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The thesis of Chainlink is completely different today than its early years. How it started: A single data oracle service How it's going: The Web3 cloud powering entire apps Chainlink started out simple, providing existing data on to blockchains. Onchain apps used that data to make decisions like whether to liquidate a loan or how to settle a perp. Chainlink then expanded into different types of computation (e.g., random number generation, keeper automation) before launching its cross-chain protocol. However, those were only building blocks to a much, much bigger value proposition emerging. With the introduction of the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE), Chainlink is primed to be the main way developers and institutions both build onchain apps and power them through their lifecycle. Chainlink is no longer just a service or even set of services, but the foundation underpinning onchain apps and use cases. It’s akin to the cloud but decentralized and for onchain apps, providing them the development framework for building apps, the key services they require, and the computation that powers them on the backend. But why is this important? And why is Chainlink doing this? The blockchain landscape is changing. You used to use a single blockchain as your cloud-like environment. But now there are hundreds of chains and you want to be able to interact across them all. Transactions are also more complex with the introduction of tokenized real-world assets (RWAs). This is the phenomenon of all the world’s existing value becoming tokenized, which is 100x the value that currently exists onchain. Thus, you must adopt RWAs if you want to succeed in this industry long term at any scale. However, the introduction of RWAs requires new services. They require data like DeFi, but even more types of data, such as proof of reserves, net asset value, and much more. They also require compliance policies built into the asset itself and the services transacting them, which naturally needs identity data to work. Furthermore, they need privacy features, connectivity across chains, and integrations with legacy systems. The best way to build an app like this is through a single platform that is chain-agnostic and has all the key services already built-in. This is Chainlink. Chainlink is the only all in one platform where institutions can solve all their data, cross-chain, compliance/identity, privacy, and legacy system integration requirements. And importantly, they can combine these service into one sequential workflow (i.e., one piece of code) that Chainlink runs securely end-to-end in a decentralized manner. This workflow is essentially an app that interacts seamlessly across chains and legacy systems while leveraging key services along its lifecycle. Once you build this workflow, you can easily reuse it and modify it to support new customers, new chains, new legacy systems, new oracle data, new use cases, etc without rewriting it all. It’s by far the most efficient and future-proof way to not only build DeFi apps, but apps for tokenized RWAs, which are the future of our industry. This value prop puts Chainlink at the heart of onchain applications; far beyond just being a side service. The market doesn’t quite understand yet how well Chainlink is positioned, but it will because its product offering, vision, and historical track record of delivering solutions meshes perfectly with where the industry is heading and what TradFi & DeFi require to succeed in this new RWA paradigm.

I believe the bull case for $LINK is straightforward, I would distill the thesis down to: 1. Chainlink continues to expand its dominant market share as the critical infra platform powering the most important crypto use cases (institutional DeFi, RWA tokenization, prediction markets, stablecoins, etc) 2. Growing demand for Chainlink's data, interop, privacy, compliance, & orchestration services leads to increasing demand for LINK tokens (native payments, programmatic buybacks, staking collateral, etc) 3. LINK is a digital commodity whose total supply is capped at 1 billion, meaning when growing demand combined with expanding supply sinks outpaces available on-market supply → buyers must raise their bids to find a willing seller 4. All 1 billion LINK tokens can only be acquired from someone who already owns it, no new units can be printed → demand-drive scarcity becomes an inherent property of the asset In short, the thesis is that $LINK becomes increasingly scarce as the value that the Chainlink platform generates is captured by the token Naturally, this story will need to prove itself over time, job's not done But the hardest part is not perfecting the economics today (this can always be fine-tuned), it's becoming the indispensable industry standard whose value is unquestionable. The economics will naturally flow from there As former Google CEO Eric Schmidt put it at Chainlink's SmartCon 2022: "Give me a hundred million users, and I will find a way to monetize them"

Now Chainlinked: ✅ Europe’s largest asset manager + tokenized fund platform

@Spiko_finance @Amundi_FR Huge

Together with @Amundi_FR, Europe’s largest asset manager, we’re thrilled to introduce the Spiko Amundi Overnight Swap Fund, or SAFO, a new tokenized fund optimized for cash and collateral management. 🏛 UCITS-compliant. 🔄 Built on fully collateralized total return swaps with global systemically important banks, starting with BNP Paribas. 💰 Offering stable yields above risk-free benchmarks and overnight liquidity. Available in four currencies, with subscriptions/redemptions from as little as 1 EUR, USD, GBP, or CHF. ⛓ On-chain shareholder register, providing real-time transparency, flexible custody options, and 24/7 borderlerless transferability of fund shares. ⚡ Programmatic access via API and smart contracts.

Chainlink is the chosen infrastructure by: ✅Amundi — 2.3€ trillion AUM and Europe's largest asset manager ✅Spiko — $1.2 B TVL Amundi and Spiko are launching a new tokenized mutual fund (SAFO) powered by Chainlink. LINK Everything

Top 10 asset manager in the world now Chainlinked. Few

JUST IN: The U.S. @SECGov and @CFTC issue a joint interpretation officially classifying the LINK token as a digital commodity. We congratulate the SEC and CFTC on this landmark milestone that provides a clear legal framework for the institutional adoption of digital assets.

It's wild how quickly the regulatory environment has shifted in Chainlink's favor ✅ Grayscale $GLNK ETF launch ✅ Bitwise $CLNK ETF launch ✅ CME $LINK futures launch ✅ Sergey appointed to @CFTC Innovation Advisory Committee ✅ Taylor Lindman appointed to @SEC Crypto Task Force ✅ Chainlink highlighted in White House digital asset report ✅ Sergey and co regularly in D.C. meeting with U.S. regulators, legislators, & policy makers ✅ Chainlink joins @BlockchainAssn & @DigitalChamber lobbying groups ✅ Sergey gives public remarks at White House Digital Asset Summit ✅ SEC issues interpretive guidance based on meetings with Chainlink And so much more Here's the receipts 🧵👇

CHAINLINK: Delivering Privacy’s End-Game @SergeyNazarov called lack of privacy "the greatest barrier holding back large-scale institutional adoption of onchain finance."

3 days. 5 headlines. • Bank of England selects Chainlink for Synchronisation Lab • Robinhood adopts Chainlink as its oracle platform • CFTC appoints Sergey to IAC • Ondo adopts Chainlink for its tokenized stocks/ETFs • Polymarket launches new Chainlink-powered markets

Most solutions offer a single capability. Chainlink delivers it all.

JUST ANNOUNCED: Chainlink has been selected to participate in the Bank of England’s Synchronisation Lab. Chainlink is supporting synchronized settlement between central bank money and onchain securities. This is how the UK financial system moves onchain.

NYSE-listed Chainlink $LINK ETFs now hold more than 1.1% of the circulating supply Both the Grayscale $GLNK and Bitwise $CLNK ETFs have seen consistent inflows and zero net outflows since launch CME Futures for $LINK launch next week, further expanding institutional access

Chainlink began as a solution to a specific problem: blockchains can't securely access external data. That problem is largely solved, the harder problem now is coordinating execution across systems. Just covered them in the latest Messari report; here’s how the @Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) works.

JUST SHIPPED: Chainlink 24/5 U.S. Equities Streams brings the ~$80T U.S. equities market onchain. Fast, secure stock & ETF data is now live across 40+ chains—24 hours a day, 5 days a week. Trusted by @lighter_xyz, @BitMEX, @OfficialApeXdex, & more. 🧵 blog.chain.link/chainlink-24-5…

@tom777kruise Nice thoughts. Agree with alot, but might stretch timeline to 7-10 years. Really agree with boutique schooling/work history being the superior learning path. I'd add that people check out of politics cause fake/nothing happens and shift to self & community (local & digital).

2026-30 predictions -globalism is dead. resilience is the new god. countries and individuals are racing for sovereign compute and mineral sovereignty. if you can't produce your own energy, food, and intelligence locally, you're a vassal -the winner in robotics is the company whose humanoids can navigate a messy, 70s built warehouse. general purpose labor becomes a purchasable SKU, starting in logistics and moving toward elderly care -the west stops moralizing about mining and starts treating lithium, cobalt, and copper with the same ruthless blood for oil energy of the 20th century -the line between peace and war permanently dissolves. conflict shifts to gray zone operations. constant cyber attrition, undersea cable "accidents" and satellite interference. no more grand declarations, just a baseline of chaos -the internet officially splinters. you now have the "open web" (chaotic, bot heavy, western), the "fortress web" (highly censored, eastern), and the "sovereign web" (encrypted, boutique, and high trust) -neuralink and its competitors move from clinical trials to high performance enhancement for the wealthy. the augmented vs natural cognitive divide begins to show its first cracks in the social fabric -control over freshwater sources becomes the primary driver of regional skirmishes, replacing traditional border disputes -corporations with bigger balance sheets than countries (the big 5) begin negotiating directly with governments for territorial autonomy to host their own data centers and energy grids -the alliance between the New Tech Right and traditional populism fractures. SV realizes that nationalism is bad for the global talent flow they need for AGI. they pivot toward techno statehood and local city states. -being unreachable is the new wealth. the always-on worker is seen as a low level cog -content with errors, rough edges, and physical presence becomes 10x more valuable than polished, AI generated perfection -the Ivy League degree finally loses its power for good. Proof of Work becomes the only resume that matters -high performers begin taking analog sabbats. deleting all apps for a month to reset dopamine receptors. a requirement for mental elite status -after a year of AI-slop, the low-fi aesthetic wins. grainy film, handwritten notes, and physical gatherings become the only signs of authenticity -micro schools and high level apprenticeship guilds replace the bloated university model. learning becomes a high stakes, boutique experience -physical neighborhoods begin self organizing around shared values (techno-optimism, homeschooling, fitness, etc) rather than just proximity -infinite scroll is viewed with the same social stigma as indoor smoking -massive cultural pivot back to the importance of circadian rhythms, mineral balance, and real world movement as the bio-hacks that actually work -AI is no longer a tech trend. it’s a national utility like electricity. small, high IQ nations pull ahead by building proprietary national models, while large bureaucracies choke on regulation -high production value is now synonymous with fake or corporate. the most viral content is raw, unedited, and intentionally flawed. if it looks like it could have been made by an AI, it’s ignored

2025: Chainlink dominates onchain finance 🧵

Starting today, I’m launching a weekly series that unpacks each analogy on this slide. Every company shown changed the world by fixing the obvious problems in front of them, and @chainlink is on that same path. These posts are designed so you can explain crypto to your parents or to anyone who knows “Bitcoin” and not much more. Welcome to the "Tag Your Dad" campaign.

Tokenization is accelerating — and @chainlink is one of the key technologies making it possible. Zach Pandl @lowbeta joined @CNBC to discuss the role Chainlink plays as traditional assets migrate on-chain.

If you want the ultimate $LINK-pill deep-dive, you must read this report: 📚 pages.chain.link/hubfs/e/The_Or… 63 pages that touches everything you need to know about the Chainlink thesis in 2025, from vision and tech to adoption and economics If you ever read The God Protocol by @Crypto___Oracle back in the day, you can consider this a complementary updated paper If a pitch-deck style format is more your slide, don’t worry, I got you covered: 📊 pages.chain.link/hubfs/e/Overvi…

I believe Chainlink has real product market fit as an ETF because its aiming for long term success and viability. Less serious projects like say Doge don't really apeal to retirement funds. People who want that kind of exposure just go on Robinhood and look at it like gambling.