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JUST IN: 🇯🇵 Japan officially recognizes foreign-issued crypto stablecoins as legal electronic payment methods starting June 1.

Three key trends I am increasingly excited about... 1: Our industry has started caring much more about the security and reliability of the infrastructure, standards and oracles/dependencies that it is built on top of. This shift in focus towards security is already massively benefiting Chainlink because it is built with security and reliability in mind from the start e.g. 16 nodes vs 1 of 1 or 2 of 2 (which is actually often just a 1 of 1 in disguise). This focus on reliability and security makes a better system for everyone in the DeFi/TradFi industry to transact with less risk and also leads to more overall Chainlink adoption over time. The way Chainlink became the leading data oracle is through security and reliability, I think that will happen across all categories where Chainlink deploys services for the same reasons. We are now clearly seeing this dynamic take place in cross-chain interoperability, with many large users migrating onto CCIP after conducting deeper security reviews of bridging providers, more and more of which are now being published, some telling quotes below: x.com/krakenfx/statu… Kraken chose Chainlink CCIP because it offers enterprise-grade infrastructure with strict security & risk management requirements, including: • ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 certifications • Secure by default architecture • 16 independent nodes • Native rate limits, and more. x.com/LidoFinance/st… and blog.lido.fi/cross-chain-se… The analysis covers how Chainlink CCIP delivers strong decentralization, native safeguards, and issuer control as default protocol-level guarantees, which insulates wstETH from a number of attack vectors behind the Kelp / LayerZero exploit. x.com/Lombard_Financ… Chainlink CCIP has emerged as the standard in cross-chain infrastructure, providing an enterprise-grade framework to secure high-value assets With over $4Billion migrated in just a few weeks and more on the way, I am clearly seeing the industry's clear preference for security and reliability being a key trend leading to accelerated adoption of Chainlink and CCIP. 2: Chainlink has always continued to build and added many of its best features during down markets, when there is less noise to distract top teams from building. Because Chainlink already has clear product market fit, being able to focus on building the future is a powerful accelerant for future progress and is actually what I and many of the people building Chainlink are here for. I am very excited about both the use case specific features e.g. collateral management and the increasing number of reusable primitives e.g. verifiable confidential compute in CRE, which are now actively being built, refined and launched with top users. In my experience, during the down market lulls is when the best things get built, and I am truly thrilled to see Chainlink being built to better serve its existing users and entirely new users. 3: The RWA, TradFi Tokenization and Digital Assets industry has now decoupled from crypto prices as a determining factor of its success and is a rapidly growing market of its own. Great news for the technologies, standards and infrastructures that can serve this new and growing demand, of which Chainlink is at the very top of the list. By having the relevant certifications; blog.chain.link/chainlink-achi…, being the historically most secure/reliable option with the largest amount of value enabled and being able to compose multiple key primitives (Data + Interoperability + Identity/compliance + verifiable off-chain orchestration) into full end-to-end solutions like no other platform can, puts the Chainlink platform/ecosystem in a unique place to be adopted by this new and growing market. This is now becoming increasingly clear in practice through Chainlink's adoption in various parts of the capital markets; from collateral management with some of the most recent examples being... DTCC using CRE and Data for their production plans; dtcc.com/news/2026/may/… + x.com/The_DTCC/statu… Data providers like SGX using DataLink for key data; x.com/chainlink/stat… Top asset managers like State Street; x.com/chainlink/stat… and Fidelity International; x.com/chainlink/stat…, being powered by Chainlink on the backend. The above are just a small number of recent examples, with many more being worked on all across the TradFi ecosystem, from payments, to tokenized equities, to tokenized funds; all of these on-chain finance use cases need multiple Chainlink components working together. I can't wait for the next stage, where the leading DeFi applications and the top TradFi institutions start interoperating through their use of shared on-chain standards, interoperability connections and data/identity oracles, all of which are being provided by Chainlink, together with existing infrastructures. Solving each of these market's individual problems is already exciting, but helping them merge into the new global financial system is something that I and many others in our ecosystem have been working towards for a while. If the above sounds like something worth spending many late nights on, and you can see the future I am talking about, this is the best time to join a top team like Chainlink Labs... if you're the best of the best, excited about the future of the blockchain industry, DeFi, TradFi and building the future of the new global financial system, we are excited to work together with you: chainlinklabs.com/open-roles.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 SEC prepares to allow blockchain-based tokenized stock trading.

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LIVE: Fidelity International, a global asset manager with $1+ trillion total client assets, launches its first tokenized fund FILQ, powered by Chainlink. Through onchain NAV, Chainlink is enabling Fidelity International to bring regulated yield-bearing liquidity into 24/7 digital market.

$11,000,000,000.00 TOKENIZED ONCHAIN @BridgeTowerCap launched tokenized securities backed by $11B+ in gold & copper deposits, including 1.48 billion pounds of copper and 0.69 million ounces of gold. Powered by the full-stack Chainlink platform.

It's starting and there isn't much you can do about it $BTC and the crypto markets are going higher. Most were fighting it, and we are about to see a very much hated rally for those that gave up on it Many people mocked my $90,000 calls when we were sitting at $70,000 Oh well

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 US Admiral Paparo says the United States is running a Bitcoin node. "We have a node on the Bitcoin network…We're doing a number of operational tests to secure and protect networks using the Bitcoin protocol."

$8T asset manager Fidelity says Capital rotated from Bitcoin into gold at the top, now reversing back into $BTC. "Bitcoin is starting to act like a safe haven, while gold behaves like a risk asset."

✅ Secure Proof of Stake ✅ Meritocratic validator selection ✅ ~3,200 active validators ✅ Zero equivocation ✅ Formally verified VM ✅ Fully sharded, horizontally scalable ✅ Parallel cross-shard execution ✅ ~$0.0002 per transfer ✅ Unconsumed gas refunded ✅ Gas abstraction ✅ Onchain 2FA ✅ Protocol-native tokens ✅ Fungible tokens ✅ Non-fungible tokens ✅ Semi-fungible tokens ✅ Multi-token transfer ✅ WASM smart contracts ✅ Custom-built Virtual Machine ✅ Native VM elliptic curve operations ✅ Multi-VM customizable chains (Lightspeed SDK) ✅ Reproducible smart contract builds ✅ Upgradeable contracts ✅ Chain Simulator ✅ Millisecond-precision smart contract timestamps ✅ Mature onchain governance ✅ KPI-gated emissions ✅ Developer royalties ✅ MCP integration ✅ Agentic Commerce Stack (x402, UCP, ACP, AP2) ✅ MX-8004 agent identity standard ✅ Agent Builder Hub ✅ Carbon negative ⏳ Sub-second finality (Supernova) ⏳ Protocol-native Zero Knowledge proof Built different.

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🔥 BREAKING: Bitcoin has now crossed 20,000,000 $BTC mined. The final 1M $BTC will take another 114 years to mine.

@Brownmoose @TheCryptoDog Back then we didn't know it will be the last time we feel that we belong to the same big family. All odds were against us, but we were crazy enough to believe in the same dream.

@ToroxRojo @TheCryptoDog Was peak of everyone dream lambo

Strong desire to bullpost

@Brownmoose @TheCryptoDog the good ol days

@TheCryptoDog Let’s bring back 2017 vibes

A historic moment for crypto. Kraken Financial has been granted a Federal Reserve master account, making us the first digital asset bank with direct access to the U.S. payments system. A major step toward connecting crypto infrastructure with the core rails of global finance. blog.kraken.com/news/federal-r…

Every Bitcoin cycle has 3 blood moons. The third one has marked the exact bottom every single time. November 2022. Third blood moon. BTC at $15,680. Everyone said crypto was dead. It ran to $126,000. Tonight just was the third blood moon of this cycle. The next one isn’t until 2028. BTC is down 47% from its high. 38% of alts are lower than post FTX. Last time everything looked this hopeless the biggest rally in crypto history started within weeks. The people calling this cope are the same ones who called $15,680 the end of crypto. They’ll be wrong again.

LINK Everything.

NEW: Chainlink's Taylor Lindman has been appointed Chief Counsel of the U.S. SEC's Crypto Task Force. Taylor served as Chainlink Labs Deputy General Counsel for 5+ years, and in his new role, will help drive clarity to accelerate crypto innovation in America 🇺🇸

JUST IN: Taylor Lindman has been officially appointed as Chief Counsel of the @SECGov's Crypto Task Force. We thank Taylor for his great 5 years as a key part of the Chainlink Labs team in his role as Deputy General Counsel. We all look forward to modernizing the U.S. financial system together, taking it to the next level of its development and rapid growth.

BTC Macro Since I haven’t posted a chart in a while, here’s a vague outlook. Three rejections in the mid-range → dump below the 0.25 trendline Rising wedge below the trendline → textbook rejection and dump Added a vague projection. Current macro support: $60k. But as you can see (as always), time is working in your favor: the longer it takes, the higher we go. Same goes for the potential bottom. Would love to see $68k (200 EMA, 1W). After two cycles from support to resistance, this is the first time we’ve seen three mid-range rejections. Therefore, the correction might be shorter this time.