Finance moving onchain is directly and uniquely bullish for Chainlink adoption, happy to explain 1. Chainlink has expanded far beyond price oracles. Saying Chainlink is primarily a price oracle would be like analyzing Amazon as primarily a bookstore, or Microsoft as primarily a spreadsheet software company. Chainlink is the only all-in-one platform offering data, interoperability, compliance, privacy, and orchestration, all core requirements for the issuance and distribution of institutional tokenized assets: nitter.net/ChainLinkGod/status/20… 2. As finance moves onchain, simply issuing a token on a blockchain is not sufficient. You need data oracles for NAV, corporate actions, reserve verification, etc. You need cross-chain oracles to transfer value and data between public and private chains (esp. as the cost of launching a chain drops to zero). You need compliance oracles for KYC/AML verification and various policy enforcements for regulated digital assets. You need privacy oracles to make data available onchain without revealing the underlying datasets/PII and while preserving data licensing restrictions. You need legacy-system oracles to enable institutions to access public/private chains through their existing enterprise systems and messaging standards. And you need orchestration oracles to enable institutions to establish complex business workflows that span multiple public/private chains, enterprise systems, and oracle services. Chainlink is the ONLY platform that offers all of these services, including packaged together into end-to-end solutions (e.g., DvP settlement, tokenized deposit workflows, etc.) 3. As for price oracles, as long as there are multiple trading/liquidity venues, multiple chains, and multiple CEXs, you need external price oracles that provide *full market coverage* by aggregating market data across all venues to raise manipulation costs. Otherwise, you introduce a significant attack vector. We have seen time and time again how using a single DEX pool as a price oracle has led to a dApp getting exploited/manipulated/rekt. There's no way to know whether a DEX/liquidity pool will keep consistent liquidity over time. As new DEX models appear and new trading venues launch, a pool that is liquid enough to use as an oracle today can be dangerously manipulable tomorrow as liquidity shifts. That is why Chainlink data has powered the vast majority of DeFi for the past 5+ years. Liquidity moving between venues becomes a non-issue, and builders can focus on their core business logic instead of building and maintaining price oracles Watch @Chainlink's presence at Swift's @Sibos conference next week, it should be very enlightening about why some of the world's largest financial institutions and market infrastructures have adopted Chainlink infrastructure Btw respect the takes you give on L1 chain commoditization/overvaluation, I may not agree with where capital will flow or what L1 assets will reprice to, but this thesis is obviously a blind spot and emotional topic for many market market participants

@HesterPeirce Thank you for your service to our nation and contributions for the advancements for digital assets in the United States. 🇺🇸

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LMAX Digital, an institutional crypto exchange, just bought over $1m worth of $LINK to fulfill a client’s order!

NEW: @Coinbase Tokenized Stocks launch on @aave V4 on @base, powered by Chainlink data. As Coinbase’s official oracle solution, Chainlink is unlocking a new generation of onchain finance, with AAPLc, NVDAc, & more major U.S. stocks now usable as collateral on DeFi’s largest lending protocol.

Here is @Vanguard_Group with @BlackRock and @Chainlink at the @philadelphiafed today.

Crypto KOLs coordinating a shill on the TL

🚨 JUST IN: KelpDAO sues LayerZero and co-founder Bryan Pellegrino, alleging their security failures caused this year's rsETH bridge exploit.

Today we filed a lawsuit against LayerZero and its co-founder, Bryan Pellegrino, to right the wrongs associated with the exploit of rsETH’s LayerZero bridge earlier this year. For more details, please refer to the statement below.

You can get 5%+ risk free or buy this In-N-Out Burger for a ~3% cap rate This will get sold but the irrational decisions of some 'investors' will always blow my mind Which one are you taking?

Update: The funds hacked from #Bitget include: 102.93M $XRP ($157.48M) 31,890 $ETH ($85.75M) 34.75M $USDT ($34.75M) 21.05M $USDC ($21.05M) 19.67M $USD₮0 ($19.67M) 3,000 $XAUt ($12.82M) 12,719 $BNB ($9.88M) 821,012 $AVAX ($8.38M) 20.59M $TRX ($7.07M)

NEW: CHAINLINK AT THE FEDERAL RESERVE @SergeyNazarov joins leaders from BlackRock, Vanguard, and Sharplink on the trajectory of blockchain adoption across traditional finance at the Federal Reserve Fintech Conference ↓

This is $LINK vs. $XRP conference speakers this season. If you're in Ripple, pivot to Chainlink. What are we even doing here. Clean 10x for $LINK to pass $XRP.

Frank La Salla, President and CEO of @The_DTCC, is speaking at Link:NYC. The DTCC Tokenization Service, which will tokenize real-world assets held at the DTC ($114 trillion), is expected to launch in Q4 2026. October 29, NYC. chain.link/events/linknyc

NEW: @PaxosLabs, has launched PAXGy, a gold-backed token built on $1.8B+ PAX Gold (PAXG) issued by @Paxos that accrues in gold terms. PAXGy is powered by CCIP as its exclusive cross-chain infra & Chainlink Price Feeds for reliable onchain pricing to enable adoption across DeFi.

A majority of Walt Disney World traffic is childless adults Catering to adults increased revenues and profits as childless adults have more disposable income to spend on themselves. Thus, infantile adults have priced out many actual children, who make up a dwindling minority of the park's guests and who are by virtue of astronomical prices, restricted by class. The same dynamic has already transformed the toy industry: adult-only households account for 55 percent of spending on toys.

Infosys 🤝 Chainlink We have entered a strategic partnership to accelerate the adoption of tokenization and digital assets across industries. infosys.com/about/alliances/…

The institutions are coming

I've seen posts bullposting about the growth potential of $NEAR intents, so I wanted to give my own take on it. You first have to understand why cross-chain intents even exist as a primitive. They exist to serve chains that either have no smart contract programmability (Zcash), slow finality time (Ethereum), or both. Cross-chain intents started because people wanted to safely move value from Ethereum to other chains, but they didn't want to wait 15 minutes for source-chain finality before releasing value on the destination chain. So, intents allowed the finality time risk to be shifted from the user onto the market-maker fronting the value. 2nd and 3rd generation blockchains have sub-second finality and have minimal need for intents, which are very limited in their design space (simple swaps). Applications and usecases on chains with fast finality benefit much more from general messaging protocols like Chainlink CCIP which can: Send tokens + instructions in one transaction — value and data move together atomically, so the receiving contract gets both the funds and directions on what to do with them. Chain multiple instructions in a single message — encode a sequence of actions (e.g., swap → deposit → borrow) so a multi-step, multi-chain workflow completes as one orchestrated flow. Cross-chain lending/collateralization — transfer tokens to a lending protocol on another chain with instructions to post them as collateral and borrow against them, in one flow. Cross-chain staking/restaking — e.g., initiate staking from an L2 while the instructions transfer and stake the asset on L1 (the Lido-style pattern). TradFi-style delivery-vs-payment (DvP) — simultaneous currency conversion, cross-chain transfer, and settlement of a tokenized asset purchase as a single atomic operation (this is the pattern ANZ demonstrated with CCIP). So, unless you see a pipeline of more dinocoins on dinochains getting memed into popularity, then there is very limited growth ahead for them beyond the currently popular assets.