’s will after they die. Take it seven steps up, you’re verifying all the world’s most critical news and information with private key signatures and TEE-connected cameras with computational verification of AI analysis of the footage (note: I don’t know if this is actually technically possible, jus wild speculation on my part). The expansion of the Chainlink Network is almost limitless in its potential: So many different data types (with associated verified computation on that data) will be needed as the world becomes blockchained. It’s what makes blockchains actually useful for the real world, to actually provide value to the vast majority of people. The problem and design space are enormous, and Chainlink by far leads the world in the ability to verify inputs that define the neutral, all-seeing eyes of the “God protocol.” And its capabilities will only expand more rapidly as it becomes easier for developers to independently leverage Chainlink to build their own forms of cryptographic truth both for their own use cases and for others to use. I’m excited by this, truly. There’s no project tackling a harder problem than Chainlink, that’s for sure—and I’m grateful to be a part of this ride. This is purely my own thoughts on the verifiable web and Chainlink’s role in it. Like you, I don’t have all the information, nor do I know exactly how this will play out. But I see the vision—and have made it my own to some degree—and am sharing it with you to the best of my knowledge.

The value of cross-chain protocols will far exceed any individual blockchain or application. .@chainlink CCIP is the only cross-chain protocol with level-5 security, making it the only cross-chain solution that can be used at scale. Let’s break that down: Level-one security: Centralized. One entity. One node. The most classic example of a not-so-secure implementation. If you can compromise either, you now have access to all the funds that are in the cross-chain protocol. Never use these. Level-two security: Centralized. One entity. Multiple nodes. We call this decentralization theater because the multiple nodes feel like decentralization, when really it’s just one guy (or entity) behind the scenes controlling all the nodes. Compromise the guy and you compromise the protocol. Never use these. Level-three security: A network of independent node operators. Much, much better. We went up a level here—it’s now meaningfully decentralized. However, having only one network means two bad things. First, as your cross-chain protocol expands, the same network will be handling all those transactions. This is a massive honeypot. Second, it literally can’t scale. Too many transactions for a single network. Blockchains are proof of this. Level-four security: Multiple independent networks, each with independent node operators to secure a specific lane or channel in a cross-chain protocol. Great—now it’s scalable (you can add more and more networks) and you’ve fragmented the value so that an exploiter has to compromise multiple (thousands at scale) of networks to make off with all the money. Not bad. Level-five security: Defense-in-depth, which is what you need given that a cross-chain standard will help facilitate quadrillions in value. Start with level-four, and then add additional networks to each network. So now, instead of having one network securing a specific lane/channel, you have multiple networks securing a single channel. With CCIP, you have three: The executing DON, the committing DON, and the Risk Management Network. All three networks handle different parts of a cross-chain transfer just for a single lane. Bonus: The Risk Management Network is built by a different team in a different language with different tooling to protect against low-level exploits (like in the language or tools you use). That’s crazy, but necessary if you take cross-chain security seriously. The takeaway: Use cross-chain protocols with level-five security. There’s only one out right now, and it’s called CCIP.

Where @chainlink is today and where it was 3 years ago is completely different. Before, Chainlink was an oracle, and it offered the industry unparalleled data quality and security. Now it’s onboarding institutions and solving misinformation. What the hell happened? It grew, and if you look closely, the growth and evolution of the Chainlink Network has always followed the same story. THE ORACLE PROBLEM In its early stages, Chainlink had one focus: To solve the oracle problem. If you don’t know what that is, it’s basically that smart contracts (mostly on Ethereum at the time) didn’t have access to external data, and at the time, the most important data was price data. So Chainlink solved that problem for DeFi developers, and continues to solve that today. But the larger story was the abstraction of the oracle problem to arrive at a concept known as... CRYPTOGRAPHIC TRUTH One of the core visions of Chainlink is to build a world powered by “cryptographic truth.” What does that mean? I honestly think the easiest way to understand what it means is through the very same price data that Chainlink first provided. The bottom line is that Chainlink’s price data is as close to the truth as you can get. The number delivered to a smart contract, the one that says “The price of ETH is $2,000 at X day and Y time,” is sourced and validated using multiple layers of security and redundancy to ensure as close to 100% reliability, security, and accuracy as you can get. What’s is the price of ETH? If you ask Chainlink, you know you’ll get the right answer. It’s secured by math and cryptography. That’s cryptographic truth. That was Chainlink service #1 / 7. Will post the next episode of the story soon. Got some feedback that I should write shorter posts on Twitter, but I also really like writing long ass posts (Chainlink blogs are fun to write). The full thing is on my blog if you can’t wait or you care more than I expect you to: medium.com/@dalteco/from-pri…

so apparently the @chainlink community started on 4chan this was before my time but i heard the lore runs deep

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I still can't believe how ridiculous this number is. @chainlink network effects are seriously no joke. I've been fully pilled for 4 years, but some of the community members have been here from the beginning. link the world, we've barely even started.

.@chainlink CRE Right now, each Chainlink product is an art piece, made of its own blend of raw materials. After CRE, each Chainlink product becomes part of the same stack of legos. Same functionality, security -- just infinitely more scalable, stackable, and composable.

I personally do not know the team that built @chainlink CCIP But it’s clear that they were paranoid as fuck

gm hundreds of companies will make their own chains they have no need for community. no need for crypto twitter. no need to share the pie. all they’ll need is @chainlink.

what just happened $LINK dudes, go check cmc

It’s hilarious that people think chainlink hired paid influencers it implies every CT KOL is getting paid all of a sudden what’s actually happening is they knew it was good tech/adoption but needed assurance of token value accrual that was the missing piece only up szn now

#Chainlink Functions will be the reason for the next wave of Web3 adoption. It's seriously insane the kinds of things you can build.

$LINK is an index bet at its core if you think blockchains and smart contracts are going to be the new way society transacts, LINK is the surest way to get exposure. >thousands of chains >hundreds of tokenization platforms >hundreds of DeFi protocols >one @chainlink

Happy $50M $bnkr to those who celebrate Airdrop for those who like, repost, and comment below 🫶

$LINK is inevitable. no other crypto protocol understands the needs of banks, governments, and market infrastructure providers as well as @chainlink. Chainlink is Tesla in 2016 for the EV market. (See screenshot) Now regulation is here. Do the math.

Coinbase will likely be the largest crypto onboarding platform Chainlink will likely be the largest dApp platform infrastructure Bitcoin will likely be the largest digital store of value Ethereum will likely be the largest digital-native currency just my endgame thoughts

Just bought my first @RonkeOnRon NFT they’re seriously so ugly LMFAO but had to do it for the culture

this is insanely cool the first blockchain x AI use cases that makessense to me Problem: AI is unreliable, but also extremely efficient. Turning unstructured data --> structured data requires a high reliability threshold Solution: Consensus on LLM outputs via @chainlink

The biggest use case for blockchains by far is cash tokens, whether decentralized, centralized, or whatever. What actually matters is ubiquitous adoption and a unified payment layer, which @chainlink CCIP unlocks across blockchains. This is the single, most important use case for blockchain technology: Programmable payments/currency. Once you have an adopted digital currency (or multiple seamlessly interoperating via Chainlink, which seems more likely), then you can start building infinitely more use cases across real, value-adding industries. Businesses that pay each other in dollars today via bank accounts can pay each other in stablecoins/bank cash tokens. But it's not just payment, it's programmable payment. If the Maersk API says the shipment has been received, payment can be automatically programmed where even the owner of the payment can't stop it. Delivery and payment happen simultaneously in a trust-minimized manner via smart contracts. Way less counterparty risk -- and no ability for buyers to keep you hostage or demand better terms post-delivery. This extends to the financial industry, where delivery versus payment takes layers of various systems working together. Blockchain makes this more efficient by an exponential factor. Smart contracts will be layered on top of, or actively replace, legal contracts because they preemptively enforce agreement terms rather than retroactively threaten punishment in case those terms are broken. Trust vs verify, probabilistic vs guarantee. This is what smart contracts have always offered, but it's been hard to gain sustained adoption because their primary function is to pass value in a secure, reliable, and trust-minimized manner between untrusting parties based on agreed-upon conditions. But businesses don't use ETH or other digital assets to pass value because they're quite volatile and they're not ubiquitously accepted as payments. That's been the fundamental limiter. Even today, stablecoins/cash tokens aren't a good payment option--we need a way to make digital, programmable cash universally adopted. Bank-powered cash tokens are one way of doing that, and it's one that works well with the existing financial systems --which is critically important for adoption. I think that in a lot of ways, the rise of RWAs is a return to the age-old narrative of smart contracts replacing societal agreements. It's just hard to see it amongst all the Web3 innovation (which is largely removed still from everything else in the world). TL;DR: Tokenize everything, but cash (real, adopted, utile cash) is the most important thing to tokenize. Then all these tokens can be used in smart contracts, which are just superior forms of agreements, and will eventually replace every single business agreement out there. It's that simple in concept, quite difficult in execution.

I've run out of things to post about @chainlink just feeling cozy about it all we've already won, and very few people realize it iykyk (it's an open secret)

whoa $link is sending not even raising an eyebrow til ATHs but it’s looking good boys

.@chainlink is fundamentally misunderstood or not fully understood by almost everyone who's not deeply into it. I'm not sure how to bridge this gap, but it's definitely worth a try.

$bnkr airdrop for the real ones follow, like, and comment below to be considered

Impossible to refute the @chainlink thesis at this point. To make a utile asset onchain, you need: >Chainlinked price data >Chainlinked cross-chain >Chainlinked compliance Then add money legos: >Chainlinked perps >Chainlinked lending >Chainlinked composability few

So it begins….

@chainlink is probably the best project in the entire industry when it comes to listening to its users every single Chainlink service was borne out of user needs now the regulatory Great Wall is coming down, and the financial sector is Chainlink's target user do you see it yet

This is how I feel when CT continues ignoring @chainlink. 1. 60%+ oracle market share (total btw) 2. Verifiable work w/ top finance companies 3. Tailored solutions to every TradFi painpoint 4. Clear government/regulatory angle Only & best bridge between DeFi <> TradFi few.

every single financial application you can think of in the future will use @chainlink even if they don’t now, they will

Chainlink has won most just don’t realize it yet bc apparently they do not follow @chainlink

can you feel all the world's value coming onchain? because I sure can. @chainlink is inevitable always has been, always will be.

Funny how @chainlink CCIP GA was just the beginning Currently there are 9 chains integrated 9 chains worth of network effects Imagine thousands

Use any blockchain you want, we don’t care. @chainlink is not the economic center. It will never be that. It’s just the oil, the pipes, the roads, the planes, the trains of this new economy. 100,000 blockchains but only 1 connectivity standard.

my $bnkr score: #79 gotta growth hack these numbers airdropping $50 of $bnkr (total) to people who follow, like & repost below.

gm if there's one thing about @chainlink, it's that we've never lost sight of the end goal. Every asset. every chain. every use case. CRE is coming, and it'll change everything.

$bnkr airdrop in ~24 hours. Follow, like, then comment. One person wins it all (best way to do it).

.@chainlink comes out with an endgame blog and I still haven’t had the chance to read it definitely going to be a banger but when I do, it’s so over for the other $LINK bull posters

There are two types of dApps: Those that have been hacked, and those that use @chainlink

I think #Chainlink CCIP is the opportunity for crypto Blockchains are literally using it as their canonical token bridge That's insane.

Yeah…. @chainlink is inevitable

gm to all the @chainlink enjoyers. It's a good day to be 77.7% complete.

Like @ChainlinkP says: people don't understand the sheer scale at which @chainlink will operate. Internet. Ships. Cars. Planes. Roads. Computers. Infra is the most important, yet least talked about 'stuff' in the world. every chain. every asset. every country. all chainlinked.

the most telling sign of @chainlink’s role in the upcoming RWA mega trend is this: nobody else has as clear of an idea of how it’s going to happen other projects: regulation is here, how do we position ourselves chainlink: regulation is here. here’s how it’ll play out from now

is it just me or has the @chainlink account been on some different type of energy lately we love to see it

big news

I think the launch of CRE will signal the beginning of @chainlink's endgame: to power all modern financial workflows as the world transitions to tokenization.

"do you know how to use @chainlink "

@chainlink CRE is the most excited I've been about Chainlink in a long while, and that's saying something. planning to drop a long post soon

there are 100+ @chainlink Build projects btw ifykyk

in my mind there is no world where tokenized assets succeed and @chainlink fails one requires the other

44% of value hacked in Web3 was due to cross-chain or oracle exploits 100% didn’t use @chainlink

imagine not using @chainlink do you want to be taken seriously?

Knew this would happen since 2017. I was just early. Smart contracts are called contracts for a reason. Of course you can embed policy requirements/checks directly into them. The effects of this will be widespread and profound, and as always, powered by @chainlink

#SmartCon 2023 Hacker House by @Chainlink the devs are devving 💻

I have $500 worth of $RON just sitting in my wallet. @Ronin_Network fam please tell me what I should do with it

imagine fading $bnkr I ride or die with the ship (many such cases of both) might be a good time to repost and like this post btw

Onboarded my little brother onto $bnkr yesterday. He's not crypto-native at all. Still in college, near-zero funds to play with, and simply does what I tell him to. I set him up with a bankr wallet and club membership. He loves it. Already did limit orders AND automation.

the minute hyperliquid integrates @chainlink i will be absolutely insufferable i will never shut up about it (this is not alpha, i don't have insight into this)

Preparations for a magical weekend of experiences for #SmartCon 2023 attendees

.@Chainlink is needed to build the golden record because Chainlink verifies the goldenness of the record before it is put onchain Then that goldenness verification must be transferred anywhere it’s needed

there's no world where crypto succeeds at scale and @chainlink doesn't I truly believe this

I'll say this again and again. Everybody know Bitcoin. Bitcoin is the first crypto people buy. Bitcoin will be a hundred trillion dollar asset. And the only way to earn yield on Bitcoin will be using @chainlink powered protocols.

the banks own all the money btw @chainlink them all

I need to learn how to build on @chainlink CRE is the answer to it all

A visualization of Chainlink Price Feed's VWAP methodology. Most prices won't work like this, but it shows how CPF aggregate prices across exchanges to provide an fair-market average price. This is with 5 hypothetical data sources (CPF uses hundreds), and wildly implausible fluctuations

If security is king in crypto, @chainlink is the emperor

gm daily reminder there are thousands of chains and only one @chainlink aave is deployed on ethereum, avax, base, etc but uses only chainlink surprisingly few people understand this

gm Happy $bnkr all-time high (again) to those who celebrate! Airdrop in 24 hours for those who comment, repost, and follow 🫶

endgame: >banks make stablecoins, onchain dollars reign supreme >there’s now a distinction between JPMdollar and CitiDollar >@chainlink becomes interoperability/abstraction standard for canonical onchain USD >pay for anything with onchain dollars directly from bank/applepay

way I see it, step one is to connect all the banks going onchain with @chainlink then connect all the chains to each other using Chainlink then connect them both together using Chainlink all economic activity needs Chainlink Chainlink eats the world 🍽️

Fed saying no CBDCs + focus on stablecoins = Banks are the vehicle for USD tokenization Get ready for JPMCoin and CitiCoin, they're gonna need @chainlink for standardization

I was going to make a list of how many financial institutions in the space have touchpoints with @chainlink to some extent (i.e., co-reports, PoCs, pilots) Then I got overwhelmed cause there were too many and it was too much to list them all.

Strip it all away and @chainink is first and foremost a platform for developers. Financial institution? Your devs will build with Chainlink. DeFi? Same thing. The CRE is being built to be crack for developers. Can’t wait:

BANKR now lets you airdrop on the timeline? pretty insane aight let's test this out: @bankrbot please give $1 of ETH to the first 20 people who comment below.

Consider @chainlink CRE as aiming to become the coordinator behind all onchain operations api to chain Chain to chain Existing system to chain chain here = any and all blockchains if this gets adopted at scale, it’ll be the single most useful tool for any dev going onchain

The ones who use @chainlink CCIP best will be the kings of DeFi protocols, gaming ecosystems, social media upstarts, NFT collections, and more. The benefits of going cross-chain are seriously underrated.

POV: you solved the tradfi connection problem and the SEC just gave a blanket “yessir” to DeFi >Enabling compliance by providing on-chain identity proofs and matching them against various policies from two different jurisdictions and regulatory frameworks. @chainlink wins again

$XRP is the most successful memecoin of all time outside of Bitcoin And that would be fine if its narrative made that clear But the fact that its narrative is tied to some kind of “fundamental” revenue/adoption narrative with banks means that it is a house of cards switch to $LINK

7 things I personally took away from CNBC's Bitcoin ETF video after understanding how capital markets think about crypto/blockchain through @chainlink: 1. Larry Fink, BlackRock CEO, is a Bitcoin maxi. He really said “Bitcoin is an alternative source for wealth holding” and then goes on to call it “digital gold” and a hedge against inflation, geopolitical risk, personal risk, etc. This is the Bitcoin maxi narrative. Except this time it’s being said by the CEO of BlackRock. Insane. 2. @Coinbase is winning. Type in “BTC ETF tracker” on Google. Coinbase is the custodian for Bitcoin ETFs. They hold it for Grayscale, BlackRock, and BitWise—3 out of the five top ETFs by assets. Congratulations to Coinbase, the winningest custodian of crypto assets for the financial industry. I suspect this will only continue. 3. An ETH ETF is on the table. Larry Fink also really said “I see value in having an ETH ETF.” Definitely a far cry from an assurance, but let’s be real—if you have a BTC ETF, it’s not so crazy to have an ETH ETF. Especially when he followed it up by saying that it’s the stepping stone to tokenize every asset. 4. The plan is to tokenize every asset. Every meaning all of them. Tokenized RWAs are going to be a thing. Larry Fink knows it. I know it. @Chainlink knows it. Hundreds of trillions of assets are going to get tokenized. It’ll take time, but it’s as inevitable as the Internet. The only question is how, where, and when this tokenization will take place. There’s no “if”. 5. Institutions are building their own blockchains. There’s been a lot of talk about banks using Ethereum as their settlement layer/where they tokenize these assets. I mean, maybe? JPM Coin, the stablecoin for the largest bank in America, handles $1B a day on a private blockchain, and it doesn’t seem like they’ll stop anytime soon. DTCC, the largest securities clearance and settlement house in the world, acquired its own ‘tokenization platform’ for (imo) this exact purpose. 6. Tokenizing assets is a different ballgame. Making BTC ETFs is one thing. You just have Coinbase store the assets like they do already (Coinbase are the real innovators here). Tokenizing them yourselves and doing stuff like DeFi is another thing, and crypto is massively ahead in innovation. JPM Coin’s crowning achievement is letting a specific group of customers move JPM Coin (stablecoin) in real-time—the most basic functionality of crypto. 7. Chainlink is needed for this next step in tokenization. Why is crypto so much further ahead in innovation? Simple: it’s all new money – crypto money. Old money has old standards that don’t reconcile with tokens. Notice how BTC ETFs are making tokens compatible with the old system (ETFs), not the old system compatible with tokens (tokenized assets). Chainlink is how old talks to new. Old money is also generally more secure. You don’t see people randomly losing their life savings in the old system.

Been doing deep research into stablecoins, regulation, and capital markets/banking adoption of crypto tech. @chainlink is years ahead of the curve on this one, and tbh always has been.

The @chainlink community has the best memes No contest

millions of coins thousands of chains trillions of dollars one interoperability standard @chainlink.

I'm excited to announce that I've joined @WolvesDAO , a community of some of the smartest, most dedicated individuals in Web3 gaming. My goal in this community is to help educate enthusiasts on the role of smart contract and @chainlink technology within blockchain games and soak in as much knowledge as I can from the many game design and economy experts who are part of the Wolves. Shoutout already to @SinjinDavidJung for opening my eyes up to the terrifying challenge of designing open game economies and @freaz7 for sliding into the dms just to chat. Super grateful to be accepted into the Wolves!

#Chainlink VRF is a paradigm-shifting technology and almost noone really realizes it 🧵