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Ethereum: Rejected off its Bear Market Resistance Band

@ChrisBarrett When production? Tired of announcements.

DTCC 🤝 Chainlink DTCC’s Collateral AppChain will leverage the Chainlink Runtime Environment and Chainlink data standard to advance 24/7 collateral management. Near real-time collateral management across financial markets and blockchains. dtcc.com/news/2026/may/…

YUGE ALPHA: $14 Trillion AUM @BlackRock ENDORSES @chainlink AS THE STANDARD Sergey held a panel with BlackRock's former Head of strategic ecosystem partnerships Joseph chalom to talk about @chainlink as the immersive standard for interoperability and data. It's 9 minutes of Audiovisual gold. First he talks about the 3 most important things that could reshape traditional finance: - identity - reliable data - compliance and corporate action processing He's literally describing chainlink He also Points to $LINK economics: "the economic incentive model that requires Oracles to produce reliable data and get rewarded in $LINK is a massive breakthrough" The last thing he talks about is interoperability and the need for an orchestration layer that connects these different chains and again he reminds us that @BlackRock can't do it without A partner, while looking at Sergey BlackRock explaining that @chainlink is the key to the next generation of finance and approving the $Link token as an incentive to set up a DON Exosystem for reliable data might be the most bullish news we've ever heard. Next post Will also be Alpha about the tokenomics of the $LINK token

Most teams do not appreciate oracle risk until it becomes existential. I’ve been building Chainlink for 9 years, and I have watched this play out again and again. Users lose money. Trust breaks. The headlines hit. The community demands answers. And the cheaper or internal oracle becomes the most expensive decision a protocol ever made. The strongest protocols learn this before the incident, not after it. That is why Chainlink exists. Not the recovery plan. The standard from day one. You can take the risk. Or you can use Chainlink.

Chris Williamson dropped a brutal truth on Rogan: Most people only tinker — new haircut, lose five pounds, switch jobs. But real transformation? Rewiring your body, your country, your entire worldview? That’s unicorn-rare. And here’s what almost nobody says out loud: the hardest part isn’t the work. It’s the loneliness that hits when you start moving at a different velocity. You become the weirdo training six nights a week, eating differently, journaling at dawn, chasing something you can’t fully explain. Your self-belief doesn’t stay Hollywood-strong — it flickers hard. You’re scrabbling in uncertainty, wondering if any of this is even working. The old crew doesn’t get it. The pull back to “normal” is magnetic. You might lose entire friend groups… sometimes more than once. That isolation isn’t a glitch. It’s the feature. The price of refusing average. In a world built for comfort and sameness, choosing the uncertain climb is one of the last truly rebellious moves left. It forges depth most people will never touch. I’ve lived those lonely chapters chasing my own new start. The doubt is heavy. The freedom on the other side is heavier. What’s the biggest change you made that left you out of sync with your old circle — and did you ever find your new one?

The Moon

@rnadomaccount11 @ChrisBarrett When you see Sergey active on media, be asured the job is done and it’s time to preach.

@ChrisBarrett Why has Sergey not made a public appearance in so long? Is he ok?

The industry is about to descend on South Beach for #Consensus2026. The main conversation shouldn’t be about markets, narratives, or who’s launching what. It should be about security. April was the worst month for hacks in crypto history. $629M gone. 30 incidents. Bad actors running circles around protocols that thought audits were enough. Bridges, signing keys, social engineering. The attack surface is wider than ever and getting wider. May 2026 has to be the month the industry steps up and defends decentralization by default. Chainlink will be on the ground in Miami having these conversations. Not the easy ones. The real ones. About what it actually takes to secure value at scale, why decentralized infrastructure exists in the first place, and why every shortcut taken on security is a debt that gets paid in someone’s drained wallet. If security is a passing thought for you, you’re a tourist. Your entire protocol will be washed out the moment the next crisis hits. Only the strong will survive this cycle. Chainlink everything.

Everyone over 30 blames their genes for aging faster. But research proves genetics is only 10% of the equation. Here are 7 rules from Harvard's top anti-aging scientist to slow aging in your 30s, 40s, and beyond: 1) If you're not hungry in the morning, don't eat...

FOMC: The End of an Era (Jerome Powell's Last Meeting as Chair)

Great video breaking down “decentralization theater” in DeFi.

Check out my interview with @AltcoinDaily where we talk about Bitcoin and the current bear market: youtube.com/watch?v=lrALqz…

Many people overthink the tokenomics of $LINK. Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan explains why that’s a mistake “There’s a good reason why the economic alignment with the token is complex, and that reason is named Gary Gensler, who made it illegal for there to be a direct economic tie” “You’re not going to have this persist for the next 10 years. You’re already seeing experiments to better align token value and underlying economic activity” ”So, yes, you’re taking on the monetization risk, but betting on scaled technology that is struggling with monetization has been a good bet for the last 20 years” “I don’t think Chainlink Labs wants to accrue all the revenue. I think it wants to be the Red Hat to Linux in the Chainlink ecosystem” “I think it can do well, and $LINK can do well” “I hate to say, just sort of ignore the imperfect connections, but I think you can almost ignore the imperfect connections, and those connections are getting better” “You have the Chainlink Reserve, you have tighter allocations. I think it will work out over time, and the opportunity is just too large to sacrifice it for those challenges”

What's the mood on the CLARITY Act right now? Chainlink's @Adam_Minehardt: "Nervous optimism." The entire bill is stuck on one issue - whether exchanges can pay yield to users. "There's a sense that we're getting close to some form of agreement on that that could allow the bill to move forward."

The blueprint was there for Bitcoin. It drives people crazy though that it was that easy. No need to overcomplicate things

Check out my interview with @BitcoinMagPro youtube.com/watch?v=DzPY4n…

Sergey explaining the vision for securitization 2.0 “Securitization 1.0 was what led to the financial crisis because people got a little too excited about a specific category of securitization, namely mortgages” “But the fundamental economics of securitization make perfect sense when you think about what it does” “What securitization does is what everyone talks about with real-world asset tokens, but it actually takes it a step further, where you can basically turn anything into a financial product” “Guess who is really good at turning things into financial products? Banks. Guess who makes a ton of money from turning things into financial products? Banks” “Here’s the thing: the system—the blockchain system, the proof-of-reserve system from Chainlink, the price data, the cross-chain—all this stuff should make it so that you cannot have this opaqueness and failure of securitization” “So securitization can work if you can manage the risk of bad information, not having information and not understanding the risk of the underlying asset”

Sergey explains how Chainlink economics are evolving overtime “Chainlink economics is focused on creating the various protocol improvements, the various incentives for user fees to efficiently flow into the system to increase the system's security” “Because what you want is a virtuous cycle. You want a loop between more security leads to more adoption leads to more fees, leads to more security, leads to more adoption, leads to more fees” "Right now, the market dynamic, the market level adoption is not in the millions of developers. It's not in the world of all the banks, and all the asset managers and all the all the Web2 systems on-chain. That's the world Economics 2.0 is being built for” “In in that world, you would have an efficient payment system that allows users, developers of the protocol to pay into the system however they like, in whatever form they like, their own token, native tokens, some other form of payment, cash payments, whatever payments” “And for then that to be converted into the token of the system to create the necessary security for the system. So you can arrive at a kind of universal billing, universal payment system, universal payment token model because that reduces the friction, that reduces the effort through which a developer has to go through to pay to the system” “Chainlink, I think, is one of the only things that can do this because it can provide the price data and eventually, I think, a universal billing system, payment system will even become a product of of a kind for other protocols because you do want to lower the friction that people have to go through to pay for anything, because then they pay more” “And once again, the goal is to get as many fees into the system as possible so those fees feed back into the security of the system. And then as long as you have a growing market and the market values that security, that additional security should increase adoption, which should increase fees”