Strategic Initiatives @Chainlink | Digital commodity enjoyer | Opinions are my own
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🚨 New CLG Podcast is live 🚨
Two years since our last episode, @Crypto___Oracle and I discuss how institutional adoption is reshaping crypto and who will benefit as tokenization scales
This one was long overdue
Link in the next tweet 👇
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Appreciate the acknowledgment, but to clarify, we do not view link as a grift. We are a regulated financial institution, and just provide fair and balanced coverage. That means acknowledging potential risks. This is a similar risk shared by many cryptocurrencies because fundamentally they are not equities and not entitled to protocol cash flows. That said, increased adoption of chainlink would potentially result in more demand for link. For now, demand likely grows in-line with broader crypto activity (Defi/ lending / etc) but as more finance moved on chain, it’s TAM could expand massively
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Very excited about the Link:NYC conference next week in New York. Excited to be bringing together the top TradFi and DeFi teams and their senior leaders to discuss the future of the new global financial system.
chain.link/events/linknyc
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Really exciting to see major financial institutions like @CharlesSchwab do a deep dive into the @chainlink story. The world is changing quickly.
schwab.com/learn/story/crypt…
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.@chainlink is proud to partner with @hedera, @Aptos, @AvaLabs, and @StellarOrg in urging the SEC to codify its digital commodity framework.
Builders need lasting certainty. Codifying this progress would be a meaningful step toward keeping America the home of digital asset innovation.
H/t @jackson_mueller for leading this effort 🫡
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Following an extensive security review, @kamino found Chainlink CCIP provides the secure-by-default architecture required to underwrite cross-chain collateral risk.
Assets secured by CCIP qualify for higher borrowing limits & LTV ratios.
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NEW: @OpenZeppelin, which S&P Global agreed to acquire, embeds Chainlink into its tooling standard used by the vast majority of the industry, including BlackRock, WisdomTree, Franklin Templeton, and more.
Chainlink CCIP, CRE, & ACE are now built into the tools behind $38+ trillion in transferred value.
Today we’re announcing a strategic partnership with @chainlink
Chainlink CCIP and ACE are now natively embedded across OpenZeppelin tooling, giving institutions and developers one trusted foundation for moving assets and operations onchain.
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On October 29 we’re bringing senior leaders from across global finance to New York, behind closed doors: banks, exchanges, market infrastructure, asset managers, issuers, treasury teams and regulators.
The Future runs on Chainlink.
See you in NY!
Link:NYC is bringing together the senior finance leaders shaping how value moves in a digital, always-on, AI-driven economy in NYC, 10/29.
More than 35 speakers from:
→ DTCC
→ CFTC
→ Swift
→ ICE
→ Fidelity
→ Citi
→ Morgan Stanley
→ Bank of America
→ Wells Fargo
→ Deutsche Börse
→ Robinhood
→ Apex Group
→ and many more
Apply → chain.link/events/linknyc/ap…
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Direct staking on Ethereum L2s is live via the Lido UI.
Stake ETH on @arbitrum, @base, @LineaBuild & @Optimism in just a few clicks, all without manually bridging to Ethereum and back.
Powered by @chainlink CCIP.
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NEW: Chainlink oracle infrastructure is now live on @StellarOrg, bringing Data Feeds and Data Streams to Stellar network’s $4B+ RWA ecosystem.
Devs gain verifiable market data powering lending, stablecoins, tokenized equities, & more.
Through the Chainlink Scale program, Stellar is making a substantial capital commitment to give its builders cost-efficient access to high-quality, institutional-grade oracle infra.
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DTCC’S NADINE CHAKAR & SERGEY NAZAROV AT SIBOS 2026
Nadine Chakar, Managing Director & Global Head of @The_DTCC Digital Assets, joined @SergeyNazarov to discuss what it takes to bring tokenization to market scale.
As Nadine put it: “We shouldn’t care which rail it’s on, what type of asset it is; we should care that it’s interoperable, it’s compliance-aware, & that it’s operating 24/7 anywhere that a client needs to manage risk.”
On tokenized equity, Sergey added: “This AppChain and the tokenization of equity in this reliable institutional-grade form will accelerate the use of tokenized stock.”
Watch the full conversation ↓
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Lately it’s been hard to come to grips with the fact that the crypto world I grew up in and loved is mostly gone and I don’t fit in with or relate to what’s popular in crypto anymore
Hopeful that this will change one day but I’m not going to hold my breath
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Haven’t been tweeting as much lately since most of my mental energy has been absorbed by ramping up at @chainlink
In the first 6 weeks I’ve had the opportunity to meet many of my new colleagues in person as well as have client and partner conversations at Sibos. Plus supporting massive product and partner announcements.
I’m more excited by the day about Chainlink’s role in the industry and the immense talent I see on the team.
Plan to continue sharing insights about what I see in the digital asset space and the broader tech landscape, sprinkled with ideas about organizations, marketing, parenting, and more. Thanks for following along!
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Chainlink and DTCC demo how Chainlink is going to enable the collateral mobility for all the world's pension funds, hedge funds, banks, asset managers for repo, securities lending, etc.
DTCC CTO: We're showing in this particular case, a pension fund and a hedge fund, but folks will recognize that the transaction we are doing here is the central transcaction in instittuional finance. Basically, parties are trading liquidity for yield. The same mechanism we are showing here works for repo, securities lending, and well beyond. Effectively, this is a model that ultimately amounts to transactions in excess of $20 trillion per day and automates them.
This demo is legit sick.
$LINK
DTCC AND CHAINLINK AT SIBOS 2026
DTCC's Dan Doney and @SergeyNazarov presented how @The_DTCC is collaborating with Chainlink to advance 24/7 collateral management.
DTCC's Collateral AppChain provides shared infrastructure near real-time collateral management across financial markets and blockchains.
“The problem being solved is the fragmentation of data, how everybody connects to move collateral and settle transactions, and the different systems that need to talk to each other but cannot do so quickly enough to allow intraday collateral movement.” - Sergey Nazarov
DTCC’s Collateral AppChain will leverage the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) for orchestration between those systems and data sources, and CCIP which enables the movement of assets, value, and liquidity to and from the AppChain.
"You finally have a reliable and legally binding ledger from the DTCC that everyone can rely on, just like they rely on the DTCC now. That's a very powerful thing that I think the capital markets have been waiting for, where they can't get that from just any chain because those guarantees with the DTCC are fundamentally different" Nazarov also added.
The DTCC Collateral AppChain is expected to launch in Q1 2027.
Presentation slides here: chn.lk/dtcc-chainlink-sibos-…
Watch the full presentation ↓
Zach Rynes | CLG retweeted
DTCC AND CHAINLINK AT SIBOS 2026
DTCC's Dan Doney and @SergeyNazarov presented how @The_DTCC is collaborating with Chainlink to advance 24/7 collateral management.
DTCC's Collateral AppChain provides shared infrastructure near real-time collateral management across financial markets and blockchains.
“The problem being solved is the fragmentation of data, how everybody connects to move collateral and settle transactions, and the different systems that need to talk to each other but cannot do so quickly enough to allow intraday collateral movement.” - Sergey Nazarov
DTCC’s Collateral AppChain will leverage the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) for orchestration between those systems and data sources, and CCIP which enables the movement of assets, value, and liquidity to and from the AppChain.
"You finally have a reliable and legally binding ledger from the DTCC that everyone can rely on, just like they rely on the DTCC now. That's a very powerful thing that I think the capital markets have been waiting for, where they can't get that from just any chain because those guarantees with the DTCC are fundamentally different" Nazarov also added.
The DTCC Collateral AppChain is expected to launch in Q1 2027.
Presentation slides here: chn.lk/dtcc-chainlink-sibos-…
Watch the full presentation ↓
Zach Rynes | CLG retweeted
Ledger is investigating reports of loss of funds from users in South East Asia who purchased products from a reseller named CryptoBillis. As a precaution, and pending the results of our investigation, we have asked CryptoBilis to pause all sales and shipments of Ledger devices. We recommend Ledger users who purchased from this reseller in the last 90 days to not initiate set up if you have not done so yet. If you have set up your Ledger device, consider moving assets to a new Ledger signer (with new seed). We will continue to inform customers of updates as the investigation progresses.
Reach out to Ledger customer support through official channels with any questions: support.ledger.com/
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So this is how a lot of "old heads" feel when they lived through something and then see an adaptation of for it via a show/movie.
Because what the fuck is going on here? None of this happened.
For example, This is from an actual interview she did
and this is from her blog:
They turned a $10B retail fraud scheme from a group of degens in an amphetamines-addicted sex cult living in a $100M Bahamas compound into ... a normie love story
This movie was never going to be good, but man what a missed opportunity
