"...what is coming is inevitable."
I cannot begin to describe the (positive) chills I got from reading that...
Reminded me of what Agent Smith said to Neo ("it's inevitable"). In my mind, this was not a negative, but a statement of fact about the nature of reality.
OK;LG
Many great #Chainlink meetups happening all over, come learn about how to build a world powered by cryptographic truth, then build it, and make new frens.
Thanks @thealexturley for organizing a great event in Atlanta and to everyone who understands; what is coming is inevitable.
Whether it’s a screen pass or Tush Push, the USA needs to get the Clarity Act football into the end zone.
The frameworks at the heart of our industry are currently 1) laws from the 1930s, 2) a 1946 Supreme Court case about orange trees, and 3) regulatory comments, speeches, and rules that can shift with political winds. Main Street and Wall Street alike need clarity and lasting legislation.
Still blows my mind that the former @ChainlinkLabs Deputy General Counsel of 5+ years is now Chief Counsel for the U.S. @SECGov Crypto Task Force
From the infra powering DeFi to the regulator overseeing it..
Quite obvious the real tech that’s been built over the past decade+ in this industry will inevitably underpin US capital markets
In the past week, Chainlink SVR generated $3.57M in revenue by recapturing non-toxic liquidation MEV for lending protocols like Aave, Compound, Venus, and Morpho
This revenue was split $2.3M to integrated DeFi protocols and $1.27M to Chainlink, supporting the economic sustainability of DeFi and the oracles that underpin it
Year-to-date SVR revenue now totals over $12.43M, with all-time SVR revenue exceeding $22.35M
Offchain and onchain revenue in the Chainlink ecosystem support weekly Reserve ethereum:0x514910771af9ca656af840dff83e8264ecf986ca buybacks, with $49.5M in inflows to date
Today, we're introducing a dedicated marketplace for staked $SDL.
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NEW RESEARCH: IC3 just published one of the most comprehensive surveys on AI & crypto.
As AI & agents scale, model-level guardrails aren’t enough. AI needs:
• Trusted data
• Authenticated workflows
• Verified execution
• System-level security
Chainlink solves this.
Twenty-five experts from academia and industry put together this (monster, 150+-page) survey on the bidirectional impact of crypto and AI. Visit https://t.co/MPdy1bIoGw to read it, peruse the executive summary—or chat with a chatbot about it.
First day at @chainlink and a huge week for NYC!🗽🏀 Excited to join ETHConf for a fireside chat with @JillMalandrino to dive into:
• Why I joined Chainlink after 15+ years in trading and capital markets
• The significant work and opportunities ahead for the network
• How this connects back to the Chainlink community
In light of the other big event happening in NYC this week, I likely won't talk much about all the time I spent growing up in San Antonio... 🤫
Kicked off a new career adventure with two of my favorite things: family and tacos. 🌮 Time to get to work, join a wonderful community building a better financial system, and @chainlink everything.
Excited for @AndrewMcMarkets, Chainlink Labs’ Head of Institutional and Market Development, to make his first public speaking appearance for Chainlink at ETHConf NYC this week.
Catch his fireside chat on the Main Stage with @JillMalandrino:
📅 Wed, June 10
🕧 12:35–12:55 PM
Same story for bonds, Treasuries, and money market funds. Still incredibly early. @chainlink will be a key part of LINKing the old financial system with the new.
I've been building DeFi for almost a decade and we went from zero to here:
- Over 300b stablecoins issued onchain
- Protocols that actually make revenue, all verifiable onchain
- Billions in stablecoins yielding interest directly onchain
- More safer ways to trade or lend (no ftx custody risk)
- Embedded wallets that bring more users and are easy to integrate (i.e. Privy)
- Fintechs and e-commerce platforms issuing stablecoins (PyUSD, SoFi, Western Union, Moneygram)
- Big fintech involvement (Stripe with Tempo)
- Fintechs integrating defi (i.e. Whop integrating Aave)
- Almost all relevant major banks and asset managers have digital asset teams and also working on tokenization, stablecoins and defi (Fidelity, BlackRock etc)
- Genious act regulating stable coins and removing uncertainty to enable fintechs and TradFi to participate
- Clarity act coming, creating more certainty for crypto and defi
- AI tools for defi security hardening and improved overall development process since early days
- EU has MiCA certainty and UK following up
- Banks banking crypto (Erebor etc) and better onramping
The industry progress has been real, and will take of course years to come to see full adoption. We are closer now than ever before, yet moving 8 billion people onchain will take time.
I think that we are in front of a moment where underlying tech is starting out-phases the crypto-native assets. It make sense for stablecoins to have bigger market caps that Bitcoin and Ethereum as world is moving onchain over time. Same thing will happen with trading and lending as more assets are tokenized and will grow directly onchain. This is net good for the ecosystem.
It seems that fintech and tradfi is doubling down on blockchain like never before.
The best way to progress is by building, and we have some of the smartest builders in the space, true believers that build with a real mission are still here.
At some point crypto, defi, stablecoins, rwas are doing to be just called finance. No tribalism, no drama just boring tech that works and scales.
We’re launching a new monthly @Chainlink community initiative — kicking it off with @rorypiant , one of the earliest contributors to the Chainlink network.
Have a thoughtful question about Chainlink’s evolution, ecosystem growth, or its role across Web3 and traditional finance?
Bring your questions to "# ask-chainlink" channel on the official Chainlink Discord.
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