Chainlink (LINK)

Vitalik - Ari - Sergey One of the most fascinating soap operas in crypto and most are watching Sesame Street. "So when Ari put his name on the Chainlink whitepaper in 2017 and then formalized his role as Chief Scientist, that wasn't a peripheral endorsement — that was the most credentialed cryptographer in the oracle space saying this is the right approach. For Vitalik, who had his own views on how the oracle problem should be handled, that had to sting in a specific way. It wasn't some outsider building oracle infrastructure — it was Ari What Sergey understood that Vitalik didn't want to accept Sergey's core insight, which he was articulating as early as 2014-2015, was that the oracle problem wasn't going to be solved at the protocol layer — it was going to be solved at the middleware layer, and that middleware layer would need its own economic security, its own token, its own network effects. He was essentially arguing that the oracle layer was a separate market from the smart contract platform. Vitali"

🏅 Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Swift Hackathon, @chainlinklabs and @DeutscheBank! Chainlink secured the Business Challenge title with a solution that combines its automated compliance standard with the trusted verifiable Legal Entity Identifier (vLEI) framework to enhance regulatory compliance. Deutsche Bank took the Technical Challenge with a digital-to-fiat bridge using ISO 20022 to enable interoperable CBDC and digital currency transfers across jurisdictions. Congratulations also to the runners up, @CreditAgricole in the Business Challenge, and Currency Network Ltd in the Technical Challenge. We’d also like to give an honourable mention to @BancoGuayaquil and @exactpro for their creative approaches and strong execution. Read more about this year’s winning solutions: https://t.co/h62vuJt9Ry #swiftatsibos #sibos #blockchain #iso20022 #digitalcurrencies

Slowly but surely $LINK is becoming a household name • Used by TradFi infra like DTCC & SWIFT • Bank giants with JPM/UBS/ANZ/BNP • Retail facing apps with FIFA & Polymarket • Powering over 1000+ L1s/dApps • Govt ties with US Dept of Commerce LINK-ing the world to Web3🌐 https://t.co/5CCae9ZFEf

🟢 New #Chainlink Reserve DEPOSIT 💰 Amount: 143,676.388 LINK (~$1,137,916.99) 👤 From: Chainlink Wallet 🏦 Reserve Balance: 4,350,211.674 $LINK (~$34,453,676.46)

$LINK has been stuck in the same range for years, but it's held up better than most altcoins. Still above the 2023 lows. Bouncing off the same trendline that's worked before. Could be the start of something, could just be another bounce. No proof yet. Just watching $5. Lose that and this gets ugly fast.

"Once we tokenize and automate Collateral Markets - everything else follows" $LINK. And everything else follows. https://t.co/O7GA3PoFP0

.@KrwqCash, the largest Korean won stablecoin built by @IQofficial and @fraxfinance, adopted Chainlink Proof of Reserve to boost the transparency of its offchain reserves and accelerate its distribution throughout the onchain economy. https://t.co/CS81KrbZMM

Proud to see Chainlink recognized on @Fortune’s inaugural Crypto 100 list as one of the world’s most influential blockchain protocols. For me, the real story behind bringing global markets onchain is about solving the challenges that institutions care about most: trust, interoperability, secure connectivity, compliance, and enabling value to move seamlessly across fragmented systems. As tokenized assets, stablecoins, and digital payments continue to scale, the need for a universal standard that connects financial institutions, market infrastructures, and blockchain networks has never been greater. Chainlink Labs is helping provide the critical infrastructure that makes this possible. Proud of the teams, partners, and community building the foundations of a more connected and efficient financial system and helping accelerate the adoption of tokenized assets and onchain finance worldwide. Congratulations to everyone recognized on Fortune’s inaugural Crypto 100 list.