I'm an independent researcher and writer for
@SmartContent777
. I believe smart contracts are the foundation of a new wave in automation. Opinions are my own.
#Chainlink
CCIP solves multi-chain delivery vs. payment (DvP) for tokenized assets.
It's one of the main reasons I believe tokenization is the next form of digital finance within traditional capital markets.
But what does that mean?
🧵
I wanted to write a (1/37) thread that attempts to put
#Chainlink
($LINK) into a more realistic perspective as opposed to the polar extremes on Twitter, ranging from everything is perfect to token not needed. To do so, we must look at & beyond the LINK price action (PA) in 2021.
Crypto is kind of a joke atm. You got world changing tech during a time with serious societal problems, yet the focus is worhtless jpegs & unsustainable shitcoin farming. Experimentation & specualtion are part of innovation but it won't mean anything when the root intent is lost.
I’m excited to announce to you all that I am writing for Chainlink. It's been an amazing journey to get to this point. I want to thank all the friends and anons who have supported me in pursuing my writing, debated my ideas, & challenged me to improve. Cheers!
A lot of opportunities are ahead for $LINK:
- 3.1x to catch ADA
- 5.3x to catch XRP
- 6.1x to catch BNB
- 18.2x to catch ETH
- 83.6x to catch BTC
The immense value prop of Chainlink can only be hidden for so long.
1/ The value capture potential of the
#Chainlink
Network is vast, on par or even greater than any major blockchain. However, outside the $LINK Marine community, it’s generally misunderstood & overlooked by much of the crypto ecosystem. Let’s break down why Marines are so excited:
Trends you can bank on:
-ETH is going mainstream, on par with BTC
-LINK will be a blue chip in the same way as ETH, but is under the radar currently cause mainstream is just now seeing the power of smart contracts
-Top DeFi coins will move into the top 10
-DOGE will end badly
Chainlink is one of the only projects I can honestly say I feel really confident in on a 5-10 year horizon. I know most people in crypto like to think on a one week horizon & anything can happen, but DeFi casinos will come and go, so having a solid anchor to rely on is important.
I'm excited to announce that I'm teaming up with
@ChainLinkGod
to start an independent publication for co-written content about
#Chainlink
,
#smartcontracts
, & Fourth Industrial Revolution topics. Our goal is break down the information asymmetry and enlighten the masses.
Chainlink 🧵: the L0 + L1 + L2 play
L0: CCIP serves as the underlying infra for cross-chain dApps & cross-chain services for Web2 systems
L1: Chainlink supports every L1 chain w/ oracle services (data & computation)
L2: Chainlink services L2 protocols & can act as an L2 itself
Starting to see
#Chainlink
become a phenomenon similar to
#Bitcoin
and
#Ethereum
. Seeing it in places I haven't before and observing a general buzz of excitement. Little do many people know the credentials of the minds building it and the impact it will have on the world.
Everyone was euphoricaly bullish a few weeks ago, now people are doomsday bearish, while $LINK marines remain steady adamant believers in the future of smart contracts &
#Chainlink
as an absolutley essential foundation to making that a reality. Merry Christmas, hold steady frens.
Nothing is a guarantee in life, but I believe in the future of
#Chainlink
more than I believe in the future of Bitcoin or Ethereum. Ultimately, I believe in the continued success of all three, but I think Chainlink has by far the most extensive value prop without any competition.
#Chainlink
is a gateway to external data & computation not available on a blockchain. $LINK is used to both pay for all these services & to back the security/reliability of them. The total market cap of LINK needs to equal the total security needed to back all Chainlink services.
$LINK will separate from the market in the same way $BTC and $ETH did. Not because of some hype pump either, but because the marlet collectively knows it provides so much value that it belongs in a new market tier.
Whether it's Ethereum, BSC, Matic, Polkadot, Avalanche, xDAI, Solana, HECO, Arbitrum, Optimism, NEAR, BSN, Cosmos, RSK, Tezos, Cardano, Waves, Hyperledger, or the numerous other blockchains,
#Chainlink
will be the go to standard oracle solution if developers are building there.
Imagine if Bitcoin miners had to hold BTC to mine Bitcoin & the more they held the better chance they had at winning the block reward & earning more revenue. That's how the LINK token will function in Chainlink, the more LINK a node holds the more it can grow its oracle business.
LINK is still not in the top 10... let alone the top 3. I stay poised and will observe its continually accelerating adoption. The rest of the world will eventually catch up to just how important Chainlink is to all that's happening in the smart contract economy. Cream shall rise.
#Chainlink
will drive the next bull run because it's the missing piece to making smart contracts truly valuable, it has a fiercely passionate/original community that people want to join with unparalleled memes, and its direct success breeds success into almost all other projects.
Let's be honest with ourselves, Ripple, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Cash are not more valuable to blockchain developers, retail users, and the future of society than Chainlink.
Check out my new article that offers a detailed analysis of the 7 key requirements of a viable decentralized oracle network as seen through the market leader
@chainlink
. $LINK
#smartcontracts
#oracles
Most retail is likely shaken out of LINK. Can't say I shed a tear or care. Fundamental crypto investing isn't for everyone because most have no patience through volatility cause they don't know what they hold. Big players do though, with much stronger hands & longer time horizons
#Chainlink
's development is lead by a 7-person research team headed by Ari Juels, former Chief Scientist of top cybersecurity firm RSA & the person who formalized the term Proof of Work. Comparing LINK to a pump and dump coin shows lack of intelligence & intellectual honesty.
Ahh... the retail normies leave, the shitposters come out, the fundamental projects take the stage as the only ones still chuggin, and it's only the die hard OGs left who know they are here for life...
Ari Juels, one of the top computer science minds & inventors of our time is now heading the future architecture of Chainlink. We also acquired a technology in DECO that makes any data available on-chain while still keeping it confidential. So much potential, the future is bright.
The LINK marines are one of the strongest communities in the entire crypto and DeFi industry. They are ride or die Chainlink but their influence goes beyond it, bootstrapping the early growth of many Chainlinked projects before they became widely used and recognized.
They tried to keep us down with BTC shenanigans but they couldn't keep the positive energy suppressed.Preparing for the Great Re-Ranking of $LINK. There are not 17 projects more valuable to the space than Chainlink.
Oracle, third biggest software company in the world, is going to be talking on Tuesday about how they can benefit from utilizing Chainlink. This comes a week after Google announced one of many planned usages of Chainlink. I hope you got your ducks in a row $LINK frens 🦆🦆🦆
#Chainlink
wins so much that people got overexposed to winning & forgot how much they were winning since it was so normal to win. Chainlink may not be top 3 yet, but it's only a matter of time before the perpetual state of winning has us in our rightful spot within the top 3. Few
Alpha—even the most diehard crypto people still don't get the bigger picture with
#Chainlink
. More and more parts of the smart contract will move off-chain and Chainlink is becoming that standard off-chain layer for data, computation, keepers, cross-chain communication, & outputs
@disclosetv
Lol. Hey, we are printing trillions, creating asset bubbles tied to your retirement accounts and net worth, and gutting the middle class with stagnating wages against rising inflation... But yeah, Bitcoin is going to crash the economy unless we save you all from yourselves.
#Chainlink
has both a technological network effect in oracle adoption and a cultural network effect in crypto twitter. No one comes as correct and dank as the Chainlink team and $LINK marine community.
@cobie
@danielesesta
@ChainLinkGod
so people can get a deep dive on Chainlink for once. Never seen anyone give it a fair and in-depth shakeout on UpOnly.
Chainlink Marines don't flinch. We know what we own & why we own it. We have internal memetic energy to power us through the ups and downs of any market. We know the future of smart contracts is powered by Chainlink. We know market cap rankings will self-correct. Now we just wait
I'm constantly being asked what's next in crypto? Are NFTs here to stay? DeFi? Usage of CBDCs?
I'd focus on the plumbing. The connectivity between the crypto ecosystem and the traditional financial system has the potential to draw in an unrivaled amount of capital and users.
Yes, $LINK didnt perform like many thought in 2021. But damn am I excited for LINK in 2022 given all the ground work laid out in 2021 & what we already know is to come. An industry standard with massive value capture potential is setting its foundation right in front of our eyes.
Checkout my new article about
#Chainlink
's importance to the growth of
#DeFi
and their multi-faceted strategy in regards to harnessing network effects as the standard solution to the incredibly difficult, yet extremely important oracle problem. $LINK
The more $LINK staked in nodes, the more profit one makes running a node
The more LINK staked in nodes, the bigger the
#smartcontract
economy becomes
The more LINK staked in nodes, the more stable the network becomes
The more LINK staked in nodes, the higher the price becomes
You all have no idea the power of Chainlink Keepers and just how much it will advance smart contracts. Basically, it allows developers to make any type of unique trigger for their smart contract. It also makes smart contracts truly autonomous. Good God I'm excited for you anons.
Through CCIP,
#Chainlink
will be the middleware gateway that bank/fintech backends use to give their customers access to crypto, DeFi yield & DeFi products w/o leaving their bank app. It will also be the framework from which funds build automated multi-chain investment strategies
If you are not more excited about the future of Chainlink now than you were a week ago then you are a speculator not an investor. Future is so bright with Ari Juels, DECO, Chainlink Research Program, increasing adoption, threshold signatures, staking, Town Crier & so much more.
The cool thing about SWIFT using CCIP is that it basically allows 11,000+ banks to gain access to any blockchain through SWIFT, which enables that through Chainlink.
People see the $LINK price going up, but more are noticing why, including many other metrics increasing:
-Oracle requests
-Price Feeds
-Users
-Node operators
-Blockchains being integrated on
-On-chain activity
-Volume and Liquidity
-Used as collateral in DeFi
-Daily addresses
1/ With the initial launch of
#Chainlink
Keepers (in beta on mainnet right now), it seems there is a bit of community misunderstanding about how it works & just how big of a market this opens up for the Chainlink Network. I wanted to try and clear some things up with this thread.
While most project were giving out unsustainable yield for short-term pumps,
#Chainlink
was building a long-term fundamental behemoth in the background that one day may capture more value than any layer & be completely self-sustainable.
$LINK fundamentals are returning in 2022.
The main reason $BTC and $ETH are 1 & 2 in marketcap is quite simple, they have far more network adoption than any other projects by a wide margin. However, judging by protocol developments, on-chain usage, & community growth, I see another project ascending to that status $LINK
$LINK has the potential to capture user fees from all dApps across all blockchains through many independent services. I don't think any other protocol has the potential ceiling of
#Chainlink
.
You can't recreate the Chainlink community because it's raw, organic energy around a fundamentally solid idea and solution. It's not a strategy you can implement because it cultivated on its own volition over years of active engagement, self-refinement, & verifiable progress.
Crypto and particularly smart contracts and the oracles that support them are not going away. This isn't a fad, it's a rearchitecting of backend systems across all major industries. We all know this, even though the short term rides are very painful at times.
Never ceases to amaze me how crypto twitter can go from so bullish to so bearish in the span of a few days. If you believe you have a solid fundamental investment, there is no reason to get emotionally caught up in the ups & downs of the market. Get a hobby & preoccupy yourself.
If we assume that upwards of 80-90% of blockchain applications need oracles to create value, and 80-90% of the applications on each blockchain network choose Chainlink oracles, it's not hard to envision
#Chainlink
becoming more valuable than any single blockchain.
This is why I'm skeptical of Cardano. If they succeed, great, I hope they use Chainlink. But they love to shit on Ethereum yet its been 3+ years and they don't even have smart contracts. Shipping things in production is exponentially harder than shipping whitepapers & promises.
50 new Chainlinks in one announcement... yeah I'll take that. Can't you see what's really happening here... network effects. Don't you see what happened with Ethereum... network effects. All the developers are choosing Chainlink for external connectivity. $LINK
1/ One of the best ways to get someone up to speed about
#Chainlink
who has no basic knowledge on the subject is to have them read these four articles in order. Starting with the basics of what is a
#blockchain
& why it's valuable:
Nazarov was confident that the team is on the right path. "Our OCR white paper is going to be presented in computer science conferences -- it's not something we cooked up in a weekend," he said.
People have no idea how expansive the functionality of the Chainlink Network will come to be. Thinking
#Chainlink
is a simple data relayer is like thinking the Internet was simply for email. Few understand now, but in time it will be clear as day.
The core $LINK community are long term investors. We've been discussing
#Chainlink
for over 2 years down to the very minute details. We haven't held all this time to sell now. We're gonna ride it into the top 3 & stake our tokens into oracle nodes as the data miners of the $4IR.
5
#Chainlink
announcements today:
-Two DeFi projects on
#BSC
protecting against flash loans
-One agricultural data provider based on
#Hedera
-One IDO platform on
#Polygon
using VRF
-Price Feeds launched on
#Avalanche
testnet
You just blockchain agnostic middleware standard
#Chainlink
isn't an oracle, it's a framework for building decentralized oracle networks. Two of those frameworks are Chainlink Price Reference Data & Chainlink VRF. These are two frameworks within a vast set of possibilities. Any oracle design pattern can be built with Chainlink.
With
#Chainlink
recently passing over 1000 announced integrations, I think it’s important to look a bit deeper at why having so many integrations is important to its success.
Here is a (1/20) thread offering perspective on 7 major benefits of this growth strategy for Chainlink:
#Chainlink
arguably the most sound token-economics system in the whole space, it's just not fully live yet. It will drive demand to acquire LINK from service providers and service users, while service providers have strong incentives to hold LINK to expand their oracle business.
Why I like
@Bancor
- Can stake single sided liquidity
- Full Impermanent Loss protection if you stake for 100 days
- Additional incentive rewards for certain pools
- The original AMM creator
- Working with Chainlink & Arbitrum on advanced AMM
- Multiple audits
- Lowest swap fees
I say $BTC, $ETH, & $LINK maxis call a truce. BTC be a secure, low attack surface store of value. ETH be a fully functional smart contract platform. LINK be the link between them that allows ETH smart contracts to settle in BTC when desired. Everybody wins; time to move forward.
Just in the last three weekdays, Chainlink has announced ongoing integrations with four different blockchains:
@ethereum
,
@cosmos
,
@Polkadot
&
@maticnetwork
. Chainlink is becoming the standard oracle across all blockchains, which will bring about a shared cost model across chains
>Chainlink is an Ethereum Price Feed
>Chainlink is for Price Feeds on multiple chains
>Chainlink is for fetching & aggregating APIs
>Chainlink is data delivery & basic off-chain compute
>Chainlink is a gateway to all the world's data & performs any computation a blockchain cannot
You may not always love the price action, but Chainlink is being adopted at a record pace across all the major smart contract verticals & blockchains. The network effect is very real and we have only scratched the surface of what Chainlink can do in terms of off chain computation
Even if you don't love
#Bitcoin
in comparison to
#Ethereum
, this is a historic precedent in making Bitcoin legal tender in El Salvador and will pave the way for both ecosystems.
In our new
@SmartContent777
blog, we provide the ultimate guide to understanding
#Chainlink
& its key role in creating God Protocols
-Blockchains: decentralized computers
-Smart contracts: decentralized applications
-Chainlink: the decentralized Internet
Smart contracts generate most blockchain transactions
+Oracles required on most smart contract transactions
+Chainlink oracles used by most smart contracts on most blockchains
+Oracle security needs to match blockchain security
=Chainlink more valuable than any one blockchain
#Chainlink
's Recent Network Effects:
-Deutsche Telekom running Chainlink infrastructure
-Korean banks using Chainlink to sell FX data
-All major blockchains integrating Chainlink
-Chainlink the most used oracle throughout DeFi
-Chainlink the go-to oracle solution in gaming/NFTs
You got two choices $LINK marines:
-You take the DOOMpill, wallow in your own misery, and create a self-fulfilling prophecy of losing
-You take the LINKpill and we see how far the positivity, frens, fundamentals, and potent meme magic will take us along the stairway to heaven
Off-Chain Reporting is now live on mainnet, marking a major scalability upgrade of Chainlink’s oracle network. OCR reduces on-chain gas costs by up to 90% & enables
#Chainlink
to bring 10x more data on-chain, accelerating
#DeFi
& smart contract innovation.
With Chainlink's growth & ascent into the top 8, comes a target on its back. We've seen this with the disinformation from Zeus Report & top influencers. My advice: keep killing people w/ kindness, facts & don't feed the disingenuous trolls. Smart people will recognize real value
Chainlink has the widest value capture potential of any decentralized network. It can capture value from most dApps on most blockchains & from most off-chain APIs across many services. It makes dApps more competitive, blockchains more useful & APIs more revenue. A win-win-win-win
Here's what happens: Chainlink pioneers the oracle market & becomes the standard. A few competitors come along claimig they're better & will change the world. They get a few speculative pumps in a bull market & then get crushed when hype wears off & they're standing there naked.
The new $LINK marine energy hit different. No more dunking & flexing on haters. Now, it's pure positive consciousness and fun so literally EVERYONE can make it. This includes OGs, nulinkers, and past nemesis that have a change of heart. Like
#Chainlink
, we are making it agnostic.
There is
#Chainlink
, an oracle network built by world renowned security researcher Ari Juels & industry-leading engineer Ben Chan, and then there is every other oracle network built by run of the mill web developers. Who you going to pick to secure the entire future of your dApp?
Not sure people fully realize but Chainlink has announced a new user every weekday for many months now, sometimes two a day. You can't deny the accelerating network effects and it's making the entire smart contract industry a hell of a lot more useful as a result of its success.
Chainlink's total market for oracle services (data, compute, cross-chain) is easily in the top 3 of crypto in terms of value capture potential. Once staking becomes a key mechanism to tapping into user fees, LINK has a real narrative to trade at a premium like L1 tokens do now.