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[Bitpink @bitpinkofficial]

Ethereum is the most powerful and secure blockchain. Convert your assets to Ethereum and stay resilient during sudden market downturns.
$ETH #ETH #ethereum #crypto

[Arkham @arkham]

Tom Lee is up approximately $1 Billion since this morning on $ETH.

[MSB Intel @MSBIntel]

BREAKING: Wyoming moves its FRNT stablecoin from LayerZero to Chainlink CCIP after a security review.

[CoinMarketCap @CoinMarketCap]

LATEST: ⚡️ The Wyoming Stable Token Commission switched its Frontier Stable Token from LayerZero to Chainlink's CCIP as its exclusive cross-chain infrastructure under a multi-year contract.

[Ted @TedPillows]

BitMine bought $18,900,000 in $ETH last week.

Tom Lee is buying Ethereum every week.

[CCIPMetrics @CCIPMetrics]

#CCIP today
Value transferred: $7,668,821.8
Top sent token: SYRUPUSDG: $1,850,203.5 (24.1%)
Transactions: 742
Fees: $574.7
Top sender: Unknown: Tx: 45 (6.1%), Fees: $26.3 (4.6%)

Pools open. Stake your LINK today at https://t.co/2PucP3Emnu

[Ted @TedPillows]

A whale bought $10,100,000 in $ETH today.

Accumulation.

[RWA Foundation @RWAFoundation_]

Total RWA holders across the ecosystem have surpassed 2 million.

[Arkham @arkham]

HYPERLIQUID ETF: NO HYPE SALES

No Hyperliquid ETF sold HYPE last week - ALL of them net bought or held. Grayscale and Bitwise clients acquired $2.8M of HYPE in total.

HYPE is now up over 16% from its lows on the weekend. Will the ETFs continue their buy streak this week?

[⬡ Lawrence ⬡ @LawrenceCCIP]

Study Chainlink.

The market is bad. Sentiment has sat in fear territory for most of 2026. When conditions are like this there is not much to do except learn. Time spent studying now is capital you get to use later.

If you study one thing, study Chainlink.

Three reasons.

1. The products solve what this industry actually needs

A blockchain cannot see outside itself. It does not know the closing price of a stock, the current dollar interest rate, or how to send an asset to another chain. Chainlink is the infrastructure that brings outside data and value into blockchains.

As of Q2 2026, Chainlink secures $110 billion in onchain value. In that quarter alone, more than $7 billion in cross-chain token value moved onto CCIP, Chainlink's cross-chain protocol. Most of it came from projects that already had a bridge and decided to switch.

KelpDAO moved $1.5B in rsETH after its previous bridge provider was exploited. Tydro, the largest lending protocol on Ink, switched after its previous oracle provider was exploited. Chainlink now secures over $400M in its lending markets. Kraken moved over $330M in kBTC and committed all future Kraken wrapped assets. Mantle moved over $2.5B in MNT. Lombard moved over $1B in Bitcoin assets. Solv moved over $700M in tokenized BTC. Aave's risk manager wrote Chainlink's data, cross-chain and orchestration standards into its updated risk framework. The DAO vote passed with 100% approval. Lido published its security reasoning for selecting CCIP as the official cross-chain solution for wstETH.

Every one of those is a migration. Each team was already running something else and paid the cost of switching.
On the institutional side, from the same quarter:
Fidelity International, with over $1 trillion in client assets, launched its first tokenized fund using Chainlink for onchain NAV. State Street, with over $5 trillion under management, launched SWEEP with Galaxy using Chainlink NAV data and CCIP. SIX, operator of the Swiss and Spanish national exchanges, brought its European equities data onchain with Chainlink, opening more than €2 trillion of European equities to tokenization. Robinhood Chain adopted Chainlink as its official data and cross-chain oracle on day one of mainnet. Amazon listed the Chainlink data standard on AWS Marketplace, covering Data Feeds, Data Streams and Proof of Reserve. Polymarket's high-speed crypto markets have cleared over $7 billion in cumulative volume, resolved by Chainlink Data Streams. Ten prediction market apps adopted Chainlink in Q2, including the official prediction market partner of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. DTCC, which operates the post-trade infrastructure behind global securities markets, is integrating Chainlink into its Collateral AppChain, with go-live expected in Q4 2026. Over 50 banks representing more than $10 trillion in assets under management launched Project Pangea to develop cross-border FX settlement at T+0 using Chainlink alongside existing Swift infrastructure. Fortune ranked Chainlink fourth on its 2026 Crypto 100 list for Blockchain and Protocols.
Most of that is already live.

The two largest items still being built are DTCC, targeting Q4 2026, and Pangea.

2. The learning material is free and there is a lot of it

Chainlink publishes its education material for free and keeps the older material online. The on-demand bootcamp library includes:
Chainlink Bootcamp: Intro to Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) Intro to Chainlink and Solidity Bootcamp 2025 CCIP Bootcamp 2024 Smart Contract Developer Bootcamp 2024 Solana Blockchain Developer Bootcamp 2023 Bootcamp en Español para desarrolladores de Smart Contracts 2024 Introducción a Chainlink y Solidity Bootcamp 2025 Bootcamp para Desenvolvedores de Smart Contracts em Português 2024 Introdução à Chainlink e Solidity Bootcamp 2025 Chainlink 与 Solidity 简介 Bootcamp 2025 Giới thiệu Chainlink và Solidity Bootcamp 2025 Chainlink Viet Nam Bootcamp

They are available on demand and almost all are labelled beginner friendly. Chainlink charges no fee for any of them, and software engineering experience helps but is not required.

For a credential, Chainlink Fundamentals is free on Cyfrin Updraft. It covers the oracle network, Data Feeds, VRF, Automation, Proof of Reserve and CCIP, and ends with a free exam of 50 questions in 75 minutes, 30 correct to pass, and a certificate of completion. Each section explains the service in plain language first and shows the code afterwards, so it works for people without a development background. Blockchain Basics, the prerequisite, is also free.

Beyond the courses there is https://t.co/5mA30cPy2k for full technical documentation, the Developer Hub and its changelog for product updates, the whitepapers, and the Education Hub for introductory articles on oracles, stablecoins, tokenization and real-world assets. The quarterly reviews go back years and work as a record of how the industry moved.

Chainlink also publishes Developer Agent Skills, which teach an AI assistant how CCIP, CRE, ACE, Data Feeds, Data Streams and VRF work so it can help you build with them.

All of it is free.

3. The community is large, active and spread across the world

The hackathon record is the clearest way to see the scale:
2020, the first Chainlink hackathon: over 1,000 signups from more than 45 countries. Spring 2021: over 4,000 signups from more than 170 countries. Spring 2023: over 14,000 registrants and 498 project submissions from more than 100 countries. Block Magic 2024: 18,157 registrants from 219 countries, with 46% who had never built on a blockchain and 60% who had never joined a Web3 hackathon. Chromion 2025: over 3,000 participants and 412 projects, with 33% new to blockchain development. Convergence 2026: over 3,000 participants and a record 554 submissions across DeFi, tokenization, prediction markets, compliance, privacy and autonomous agents.

The geographic coverage is close to complete, and a large share of the people who show up are beginners.
Chainlink also runs officially moderated local communities in Hong Kong, mainland China on WeChat, Weibo and Bilibili, South Korea on KakaoTalk and Telegram, Southeast Asia, Vietnam, Thailand, India, Portugal and Spain, most of them operating in the local language. There are global Discord, Telegram, Reddit and YouTube channels on top of that, and the bootcamp library runs in five languages.Whatever language you think in, there is a channel for it.

Starting after the market recovers means starting late.

Study Chainlink. Before it's too late.

[Ash Crypto @AshCrypto]

2011: $30 → Bitcoin is the future
2012: $5 → Bitcoin is dead

2013: $1,330 → Bitcoin is the future
2015: $200 → Bitcoin is dead

2017: $19,000 → Bitcoin is the future
2018: $3,300 → Bitcoin is dead

2021: $69,000 → Bitcoin is the future
2022: $16,000 → Bitcoin is dead

2025: $126,000 → Bitcoin is the future
2026: $60,000 → Bitcoin is dead

Every cycle, Bitcoin proves everyone wrong

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

Strategy added $150M to its USD Reserve and repurchased $132M of $STRC, extending USD Duration to 2.8 yrs (+41 days) and tightening STRC BTC Credit to 114 bps (-4 bps). As of 8/16/26: ₿840,447 BTC Reserve; $4.8B USD Reserve. $MSTR https://t.co/kNWPowilmT

[Chainlink @chainlink]

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.

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

🇺🇸 ETF FLOWS: BTC, ETH and SOL spot ETFs saw net inflows on Aug. 4.

BTC: $211.49M
ETH: $53.75M
SOL: $1M

[Avalanche🔺 @avax]

BREAKING: Kenya Government brings 30M+ academic credentials on chain with Avalanche

Through @KNECKenya, academic records are now verifiable and forgery-resistant, with Avalanche powering the national verification layer.

[MSB Intel @MSBIntel]

JUST IN: Ethereum developers propose EIP-8361 to slash staking rewards, hitting 100% burn at 60.25M staked ETH.

[Chainlink @chainlink]

The WBTC migration is making CCIP the most widely adopted cross-chain solution for wrapped Bitcoin, set to secure nearly 70% of the market and $16B+ in value.

When $BTC moves cross-chain, it moves through CCIP.

[BitGo @BitGo]

Security comes first. Always has.

BitGo is migrating away from our legacy solution and selecting @chainlink CCIP as our exclusive cross-chain infrastructure provider, standardizing WBTC and all future BitGo-issued assets on a single, institutional-grade interoperability framework.

Read the full blog: https://t.co/UL6yGrI4Hm

[Chainlink @chainlink]

NEW: @BitGo (NYSE: BTGO) migrates $7.7B+ Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) to Chainlink CCIP.

After a rigorous review, BitGo deprecated its legacy bridging provider & chose CCIP as its exclusive cross-chain infra given it’s the only solution that meets institutional security requirements.

[ALLINCRYPTO @RealAllinCrypto]

Chainlink’s Reserve hits over $5M+ $LINK, in under a year and is being completely overlooked!

The reserve began adding around 300k $LINK per month. Now in July coming up to a year old it;s added 706k $LINK, more than double that early pace.

The Reserve held around 3M $LINK a few months ago and has nearly doubled to 6M!

As @chainlink adoption and fees grow, the Reserve is going to keep buying, and with more partnerships + integrations everyday...

Give it another few years and the effect on available $LINK supply and PRICE will be impossible to ignore.

[Sygnum Bank @sygnumofficial]

📰 @BancaStato has joined Sygnum's B2B banking platform, enabling regulated crypto trading directly through the bank’s existing Avaloq web and mobile banking channels.

At launch BancaStato clients can buy, hold and sell Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC) and Solana (SOL), with all digital assets safeguarded in Sygnum’s institutional-grade custody solution.

“We are proud to welcome BancaStato to our fast-growing B2B network, which illustrates the growing demand for Sygnum’s regulated, API-driven digital asset services that integrate directly into existing core banking systems,” said Fritz W Jost, Sygnum Chief B2B Officer.
“BancaStato, becoming the first bank on Avaloq’s SaaS environment to enable clients to buy, hold and sell crypto via API with Sygnum directly from within its e-banking platforms, marks a significant step in the maturity and scalability of regulated digital asset infrastructure.”

Read the full press release here: https://t.co/HsHxRSXj5B

#digitalassets #crypto #banking
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