Chainlink & CCIP are directly mentioned by World Economic Forum's (WEF) article "Here's how companies can make sure they are blockchain ready" when are you going to realize that $LINK is @wef 's champion guys?
Something I've been thinking about more and more lately is @chainlink and their possible adoption of Google's "Hiding Strategy" that the tech giant famously employed in the early 2000s.
In the early 2000s, Google had a big secret (even bigger than the secrets of how search works) — and wanted to hide it from everyone. Everyone who knew the secret, almost everyone working at Google, were firmly instructed to keep their mouths shut. Until now, no other company had figured how to make money at scale on the internet in a way that users embrace and Google had cracked this puzzle. How was it feasible to keep this as a secret you may ask — it was easy as none of the experts who were tracking the business of Google believed that this was possible.
Larry and Sergey would go into Venture Capital (VC) meetings and refuse to answer even basic questions like how much traffic was on the site. What’s more was Larry and Sergey didn’t have the language to say things nicely. They’d be kind of blunt and say, ‘We can’t tell you.’ This did frustrate a few VCs and actually one VC did storm out. Page was working the “hiding strategy” even before he had something to hide.
However, as a consequence of going public, the hiding had to stop on April 1, 2004 where Google had announced a gathering for the investors. George Reyes (CFO) and Lise Buyer (Director of Business Optimization) had come up with a plan to reveal the secret Google Style. Since until then Google hadn’t shared any of its numbers, Reyes decided to go straight to it. He put up slides with some figures and you could hear a pin drop. The slides indicated that Google was indeed making pretty good profits - not earthshaking but more than respectable, especially for an Internet business offering a free service supported only by ads. Then Reyes told the bankers he was sorry, but he’d mistakenly put up the wrong slide. April fool! The investors believed that this was a prank by Google and there was no way they would be making this much money.
A slide then appeared with more than double the revenues and profits than the previous slide and it exceeded even the wildest expectations. Fooled indeed — this would be the first April fool prank in what has become a yearly Google tradition!
Circling back to @SergeyNazarov and Chainlink Labs....
It's become clear to many "die hard" $LINK investors that some version of this strategy has most likely been adopted for their project and yes their token.... aka the "Universal Gas Token"
I suppose the question is why? Why did they feel it was necessary to adopt this strategy as a web 3 company?
I have some ideas.... mostly pulled together from other die hards, but I'll try my best to paint the picture.
Let's dive deeper...
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Sergey "hiding in plain sight"
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Sergey "revealing more"
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Chainlink season will kick off soon
With Web3 Gaming being the theme for this bull. Not many degens know, @chainlink has games building on top of it
Here are 8 #ChainlinkBUILD member projects closely working with $LINK
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The alpha is out there. Just need to know where to click with your mouse.
P.S. This isn't a hypothetical diagram made via photoshop by a random on Youtube that the XRP folks are used to peddling. This is made by BNP Paribas, the 2nd largest bank in Europe.
@Prolotario1 Hey man @Prolotario1, wonder if uve seen the disappearances of kenny veach that went missing when he found a weird caves shaped like a letter M. The cave was later found to be artificially blocked.
#Chainlink is collaborating with key players across the global economy:
1. Swift—Standard messaging network for 11K+ banks
2. DTCC—World’s largest securities settlement system, processing $2+ quadrillion annually
3. ANZ—Leading Australian bank with $1T+ in AUM
4. Vodafone DAB—IoT-enabled global trade platform
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Vodafone’s Digital Asset Broker has demonstrated a proof of concept with Sumitomo Corporation, @Chainlink Labs & @InnowaveT to address challenges in the global trade ecosystem.
Discover how DAB-enabled #IoT devices and blockchains can provide secure data for smart contracts.