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Nicky Kang
@0xNickyKang
Developer Marketing at @ChainlinkLabs | Former Chainlink Community Manager, South Korea🇰🇷 @ | All opinions are my own 🙏📸🏓🎧🪭
Seoul Katılım Mart 2022
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Securing value in DeFi as an infra provider is hard. One thing I've learned after 6 years in this industry is that eventually everyone drops the ball in a bad way ......except Chainlink
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Chainlink@chainlink
Chainlink’s wins to start 2026: • Big Users: Amundi, Polymarket, Coinbase, Aave • More Adoption: Prediction markets, tokenized RWAs, derivatives • New Products: 24/5 U.S. Equities, 24/7 FX Data • Reserve Growth: 1.4M+ $LINK added Full Q1 recap: blog.chain.link/quarterly-revi…
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Chainlink’s mission from day one: build the most secure & decentralized infra to safely scale DeFi into a trillion-dollar industry.
This uncompromising approach to security is what makes Chainlink CCIP the industry-standard for cross-chain interop.
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blog.chain.link/ccip-cross-cha…
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@chainlink CCIP has never lost money. That's it. That's the tweet.
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AWS is not only mentioning, but recommending their enterprise clients use the Chainlink Runtime Environment.
The global orchestration layer, the gateway where institutions, corporates, and enterprise customers actually enter blockchain, the toll booth that sits above all of it regardless of which chain they settle on, that’s where the value accrues. AWS is already pointing their customers there.
The common protocol for all of it is Chainlink. Most people are going to realize that late. ethereum:0x514910771af9ca656af840dff83e8264ecf986ca
aws.amazon.com/blogs/web3/bri…
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A couple questions for @LayerZero_Core about the recent $290M exploit:
1. How exactly did North Korea (DPRK) gain access to your core node & RPC servers on your supposedly hardened infrastructure? What was their initial access?
2. How did your endpoint detection (EDR) and cloud monitoring not detect this intrusion? Were these not running in these critical systems?
3. How long did the DPRK have persistence on the LayerZero infrastructure without being detected?
4. What other systems, data, code, and internal sensitive customer information did they access? If they were on your cloud infra, it stands to reason they also had access to your internal tools (GDrive, Email, Slack, etc).
Thanks
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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....
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지난 10년간 성공한 리테일 플랫폼들은 결국 하나의 방향으로 수렴해왔습니다. 단일 계정과 UI, 그리고 광범위한 자산 커버리지와 깊은 유동성입니다.
하지만 아직 온체인에서는 주식, 지수, 원자재, FX, 지역별 단일 종목까지 모두를 Perp로 24/7 거래하면서도, 높은 실행 퀄리티를 갖춘 통합 플랫폼은 존재하지 않습니다.
여러 플랫폼을 오가야 하는 불편함은 결국 사라지고, “하나의 계정에서 모든 자산을 거래”하는 시대가 올 것입니다. 그리고 그 기회를 먼저 잡는 곳이 트레이딩의 판을 바꿀 것입니다.
@variational_io 이 그 변화를 만들어갈 첫 번째 플랫폼이 될 것이며, 곧 공유드릴 Variational의 비전과 RWA 시장을 위한 3단계 롤아웃에도 많은 기대 부탁드립니다.
LVS@variational_lvs
Every durable retail platform of the last decade has converged on the same product direction: a single account, a single UI, and the broadest possible asset menu with the deepest available liquidity. IB's "universal broker" positioning across 150+ markets drives ~25% YoY account growth. eToro sells itself on equities, crypto, ETFs, CFDs in one app. SoFi members using 2+ products retain and monetize materially better. Hyperliquid's own move from perps-only into spot, HIP-3 RWA markets, and a superapp direction tracks the same pattern. What no venue (especially on-chain) offers today is that consolidation with high-quality execution in perpetual futures across every RWA the user wants to trade. Traders juggle a Korean broker for KRX names, Robinhood or IBKR for US equities, an FX platform for currencies, a CFD provider for indices, and a crypto exchange for perps--each with its own balance, margin, tax, and UX. The first venue that delivers tight, stable execution across equities, global indices, commodities, FX, and regional single-names **as perpetuals, in one account, 24/7** will capture a massive increase in demand. Not because retail doesn't know what they want, but because until now no one could make the long tail liquid. More to come about the Variational Vision and our three-stage rollout for RWA markets.
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As expected, LayerZero is deflecting responsibility that their own DVN node infrastructure was compromised and caused a $290M bridge exploit
They throw KelpDAO under the bus for the crime of trusting the LayerZero Labs DVN, a 1/1 setup they willingly supported and only blocked after getting hacked, all while claiming everything worked as designed
Claiming there was no contagion is just the cherry on top
LayerZero@LayerZero_Core
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Just use @chainlink
Harry Papacharissiou@pappas9999
'Just use Chainlink' is a saying that was forged during the 2020-2021 DeFi Summer era, when multiple oracle price manipulation & flash loan attacks were happening. None of the protocols using Chainlink had any issues, and almost all the protocols that weren't using it, eventually upgraded to Chainlink & were fine after. DeFi can be a dangerous world, esp during the age of AI. Just use Chainlink
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The $290M rsETH bridge exploit appears to be the result of a compromised 1-of-1 DVN configuration on @LayerZero_Core
The sole validator was @LayerZero_Labs itself, meaning one forged transaction from a single entity was sufficient to drain the entire bridge
In other words, a single point of failure (either private key or 3rd party RPC compromise)
I flagged this centralization risk years ago, unfortunate that it took an exploit for the issue to get broader attention
Zach Rynes | CLG@ChainLinkGod
.@LayerZero_Core’s marketing is so incredibly misleading at times, it’s absurd Take their “Decentralized Verifier Networks (DVNs)” for example DVNs are the infrastructure responsible for validating cross-chain transactions in the LayerZero ecosystem By the name, you would assume a DVN by definition is a decentralized network of node operators, right? Well no, in most instances the term “DVN” actually refers to a centralized company (a single node operator) Take their most popular DVN for example, which by default is used by most projects and therefore their associated volume in the LayerZero ecosystem It’s the “LayerZero DVN”, a centralized node run by the LayerZero Labs team themselves Not decentralized, but still called a decentralized network anyways, pretty continent security theater marketing Imagine you’re a user and you’re told a dApp’s cross-chain interactions are secured by the “LayerZero Decentralized Verifier Network” What impression is the user supposed to get from that other than thinking it’s a decentralized network and not a single centralized node? Now some may try to explain away this terminology by saying that a DVN could theoretically be decentralized in some circumstances But looking at the official list of all the DVNs in their docs, almost every single DVN is just a centralized team/company And the ones that aren’t, are often just a wrapper around another protocol that’s actually attempting to solve the cross-chain problem in a decentralized manner like CCIP or Axelar that can be used without the LayerZero framework Some may also argue that you’re supposed to compose multiple DVNs together in order to make it decentralized But (1) that doesn’t justify calling infra run by a centralized company a decentralized network and (2) the default path that most projects take is to use the centralized LayerZero Labs DVN given its chain support over other DVNs Even their flagship bridge @StargateFinance only uses a whopping 2 DVNs (one of which is the team themselves) This fantasy of projects composing networks out of DVNs just isn’t what we see in reality in the majority of situations Most devs simply do not any to deal with the massive security-sensitive problem of managing, configuring, securing, or running cross-chain infrastructure, they just want something that works Centralization runs rampant in the LayerZero ecosystem but the terminology may make you think otherwise
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'Just use Chainlink' is a saying that was forged during the 2020-2021 DeFi Summer era, when multiple oracle price manipulation & flash loan attacks were happening. None of the protocols using Chainlink had any issues, and almost all the protocols that weren't using it, eventually upgraded to Chainlink & were fine after.
DeFi can be a dangerous world, esp during the age of AI. Just use Chainlink
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Chainlink Convergence Hackathon Winners 🏆
With a record-breaking 554 submissions, these builders are launching the next wave of institutional-grade applications powered by Chainlink: blog.chain.link/convergence-ha…
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NOW: Institutional-focused blockchain FinChain has adopted Chainlink to accelerate the distribution of its tokenized assets across Asia.
Chainlink is enabling financial markets in Asia to modernize onchain, expanding global access to tokenized value.
Read the full announcement ⬇️
prnewswire.com/apac/news-rele…
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Chainlink Aave 사랑 영원하자..
Chainlink@chainlink
BREAKING: Aave V4 is now live, powered by Chainlink as its exclusive oracle platform. As the largest DeFi protocol with $47B+ in net deposits, @aave's new V4 architecture is built for institutional adoption, enabling tokenized asset lending and new credit markets at scale.
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