Is everyone talking about the same thing when they say “interoperability”? It’s a word we hear everywhere – in conversations about tokenisation, digital assets, instant payments and blockchain-based infrastructure. But its meaning often shifts depending on who you ask. At Swift, interoperability is about more than connectivity. It’s about delivering choice and convenience – safely, and at scale. By reducing fragmentation and complexity across the financial system, we can help enable a more seamless global experience. Find out more: swift.com/news-events/perspe… #Interoperability #DigitalAssets

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. 💻 PCs had their operating system. ☁️ Cloud had its hyperscaler. 🧠 AI had its compute layer. ⛓️ Onchain finance has its oracle platform.

Interoperability has become a buzzword $link swift.com/news-events/perspe…

Meanwhile in Western Capital Markets: SWIFT, using an EVM flavor of Hyperledger Besu is going live with their MVP in coming weeks and will scale with Chainlink through Q4. 11.5k banks will have direct access to tokenized asset settlement via Chainlink infrastructure. The same structure is also happening at the DTCC— Hyperledger Besu EVM, Chainlink as the orchestration layer between their private permissioned chain and all other DLT rails. mBridge is being built to replace SWIFT in Asia-Middle East corridors. Chainlink is sitting inside all of these systems as the universal interoperability and orchestration layer for data, value and compliance logic. 🔗 blockeden.xyz/blog/2026/01/1…

Data. Interop. Compliance. Privacy. Orchestration. All in one platform. Only with Chainlink.

Twenty-five experts from academia and industry put together this (monster, 150 -page) survey on the bidirectional impact of crypto and AI. Visit AIC3.io to read it, peruse the executive summary—or chat with a chatbot about it.

x.com/i/status/2063184638210… I remain convinced that $link / Chainlink is one of the best long term AI plays. The Alephant in the room, if you will.

Three key trends I am increasingly excited about... 1: Our industry has started caring much more about the security and reliability of the infrastructure, standards and oracles/dependencies that it is built on top of. This shift in focus towards security is already massively benefiting Chainlink because it is built with security and reliability in mind from the start e.g. 16 nodes vs 1 of 1 or 2 of 2 (which is actually often just a 1 of 1 in disguise). This focus on reliability and security makes a better system for everyone in the DeFi/TradFi industry to transact with less risk and also leads to more overall Chainlink adoption over time. The way Chainlink became the leading data oracle is through security and reliability, I think that will happen across all categories where Chainlink deploys services for the same reasons. We are now clearly seeing this dynamic take place in cross-chain interoperability, with many large users migrating onto CCIP after conducting deeper security reviews of bridging providers, more and more of which are now being published, some telling quotes below: x.com/krakenfx/status/205494… Kraken chose Chainlink CCIP because it offers enterprise-grade infrastructure with strict security & risk management requirements, including: • ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 certifications • Secure by default architecture • 16 independent nodes • Native rate limits, and more. x.com/LidoFinance/status/205… and blog.lido.fi/cross-chain-sec… The analysis covers how Chainlink CCIP delivers strong decentralization, native safeguards, and issuer control as default protocol-level guarantees, which insulates wstETH from a number of attack vectors behind the Kelp / LayerZero exploit. x.com/Lombard_Finance/status… Chainlink CCIP has emerged as the standard in cross-chain infrastructure, providing an enterprise-grade framework to secure high-value assets With over $4Billion migrated in just a few weeks and more on the way, I am clearly seeing the industry's clear preference for security and reliability being a key trend leading to accelerated adoption of Chainlink and CCIP. 2: Chainlink has always continued to build and added many of its best features during down markets, when there is less noise to distract top teams from building. Because Chainlink already has clear product market fit, being able to focus on building the future is a powerful accelerant for future progress and is actually what I and many of the people building Chainlink are here for. I am very excited about both the use case specific features e.g. collateral management and the increasing number of reusable primitives e.g. verifiable confidential compute in CRE, which are now actively being built, refined and launched with top users. In my experience, during the down market lulls is when the best things get built, and I am truly thrilled to see Chainlink being built to better serve its existing users and entirely new users. 3: The RWA, TradFi Tokenization and Digital Assets industry has now decoupled from crypto prices as a determining factor of its success and is a rapidly growing market of its own. Great news for the technologies, standards and infrastructures that can serve this new and growing demand, of which Chainlink is at the very top of the list. By having the relevant certifications; blog.chain.link/chainlink-ac…, being the historically most secure/reliable option with the largest amount of value enabled and being able to compose multiple key primitives (Data Interoperability Identity/compliance verifiable off-chain orchestration) into full end-to-end solutions like no other platform can, puts the Chainlink platform/ecosystem in a unique place to be adopted by this new and growing market. This is now becoming increasingly clear in practice through Chainlink's adoption in various parts of the capital markets; from collateral management with some of the most recent examples being... DTCC using CRE and Data for their production plans; dtcc.com/news/2026/may/12/dt… x.com/The_DTCC/status/205417… Data providers like SGX using DataLink for key data; x.com/chainlink/status/20563… Top asset managers like State Street; x.com/chainlink/status/20520… and Fidelity International; x.com/chainlink/status/20545…, being powered by Chainlink on the backend. The above are just a small number of recent examples, with many more being worked on all across the TradFi ecosystem, from payments, to tokenized equities, to tokenized funds; all of these on-chain finance use cases need multiple Chainlink components working together. I can't wait for the next stage, where the leading DeFi applications and the top TradFi institutions start interoperating through their use of shared on-chain standards, interoperability connections and data/identity oracles, all of which are being provided by Chainlink, together with existing infrastructures. Solving each of these market's individual problems is already exciting, but helping them merge into the new global financial system is something that I and many others in our ecosystem have been working towards for a while. If the above sounds like something worth spending many late nights on, and you can see the future I am talking about, this is the best time to join a top team like Chainlink Labs... if you're the best of the best, excited about the future of the blockchain industry, DeFi, TradFi and building the future of the new global financial system, we are excited to work together with you: chainlinklabs.com/open-roles.

88% of the crypto marketcap is Layer 1 gas coins. The Chainlink Runtime Environment turns those into a drop down box. All your decentralized (and all the worlds centralized) databases are belong to the Chainlink Abstraction and Orchestration Layer. There is only one TCP/IP Suite. There is only one Chainlink Stack. $LINK em all

$LINK will hit $100, retail will sell..only for it to go on a monster Institutional run to $700 leaving a legacy of lost link guilt, akin to those who sold $BTC early.

RT @The_DTCC: Today we announced progress toward our goal of advancing 24/7 collateral mobility. DTCC’s Collateral AppChain, a shared infra…

NEW: @The_DTCC is integrating Chainlink data and orchestration standards into the DTCC’s Collateral AppChain. DTCC and Chainlink are advancing 24/7, near-real-time collateral workflows across global markets and blockchains.

$LINK staking rewards aren’t ‘yield’, they’re protocol distributions from actual network fees. Congress is codifying this distinction, with the Clarity Act markup hitting Thursday. The regulatory gray area US $LINK stakers have dealt with since ‘23 is getting clarified on paper. Don’t lose your spot.

Glad to see all the hard work that Chainlink has put into generating real security is being recognized as valuable by more and more teams in our industry. It seems that focusing on making the secure and reliable solution is what wins in an industry where securing value is a key feature of everyone's product. We have seen the trend of low quality data oracles with poor security being switched out for Chainlink for many years now, with that trend continuing on a regular basis; x.com/DefiantNews/status/205… We are also now seeing the same dynamic in cross-chain connectivity/bridging, where providing security with actual decentralization, actual monitoring and actual private key security is increasingly valuable to both protocol teams and the users of their products. It is much easier and often faster to cut corners and run a single node and call it a decentralized bridge, have no monitoring on those bridges and keep the extra profits from cutting these key security and reliability features, but that comes at the expense of your users systems going down e.g. due to one AWS zone outage, or your bridges getting hacked with one set of admin keys. Chainlink's thesis as a technology, standard and community is to not cut these corners, but do what we can to raise the standards of our industry and provide reliable on-chain data, reliable cross-chain interoperability and now reliable off-chain to on-chain orchestration across all smart contracts on all chains.

Chainlink’s industry initiative with DTCC, Swift, and 22 leading financial organizations enables the creation of unified golden records for corporate action events across both blockchain networks and global financial infrastructure. All powered by the Chainlink platform.

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NOW: Bridgetower adopts Chainlink to tokenize $11B in securities from the DOM X Arizona Copper-Gold Project. By integrating the full Chainlink stack into its tokenization platform, BridgeTower is unlocking the issuance and distribution of tokenized securities at scale.