Ash.

Strategic Initiatives @Chainlink
Unlocking the next wave of growth for our industry powered by the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE)

[Ash. @_AshNathan]

As promised here's a deep dive into the @Chainlink Runtime Environment!

[Chainlink @chainlink]

AI outputs are prone to inaccuracies & hallucinations, creating a bottleneck for enterprise AI adoption.

Swift, UBS, Euroclear, & 20+ major organizations leveraged Chainlink to reduce AI hallucination risk and unlock automated corporate actions.

Chainlink 🤝 AI

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Starlink is going interplanetary

SpaceX is exploring a lunar communication network using satellites orbiting the Moon and laser links connecting them together

They’re also developing concepts like “Roam: Interplanetary” - a Starlink terminal designed to provide high-speed internet for astronauts, lunar bases, and rovers anywhere on the Moon

The same network connecting millions of people on Earth today could eventually keep humans connected on another world

And Starship is what makes all of this possible

Not just as a rocket, but as the transport system capable of deploying satellites, infrastructure, cargo, and communication systems across the solar system

This is becoming full-scale science fiction in real life

[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.

[Ash. @_AshNathan]

Been following @colossal since they revived the dire wolf in ‘24. Now they hatched 26 chicks from 3D-printed eggs with lab shells that breathe like real ones, no hens needed. Mind-blowing! The breathable shell design is fascinating, dyor.

[Colossal Biosciences® @colossal]

BREAKTHROUGH: Colossal scientists hatched healthy chicks from artificial eggs.

No shells. No hens. Just bioengineered eggs that breathe like the real thing.

This could help bring back giant extinct birds like the South Island giant moa, whose eggs were ~80x a chicken’s. (1/10)

[Chainlink @chainlink]

L I N K E V E R Y T H I N G

[Ascend @AscendFi]

Standards come before
the markets they enable
come fully alive

[Stani @StaniKulechov]

Chainlink SVR is now live on Aave V4.

Aave 🤝 Chainlink

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

🔥 UPDATE: Lombard Finance is replacing LayerZero with Chainlink CCIP for LBTC and BTC.b cross-chain infrastructure.

[Decrypt @DecryptMedia]

Chainlink's @_AshNathan explains why CRE is a massive value proposition for prediction markets by resolving markets on-chain👇

[Decrypt @DecryptMedia]

During FOMO HOUR, @farokh & @Tyler_Did_It sat down with @_AshNathan from @Chainlink to talk about Chainlink's Runtime Environment, Prediction Markets & why they chose to team up with MYRIAD.

01:01 - What is Chainlink Runtime & why is it important?
03:46 - What's it like working with HUGE trad-fi players?
06:02 - How does this all apply to Prediction Markets?
09:22 - What made Myriad stand out to work with?
10:41 - Why should Myriad users care about the adoption?

[Ash. @_AshNathan]

CLARITY 👏

[Chainlink @chainlink]

JUST IN: The U.S. Senate Banking Committee voted to advance the CLARITY Act to the Senate floor.

[Ash. @_AshNathan]

It’s been absolute blast working with @farokh and team over at @MyriadMarkets !

They’ve built one of the most robust prediction markets live by pushing the boundaries of innovation whilist maintaining discipline to our roots as an industry when it comes to security and reliability.

More markets coming soon 🚀

Welcome to the @chainlink standard 🤝

[CoinDesk @CoinDesk]

JUST IN: @MyriadMarkets has adopted @chainlink as its exclusive oracle infrastructure for crypto, stock, and commodities prediction markets.

[Ash. @_AshNathan]

Awesome

[🍜 @cprkrn]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT OMG CLAUDE JUST CRACKED THIS SHIT, THANK YOU @AnthropicAI THANK YOU @DarioAmodei NAMING MY KID AFTER YOU 😍

https://t.co/gObNirRDpS

[Ash. @_AshNathan]

Tune in marines!

[FOMO HOUR @fomohour]

Your daily dose of Crypto & Macro news 📊

Tomorrow 10am ET w/ @_AshNathan from @chainlink 👇

https://t.co/M0K2KUDSQS

[Ash. @_AshNathan]

DTCC processed $4.7 quadrillion in value last year.

They've chosen Chainlink's data and orchestration standards into its Collateral AppChain.

Powered by Chainlink Runtime (CRE).

[DTCC @The_DTCC]

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

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Bitcoin is my safe word

[Chris Barrett @ChrisBarrett]

The great migration is underway.

When the storm hits, buffalo don’t scatter. They move as one toward higher ground.

Protocols are doing the same.

The flight to safety is a flight to Chainlink.

[Ash. @_AshNathan]

April was the worst month for hacks in our industry’s history, $629M gone…

If you’re in South Beach for Consensus Miami and want to talk about bringing our industry back to our roots with a focus on building truly secure and decentralized solutions drop me a DM.

Let’s make May the month of non negotiable -> Decentralized by default.

Data, Interop, Runtime, Privacy and Compliance.

Chainlink everything 🤝

[Chris Barrett @ChrisBarrett]

The industry is about to descend on South Beach for #Consensus2026.

The main conversation shouldn’t be about markets, narratives, or who’s launching what.

It should be about security.

April was the worst month for hacks in crypto history. $629M gone. 30 incidents.

Bad actors running circles around protocols that thought audits were enough. Bridges, signing keys, social engineering. The attack surface is wider than ever and getting wider.

May 2026 has to be the month the industry steps up and defends decentralization by default.

Chainlink will be on the ground in Miami having these conversations. Not the easy ones. The real ones. About what it actually takes to secure value at scale, why decentralized infrastructure exists in the first place, and why every shortcut taken on security is a debt that gets paid in someone’s drained wallet.

If security is a passing thought for you, you’re a tourist. Your entire protocol will be washed out the moment the next crisis hits.

Only the strong will survive this cycle.

Chainlink everything.

[Ash. @_AshNathan]

@ygorz01 @chainlink Access granted ✅

[Bitwise @Bitwise]

Just released: “Chainlink in Plain English” – why Chainlink matters for stablecoins, tokenization, and mass-scale adoption.

Written for traditional investors, by crypto experts.

Share it with the Chainlink skeptic in your life.

https://t.co/CXD1K6JEyH