Neil Linkstrong

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[Ari Juels @AriJuels]

Twenty-five experts from academia and industry put together this (monster, 150+-page) survey on the bidirectional impact of crypto and AI. Visit https://t.co/MPdy1bIoGw to read it, peruse the executive summary—or chat with a chatbot about it.

[Ari Juels @AriJuels]

Oracles + AI =

[0x @0xCointrader]

🧵 CHAINLINK IS EATING GLOBAL FINANCE.

I will now provide a thread on the most underrated institutional takeover happening in plain sight. 👇

[LinkTOAD General HBARI @ARiHBARi]

🚨UNBELIEVABLE @CHAINLINK NEWS: I HAVE FOUND THE $LINK FEE PER REQUEST FOR @THE_DTCC INTEGRATION. CHAINLINK CHARGES 0.1 $LINK PER ORACLE REQUEST🚨

THE CONTRACT IS STATING THAT THE USER MUST “Pay 0.1 LINK to make a Chainlink oracle request to fetch/verify @EUROCLEARGROUP -related data.”

[Chainlink @chainlink]

The Chainlink data standard:

Now available to millions of AWS developers ⚒️

[HandofArsenal @HandofArsenal]

Club Legend for real ❤️

[Sergey Nazarov @SergeyNazarov]

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:

https://t.co/7ANpmqIlPn
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.

https://t.co/hPnqT7CFcT and https://t.co/QHXnyjO2fp
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.

https://t.co/AObyg1Nunx
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; https://t.co/PlGDKLrJDi, 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; https://t.co/IiXXFfUwJu + https://t.co/sHe6QvquYR

Data providers like SGX using DataLink for key data; https://t.co/P7uPeOzliY

Top asset managers like State Street; https://t.co/Jh08KBnCvN and Fidelity International; https://t.co/06noNUEbEt, 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: https://t.co/zhTgEzBUm0.

[Chainlink @chainlink]

“The consequences of an oracle failure … is getting completely wrecked.”

From data to cross-chain, Chainlink is the only oracle platform that meets the enterprise-grade security standards required to bring the global financial system onchain.

[LinkTOAD General HBARI @ARiHBARi]

🚨HOLY FUCKING SHIT...THIS $LINK NEWS SWEPT RIGHT THROUGH THE CRACK: @THE_DTCC WEBSITE LABELS THE @CHAINLINK RESERVE "NOVEL FEE MODEL WHERE OFFCHAIN AND ONCHAIN REVENUE FROM ENTERPRISE ADOPTION IS CONVERTED TO LINK TOKENS." THEY ARE SENDING THE MARKET HINTS IN THE DTCC BLOG POSTS🚨

[Fishy Catfish @CatfishFishy]

Anon, do your bags have exposure to DTCC, one of the world's largest and most important financial market infrastructures, launching their own chain (Collateral Appchain) in Q4 of this year?

The ticker is $LINK.

[Chainlink @chainlink]

NEW: SGX FX, a leading technology partner for the global institutional FX ecosystem, adopts Chainlink to bring its premium OTC FX market data onchain.

Via Chainlink, SGX FX is unlocking more robust DeFi currency markets powered by the same data underpinning global forex markets.

[Chainlink @chainlink]

LIVE: Fidelity International, a global asset manager with $1+ trillion total client assets, launches its first tokenized fund FILQ, powered by Chainlink.

Through onchain NAV, Chainlink is enabling Fidelity International to bring regulated yield-bearing liquidity into 24/7 digital market.

[Ari Kiry @ari_kiry]

@chainlink @The_DTCC

[Chainlink @chainlink]

NEW: @The_DTCC is integrating Chainlink data and orchestration standards into the DTCC’s Collateral AppChain.

DTCC and Chainlink are advancing 24/7, near-real-time collateral workflows across global markets and blockchains.

[LinkTOAD General HBARI @ARiHBARi]

🚨HOLY FUCKING SHIT; @THE_DTCC JUST DROPPED @LAYERZERO_CORE TO GO ALL IN ON @CHAINLINK SECURITY🚨

NADINE JUST WENT ON STAGE AND TOLD EVERYONE THIS GOES LIVE ON JULY 13TH AND FULL PRODUCTION IN OCTOBER

JUST USE $LINK

[Chris Barrett @ChrisBarrett]

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.

https://t.co/zpwqwgwhzF

[Sergey Nazarov @SergeyNazarov]

Glad to see all the hard work that Chainlink has put into generating real security is being recognized as valuable by more and more teams in our industry. It seems that focusing on making the secure and reliable solution is what wins in an industry where securing value is a key feature of everyone's product.

We have seen the trend of low quality data oracles with poor security being switched out for Chainlink for many years now, with that trend continuing on a regular basis; https://t.co/LOcbYNfqnz

We are also now seeing the same dynamic in cross-chain connectivity/bridging, where providing security with actual decentralization, actual monitoring and actual private key security is increasingly valuable to both protocol teams and the users of their products.

It is much easier and often faster to cut corners and run a single node and call it a decentralized bridge, have no monitoring on those bridges and keep the extra profits from cutting these key security and reliability features, but that comes at the expense of your users systems going down e.g. due to one AWS zone outage, or your bridges getting hacked with one set of admin keys.

Chainlink's thesis as a technology, standard and community is to not cut these corners, but do what we can to raise the standards of our industry and provide reliable on-chain data, reliable cross-chain interoperability and now reliable off-chain to on-chain orchestration across all smart contracts on all chains.

[Arca @arcamids]

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New industry changing patent alert 🚨

@SmartContract Inc just published a patent for a full blockchain abstraction layer built on top of Chainlink nodes.

Filed October 2025.

Published today.

Banks plug in. ethereum:0x514910771af9ca656af840dff83e8264ecf986ca executes.

No blockchain team required. Token needed?

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[Chainlink @chainlink]

Chainlink services now available on AWS:

• Data Feeds: decentralized price and market data for valuation, settlement, and risk management

• Data Streams: high-speed, low-latency market data for real-time onchain execution

• Proof of Reserve: verifiable reserve data for stablecoins and tokenized assets

Chainlink helps organizations use AWS infrastructure to connect enterprise systems and real-world data to smart contracts for tokenized asset applications.

[Chainlink @chainlink]

https://t.co/UIjBiG7yXf