NEW: Arc, the L1 chain developed by @circle, officially joins Chainlink Scale to provide devs access to institutional oracle infra:
🔗 CCIP
⚡ Data Streams
📊 Data Feeds
🏦 Proof of Reserve
Arc 🤝 Chainlink
Monday Milestones 🚀
This week at Solace:
• ~300,000 organic views across TikTok, Instagram, RedNote & YouTube Shorts
• ~1,000 weekly active users now talking to their companions
• Rolled out expressive voice customization (our companions can now laugh, gasp, shout, and get angry)
• Added support for English, Mandarin, Cantonese & Korean
• Launched collectible companion badges
🔥 UPDATE: Chainlink's holder count is increasing, with $LINK adding over 8K non-empty wallets in just 5 days to reach 892.8K, even as its price sits near local lows, per Santiment.
JUST IN: JPMorgan backs crypto Clarity Act
"The United States must take great care in how it establishes a framework for digital assets."
"The promise is clear. Tokenization and programmable money can reduce friction in payments, shorten settlement cycles, and unlock efficiencies that benefit businesses and consumers alike. These technologies have the potential to modernize financial infrastructure in meaningful ways, particularly as commerce and investments become more global and operate around the clock."
🧵 The NSCC just launched 24×5 clearing.
What does that have to do with @StellarOrg, @chainlink and @CantonNetwork?
More than you might think.
This isn’t about one blockchain winning.
It’s about how the world’s largest financial infrastructure is being rebuilt.
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@The_DTCC processes securities worth more than $100 trillion every year.
Today, its wholly owned subsidiary, the National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC), officially launched 24×5 clearing.
At first glance, it looks like a routine operational upgrade.
It isn’t.
For decades, traditional finance and blockchain networks operated on completely different clocks.
Markets closed.
Blockchains never did.
That mismatch created friction between legacy finance and digital assets.
Today’s 24×5 clearing is one step toward closing that gap.
But that’s only one part of the story.
At the same time, DTCC is quietly building a multi-chain architecture.
Not around one blockchain.
Around specialized infrastructure.
@CantonNetwork
DTCC selected Canton to tokenize DTC-custodied U.S. Treasury securities.
Its strength is institutional privacy, permissioned markets and regulated financial infrastructure.
@StellarOrg
DTCC selected Stellar to connect its tokenization platform to a public blockchain.
Beginning in the first half of 2027, DTC-custodied assets are expected to become available on Stellar, bringing public accessibility and lifecycle management to tokenized securities.
@chainlink
DTCC is collaborating with Chainlink to advance 24/7 collateral management.
Its role is data delivery, automation and cross-chain orchestration, helping institutions manage collateral around the clock.
Each network solves a different problem.
Together, they begin to resemble a complete financial stack.
Now look at the pieces side by side.
✅ 24×5 clearing
✅ Tokenized U.S. Treasuries
✅ Public blockchain connectivity
✅ 24/7 collateral management
Viewed separately, these are individual announcements.
Viewed together, they reveal something much bigger.
DTCC isn’t choosing one blockchain.
It’s designing an ecosystem where specialized infrastructure works together.
Perhaps this is the real transition.
Not TradFi versus blockchain.
TradFi becoming blockchain-compatible.
Infrastructure.
Interoperability.
Always-on markets.
The plumbing of finance is changing.
chainlink bought back $15m in LINK over 90 days with zero token unlocks during the same window. reserve holds 4.5m LINK with $49.5m cumulative inflows. SVR feeds generated $12.4m in 2026 from recaptured liquidation value alone. CCIP just passed wormhole in transfer volume across 70+ chains. DTCC collateral appchain targeting Q4 2026 deployment for automated margin call settlement, currently processing $2.6 quadrillion annually. 52 banks committed to pangea for atomic FX settlement. CME launched 24/7 LINK futures. two spot ETFs live. 8,000 new wallets added in 5 days. token is 85% below ATH. the buyback engine is running, the unlock pressure paused, and the biggest infrastructure deployment in crypto history is 5 months out. price doesn't reflect the progress and that's either a gift or a trap. stop trading start believing.
Most projects fail to achieve robustness in one or both of two core properties: safety and liveness.
Axelar achieves both through multiple layers of security.
Today tokenized private credit got something it has never had: proof of insurance you can verify onchain.
@trize_io built it with @Chainlink and @CantonNetwork
➡️co-engineered ➡️first of its kind.
Insurance. Reinsurance. Collateral. Structured finance. Real estate. Same rail.
The institutional internet of value just got its trust layer.
And every layer we add compounds the next.
#Tokenization #RWA #Chainlink #CantonNetwork #PrivateCredit #DigitalAssets
When we spot an opportunity, we go in hard.
It may take some time to lift the curtains, but behind the scenes we're always looking for the next-big-thing.