Holy shit, Europe just exploded with heavy lift aircraft activity.
The U.S. has at least twenty C-17 and Stratotankers airborne, with more taking off. There's likely squadrons of fighters that just crossed the Atlantic with those tankers.
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 ⬇️
https://t.co/HlnmFeiEWY
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.
World Liberty plans to raise $1.5B via Nasdaq listing
@worldlibertyfi is seeking to raise $1.5B by launching a publicly traded firm on @Nasdaq to hold its $WLFI tokens. The plan closely mirrors MicroStrategy’s “crypto treasury” model, positioning the new entity as a digital asset vault for investors.
$TRUMP $WLFI #WorldLibertyFinancial #WLFISummer
I’m taking a break from DC for the week and heading to NYC with the Chainlink team. Big media week ahead and fireside chats with Swift and World Liberty Financial.
I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to attend the Crypto Summit at the @WhiteHouse today. It was a great event that had some of the top leaders in our industry in attendance, all of whom got the chance to share their views on the crypto reserve, regulation, legislation and the overall strategy for how our industry will be able to evolve in the United States financial system. Since the US financial system is the world's leading financial system and many other financial systems follow its lead, this was a truly historic day for our industry.
Having the most senior members of the cabinet that cover these topics, the Secretary of the Treasury @SecScottBessent and the Secretary of Commerce @howardlutnick attending the event and actively participating before we were joined by @POTUS says a lot about the US's new found commitment to cryptocurrencies, blockchains and its own evolution as a financial system using our industry's approach.
Having top legislators that have been supporting our industry for many years like Congressional Whip Tom Emmer/@GOPMajorityWhip and Digital Asset Subcommittee Chair Bryan Steil/@RepBryanSteil also in the room showed a clear alignment between the executive and the legislative branch. The executive branch and legislative branch working together to get our industry adopted by the US financial system is very important. After this summit and my recent trips to DC it has become clear to me that the large macroeconomic effects of our industry on the US financial system makes it not only a bipartisan issue but possibly even a nonpartisan issue that is obviously in both parties interests because it is clearly in the US's overall interests. This level of cooperation between both parties of the house and senate greatly accelerates our industry's ability to gain entirely new laws and regulations. It may actually be one of the most cooperative issues in the legislative process right now.
I am also very impressed by the intelligence, commitment and deep industry understanding of the people that the @realDonaldTrump has chosen to plan things out for our industry from the executive branch; @DavidSacks and @BoHines are both knowledgeable about our industry and clearly very committed to helping it reach an entirely new level of adoption. They are helping bring together the most senior members of the US government to reorient the US financial system towards our industries technologies as the future. They did a great job on this summit and are doing many other great things for our industry's future as well.
It is clear to me that @realDonaldTrump has chosen our industry as a critical component of his plans for the US economy. In the attached video you can clearly see him saying "I thought it was very important that we stay in the front of this one, this is a big one" in response to points about how our industry is leading to the evolution of the global financial system. As an industry we are all immensely lucky that this is now the approach that US's executive branch has towards our industry. Thank you.
There were many comments made during the summit by various top industry leaders, but I found @ZachWitkoff's comments about the need to create regulatory clarity that makes all existing US institutions comfortable enough to participate in our industry, particularly insightful. I personally think that what he and the team at @worldlibertyfi are building is at the next level of DeFi and will be in a good position to take advantage of this next iteration/evolution of the US financial system.
Today in Washington, D.C., Chainlink hosted an invite-only event with U.S. government representatives to discuss how U.S. policy on blockchain technology can drive innovation in the financial system.
Participants:
• @RepBryanSteil — Chair, House Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence
• Tyler Williams — Counselor to the Secretary of Treasury for Digital Assets
• Kristopher Klaich — Policy Director for The Digital Chamber
• @SergeyNazarov — Co-Founder of Chainlink
Stay tuned for a video of the panel and fireside chat coming soon.
Great conversations at the Trump Inaugural Committee Candle Light Dinner tonight. I can see a whole new path for the blockchain industry that simply did not exist a few months ago. Exciting times ahead for our industry.
Donald Trump’s crypto project, World Liberty Financial, appears to be buying specialized digital tokens worth millions of dollars as speculation increases that the decentralized finance lending platform is moving closer to becoming operational. https://t.co/s1KvGIReW3
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's World Liberty Financial (@worldlibertyfi) has spent $12M on $ETH, $AAVE, and $LINK in the past 10 hours, including:
• 2,631 $ETH ($10M) at ~$3,801
• 3,357 $AAVE ($1M) at ~$297.8
• 41,335 $LINK ($1M) at ~$24.19
This is the fund's first purchase of $AAVE and $LINK.
Meanwhile, in the past 12 days, the fund has spent a total of 30M $USDC to buy 8,105 ETH at an average price of $3,701.
Follow @spotonchain and track #WorldLiberty live at https://t.co/QXPszWUdd1
.@chainlinklabs is taking a bold step forward in the MENA region by establishing an entity here in Abu Dhabi under ADGM.
As demand for tokenised assets and onchain finance rises, Chainlink Labs is expanding its reach to better serve its ecosystem and forge strategic partnerships with financial institutions in the region.
This move reflects Chainlink’s commitment to advancing innovation in verifiable data and cross-chain interoperability.
Learn more at: https://t.co/ahnzAqcubh