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[Chainlink @chainlink]

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.

[Ari Juels @AriJuels]

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.

[Stani @StaniKulechov]

Aave Chainlink SVR quite substantial boost for Aave's revenue. In one week, Aave has earned more revenue than whole last month.

[Chris Barrett @ChrisBarrett]

Clarity is coming

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

People still think (or feel) because Bitcoin is down crypto is down.

Derivatives/perps, stablecoins, prediction markets, etc are all up in crypto.

Crypto touches every area of finance, and is much broader than Bitcoin now. It will take some time for this to sink in.

(And yes - Bitcoin is going to do great and is as important as ever - one of many cycles we've all been through.)

[Chris Barrett @ChrisBarrett]

“They will understand it when we power everything” - Sergey Nazarov

Chainlink Everything

[Rory @rorypiant]

It's been 7 years of building Chainlink.

Now it's time to show you what "LINK THE WORLD" really means.

[j @UntiltableMan]

Happy 7th anniversary! 🎉🥳 @chainlink

[Fishy Catfish @CatfishFishy]

https://t.co/VWypI84l8M

1. The DTCC has their own gasless private chain as its primary venue, Collateral Appchain.

2. Chainlink will be integrated into DTCC’s Collateral AppChain to enable the seamless pairing of asset prices, valuations and movement with the aim of overhauling how market risk is managed globally.

DTCC built all of their workflows for the Collateral AppChain’s advanced eligibility, valuation, margining, collateral optimization, settlement, and related post-trade processes using Chainlink's Runtime Environment platform.

3. The goal of tokenization is to have a consistent state across all chains with real-time data orchestration, automated compliance and atomic DvP/ PvP, enabling T+0 with far more efficient markets, 24x7x365 up-time but also 24x7x365 regulatory monitoring.

Those chains are a fungible, abstracted away commodity, whose gas token is only used to pay a tiny gas fee when a transaction actually even happens outside the primary chain.

[DTCC @The_DTCC]

https://t.co/puUdwR9BG7

[LinkTOAD General HBARI @ARiHBARi]

🚨THERE YOU HAVE IT: @THE_DTCC JUST STATED THAT @CHAINLINK INTEROP IS SIGNIFICANTLY MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANY NEW SHINY BLOCKCHAIN🚨

$LINK

[CCIPMetrics @CCIPMetrics]

For anyone sincerely wondering why this is bullish:

Everything being done in blockchain today is a joke. None of this matters if TradFi doesn't get involved (SWIFT, DTCC, etc). Whether it's 1,000 transactions a day or 20,000 a day - it's nothing. It's a drop in the bucket when looking at the total addressable market (TAM) of these kinds of solutions.

TradFi isn't going to switch their systems to using blockchain if it's more expensive and/or less efficient than their existing processes.

If you want SWIFT or DTCC to migrate processes that are sending millions of messages per day - the solution needs to be cheap on a per message basis.

Importantly, CCIP is only 1 product out of the many that Chainlink offers. Yes, interoperability is important, but to migrate these tech stacks it requires far more than just a bridge. You shouldn't be thinking about 5 cents or 60 cents times 1,000 tx's. You should be multiplying by millions. Then adding the fees associated with all other required Chainlink services.

I'm sure this is obvious to anyone critically thinking about these kinds of things, but for the sake of any new friends here I figured I'd reiterate it.

[DTCC @The_DTCC]

DTCC and the Stellar Development Foundation announced today plans to enable the tokenization of DTC‑custodied assets on the @StellarOrg network. This collaboration advances DTCC’s multi chain strategy and expands how traditional assets move across digital ecosystems.

DTC‑tokenized assets are expected to be made available on the Stellar network in the first half of 2027, supporting the evolution of a more open, interoperable, and efficient financial ecosystem.

Get the full story: https://t.co/YCWHZDiLl5

[David Hoffman @TrustlessState]

https://t.co/5EOn4y2pdx

[Chris Barrett @ChrisBarrett]

Cross-chain risk is now being repriced in real time.

Chainlink CCIP is becoming the secure-by-default standard for serious capital.

[Zedzies @Zedzies]

@Cardano didn’t pay for a @chainlink integration so they ended up with a collection of unreliable and unsafe hobbyware protocols like Layerzero and $PYTH.

[LinkDrake @DrakeLinked]

I feel like everyone, including LINK Marines are still in disbelief that DTCC explicitly confirmed Chainlink CRE is part of their AppChain launch.

It is not going to instantly be trillions, but the fact CL is their main launch infrastructure to get this show on the road..

That dwarfs all other crypto industry adoption progress since inception.

Imagine not being positive about the progress right now, not to mention Swift can pop up at anytime too and who knows what else is in the works.

DTCC is even shilling the tokenomics that are possible within the current environment.

Meanwhile other communities are going around desperately trying to claim relevance while reality unfolds before them.

🤗

[LinkBoi @LinkBoi777]

Soft launch of @chainlink x @The_DTCC is scheduled for the 13th of july with full launch in Q4

I'm very excited👀

- $LINK

[Spade @SpadesHQ]

Your developer being socially engineered into cloning a malicious GitHub repo & dropping malware onto his or her machine is what initially enabled this exploit. Your own incident report literally includes that in the attack timeline.

Yet, almost none of the corrective actions in the post mortem focus on the human element whatsoever. (OpSec practices, security training, device policies, phishing training, workstation isolation, or operational awareness.)

Instead, your response is centered around the technical exploit & DVN configuration changes. (Which is ironic because you originally framed it as a Kelp config issue)

LZ’s security model is only as strong as the humans providing it. It doesn’t matter whether you scale the DVN to 5 attestors or 100 if the operators themselves are vulnerable to social engineering by regimes halfway across the globe. The only thing you are doing is maximizing the trust assumptions, while ignoring the root issue.

[Kyle Chassé 🐸 @Kylechasse]

The Chainlink co-founder just said something the market isn't ready to hear.

RWAs don't care about crypto prices anymore.

$33.6 billion in tokenized assets. $10 billion in U.S. Treasuries alone.

All on-chain.

JPMorgan. BlackRock. DTCC.

All running pilots on Chainlink's infrastructure.

Here's my take...RWAs are quietly becoming the most important story in crypto and nobody's talking about it.

While everyone's watching Bitcoin candles, institutions are moving real money onto blockchains. Permanently.

The speculation era is ending.

The utility era just started.