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"What is needed is a spirit of boundary dissolution, between individuals, classes, sexual orientations, rich and poor, man and woman. If this can happen, then we will make a new world." ~ Terence McKenna

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.

chainlink completes ubs pilot same day swift announces blockchain settlement. link provides the oracles for $150t in annual payment flows. ubs pilot scales to production, swift needs those price feeds. link trades at $8b fdv providing infrastructure for payments worth 18,750x that. banks don't build oracle networks.

🚨MASSIVE $LINK NEWS: @THE_DTCC PRIVATE BLOCKCHAIN HAS BEEN ADDED TO THE @CHAINLINK CCIP GITHUB REPOSITORY🚨 THIS IS CONCRETE PROOF THAT THINGS ARE MOVING FAST AND WE COULD SEE A GO-LIVE IN THE COMING WEEKS THE DTCC IS THE CLEARING AND SETTLEMENT LAYER FOR QUADRILLIONS

THE DTCC told you what was coming. All you have to do is pay attention. Chainlink is what makes the tokenization of everything work regardless of if it’s with a private, public, or corporate chain. $LINK the world. x.com/ChainLinkGod/s…

🚨 DTCC PRIVATE CHAIN ADDED 🚨 DTCC TESTNET IS NOW SUPPORTED BY CHAINLINK #Chainlink #CCIP $LINK #LinkTheWorld

The American values of economic liberty, private property rights, and innovation are in the DNA of the DeFi, or Decentralized Finance, movement.

Just 2 images. Future is bright. $LINK

Take a moment: pause and truly savour what’s happening right now. This isn’t about bags pumping or politics. It’s about a profound, historical moment. One of the founding fathers of the blockchain industry is sitting face-to-face with the President of the United States, expressing gratitude for opening the floodgates to mainstream adoption. If this image had leaked in 2021, he would have been absolute pandemonium. There would have been chaos. It's been a very fraught journey from the fringes of society to this point today. It has been a point of ridicule to even be associated with crypto. That's because we haven't even begun to tap in to the potential of the technology. We've been flooded by total fluff that has done absolutely nothing for anyone. #Chainlink is about to usher in a completely new era of human civilisation, one powered by immutable truth. The Wild West of financial buccaneering, the kind that steered the world into recession after recession without accountability, is coming to an end. It’s a new day. On-chain, proof-of-reserve capital markets. Insurance and ratings conducted second-by-second, without third-party risk. A future where a repeat of 2008 becomes not only unlikely but impossible. This is the moment the entire blockchain industry was built for. @SergeyNazarov is on the verge of realising his original vision, the vision he had when he bought smartcontract.com in 2008, 8 days before the bitcoin whitepaper was published. #WorldMobile now serves over a 1.6 million users, with tens of thousands of nodes worldwide, owned by lots of "little guys", offering better coverage, lower fees, and enhanced privacy. Profits aren’t funneled to the top to buy senators and super-yachts. They're shared by the community, creating a sustainable and fair economic model. We’re seeing real utility in the real world. True, revolutionary disruption of industries. The promise of blockchain is coming to life, just as the veterans give up entirely on any semblence of actual use-cases and cynically gamble on memes. This is more than a milestone. This is the inflection point where the future meets the present. We are witnessing history. Many don't understand that they are just yet, but in retrospect it will all have been so obvious. Congratulations if you are reading this. You saw what was coming a decade before the US government did. Savour this. There is going to be novelty and industry disruption happening with violent fervor for the next 24 months. We were right about it all. $LINK $WMTX $ADA x.com/nicucrypto/sta…

The market is still overlooking this by a mile… $LINK

There is so much larping done about how you MUST outperform xyz on CT and all your bags must be top gainers else you’re a loser I couldn’t care less if my bags do well but others do better, as long as I make money that’s good enough for me. It’s a zero sum game, while I make money someone else loses. So I’m just thankful to be able to be on the winning side. My only battle is with myself, couldn’t care less who makes what. Stop obsessing over outperforming coins/others and chasing everything and you might just start actually performing

Chainlink coded

Minting tonight. First 50 RTs.

30.1K BTC ($2.1B) of Silk Road hack funds controlled by US government is on the move right now. 0.001 BTC ($69) transferred to a Coinbase deposit address so it’s a test transfer possibly. txn hash 9c3af4b48e66565f1da1da8278036fa1dbb09f2beaaca99c3504475390ba4590 Coinbase deposit address 3KrZVU9Jz4UKHpKUtuvkEMX1tY8zeiTvX2

You just issued your first tokenized asset on your own private blockchain—a good first step. However, you quickly realize that most buyers reside on other blockchains. Your tokenized asset will have low liquidity—unless it is cross-chain interoperable. Furthermore: • Buyers want proof about the offchain reserves backing your onchain asset. • Market makers want access to reliable mark-to-market valuations for your asset. • Banks want identity verification for new buyers. Bottom line: you need access to multiple services to go from simple issuance to a vibrant, global secondary market for your tokenized asset. #Chainlink is the only all-in-one platform that offers the data, compute, and interoperability needed to enable tokenized assets at scale.

Zoom out.

So many people out there fully convinced that their preferred public chain is going to be the chain that banks and asset managers will deploy onto Did any of y’all actually watch Swift’s @Sibos conference last year? The largest banks, CSDs, and asset managers in the world have already told you what their tokenized asset and blockchain strategy is Launch their own permissioned blockchain environments and connect them to other blockchains to facilitate cross-chain tokenized asset settlement workflows They’re not fading public blockchains either mind you, but they need the right interoperability, privacy, and identity infrastructure to be in place first before it’s feasible, it’s a multi-step process Outside of the crypto twitter bubble, there’s been multi-year discussions and active developments occurring within the capital markets around this very topic Just because you saw Larry on TV talking about tokenization doesn’t mean you’re fully caught up to speed

Wow Just wow