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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.












As I’ve been saying, the decision by the government to shut Ripple/XRP down was made long ago. Gary’s job No 1 — is shut it down. The ‘Law’ is whatever the gov says it is in this case. XRP going back to $0.01 #Bitcoin is the ONLY TRULY decentralized commodity and immune.


America will be the Bitcoin superpower of the world. The Golden Age of America has BEGUN!

By owning XRP, you are funding a company that has openly stated it will prioritize its equity shareholders over you. Let me explain. Ripple has spent the past decade selling XRP to retail while promoting a narrative of inevitable institutional adoption. In reality, Ripple uses the proceeds from XRP sales to acquire real companies, develop products that don’t rely on XRP, and fund Ripple Labs’ stock buybacks. All of this benefits Ripple Labs’ shareholders, with little to no value created for the XRP token itself. But it gets worse. The idea that XRP is a special bridge currency doesn’t hold up. Any token can fulfill that role. Every Layer 1 gas token already does. Being a bridge currency simply means being the most liquid and widely used trading pair on a blockchain. There is nothing inherently unique about XRP in this regard. Ripple even admitted in court filings that XRP’s bridge currency use case is demand-neutral. It does not impact price. While XRP can act as a bridge currency on its own chain, the XRP Ledger has relatively low adoption among asset issuers. It’s not even in the top 40 by usage, with less than 1% market share in real-world assets and less than 0.01% in stablecoins. Ripple itself issued 90% of its $RLUSD stablecoin on Ethereum and other non-XRP Ledger chains. They don’t even rely on their own infrastructure. No single bridge currency on a siloed blockchain solves liquidity fragmentation, especially when the majority of global value exists outside the XRP Ledger. At this point, XRP’s role appears to be that of a bank-themed meme coin that Ripple sells to retail investors to finance corporate acquisitions and stock buybacks. It’s simple: Ripple externalizes costs to $XRP holders while internalizing value for its shareholders. This is clear to anyone who has spent time critically analyzing Ripple, exploring the counter-thesis, or examining the broader competitive landscape. The only people who don’t see it are those who remain in an echo chamber and never question their assumptions. It’s not too late to step back.





This is factually and objectively incorrect There is no Chainlink network without the LINK token Users pay in LINK to use Chainlink services (or pay in their preferred method, which is automatically converted to LINK) and network service providers are compensated in LINK, similar to how L1 gas coins function LINK is also staked to back network security and addresses the fundamental chicken and egg problem of bootstrapping a decentralized network by funding oracle reward subsidies for nodes, analogous how blockchains use block reward subsidies for validators If Chainlink didn’t have its own native token, it would face the classic cold start problem Like any crypto, by having its own native digital asset, Chainlink is able to create a shared economic framework where network participants have direct skin in the game and financial exposure to the long term health of the network via being paid in and holding the LINK token The LINK token is a chain agnostic ERC-677 token that is cross chain transferable across 77+ blockchains Chainlink itself is an offchain protocol that enables the deployment of decentralized oracle networks (DONs), and not having a blockchain ledger does not mean there is no native token Your mental model of the crypto world is so simplistic and so outdated that the only lens you have to view crypto assets through is either “blockchain coin” or “not a blockchain coin” blog.chain.link/sustainable-or…














