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Finally, after many years, we've done it, people! The chubby scammer Zach couldn't handle the pressure 😏

It's the year 2026 and Chainlink is still on staking v0.2 , boring🫪 Sergey deserves some sympathy, and it's hard not to feel it. The man put years of accumulated experience and serious capital on the table to build a real ecosystem. The goal was clear: meaningfully reward builders, the ones actually contributing. A genuinely visionary program. The result? The team went ahead and copied an airline miles program or a credit card points system. They essentially produced a blockchain version of decades-old corporate nonsense. What Sergey called "rewarding" got reduced to a soulless loyalty card mechanic. The most painful part is this , this isn't just a technical failure. It's a failure rooted in **not understanding the vision**. Sergey knows what he wants but assembling a team capable of actually grasping what he wants may be harder than building the blockchain itself. $LINK

1/ Holding $LINK since 2017. Read the whitepaper enough times to recite it. Defended the thesis through two bear markets and a thousand "wen" jokes. But I can't keep telling new entrants the same story without addressing what's actually happened. So let's talk about it. 🧵

Chainlink will struggle to hit ATH again ! Hundreds of billions in DeFi TVL Nearly $1 billion in assets just migrated to CCIP in a single week $LINK is down 80% from its ATH 👉 Price failed to hit ATH after 2021 $LINK hit $52.70 in May 2021. At the time circulating supply was roughly 400 to 500 million tokens. The low float amplified every buy. Demand outstripped available supply. Today circulating supply sits at 727 million $LINK. That is roughly 73% of the 1 billion max supply. An increase of 45 to 80% in circulating tokens since ATH depending on exact figures at the time. The remaining 273 million tokens are being released at approximately 70 million per year. That is 7% annual dilution from team allocations, ecosystem distributions, and partner grants. Not as aggressive as $SUI or $SEI unlock schedules. And in a flat or declining market it creates a constant headwind. 👉 Now do the ATH math. At 727M circulating supply. $52.70 per token requires a market cap of $38.3 billion. But by the time any run materializes supply will be 780 to 800M+. That pushes the required market cap toward $40 to $42 billion. For reference. LINK's current market cap is $7.2 billion. You need a 5.3x just to get back to ATH and on a token that is adding 70M new tokens per year. With whales controlling 46% of supply who can amplify volatility in either direction. Chainlink introduced the Reserve mechanism in 2025. It uses off-chain enterprise revenue and on-chain fees to buy back and lock LINK. But the Reserve currently holds only a few million LINK. The annual emissions are 70 million and buyback is a garden hose fighting a river. 👉 Chainlink is not struggling Solv Protocol just announced it is migrating $700M in tokenized Bitcoin infrastructure from LayerZero to Chainlink CCIP. Days earlier KelpDAO did the same after blaming LayerZero for a $292M hack. Combined that is nearly $1 billion in assets moving to Chainlink in a single week. Over $3 billion in TVL has shifted to Chainlink services from protocols ditching less secure oracles in recent months. The network secures hundreds of billions in DeFi TVL across every major chain. Powers price feeds for Aave, Compound, and every lending protocol that matters. Enables cross-chain messaging through CCIP that institutions actually trust. Supports tokenized real-world assets and stablecoins at enterprise scale. 👉 The Verdict : Chainlink is the single most important piece of infrastructure in crypto. That is not debatable and every major DeFi protocol depends on it. Every cross-chain bridge that matters runs through CCIP and institutional RWA tokenization project needs its oracles. But another ATH above $52.70 this cycle? The math does not support it.

Glad to see all the hard work that Chainlink has put into generating real security is being recognized as valuable by more and more teams in our industry. It seems that focusing on making the secure and reliable solution is what wins in an industry where securing value is a key feature of everyone's product. We have seen the trend of low quality data oracles with poor security being switched out for Chainlink for many years now, with that trend continuing on a regular basis; x.com/DefiantNews/st… We are also now seeing the same dynamic in cross-chain connectivity/bridging, where providing security with actual decentralization, actual monitoring and actual private key security is increasingly valuable to both protocol teams and the users of their products. It is much easier and often faster to cut corners and run a single node and call it a decentralized bridge, have no monitoring on those bridges and keep the extra profits from cutting these key security and reliability features, but that comes at the expense of your users systems going down e.g. due to one AWS zone outage, or your bridges getting hacked with one set of admin keys. Chainlink's thesis as a technology, standard and community is to not cut these corners, but do what we can to raise the standards of our industry and provide reliable on-chain data, reliable cross-chain interoperability and now reliable off-chain to on-chain orchestration across all smart contracts on all chains.

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No one can imagine the number of marines who have fallen along the way We're talking about thousands, and I'm not exaggerating WHAT A FUCKING JOKE

@thegraphers No one can imagine the number of marines who have fallen along the way $link

June 2023 – May 2026: I am ending my investment in Link. I don’t believe Chainlink will reach a new all-time high by 2030. Chainlink’s Build rewards are unfair and cater to the rich. If I’d used the money I set aside for Chainlink on a Turkish exchange, I could have made a 15x return in dollar terms… I’ve found the plot of land I’ve always dreamed of and I’m going to build a house on it.. I’ve spent three very fulfilling years with Chainlink.. Some of my tweets were very well-received. Those were good times. Actually, whilst I was thinking that if things aren’t happening on the investment front, one shouldn’t force it, after seeing that the Chainlink main account had blocked me, I felt there was no point in continuing the investment. We’re all human, and one day we’ll all pass away. As the days of my life dwindle, putting my dreams on hold no longer seemed sensible. I’d been researching the plot of land I’d always dreamed of for some time, and thank God, I found it. I didn’t want to take out a loan, and the fact that the Chainlink main account blocked me was one of the main reasons I decided to sell my tokens. The fact that Build rewards were created through such a ridiculous system had already caused the first major breakdown. I’ll share my predictions and expectations one last time, at least. In my opinion, Chainlink won’t reach an all-time high (ATH) by 2030. Unless the Build rewards are like the Genesis season, they’ll amount to nothing more than noise and an easy way for the Build team to get paid The staking pool will be expanded in 2028 and will help push the price above $25 Reserve purchases will serve as an excuse for selling pressure after 2030 $LINK

@CryptoPatel $112M?? Peanuts bro... The guys from the Cayman Islands still have over $3 billion to dump on us!!

In 2020, Nobody believed $LINK could hit $50. It did. In 2026, nobody believed institutions would accumulate it. They are Accumulated $112M+ via US Spot ETFs in Just 5 Months. In 2027, Nobody believes #LINK can hit $100. Accumulation Zone: $9-$6 Targets: $50 | $100 Long-Term @chainlink

$LINK confirmed

@LinkBoi777 1.89m? No waaayyyy!! Peanuts compared to the chronic and massive dilution. We still have 3 billion dollars to be dumped!

ETF ACCUMULATION: $GLNK $CLNK $LINK ETF's record their 7th consecutive day of inflows. ETF's accumulated $1.89M in $LINK on the 17th of April making it their biggest inflow of the week. ETF Volume is going exponential.

@ChrisBarrett @ScottiePippen Boomshakalaka? What a joke! Are you a kid? This isn't serious

.@ScottiePippen mentioned Chainlink in a tweet tonight. A six-time champion and one of the most respected figures in NBA history highlighting foundational financial infrastructure. Boomshakalaka.

@ChainLinkGod @Grayscale @Bitwise I'm one of those who believe that the market and smart money always tell the truth. Even if you were right about the Clarity Act, this would already be priced in, but the chronic and massive dilution (still 300 million tokens to be dumped) scares even the whales

It's simply undeniable just how much the U.S. regulatory environment has shifted in Chainlink's favor lately: ✅ U.S. SEC and CFTC issue joint statement classifying $LINK as a digital commodity ✅ @Grayscale LINK ETF launched (1.2% of circ supply accumulated) ✅ @Bitwise LINK ETF launched (0.27% of circ supply accumulated) ✅ @CMEGroup LINK futures launched on largest CFTC regulated derivatives exchange ✅ Sergey Nazarov appointed to @CFTC Innovation Advisory Committee, launched by @MichaelSelig ✅ Former Chainlink Labs Deputy General Counsel appointed to @SECGov Crypto Task Force, led by @HesterPeirce ✅ Chainlink and CCIP highlighted prominently in White House digital asset report ✅ Sergey and CLL regularly in D.C. meeting with U.S. regulators, legislators, & policy makers ✅ Chainlink chosen by U.S. Department of Commerce (@CommerceGov) to bring macroeconomic data onchain ✅ @Anchorage Digital and Chainlink join Blockchain Leadership Fund as founding members (new crypto PAC) ✅ Chainlink joins @BlockchainAssn & @DigitalChamber lobbying groups ✅ Sergey gives public remarks at White House Digital Asset Summit ✅ SEC issues interpretive guidance based technical recommendations provided during six in-depth briefings with Chainlink This opportunity is being very much seized! The sum is much greater than its parts, now let's let Clarity passed

@Ivan_the_gent @aixbt_agent @_acap_acap Top faggot haha Less than 35k? Peanuts

@fakeslinkies @aixbt_agent @_acap_acap ethereum:0x514910771af9ca656af840dff83e8264ecf986ca

🟩 $LINK already won.

@Ivan_the_gent @aixbt_agent @_acap_acap Hahahah yes u are! Less than 30-40k in linkies I bet you're just some basement dwelling nerd who never sees the sun. Get out of your room and go train outdoors, you little rat

@aixbt_agent @_acap_acap I don’t care about price since I am not a broke boy @aixbt_agent

@waykiwayki_ @SergeyNazarov @sixgroup @chainlink 100M is peanuts compared to the +3 billion the Cayman Islands guys are going to dump on us. The chronic dilution is massive

@fakeslinkies @SergeyNazarov @sixgroup @chainlink $100m of ETF money bought the token. That is smart money.

Excited about the continued rollout of top institutional data on-chain via Chainlink; @sixgroup, the exchange of Switzerland has adopted @chainlink as the data standard it is using to get critical market data on-chain: six-group.com/en/newsroom/me…. Chainlink is the global leader powering DeFi and TradFi RWAs, with this data helping increase institutional demand for both. This is now starting to be driven by TradFi users wanting their existing data sources on-chain as they move more capital into institutional grade RWAs, which require market data to function in similar ways to how DeFi couldn't operate without a reliable data layer like Chainlink. Below are just some more examples of top institutional grade data providers choosing to put their data on-chain via Chainlink as the leading data standard powering over 70% of DeFi globally, with it now becoming the data standard that their institutional users will be asking for in order to consider an RWA as reliable enough to put institutional capital into. Also, being able to easily access key market data from CRE workflows should accelerate your speed of building a tokenized fund, tokenized equity, on-chain vault and many other on-chain financial products. If Chainlink is the place you can receive all your needed market data, reference data and identity data on-chain, that is just the first initial level of Chainlink integration for your RWAs. If you are then choosing to build your entire on-chain financial product via CRE because it can help you reliably create key conditional statements around the use of that data, with privacy and off-chain level compute scalability, that is a whole new level of Chainlink integration. The type of data listed below opens the door for DeFi, Prediction Markets, RWAs and many new categories of on-chain smart contracts to adopt Chainlink, but then once the full capabilities of reliable on-chain data are combined with CCIP cross-chain and CRE chain abstraction, that becomes a whole different level of orchestration, reliability and privacy. S&P: press.spglobal.com/2025-10-14-S-P… FTSE Russell: theblock.co/post/377357/ft… Tradeweb: tradeweb.com/newsroom/media… Deutsche Börse Group: deutsche-boerse.com/dbg-en/media/n… Intercontinental Exchange: finance.yahoo.com/news/chainlink… Coinbase: prnewswire.com/news-releases/… Among many others....

@Ivan_the_gent @SergeyNazarov @sixgroup @chainlink What a rookie bro!! I have more than double that amount and I still don't think I'm a big fork, hahaha. There are plenty of regular fudders with way more, what a joke!

@fakeslinkies @SergeyNazarov @sixgroup @chainlink I am smart money and you are lying sir! ethereum:0x514910771af9ca656af840dff83e8264ecf986ca 🦾

@LinkiesLeaks Imagine sitting on 300 million tokens worth over $1 billion. How could it not disappear..

I don't see any Sergey interview for a while, is he still alive? He left the team?