Massie: $5.5M raised. Average donor gave $100. His opposition: $32 million. Three billionaires, Secretary Hegseth on the ground, four presidential attacks in one day, all to silence the guy fighting for the Epstein files. Trump calls elections rigged. Look in the mirror. Go Massie.
defi insurance protocols now pricing layerzero bridge coverage at 3-5x chainlink CCIP rates. that's not a suggestion to migrate, it's a mandate. remaining holdouts face a simple equation: pay 3-5x premiums or switch to CCIP. LINK sits under $10b market cap securing $62b+ in value. every quarter this insurance gap persists, another wave of forced migrations hits. the $4b that moved in 20 days was voluntary. the next $4b will be involuntary, driven by insurance providers and institutional compliance teams who won't underwrite layerzero exposure at any price.
Lido, the largest liquid staking protocol, chose Chainlink CCIP as its official cross-chain infra to secure $20B in wstETH.
@LidoFinance shares the security principles behind the decision and why CCIP exceeded its rigorous security and risk requirements.
DeFi will win.
Kraken is deprecating its existing cross-chain provider and migrating to @Chainlink CCIP as its exclusive cross-chain infra to secure Kraken Wrapped Bitcoin (kBTC) & all future Kraken Wrapped Assets.
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.
Together, Chainlink and Kraken can help accelerate the global adoption of crypto by unlocking utility and distribution for all Kraken Wrapped Assets across DeFi.
For kBTC customers, no action is required. More details on the migration process to follow on official Kraken channels.
Less than six months ago, @martypartymusic told me that my post explaining that institutions would be building their workflows on the Chainlink Runtime Environment platform and then deploying them onto chains was the "biggest load of shit he ever read."
Yesterday, the DTCC (among the largest and most important FMIs in the world) announced that they're using the Chainlink Runtime Environment to build their workflows for collateral management.
https://t.co/kg5bhF24Wx
For those that are unfamiliar, Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) is to oracle networks what the EVM is to blockchains. Developers can write and run code that runs on top of Chainlink networks that allows oracles to execute workflows, which are natively cross-chain, data-enriched, cross-system (makes chains composable with non-chain networks like DTCC, Swift, Fedwire, credit cards, etc), compliant, privacy enabled, etc.
DTCC quote:
"CRE is built to operate at institutional scale and provides access to a resilient data and orchestration layer, unlocking automated workflows for the Collateral AppChain’s advanced eligibility, valuation, margining, collateral optimization, settlement, and related post-trade processes."
Care to revise your thesis in the light of new evidence, @martypartymusic?
The ticker is $LINK.
Today we announced progress toward our goal of advancing 24/7 collateral mobility. DTCC’s Collateral AppChain, a shared infrastructure platform for collateral, will leverage the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) and @chainlink data standard to enable near real-time collateral management across financial markets and blockchains.
The integration will enable the seamless pairing of asset prices, valuations, and movement, with the aim of overhauling how market risk is managed globally and unlock greater capital efficiency.
This milestone reflects our broader vision to enable 24/7, near real-time collateral management across the global financial system.
Read the full announcement: https://t.co/ELVio44scA
lazarus group didn't exploit a smart contract. they social engineered a DVN operator in kelp's layerzero config and minted unbacked rsETH straight into aave. $3b in TVL migrated to chainlink CCIP in 2 weeks. layerzero message volume down 40% week over week. 14 protocols paused simultaneously. the exploit class here is new. no audit catches infrastructure misconfiguration. every RWA issuer watching this just defaulted to CCIP because when blackrock is your LP you don't optimize for bridge fees. LINK securing $110b+ now, up from $80b pre-exploit. layerzero keeps the meme coin bridges. CCIP gets the tokenized treasuries. market just bifurcated and it's not going back.
chainlink ($LINK) SVR sent $11m to aave's treasury in 14 months by auctioning off liquidation priority that searchers used to extract for free. 99% market share in a revenue category that didn't exist 18 months ago. pyth has no equivalent. redstone has no equivalent. the auction needs searcher liquidity to function and searchers already built around chainlink infrastructure. competitors face a cold start problem they can't solve without 80% oracle market share they don't have. aave governance voted for this because it's pure income with zero downside. $17m total recaptured is small against a $6.9b mcap today but SVR scales linearly with liquidation volume. when DeFi TVL triples from here the math gets very different and the lock-in is already complete
Good luck to Trump and the GOP without Catholics, Muslims, anti-war voters, fiscal hawks, immigration hawks, prospective home-buyers, anybody who wanted the Epstein Files, anybody who watches Tucker, Alex Jones, Megyn Kelly, & Candace.
But hey at least they’re popular in Israel.
🚨 BREAKING: Joe Kent resigns as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, says he can’t support the war against Iran.
“Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”
JUST IN: @RobinhoodApp launches public testnet and partners with Chainlink as the oracle platform for Robinhood Chain.
Builders can leverage Chainlink’s data, interoperability, and compliance standards to power advanced tokenization use cases.
Robinhood 🤝 Chainlink
JUST ANNOUNCED: Chainlink has been selected to participate in the Bank of England’s Synchronisation Lab.
Chainlink is supporting synchronized settlement between central bank money and onchain securities.
This is how the UK financial system moves onchain.
Minnesotas Department of Human Services has given over $724,000,000 to an NGO(s) who’s name has been protected as “Masked to protect Not Public Data”
This is suspicious because other NGOs have their name but this certain NGO has been protected.
Expose all the fraud