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[Joe @JoeAtLinkPool]

An intruder at MetaMask Staking took 0.36 ETH in block tips.

The bill came after. Bitquery counts 16,965 validators sent to exit. Lido's share sits idle for up to 45 days. On 23 Oct Lido cut MetaMask's new deposits to zero.

The theft was the cheap bit.

https://t.co/hpDXvhEboJ

[Joe @JoeAtLinkPool]

Topgolf faced a 400% VMware price rise, so it moved 12,000 VMs off it.

Software costs down 77%. 650 VxRail hosts became about 400 PowerEdge servers in six months. 20 venues left to move by mid December.

Everyone talks licences. Look at the server count.

https://t.co/QPvMFZuRvr

[Joe @JoeAtLinkPool]

Ethereum's exit queue went past 40 days when Kiln pulled out. EIP-8061 would roughly quadruple exit capacity.

Activations stay capped at 256 ETH an epoch though.

So leaving gets faster. Joining doesn't. Last Call ends 1 Nov.

https://t.co/D9r6jpjYV2

[Joe @JoeAtLinkPool]

Refactoring is the right answer on a whiteboard. On a three month clock you pick whatever keeps the architecture the same.

https://t.co/oSXmjyg1sY

[Joe @JoeAtLinkPool]

Everland ran VMware on AWS for six years. Then the licence change landed and they had about three months to get out.

[Joe @JoeAtLinkPool]

They looked at going cloud native on AWS. Too slow, too risky for the deadline.

So they moved the whole thing to Nutanix on AWS in another three months. No customer facing outage.

[Joe @JoeAtLinkPool]

For years the Kubernetes rule was turn swap off.

The Kubernetes blog just tested node swap on NVMe. Sandboxed Python runtimes went from failing at 80 per node to 240.

Latency came from CPU, not swap. Fast local disk changes the maths.

https://t.co/9tXojmFERt

[Joe @JoeAtLinkPool]

You cannot change-freeze your cloud provider. Owning the change calendar is an underrated reason to run your own metal.

https://t.co/DM3cHZzAm6

[Joe @JoeAtLinkPool]

Biggest risk to your EKS cluster last week wasn't your deploy. It was someone else's change window.

[Joe @JoeAtLinkPool]

8 Oct: Google Cloud Storage us-central1 write errors for 12h30m. Preliminary cause: a traffic sorting optimisation that exhausted backend nodes.

[LinkPool @linkpoolio]

Join @HuxtableJonny at SysConf 2026 today, 1:40–2:00pm WAT, for his talk:

Healthy yet failing: When liveness probes monitor the wrong signal

Watch here: https://t.co/enNY3KmVMe

[Chainlink @chainlink]

CCIP 2.0 is officially live.

The infrastructure for the next $600 trillion in onchain finance is now in your hands.

🧵⬇️

[Joe @JoeAtLinkPool]

@linkpoolio @routemesh great to get this one over the line

[LinkPool @linkpoolio]

We're now supplying dedicated Ethereum RPC + archive capacity through @routemesh.

Owned hardware, no shared tenancy, 3 availability zones in Manchester. On mainnet since 2017. RouteMesh handles routing so developers get one reliable endpoint.

https://t.co/Cvs31XwUbs

[Chris Barrett @ChrisBarrett]

Chainlink 🤝 US Department of Commerce

[Joe @JoeAtLinkPool]

@LinkCryptoChain @stakedotlink

[Joe @JoeAtLinkPool]

@big_duca Make it make sense

[Zach Rynes | CLG @ChainLinkGod]

Standard Chartered initiates coverage of Chainlink $LINK, forecasting a price of $200 by end of 2030

The bank sees Chainlink underpinning the tokenization trend, a market set to grow to $4 trillion by 2028

[Joe @JoeAtLinkPool]

@CRYPTOSMOVER the entitlement wrapper being solved is the real unlock, the next bottleneck isnt legal its whether the onchain price and settlement infra holds up once volume moves past the headline names