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Chainlink economics continues to expand and scale as network adoption grows.
As the native token of the Chainlink Network, LINK is integral to the network’s long-term security, growth, and sustainability.
Here are five ways in which LINK is actively used today:
1. Payments for services
LINK is used to pay for oracle services across the Chainlink Network. This includes the usage of services providing data, interoperability, and more. Network service providers, including nodes, receive LINK as rewards for their work helping secure the network.
2. Payment Abstraction
LINK payments are simplified for users through Payment Abstraction, enabling users to pay for Chainlink services in their preferred form of payment, which are then automatically converted into LINK using a combination of Chainlink services and a DEX.
3. Strategic reserve
LINK is accumulated in the Chainlink Reserve using offchain revenue from large enterprises adopting the Chainlink standard and from onchain service usage. The Chainlink Reserve is being built up by using Payment Abstraction to convert offchain and onchain revenue into LINK.
4. Staking
LINK helps support the cryptoeconomic security of the Chainlink Network via Staking, where participants commit LINK in smart contracts to back certain performance guarantees around oracle services.
5. Chainlink Rewards
Eligible LINK stakers can participate in Chainlink Rewards, a program designed to incentivize active participation in the Chainlink Network. Through this program, Chainlink Build projects make their native tokens claimable by Chainlink ecosystem participants.
LINK the world.
$LINK marines have long accepted that there’s going to be hundreds, if not thousands, of corporate blockchains
“Every bank will have its own chain, every bank will have its own stablecoin.” -Sergey Nazarov at Swift’s Sibos 2023
Chainlink has not only been built to acknowledge this reality, but directly benefit from the growing number of corporate chains
Chain maxis are just now coming to face this reality, initially with hard resistance and push back
How they handle this eventuality and rationalize the industry’s shift going forward will be their cross to bear
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