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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.

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…

Chainlink CCIP: For when 99% is not enough.

In light of all the LayerZero hack news this probably got slept on, but is a big announcement. The development company behind Tether's own tokenization platform, Hadron, just announced they're using Chainlink. "OpenAssets, a leading digital asset infrastructure provider, has chosen Chainlink as its partner oracle platform to unlock the issuance and distribution of institutional tokenized assets across onchain finance. OpenAssets' network includes the world's largest exchange, ICE, the world's largest stablecoin issuer, Tether, the world's largest digital sports platform, Fanatics, as well as Mysten Labs, KraneShares, and many other leading institutions. This strategic partnership enables financial institutions to leverage OpenAssets' full-stack tokenization and stablecoin infrastructure as well as Chainlink's industry-standard oracle platform in an easy to use format." As 68 trillion in assets is expected to move onchain in the next few years, institutional tokenization requires a broad set of tools across the entire asset lifecycle. Secure data oracles, cross-chain coordination, and integration with existing systems are an important part of it," said Gabor Gurbacs, CEO of OpenAssets. "This partnership with Chainlink helps us deliver the complete infrastructure stack financial institutions need to build in-production tokenization platforms and stablecoin engines."

Chainlink playing the long game while the rest play the short game. That strategy proves stronger by the day. Chainlink will win. It just takes longer for it prove out than all of us originally thought.

The root cause of the $290M rsETH bridge exploit, based on all available info, was a compromise of the official LayerZero Labs DVN node LayerZero has long marketed itself as decentralized and free from centralized intermediaries, but in practice this is decentralization theater When LayerZero refers to its centralized nodes as “Decentralized Verifier Networks”, that’s just marketing psyops A significant portion of LayerZero activity depends on just a small handful of DVN nodes, in many cases just one or two, run by centralized companies including the LayerZero Labs team In the rsETH incident, the chains themselves were functioning correctly, the failure was that the LayerZero Labs DVN node was compromised into emitting a forged message that downstream contracts treated as legitimate The responsibility for securing bridge infrastructure sits with the provider, not with downstream protocols or users who trusted the marketing But the deeper issue is architectural LayerZero did not spend the time or resources required to build a genuinely decentralized network, they cut corners and shipped a centralized system wrapped in decentralized marketing Real decentralization costs money and requires many independent node operators, multiple independent RPC infra providers, and genuine redundancy across the validation layer When LayerZero cuts corners to save on costs, the burden gets shifted onto users and the broader industry in the form of catastrophic failures like this one The AWS outage last year taking down LayerZero bridges should have been a clue just how centralized the LayerZero ecosystem was Unfortunately, bridge risk does not stay contained, losses spread into major DeFi protocols and connected ecosystems Chainlink CCIP was built specifically to eliminate this entire category of risk, with every bridge lane secured by numerous independent, security-reviewed node operators connected to multiple reputable RPC providers That’s why CCIP has never been exploited and has never lost user funds across nearly three years of in-production operation on 70+ blockchains Wishing a speedy recovery to every team and user impacted by this incident, hoping funds can be recovered and the ecosystem comes out stronger on the other side

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How it happens: >Cross-chain protocol is early to market and offers airdrop incentives to adopt them >They dont actually take security seriously >Their poor security is exploited >Everyone using them becomes vulnerable >They switch to Chainlink Just use Chainlink from the start

After flagging 18 months ago about the design of DVNs and their configuration to LZ's founder, there's now a $292 million hack because the DVN had the security guarantees of what was basically someone just running a script on a server somewhere. What's insane to me about this is that: LZ would encourage and not flag to their end users that 1/1 is basically no security, and that the DeFi protocols are not reviewing the integrations they're doing that can wreck them. It's inexcusable that the default DVN config when deploying LZ has the security of a single wallet. For this industry to be taken more seriously, people need to wake up and care more about what they build and understand the security guarantees of protocols they integrate with. Just use Chainlink.

@flushingitgolf Just merge and let LIV operate PGA World, which merges with national opens and creates more of a world tour under the umbrella of the PGA. Ditch the team aspect too unless you make it based on nations/regions.

LIV Golf CEO Scott O’Neil was just on the broadcast and spoke about upcoming structural changes. He mentioned LIV “probably” needing to raise money and also mentioned “blending LIV and the national opens.” Full transcript: Scott: “To tell you, given the momentum of this business, we're really excited about where we are and the position we are. This notion of secret meetings and getting summoned to New York, I live in New York. So it's easy to summon myself there. But there's a lot of reaching and grabbing for headlines and clickbait and stories. “For us, it's like we're business as usual, but if you want to ask me if this business is tough, I would say, absolutely. If you asked me if we were managed very, very tightly? I would say, absolutely. Can this be challenging? Absolutely. And that's what we signed up for not just me and you, everyone here that's with us down in Mexico City. We signed up for this adventure and it is the ride of a lifetime. Or should I say round of a lifetime?” Arlo: What is the future of the league as you see it? Scott: “How we go forward is what I'm really excited about. I talked about some structural changes. They're coming. You can ask just about the 50 people I met in Augusta. I rolled out the plan. We have one, and it might seem surprising to people, but I will tell you, like this notion of bringing teams to market, I had 2 calls this morning. “You know, this notion of, do you have to raise money? Probably. Like, this is business, but if we keep the trajectory going the way we are and the revenue growth going, this is going to be a really good business for a really long time. “And I have to ask you one thing. I love, I'm American. I love the US market. It's the number one TV market in the world, period, in a sense. The number one sponsorship market in the world, period, in a sense. In golf, in sport. “But long term. Do you want to bet on 340 million people or 7.5 billion people? That's all I'm saying. That's the only difference is I'm taking a 7.5 billion person bet. And that's something we should be excited about. Because golf should be seen around the world with some of the biggest stars in the game. And that's what we're doing.” Continues in thread. 1/4

LLM hallucinations are a massive roadblock to enterprise adoption of AI. Swift, UBS, Euroclear, & 20+ major organizations advanced a solution to the $58B+ annual corporate actions problem by leveraging Chainlink to reduce AI hallucination risk. LINK everything.

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.

JUST IN: Aave has officially adopted Chainlink SVR on @arbitrum & @base in a near-unanimous vote to increase DAO revenue. This development builds upon @aave’s successful use of SVR on @ethereum, which has already recaptured $16.7M+ in non-toxic liquidation MEV.

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."