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Page 59 of ICMA's June 2026 report.
Swift is hosting a panel together with the international capital markets association (ICMA) about scaling tokenized assets on the 10th of september 👀
The distributed ledger was the first step. Expansion to other DLT usecases is the next one and @chainlink will be the one powering this!
LinkDrake retweeted
it took 21 years of Swift, Central Banks and BIS pushing banks and other FMI - after multiple delays because they weren't ready - for ISO20022 to become mandatory in 2025.
now do blockchain. without Swift driving adoption in a way that does no harm to existing flows nor causes additional fragmentation to the world's economy.
there is no switch to flip. a blockchain does not unwind 50 years of network effects, technical debt and trust.
if we want to bring all the worlds systems onchain - then the onchain systems have to be interoperable with the offchain systems - until such time the offchain systems become onchain systems. They learned their lesson more than once. Theyre done with vendor lockin. Theyre done with technical debt. Theyre done with incompatible systems.
The future-proof Chainlink Abstraction and Orchestration Layer and data standards fixes this.
$LINK is the only way
LinkDrake retweeted
>maybe there are industry plants
jfc its been right in front of you all - all along.
DeFI was Chainlink's battle testing grounds.
ethereum was Chainlink's loss leader.
Institutions have been building for the past decade. And they built their systems according to their - and their counterparties and clients - exact requirements for how they would securely implement private and public chains into their existing systems and workflows.
Orchestrated by the Chainlink Runtime Environment.
Payable in $LINK.
"Any asset, […] any jurisdiction, with any custodial system, any time of day is now mobile in terms of collateral. This truly changes the game.”
- Dan Doney, CTO of @The_DTCC
LinkDrake retweeted
Chainlink co-founder @SergeyNazarov says banks look at the alternatives and come back to Chainlink
"There's no other provider that has anywhere close to these capabilities"
"That certification and security level is also not close to Chainlink"
Chainlink co-founder @SergeyNazarov takes a shot at every bridge that got hacked
"The big problem was I need reliable bridging, and so Chainlink has solved that problem, right?"
"Because Chainlink doesn't lose $290 million. Chainlink doesn't lose $220 million"
"That's how you solve that problem"
W/ @andyyy , @robbieklages , @chainlink , @therollupco
LinkDrake retweeted
New docs for the Chainlink Platform 👀
Every organisation now gets Billing, Payments and Limits controls. CRE has its own Limits.
Now connect that to what we already know:
• Every CRE workflow run is metered for compute time.
• Usage is counted in credits priced in USD.
• A recent GitHub pull request calls these usage reports "billing receipts".
• The Fulcrum x DTCC demo shows a 0.01 LINK orchestration fee.
• Chainlink Functions, which has been upgraded to CRE, prices in USD and charges in LINK.
• The Chainlink Reserve converts revenue, including off-chain payments, into LINK, which can clearly include Credits bought offchain with dollars.
Connecting the dots . . .
docs.chain.link/chainlink-pl…
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LinkDrake retweeted
Chainlink co-founder @SergeyNazarov takes a shot at every bridge that got hacked
"The big problem was I need reliable bridging, and so Chainlink has solved that problem, right?"
"Because Chainlink doesn't lose $290 million. Chainlink doesn't lose $220 million"
"That's how you solve that problem"
W/ @andyyy , @robbieklages , @chainlink , @therollupco
LinkDrake retweeted
Crypto OGs (and everyone else that followed) really saw @arijuels - the long time RSA researcher and head of RSA Laboratories - not to mention coining Proof of Work - name on the Chainlink whitepaper and smugly wrote it off as just a DeFI price feed with an unneeded $LINK token.
Hollywood couldnt make this shit up.
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LinkDrake retweeted
The time until the world realizes everything runs on @chainlink is rapidly approaching 0.
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NEW: LG CNS, the technology arm of LG Group, enters a strategic partnership with Chainlink to advance Korea’s $68B digital asset market.
LG Group is one of Korea’s largest business groups, with approximately ₩186 trillion in assets across 63 affiliates. LG CNS is the lead contractor for the Bank of Korea’s flagship digital currency initiative, Project Hangang.
Through the partnership, LG CNS and Chainlink will:
• Enhance LG CNS’s digital asset platform solution with Chainlink’s cross-chain, data, and orchestration infrastructure
• Collaborate on digital asset solutions for Korean institutions using the full Chainlink platform
• Advance the next generation of technical standards underpinning Korea’s digital asset economy
The partnership is built for one of the world’s most active and technologically advanced digital asset markets. Korea is Asia's second-largest digital asset market, with the Korean won consistently ranking second in crypto trading volume, behind only the U.S. dollar.
By combining LG CNS’s institutional expertise with Chainlink technology standards, the partnership establishes the foundation for compliant digital asset infrastructure in Korea and for global expansion.
LinkDrake retweeted
Chainlink's Q3 update came out yesterday with $140B secured and $15B+ migrating to CCIP with DTCC and Swift on the TradFi side.
"Today they know what to do. They know how to do it," @Chainlink's Head of RWAs @KarwanLiam05 said about institutions on @_TalkingTokens
LinkDrake retweeted
We now have the head of crypto at Charles Schwab fighting the $LINK fudders. 🤣
Thank you @jimferraioli You are becoming a real $LINKMarine 🫡
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
LinkDrake retweeted
the launch of the DTCC Tokenization Service before the Collateral Management system has to do with distribution. got to get the assets to be traded tradable first.
its like when the dealer shuffles the deck and deals to all the players. And then If you need more money at the casino once trading starts - the House (The DTCC Collateral Management System) will be there to hook you up with a Chainlink Fusion powered loan.
Payable in $LINK
The asymmetric opportunity is closing. At least you wont be able to say you didnt know.👍
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 ↓
LinkDrake retweeted
This stuff shows that Chainlink's revenue will be directly proportional to the amount of CRE usage, because it's embedded into the code, and it strongly looks like it's billed in LINK.
So not only is the token built into CRE, but there's a clear path to more and more revenue over time as institutions adopt CRE, as workflows grow in number, and as workflows contain more steps and contain more complex computations.
Because it looks certain that there'll be massive usage of CRE, we can also assume that revenue will grow significantly.
If revenue grows significantly, we can probably assume that the weekly buyback amounts will also grow.
As the total value secured by node operators increases, the need for more and more LINK to be staked too over time, to keep cryptoeconomic incentives aligned over time.
Then you've got the ETFs which are accumulating more and more LINK over time (e.g. Grayscale).
From the speculative point of view alone, LINK will likely reprice. Most people are still clueless what Chainlink even is, nevermind that it'll be acting as the central abstraction and orchestration layer for countless institutions and protocols, not a specific L1.
Now couple that with demonstrable revenue numbers. They're hiring an "Institutional Relations Lead" whose job it will be to talk about protocol revenue, revenue models, staking mechanics, etc.. (see attached post).
There's multiple reasons that point towards Chainlink reaching critical mass, not only in terms of the protocol development and the wave of adoption that we're on the verge of, but in terms of how that is reflected in the token price too
just my opinion, but in terms of what's most likely, it points towards the token going a lot higher
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LinkDrake retweeted
Chainlink Data Streams looks like it's going to add commodity futures 🪙🛢️
A new beta "Futures" documentation page says:
"Futures streams provide price data for exchange-traded futures contracts. These streams enable onchain protocols to build markets around futures price exposure."
Coverage listed: Gold, Silver, US Oil, UK Oil, and Natural Gas, each with front, second, and third-month feeds that roll over automatically when a contract expires, so builders "never need to re-point feed endpoints".
How this impacts revenue:
Chainlink's Q3 review says Data Streams "opened self-serve paid access for market makers and algorithmic traders, with subscriptions to individual streams and market bundles."
This is another Data Streams product to sell.
github.com/smartcontractkit/…
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LinkDrake retweeted
you must like pounding sand. because none of what you and the thot class are saying changes whats already been built and going into production.
You keep talking about trust. But you stll havent done the work to see how their chains work to solve trust using the Chainlink abstraction and orchestration layer.
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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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1. Swift and DTCC are financial market infrastructures that are member-owned, operated, governed, co-ops for themselves. It is neutral infrastructure amongst their users.
2. "Mitsubishi Corporation first Japanese corporate to advance intragroup cash management with Kinexys by J.P. Morgan"
jpmorgan.com/payments/newsro…
This was just announced a few months ago.
3. The premise that "someone is building on someone else's chain" is the actual antiquated mental model of what the tech is and how multi-chain development actually looks now.
Blockchains are the databases. Protocols like Chainlink are the TCP/IP equivalent that connect all of these isolated databases (whether public or permissioned) both to each other and to other legacy financial networks. Your private database can talk to my public database.
With Chainlink Runtime Environment, you can natively build workflows and applications that are not only natively multi-chain, but they are also cross-system in that they are composable with non-chain financial networks like Swift, DTCC, Fednow, Fedwire, FIX, ACH, credit card networks, etc. On top of that, you can add compliance tools, end to end privacy (even on the non private public chains), etc.
So, no one is confined to building on a single chain, regardless of whose chain it is or how much liquidity it has. You can deploy these cross-chain + cross-system workflows across as many chains as you want.
If the chain offers any utility in being there, you can add onto your list of total chains you are deployed to.
"Build once, run everywhere"
See the attached demo video from last week's Swift SIBOS conference of 24/7 collateral management application that is natively cross-chain and cross-system across Ethereum and DTCC's permissioned chain.
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 ↓
LinkDrake retweeted
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
LinkDrake retweeted
💎 “We feel @chainlink is one of the purest ways to get exposure to RWA adoption / tokenization.” -Head of Crypto Research at Charles Schwab
Thanks for sharing @AndrewMcMarkets
We feel Chainlink is one of the purest ways to get exposure to RWA adoption / tokenization.
Not a recommendation***
Past performance is no guarantee of future success
LinkDrake retweeted
𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗖𝗥𝗘 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲.
Chainlink's CRE billing code has taken a big step toward production.
PR #23858 meters every CRE workflow run by compute time, in milliseconds. It's moved out of draft and is now marked "Verified on Staging."
Staging is the final dress rehearsal where the real thing gets tested before it ships. Nodes are already producing these usage receipts and Chainlink's billing pipeline is receiving them.
And alongside it, the team is building tools to audit the bill itself, deliberately feeding in bad usage data to prove the system catches it.
You don't build audit tooling for something you never plan to send to production.
The funniest part: every node records your usage independently and the bill is the median. Even your invoice is decentralized. Chainlink are even putting the bill through consensus. 😂
And as we saw from the Fulcrum x DTCC demo at Sibos, these CRE workflow fees (orchestration fees) are paid in LINK.
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We can now correlate all this institutional adoption of Chainlink directly to $LINK token usage:
From the public GitHub PRs (first two screenshots attached):
🔹 "cre:workflow:compute (ms)": compute is its own billable resource.
🔹 "emitted for successful and failed executions": every run is billed.
🔹 "bills them from the enclave's own measurement": confidential workflows are billed too, by time inside the enclave (trusted execution environment for private/confidential computations).
From the DTCC Demo we can see that those CRE Orchestration fees are paid in LINK (screenshots 3 and 4 attached as examples).
So:
- Institutions adopt Chainlink through CRE.
- Each workflow, as seen in the DTCC AppChain demo, consists of multiple orchestration fees (+ CCIP fees), each paid in LINK.
- In the DTCC demo, there were 4 separate orchestration fees and 1 CCIP fee - that's 5 separate LINK fees in total.
- If there were any margin calls or collateral swaps, more thorough compliance checks, or any Confidential Compute required in that demo, that would likely require further Orchestration/CCIP fees.
- The Chainlink Github shows that CRE billing for each execution is proportional to the compute time in milliseconds required. Therefore:
- The more separate workflow steps where the user signs, the more orchestration fees incurred.
- The more computations in a workflow, the more orchestration fees incurred.
- The more complex those computations, the more orchestration incurred.
- Data Feeds/Streams also required in DTCC Demo for continuous collateral pricing, which is another Chainlink service used (usually subscription-based, per-use based if AI Agents using CRE.
In summary:
Institutional adoption up > LINK fees up
$LINK token absolutely needed
LinkDrake retweeted
Really exciting to see major financial institutions like @CharlesSchwab do a deep dive into the @chainlink story. The world is changing quickly.
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Did you fall for the fud / 4 year cycle nonsense anon?
My senses are going off.
Something is happening.
All of a sudden, Fidelity and BlackRock are putting out promotional pieces on Bitcoin.
BlackRock's IBIT just took in $665M in a single day, its biggest inflow in over a year.
J.P. Morgan is now predicting Bitcoin will be the best performing asset over the next decade.
The Bitcoin bull market is going to kick off in a big way.