Who else is still holding
$LINK here? Youāre going to make it.
I donāt say that because Sergey Nazarov happened to sit inside the White House.
I say it because of what he told President Donald Trump while he was there, and what Chainlink is already doing behind the scenes.
Nazarov, Chainlink co-founder and Chainlink Labs CEO, stood alongside Trump, SEC Chair Paul Atkins, CFTC Chair Mike Selig, and leaders from Coinbase, Nasdaq, ICE, Robinhood, Ripple, Kraken, BitGo and Gemini and talked about something far bigger than crypto prices.
He said stablecoins are expanding the reach of the U.S. dollar, Treasuries are becoming tied to that growth, and tokenized U.S. equities can distribute American stocks globally.
Then came the sentence I care about:
Chainlink already powers many of the applications and companies involved.
That hits differently when you see what followed.
Wyoming moved its state-issued FRNT stable token to Chainlink CCIP and later added Chainlink Proof of Reserve.
Five days after Nazarov spoke at the White House, Coinbase chose Chainlink as the official oracle infrastructure for its tokenized U.S. stocks on Base, including NVDAc, METAc, AAPLc and GOOGLc.
Then there is DTCC.
Its Collateral AppChain is integrating the Chainlink Runtime Environment and Chainlink data standard for near-real-time collateral management across traditional markets and blockchains.
Chainlink has also worked with Swift, Euroclear, SIX, UBS, BNP Paribas, DBS, ANZ, Wellington Management and Schroders on securities data and corporate actions.
That is not ājust an oracleā anymore. That is infrastructure connecting traditional markets to tokenized markets.
Then J.P. Morganās Kinexys, Ondo and Chainlink already demonstrated a real Delivery-versus-Payment transaction connecting tokenized U.S. Treasuries with bank deposits.
And Project Pangea brings Chainlink into T+0 stablecoin FX work involving more than 50 banks associated with groups representing over $10T in assets.
Now take all of that back to
$LINK.
Chainlink customers do not even need to manually buy LINK first.
Through Payment Abstraction, revenue paid in fiat, stablecoins or other assets can be converted into LINK underneath.
Chainlinkās current economics already show 5M+ LINK in the Reserve, 42M+ LINK staked, and a fixed maximum supply of 1B LINK.
That is why I keep holding.
The world doesnāt need one blockchain to win for Chainlink to win.
Ethereum can grow.
Base can grow.
Robinhood Chain can grow.
Private bank networks can grow.
DTCC can build its own infrastructure.
Swift can stay relevant.
Dozens of stablecoins can exist.
Chainlink can connect all of them.
And if tokenized finance keeps expanding,
$LINK sits underneath the data, interoperability, settlement and security layer connecting it all.
Sergey wasnāt asking Washington to imagine Chainlinkās future.
He was describing a future Chainlink is already plugged into.