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[moonsafari.eth @SPQRist]

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[moonsafari.eth @SPQRist]

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[Chainlink @chainlink]

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[Bitwise @Bitwise]

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[Chainlink @chainlink]

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[Zach Rynes | CLG @ChainLinkGod]

I believe the bull case for $LINK is straightforward, I would distill the thesis down to:

1. Chainlink continues to expand its dominant market share as the critical infra platform powering the most important crypto use cases (institutional DeFi, RWA tokenization, prediction markets, stablecoins, etc)

2. Growing demand for Chainlink's data, interop, privacy, compliance, & orchestration services leads to increasing demand for LINK tokens (native payments, programmatic buybacks, staking collateral, etc)

3. LINK is a digital commodity whose total supply is capped at 1 billion, meaning when growing demand combined with expanding supply sinks outpaces available on-market supply → buyers must raise their bids to find a willing seller

4. All 1 billion LINK tokens can only be acquired from someone who already owns it, no new units can be printed → demand-drive scarcity becomes an inherent property of the asset

In short, the thesis is that $LINK becomes increasingly scarce as the value that the Chainlink platform generates is captured by the token

Naturally, this story will need to prove itself over time, job's not done

But the hardest part is not perfecting the economics today (this can always be fine-tuned), it's becoming the indispensable industry standard whose value is unquestionable. The economics will naturally flow from there

As former Google CEO Eric Schmidt put it at Chainlink's SmartCon 2022: "Give me a hundred million users, and I will find a way to monetize them"

[moonsafari.eth @SPQRist]

These are deeply unserious people. They feign empathy with their users while creating the exact conditions for our continued pain and frustration. They proudly position themselves as the “last man standing” marketplace while simultaneously maneuvering to erode any goodwill they had left with the community.

The monumentally shrewd manipulation tactic in positioning themselves as the victims of their own “tough decisions” is staggering. It’s just another layer of the fundamentally crude understanding they possess as to what this community is willing to stomach after years of indifference, indecision, financial fleecing, and outright betrayal of the original web 3 ethos for which we all arrived to take part in.

For me to say I am disappointed would be an understated injustice to how I really feel right now.

[dfinzer.eth | opensea @dfinzer]

an update on $SEA.

the team has been building at full speed, and the foundation had planned to kick off the first steps as part of our march 30th event. but @openseafdn is pushing back the timeline.

a delay is a delay. i’m not going to dress it up, and i know how it lands.

the reality is that market conditions are challenging across crypto right now, and $SEA only launches once. @openseafdn could force the original date, or we could ensure every piece is in place and make this moment what this community deserves.

we gave a tremendous amount of thought to how to do right here. I’m thankful to @HollanderAdam for bringing the community’s voice into every conversation. we’ll be doing the following:

no more waves: the current rewards wave will be our last.

optional fee refund: recognizing that we originally committed to a Q1 date, we’re offering refunds of the platform fees we retained while participating in the rewards waves (3 - 6) that followed our timing announcement. if you like, you can receive a refund of those fees, which when combined with treasure chest prizes, essentially means all of your trading during that period was on us. if you opt for a refund, the Treasures you were awarded during these waves will be removed from your account. details on this process will follow.

honoring existing Treasures: for Treasures you continue to hold, our prior commitment stands: they will be meaningfully considered by the Foundation at TGE. this is independent from allocations for historical activity.

0% fees for 60 days: starting on march 31st, opensea will reduce our own token trading fees to 0%. we want to make it a no-brainer for everyone to experience our new platform: cross-chain token trading, mobile app, perps and more. after this 60 day period, we will put a new system in place that makes fees significantly more competitive for anyone trading consistently on opensea.

product updates: while we’re postponing our march 30th event, we’ll host a separate one in the coming months focused on product updates. it’s been incredible to see the early responses to our mobile app, and we can’t wait to get it into more people’s hands.

so if not now, wen?

when we announced last year, it was too early. that created unnecessary uncertainty and reactivity. so when the Foundation sets a new timeline, it will be deliberate and specific.

here’s why i’m confident that’s the right move:

i’ve been building opensea for almost a decade. when this started, we were two people and the only thing you could trade on OS was cryptokitties. i’ve watched this space go from a niche curiosity to billions in volume to where we are today.

the thing that’s carried us through every cycle was a willingness to make hard calls when it mattered. when our market crashed, we rebuilt from zero: an entirely new stack, a new product, and a new team culture. that hurt in the short term. but today OS2 is undeniably the strongest marketplace offering, and it’s the foundation everything sits on.

we have huge ambitions as a company, and we’re here for the long game. making all of non-custodial crypto delightful on mobile is just the beginning. that means we have to set a very high bar for everything we do, and it’s why i’m so protective of delivering a launch that’s worthy of this community and everything we’re putting into this.

[Zach Rynes | CLG @ChainLinkGod]

The bizarre retail thesis of $XRP is that it will become the global reserve currency that everything trades against, the so-called “XRP standard”

Rather than trading Dollars for Euros directly, you would trade USD for XRP, and then XRP for EUR, because this makes payments supposedly more efficient

The XRP army will push back on this framing because they know how insane this thesis sounds

They will argue the goal is not for XRP to become the global reserve currency but to fulfill the “bridge currency” use case, not understanding it’s a distinction without a difference

They also believe the XRPL will become the dominant chain for tokenized real world assets, despite not even ranking in the top 40 by usage, developer activity, or DeFi TVL

The XRPL is a ghost chain with less than 1% RWA market share and under 0.01% of stablecoins but somehow it will rise above all the other highly competitive, largely commoditized ledgers and become the primary settlement layer thanks to XRP liquidity

All of this is compounded by various conspiracy theories about secret banking cartels who are colluding to push the XRP standard and lies from influencers about fake or exaggerated partnerships

Reality moved on though

The XRP vision was created over a decade ago before we had modern 200K TPS high-throughput chains, programmable smart contracts, DeFi protocols, fiat-backed stablecoins, tokenized deposits, atomic DvP/PvP swaps, and cross-chain infra

If you listen to what the world’s largest financial institutions and market infrastructures like Swift, DTCC, JP Morgan, BlackRock, and many others are saying, you’ll find zero of them talking about the need for a “bridge currency”

Rather, they talk about the need for connectivity, interoperability, privacy, compliance, and orchestration (all things Chainlink does, what a coincidence)

The market ended up building everything XRP was supposed to be, without XRP

USD-backed stablecoins have become the dominant crypto-native “bridge currency” for payments, trading, and finance

The most successful case study of crypto-powered finance is Hyperliquid, where you can trade commodities, equities, FX, and crypto 24/7/365 across spot and derivatives markets

Want to guess what “bridge currency” all these positions are traded against to minimize liquidity fragmentation?

USD-backed stablecoins, not XRP

And yet despite all this, the XRP army has yet to accept reality

The reality is that Ripple socializes its costs to XRP holders and privatizes gains for its equity shareholders

They sell XRP to fund products whose revenue accrues only to Ripple

They use XRP sale proceeds to fund stock buybacks

RLUSD has 90% of its supply on Ethereum and other chains, not XRPL, so there’s ~zero XRP demand created. Interest on reserves flows to Ripple, not to XRP holders

Repeat this pattern across Ripple’s other products and acquisitions where XRP holders fund development for products that don’t use XRP (or it’s optional and little used) and the resulting revenue accrues to Ripple equity holders

XRP’s actual role at this point is funding a corporation that has openly stated it will prioritize its own shareholders over everyone else

All of this is obvious to anyone who has spent even a moderate amount of time scrutinizing Ripple/XRP, steelmanned the counter-thesis, or just looked at the competitive landscape

The only people who don’t see it are people who have never left the echo chamber long enough to question their own assumptions

Which is sad, but this is crypto, it’s never been a rational market

[Quinten | 048.eth @QuintenFrancois]

Chainlink is the $LINK between everything

[moonsafari.eth @SPQRist]

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[moonsafari.eth @SPQRist]

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[moonsafari.eth @SPQRist]

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[moonsafari.eth @SPQRist]

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[moonsafari.eth @SPQRist]

I’m in there!

[⬡ The Link Panda ⬡ @TheLinkPanda]

Hey @Chainlink

These are the OG LINK Marines of 2026
They did not leave!

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[moonsafari.eth @SPQRist]

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