We’re giving away $10,000,000 to founders building agent-first businesses.
Autonomous, proactive agents will run tomorrow's companies.
We're backing 500 founders building them.
The Founding 500.
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x402 is sparking wider discussion across the ecosystem 🔥
As an early supporter and official partner of Coinbase x402 protocol, AEON will continue empowering autonomous AI agents to search, shop, and pay seamlessly for users, building the real-world infrastructure for AI Payment.
Now publishing financial data to the onchain economy via DataLink:
Xetra—One of the largest trading platforms in Europe, with €230.8 billion in trading volume last year.
Eurex—One of the world's largest derivatives exchanges, with 2.08 billion traded contracts in exchange-traded derivatives and a capital open interest of €3.6 trillion in 2024.
360T—One of the largest global FX trading networks, serving 2,900+ buy-side customers and 200+ liquidity providers in 75 countries.
Tradegate—One of the most active retail trading venues in Germany, with a turnover of €247.8 billion and 34+ million transactions since January.
Over $130M in real value moved through Chainlink CCIP today. $107M of that was World Liberty Financial’s WLFI token in just 12 hours of it being transferable. Chainlink is powering markets in real time.
.@worldlibertyfi conducted a test transfer of 10 WLFI tokens yesterday to the Solana blockchain via Chainlink's CCIP. The token is set to launch tomorrow.
Bitwise just filed an S-1 with the U.S. SEC to launch a spot $LINK ETF
This is the first ETF filing focused solely on providing spot exposure to LINK (previous filings had LINK as part of a basket)
ETF structures are a natural fit for institutional capital
Love to see it 🔥
White Network bridge:
Direct connections to @HSBC, @BankofAmerica and @jpmorgan.
Deposit/withdraw USD to any bank account using the SWIFT system.
Move cash and securities instantly.
Built different with an actual brokerage license.
Vision (@vsntoken)—a newly launched token powering the @Bitpanda_global Web3 ecosystem—is now a Cross-Chain Token (CCT), making it natively transferrable across chains via Chainlink CCIP.
CCIP enables highly secure VSN transfers across @arbitrum, @ethereum, and @HyperliquidX, expanding access to Bitpanda’s token throughout the multichain ecosystem.
Protocols can now offer real-time candlestick charting and multi-timeframe market views, powered by Chainlink Data Streams’ new Open-High-Low-Close (OHLC) feature—already live with @GMX_SOL and @perenniallabs.
This unlocks:
• Real-time candlestick charting in DeFi platforms
• Visual access to trend and volatility data for better-informed strategies
• Unified OHLC data across multiple time intervals from a single source
The next generation of real-time DeFi market data is powered by Chainlink.
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The institutional era of stablecoins has arrived.
With the GENIUS Act bringing regulatory clarity, financial institutions are adopting stablecoins for payments, settlement, and liquidity.
Chainlink is the only platform that can power this next evolution of finance at scale, delivering:
→ Verifiable data
→ Secure interoperability
→ Automated compliance
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