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It's only getting bigger and more familiar. Soon there will be a piece of @chainlink in everything.

Jim knows what the TAM of @chainlink is and could be. And between you and me. It's massive.

Thanks for sharing @AndrewMcMarkets We feel Chainlink is one of the purest ways to get exposure to RWA adoption / tokenization. Ticker is $LINK

Today's episode is with @KarwanLiam05, Head of RWAs at @Chainlink Labs. 3 Key Takeaways: - Karwan says institutional conversations have shifted: "They know what to do. They know how to do it. And they come to us to know how to do it successfully." - On how fast this scales: "It's going to be slow, but quicker than we think." He puts the market at roughly $300 billion including stablecoins, compared with $100 trillion in capital markets. - He calls tokenized stocks "properly hyped" and has a view on wrapped versus natively issued equities. TIMESTAMPS: Introduction What Is Tokenization? How Tokenization Has Changed in 12 Months Chainlink's Role in Onchain Finance What Financial Institutions Want From Chainlink Why Institutional Conversations Have Changed Are Tokenization Projects Succeeding? Simple vs. Complex Institutional Use Cases The Next Phase of Institutional Adoption Private Blockchains, Compliance and Interoperability Why Technology Isn't the Biggest Bottleneck Making the Business Case for Blockchain How Quickly Will Tokenization Scale? The $100 Trillion Capital Markets Opportunity Why Chainlink Wants to Connect Financial Networks Which Institutions Are Adopting RWAs? Why Hedge Funds Are Moving More Slowly Is Onchain Finance Ready for Wall Street? Stablecoins, Liquidity and Yield Opportunities Why Fintechs Could Drive Mainstream Adoption Will Consumers Know They're Using Blockchain? Why Crypto Focused on Infrastructure First How Onchain Finance Improves Financial Products Institutional Adoption in South Korea Why Tokenized Equities Matter Are Tokenized Stocks Overhyped? Wrapped vs. Native Tokenized Equities How the Tokenization Industry Has Evolved Why Asset Managers Are Focusing on Distribution Chainlink's Long-Term Vision What Will Drive the Next Wave of RWA Adoption? Fintechs, Stablecoins and New Onchain Demand

🥧BAKED IN🥧 Any developer that uses OpenZeppelin templates or token wizard for their token (hint: they all do) can now easily get CCIP and ACE standards baked in.

Well now... @Chainlink IS a platform. And the $LINK token is very much needed. They didn't even mention the buy-back mechanism...

Blockchains are nice, but what can you do with them if they aren't connected to the real world? That's why you need Chainlink: Ticker $LINK

Blockchain tech is a real step forward, but even blockchains have limits. That's why @chainlink created a platform of services to facilitate easy of use and connectivity between the real world and other blockchains. It's the internet of finance 2.0

Not understanding Chainlink was your first mistake. Not owning $LINK your second.

The $LINK / $ETH pair paints a very interesting story. It shows a 2021 bull-market peak of 0.047 ETH, a deep retracement, and a multi-year accumulation channel. Based on today's prices, $LINK would need to flip .0085 or $20 to break out and flip that into support. A retest of .047 is roughly $112, which only increases as ETH moves. Now let's assume a future price of $ETH around $4,500, the equivalent price of Chainlink would be $202.50 based on the chart below. Chainlink will retest the peak of this chart, the main variable is the price of ETH when it does. When you see lofty altcoin targets, weigh the primary assets altcoins are paired against... ETH & BTC for a reality check. My target for Chainlink has consistently been in the $80-$100 range, but @StanChart's $200 forecast is very much in play, depending on how the pairs move with the rest of the market. Now you may think this is hopium, so I included a $BTC chart as well.. At $125k BTC and a peak of .0016 that's equivalent to $200 $LINK. If BTC chops while alts run and stays around $85k, that's $136. The numbers aren't too far off at all. Either way, I see two bullish setups primed for a market shift.

S&P Global, the 165-year-old authority behind global credit ratings and the S&P 500 itself, agreed to acquire OpenZeppelin, the security standard securing an estimated $250 billion in digital assets and auditor of record for $38 trillion in onchain value transferred. If you've touched a major stablecoin, tokenized fund, or DeFi protocol, OpenZeppelin's audited code was probably underneath it. OpenZeppelin announced a strategic partnership making Chainlink's infrastructure native across its tooling, not just price feeds, but ACE (its compliance engine) and CCIP (its cross-chain interoperability protocol). That means every institution pulling a vetted template from OpenZeppelin's library inherits jurisdictional compliance logic and cross-chain settlement by default, pre-wired, pre-audited. This is the distribution unlock the Chainlink thesis has been building toward. Institutions don't need to evaluate and choose Chainlink anymore, they inherit it automatically the moment they build on the standard that the world's most trusted risk-assessment brand now owns! Pair that with Chainlink's growing footprint across Swift, DTCC, the Bank of England, MAS and HKMA and this isn't one more partnership, it's Chainlink becoming the default substrate underneath the tooling traditional finance already trusts. It’s now a FAR stickier position than any single deal and arguably the clearest distribution catalyst yet for $LINK's institutional thesis.

network of networks needed

. @chainlink is moving at an exponential growth. 200x last year. 2000x this year. When the internal numbers show increased growth, but the "stock" doesn't, that's just an opportunity. Anyone who studied $AMZN knows this.

Feels like we're close to the local bottom again.