Who else is still holding $LINK here? You’re going to make it.
I don’t say that because Sergey Nazarov happened to sit inside the White House.
I say it because of what he told President Donald Trump while he was there, and what Chainlink is already doing behind the scenes.
Nazarov, Chainlink co-founder and Chainlink Labs CEO, stood alongside Trump, SEC Chair Paul Atkins, CFTC Chair Mike Selig, and leaders from Coinbase, Nasdaq, ICE, Robinhood, Ripple, Kraken, BitGo and Gemini and talked about something far bigger than crypto prices.
He said stablecoins are expanding the reach of the U.S. dollar, Treasuries are becoming tied to that growth, and tokenized U.S. equities can distribute American stocks globally.
Then came the sentence I care about:
Chainlink already powers many of the applications and companies involved.
That hits differently when you see what followed.
Wyoming moved its state-issued FRNT stable token to Chainlink CCIP and later added Chainlink Proof of Reserve.
Five days after Nazarov spoke at the White House, Coinbase chose Chainlink as the official oracle infrastructure for its tokenized U.S. stocks on Base, including NVDAc, METAc, AAPLc and GOOGLc.
Then there is DTCC.
Its Collateral AppChain is integrating the Chainlink Runtime Environment and Chainlink data standard for near-real-time collateral management across traditional markets and blockchains.
Chainlink has also worked with Swift, Euroclear, SIX, UBS, BNP Paribas, DBS, ANZ, Wellington Management and Schroders on securities data and corporate actions.
That is not “just an oracle” anymore. That is infrastructure connecting traditional markets to tokenized markets.
Then J.P. Morgan’s Kinexys, Ondo and Chainlink already demonstrated a real Delivery-versus-Payment transaction connecting tokenized U.S. Treasuries with bank deposits.
And Project Pangea brings Chainlink into T+0 stablecoin FX work involving more than 50 banks associated with groups representing over $10T in assets.
Now take all of that back to $LINK.
Chainlink customers do not even need to manually buy LINK first.
Through Payment Abstraction, revenue paid in fiat, stablecoins or other assets can be converted into LINK underneath.
Chainlink’s current economics already show 5M+ LINK in the Reserve, 42M+ LINK staked, and a fixed maximum supply of 1B LINK.
That is why I keep holding.
The world doesn’t need one blockchain to win for Chainlink to win.
Ethereum can grow.
Base can grow.
Robinhood Chain can grow.
Private bank networks can grow.
DTCC can build its own infrastructure.
Swift can stay relevant.
Dozens of stablecoins can exist.
Chainlink can connect all of them.
And if tokenized finance keeps expanding, $LINK sits underneath the data, interoperability, settlement and security layer connecting it all.
Sergey wasn’t asking Washington to imagine Chainlink’s future.
He was describing a future Chainlink is already plugged into.
Each new generation of financial infrastructure has expanded who—or what—can participate.
The next generation is built for an entirely new class: AI systems that can read markets, make decisions, & act autonomously.
Finance is becoming machine-native.
JUST IN: Sergey Nazarov speaks at the White House on tokenization's impact on the American economy
“There’s a very real and tangible outcome that’s benefiting the adoption of U.S.-issued assets and the U.S. dollar”
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Introducing Link:NYC ⬡
A new flagship Chainlink event bringing together senior banking and capital markets leaders to accelerate onchain finance adoption.
October 29, 2026, in the financial capital of the world.
🏗️ Developer Update 🏗️
Chainlink Functions & Automation have officially upgraded from being stand-alone services to CRE workflows.
This consolidation supports a unified dev experience that reduces integration friction while strengthening the network's economics via reduced operating costs.
Leading protocols have already upgraded to CRE, including @aave, @Polymarket, @SkyEcosystem, and @opinionlabsxyz.
NEW HONG KONG TOKENIZED SECURITIES FRAMEWORK POWERED BY CHAINLINK 🇭🇰
The new Tokenized Securities Framework (TSF) provides the institutional infrastructure needed to unlock issuance, distribution, & settlement of tokenized securities in Hong Kong, standardizing the full asset lifecycle:
• Chainlink CCIP for secure cross-chain asset movement
• Chainlink ACE for policy enforcement & identity management
Participants include:
• Cyberport: HK SAR Government-owned tech flagship and home to the city's largest fintech community (440+ firms)
• Apex Group: global services provider with $3.5+ trillion in assets across 50+ jurisdictions
• FORMS HK: Hong Kong banking industry’s largest fintech software development service provider and regulated digital currency technology builder
• CSpro: Hong Kong's first SFC-licensed broker-dealer specializing in Tokenized Securities Offerings (TSOs)
This launch connects digital asset environments with regulated financial systems, marking a significant milestone in integrating Hong Kong with the digital asset economy.
THE CHAINLINK ENDGAME
The updated Chainlink vision is here.
What started as a data solution is now an extensive platform of essential services for integrating the world into the onchain economy ⬇️
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What TCP/IP did for the Internet and the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) did for online development, Chainlink is doing for blockchains and onchain apps.
In the early days of the Internet, scaling required more than innovation—it required unification and seamless orchestration.
TCP/IP and the JRE emerged, bringing coherence to a fragmented digital world and abstracting away complexity so developers could focus on building.
Blockchains are at the same turning point.
With more chains and even more financial institutions and real-world assets moving onchain, the main challenge now is building apps that efficiently orchestrate across blockchains and existing systems.
Advanced blockchain apps now involve multiple types of data, cross-chain interoperability, compliance policies, integration with legacy systems, and much more.
Building these next-gen apps is nearly impossible to do in-house and overly complex if you have to rely on a growing list of vendors, who each only solve a small portion of the application’s overall requirements.
Chainlink changes that.
Chainlink is not just a price feed. It’s a unified oracle platform that underpins critical standards, services, and end-to-end solutions needed to unlock advanced blockchain applications:
• Data oracles for publishing mission-critical data onchain
• Interoperability oracles for moving data and value cross-chain
• Compliance and privacy oracles for meeting regulatory and internal business requirements
• Legacy system integration for seamless connecting between onchain and offchain systems
• Verifiable orchestration and compute to power entire applications in a decentralized manner
Like Java and TCP/IP before it, Chainlink unifies blockchains and abstracts away complexity, empowering developers and institutions to build and power the entire lifecycle of onchain use cases via a single, secure platform.
Now, enterprises can efficiently build onchain apps that mirror the sophistication of traditional finance yet benefit from the transparency, security, and composability of blockchains and Chainlink technology.
Chainlink is how the world integrates into the onchain economy.
Financial markets have a $58 billion problem nobody knows about.
To solve an annual $58B+ problem for financial markets, Swift, UBS, Euroclear, & 20+ leading institutions leveraged Chainlink to reduce AI hallucination risk in corporate actions.
➔ Problem: Blockchains cannot connect to the real world
➔ Solution: Chainlink links blockchains to existing systems and data
➔ Outcome: Chainlink brings global finance onchain
LIVE: @RobinhoodCrypto adopts Chainlink as its official data and cross-chain oracle.
Chainlink is now powering Robinhood Stock Tokens and unlocking access to the onchain economy for millions of users.
Live on day 1.
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LLM hallucinations are a massive roadblock to enterprise adoption of AI.
Swift, UBS, Euroclear, & 20+ major organizations advanced a solution to the $58B+ annual corporate actions problem by leveraging Chainlink to reduce AI hallucination risk.
LINK everything.