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Chainlink now confirmed as the ISO 20022 coin for anyone who was still unaware. Even people who spend their entire lives in this crypto world still don't comprehend what is being laid out there because they are still stuck with the original *false* chain-centric mental model of this technology. Database servers were developed in the 60/70s. The Internet didn't see widespread adoption connecting them together until the 90s~. People are still stuck in the 70s essentially as far as crypto tech is concerned and it is time to catch up. Chainlink is a monetized Internet extension layer.

@TendermintTimmy @nullpackets Chains are just database nodes in the Chainlink cloud.

idk why, but your phrasing there just made it hit me. Retail isn't interested in chainlink yet because they aren't using it as gas themselves. They may hear about the universal gas concept, but probably assume it's just a goal. There's that disconnect, where most people have never seen or know about how it's actually already used daily by the biggest players in the game.

imagine how much easier it would be to peg a unit of consensus compute to gold using the token everyone already uses versus a gas token shackled to a single chain.

@GaryOak08542545 @LinkiesLeaks Easiest investment to hold ever if you ask me.

@DrakeLinked @LinkiesLeaks I think we’ve all been chilling for 8+ years

I am pretty worried about the lack of info on SmartCon 2026, any news? #chainlink $LINK

@MrManXRP @Voyager4IR I am outlining exactly how this is being done as per the institutions own reports. The bridge liquidity = stablecoins and tokenized deposits, not a new cryptocurrency. Chainlink takes care of the rest, chains are just database nodes to make record of what LINK sends them.

Ripple and Chainlink are solving for 2 very different things. You’re making the payment stack seem so simplistic, but it truly isn’t as easy or as simple as you’re suggesting, link solves for what it does, and XRP solves for what it does. They are apples to oranges in a comparison.

Ripple invests in Notabene, which connects RLUSD to 2300 institutions. On July 23, 2026, Ripple made a strategic investment in Notabene and agreed to integrate RLUSD into Notabene Flow, its B2B stablecoin payment platform. The companies will also explore using Notabene’s pre transaction verification and payment authorization infrastructure alongside Ripple Payments. Financial terms were not disclosed. Notabene connects more than 2,300 institutions across over 100 jurisdictions, they serve more than 280 banks, custodians, fintechs and exchanges and report more than $2 trillion in annualized transaction volume passing through its network notabene.id/post/notabene-…

@CoinDesk @IOHK_Charles >faster 🤣

.@IOHK_Charles compares Cardano's strategy to Anthropic's rise. Google had the lead. Then OpenAI. Then Anthropic leapfrogged both, not by moving faster, but by building differently. Hoskinson says the same lesson could apply to crypto in the latest episode of Markets Outlook with @jennsanasie. Watch the full interview: 00:00 - Charles Hoskinson Joins Markets Outlook 01:25 - A Bridge Hack and What It Revealed 02:21 - Why Midnight Was Built for This Moment 03:44 - What Wallet and Bridge Insurance Would Actually Look Like 05:28 - How ZK Identity Unlocks Recovery and White Hat Rescues 09:46 - The "Unsexy" Unlock: Why Insurance Could Onboard the Masses 13:17 - Cardano's Hard Fork to v11 and What It Means 14:42 - Recursive Self-Improvement: Cardano's Decentralized Governance in Action 17:35 - Executive Function: The Last Governance Milestone 20:08 - Brand New Rails: DTCC Moves Tokenized Securities Into Live Production 22:07 - Cardano's Outlook: Narrative Reset, Bitcoin DeFi, and the Partner Chain Model 26:05 - The Anthropic Analogy: Why Doing It Right Beats Doing It Fast 29:12 - Why Ethereum Keeps Getting It Wrong 36:22 - When Will Prices Catch Up? Charles's Market Framework 42:28 - The AI Wildcard and What It Means for Crypto

@josefabregab @chainlink People have such a narrow view of what is happening. x.com/DrakeLinked/st…

CCIP won't monetize from just one industry. Sports betting and tokenization aren't mutually exclusive revenue opportunities. @Chainlink should get its tentacles into every +EV market it can. No rational business leaves $24M on the table because it can *also* make $100M+.

@Voyager4IR @MrManXRP Yep. Momentum will keep XRP narrative going for a while I assume, will be interesting to see if there is a sudden death moment or just the slow bleed out over years.

@DrakeLinked @MrManXRP I swear they just force the narrative as much as they possibly can until one day they won’t have any actual on chain proof and then it’s all over.

@MrManXRP @Voyager4IR No, this is the workflow that is shown. Read the Visa report hosted on their website: visa.com.sg/content/dam/VC… No bridge cryptocurrency was required in this workflow:

@Voyager4IR It’s not my want. It’s the workflow that’s shown. In this convo central bank money has been excluded. They should not be discounted. They state what currency is, not private company’s.

@CatfishFishy @Ripple Incredible. They are now shilling the same position as the Chainlink community 😏

coindesk.com/markets/2019/0… At another conference last week, Garlinghouse recalled, "This guy from Morgan Stanley was interviewing me, I said ‘So, is Morgan Stanley going to use the JPM Coin?’ And he said ‘probably not.’ So, well is Citi going to use the JPM Coin? Is BBVA? Is PNC? And the answer is no." Hence, he suggested, a bank creating its own stablecoin risks recreating the very problems that DLT is supposed to solve. Garlinghouse has been saying for a decade plus that institutions won't use each other's stablecoins and that was the whole purpose for XRP, and now you are offering your own stablecoin to other institutions? Looks like the entire $XRP thesis is formally euthanized.

Meet Ripple Mint. A unified platform for institutions to access, mint, redeem, and manage $RLUSD. Built for scale with both UI and API access, Ripple Mint gives institutions the flexibility to automate stablecoin operations, integrate RLUSD into existing systems, and manage digital dollar liquidity across chains. Available to existing $RLUSD users today. on.ripple.com/3Tivjuj

@kentlinyy @Matt_Hougan Most are still unable to see where the real value of the tech applied at scale is however. x.com/DrakeLinked/st…

Is total crypto <> tradfi convergence a mainstream take now? Everything I've seen working with institutions lines up with what @Matt_Hougan is saying here, and I'm not sure most people realize how fast adoption is going to ramp up.

PSA: “The issuance of the $LINK token on Ethereum doesn't mean anything for Chainlink. Chainlink, the protocol, has its own networks, its own validators, and its own unique consensus alogrithm, OCR3. None of which are built on Ethereum, secured by Ethereum, or dependent on ethereum:native in any way.”

A year and a half ago, @SergeyNazarov stood on stage at the D.C. Blockchain Summit and laid out exactly what the U.S. needs to do to win the onchain financial system. Three principles on where the puck is going and what it takes to catch it. I went back and reread that keynote this week. Then I cross-referenced it against everything @chainlink has shipped since. The gap between vision and execution is smaller than I expected. 1. Asset origination The U.S. needs to be the place where digital assets are born. Not just where companies are headquartered, but where the underlying value sits. Stablecoins already get this right, over 90% of stablecoin backing assets are U.S.-based. The play is to replicate that dominance across every asset class. Tokenized funds, tokenized equities, tokenized commodities, tokenized real estate. The metric that matters is market share: what percentage of the Web3 financial system runs on U.S.-issued assets? 2. Automation of compliance Compliance is the largest transaction cost in finance. If the U.S. creates the best assets in the world but international buyers in Dubai or Singapore face a mountain of friction to acquire them, demand goes elsewhere. The fix isn't removing compliance. It's automating it to the point where buying, holding, and reselling a U.S.-issued tokenized asset is cheaper and faster than the traditional equivalent. Lower friction means net capital inflows. That's the entire ballgame. 3. Global distribution DeFi protocols, fintech apps, and institutions all become distribution rails. They take those low-friction U.S. assets and push them to every corner of the global financial system. The demand flows back to the U.S. economy. So what actually got built? The keynote was March 2025. Let's run through what Chainlink has shipped or announced since then that maps directly onto this framework. 1. Asset origination: Digital Transfer Agent (DTA) The DTA is a technical standard for tokenized fund operations. It handles the entire lifecycle: minting, redeeming, recordkeeping, distributions, corporate actions, onchain. This is the piece that makes the U.S. the origination point. If funds, equities, and real-world assets can be issued through a standardized onchain transfer agent that proves reserves and composition, the U.S. becomes the default birthplace for digital assets. The same way Delaware is the default for corporate incorporation. chain.link/article/digita… 2. Automation of compliance: Automated Compliance Engine (ACE) ACE launched as a product. It doesn't remove compliance requirements. It encodes them into programmable rules that execute automatically: KYC, AML, sanctions screening, jurisdictional restrictions, all of it. The goal is exactly what Sergey described: "Make compliance a feature that unlocks global demand instead of a cost center that blocks it. International buyers can acquire U.S. assets with the compliance checks happening programmatically in the background, at a fraction of the traditional cost." chain.link/automated-comp… 3. Cross-chain minting: CCIP CCIP has gone from "the cross-chain protocol we're building" to the connective tissue of major institutional projects. Project Pangea with 50-plus banks, $10 trillion in AUM, T+0 atomic FX settlement using regulated euro and won stablecoins, runs on CCIP. The @The_DTCC and @EuroclearGroup are using it. Swift's experiments with tokenized asset settlement use it. This is no longer a whitepaper. It's moving real value between real institutions across real chains. chain.link/cross-chain 4. Onchain golden records: Proof of Reserve + DataLink Chainlink's Proof of Reserve now covers a long and growing list of tokenized assets, verifying that the onchain token matches the offchain collateral in near real time. DataLink, the newer product, lets institutions publish and commercialize their own data across blockchains. Think of it as the pipeline that feeds verified offchain information into those golden records. The pieces are being wired together. chain.link/blog/introduci… 5. Global distribution: CRE + Equity Streams The Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) is the orchestration layer that lets institutions plug into blockchain infrastructure on their own terms: Their choice of chain, their compliance rules, their data sources. It's the "run it how you want" layer that makes distribution practical. On the retail side, Equity Streams launched in APAC, bringing tokenized equity pricing and data feeds to markets that want them. The distribution rails are being laid in parallel on both the institutional and consumer sides. chain.link/blog/chainlink… 6. Privacy: Chainlink Privacy Standard This one deserves its own mention. Private transactions on any blockchain. If institutions are going to move real volume onchain, and not just proof-of-concept volume, they need confidentiality. Counterparty exposure, trade sizes, portfolio composition. You can't have all of that sitting on a public ledger for competitors to scrape. The Privacy Standard makes the vision viable for the institutions that actually move the money. chain.link/privacy The part that connects the dots Here's what gets me. Sergey's framework wasn't a product roadmap. It was a strategy thesis about how the U.S. maintains financial dominance in a world where value moves on blockchains. But when you line up what Chainlink has shipped since, the products map onto the principles almost one-to-one. The question Sergey posed at the end of his keynote still hangs in the air: "When the global financial system went from paper to internet and databases, the U.S. gained market share and leadership. What happens now, as it transitions into Web3?" His answer was that it depends entirely on whether the U.S. builds the infrastructure to originate the best assets, automate compliance to attract global demand, and distribute those assets through DeFi and fintech rails. A year and a half later, the infrastructure is no longer theoretical. It's being built. The assets are starting to flow. The banks are showing up, not for press releases, but for settlement infrastructure. The question is shifting from "can we build this" to "who moves first at scale."

'Chainlink for Agents' isn't just interesting because of what it can do now. It's where it's headed. Right now, a single AI agent can trigger CRE workflows. But as workflows get more complex, relying on one agent to handle everything becomes a bottleneck and a single point of failure. The natural evolution is Swarm Intelligence: Multiple specialized AI agents working together, each handling specific tasks in parallel. However, this still leaves a major problem that should concern anyone who understands Chainlink’s core philosophy: For each task, you’re still trusting individual AI agents to make correct non-deterministic decisions. Chainlink has already worked on solving multi-AI consensus at scale. In its corporate actions initiative with DTCC, SWIFT, and 24 major financial institutions, multiple LLMs were brought to consensus using Chainlink infrastructure to solve a ~$58B annual problem. The result was a near 100% agreement across different AI models. This approach directly addresses hallucinations, bias, and potential malicious outputs. The logical extension is applying this inside agent swarms: Instead of one agent performing a task, multiple agents could work on the same task and reach consensus - with CRE acting as the verification and orchestration layer (using a specialized AI-Agent consensus DON?). Once you can bring multiple AI agents to consensus on outputs, the entire workflow becomes significantly more verifiable. Both AI and blockchain will dominate the future. Chainlink sits right at their intersection as the layer that can make autonomous agent systems trustworthy at scale. The idea of the "World Truth Machine" hasn't been mentioned by Sergey Nazarov in a few years, but with the emergence of AI, and AI Agents potentially transacting onchain significantly more than humans in the future, it becomes all the more significant. ethereum:0x514910771af9ca656af840dff83e8264ecf986ca

@uneektutamail @CatfishFishy @5dayoldburrito @Yajas9 @Kira_sama @PinkBrains_io He is presenting reality while the responses are complete nonense slop. There is nothing pseudointellectual about listing the facts on the ground lol

@CatfishFishy @5dayoldburrito @Yajas9 @Kira_sama @PinkBrains_io Fishy, you have a very arrogant, pseudointellectual way of communicating. While I am over 300,000$ deep today in Chainlink and believe it’ll be the most valuable asset in the world eventually, your method is weak. I troll, but at least I know I’m trolling.

Privacy coins are hot again. What, why, and will it last? Our thoughts👇🧠

Great video on $LINK Go check it out and follow @noBScrypto as he always takes a fresh look on what's happening in the market! Link to the video below. 👇

@Eierdotter @minordissent Related

@minordissent Unfortunately the market can behave unrational for longer then you are solvent.

the most annoying thing about figuring things out before everyone else does is that you look like an idiot when no one else can see the logical chain, but then by the time you’re proven right it becomes so obvious it was inevitable that everyone retroactively decide it was always obvious.

@Vet_X0 Yeah Swift built their own chain.

Payment finally settled ❤️ Bank re triggered the payment, from the SWIFT trail it wasn't clear but i assume it was a repair by an intermediary bank so that changed the settlement instructions to use a different intermediary bank. While last week people told me XRP doesn't solve a problem because the price at this given moment isn't where they want it to be. You don't need to be a genius to know the financial system will change fundamentally with blockchain technology. Just get your thesis up while you can.

@XRPCipherPod @chainlinkthulhu @Lilgucci2 @ashgoblue @ChainLinkGod @evernorth_jp The contrast is incredible

🙄You are free to prefer LINK. But repeating obsolete talking points and demonstrably false “not XRPL” claims shows you have not researched the ecosystem’s current status deeply enough to dismiss the XRP thesis. 1. “Institutions are adopting LINK, not XRPL” is provably false. 2. “Institutions adopting LINK” DTCC is adopting Chainlink infrastructure…..not announcing that it is buying, holding or staking LINK. 3. “XRP sales fund acquisitions that benefit only Ripple equity” is another unsupported absolute. Expanded prime brokerage, custody, treasury management, RLUSD collateral and institutional distribution benefit XRPL. LINK’s future staking and value capture model is a thesis. XRP’s future liquidity and settlement model is also a thesis. Treating your projections as facts and the opposing projections as fantasy is advocacy, not analysis.

1/ Everyone seems to be waiting on the Fed these days. The builders aren’t. Three things shipped in the XRP universe over the last two weeks. None of them needed a rate cut. 🧵👇 evernorth.xyz/blog-post-03-1…

Everyone asks "which central banks actually use Chainlink?" So I mapped all of them. 8 monetary authorities, 5 continents, every single one backed by a primary source, graded by how far it's actually gone. A thread.🧵