Chainlink (LINK)

.@Kalshi_Crypto launched LINKPERP, the first CFTC-regulated Chainlink perpetual futures contract available to U.S. traders. American institutions now have access to onshore, safe, and regulated perps – one of the fastest-growing asset classes. https://t.co/O63wgWXFbm

Kalshi Launches First CFTC-Regulated LINK Perpetual Contracts @Kalshi officially debuts @Chainlink's $LINK perpetual swaps, marking the first time a U.S. company regulated by the CFTC has offered these derivatives. The move provides a compliant, domestic venue for trading Chainlink price action, removing the jurisdictional hurdles previously associated with offshore perpetual platforms. The platform utilizes its federal oversight to provide institutional-grade settlement for the oracle network’s native token.

🚨KALSHI LAUNCH $LINK PERP In an industry first for a CFTC-regulated U.S. company @Kalshi have launched @chainlink perps moving them from “crypto oracle” to a regulated market asset. This means $LINK is gaining legitimacy as a regulated tradeable asset in the U.S. https://t.co/4AZgB0LmZz

🚨 Chainlink has entered a new U.S. derivatives era. Kalshi has launched CFTC-regulated LINK perps, bringing regulated Chainlink futures exposure onshore after years of offshore dominance. Is this a major institutional shift for LINK? 👀 👉 Full story above 👇 https://t.co/adb65qYtge

In the past week, Chainlink SVR generated $3.57M in revenue by recapturing non-toxic liquidation MEV for lending protocols like Aave, Compound, Venus, and Morpho This revenue was split $2.3M to integrated DeFi protocols and $1.27M to Chainlink, supporting the economic sustainability of DeFi and the oracles that underpin it Year-to-date SVR revenue now totals over $12.43M, with all-time SVR revenue exceeding $22.35M Offchain and onchain revenue in the Chainlink ecosystem support weekly Reserve ethereum:0x514910771af9ca656af840dff83e8264ecf986ca buybacks, with $49.5M in inflows to date

🔔 Here’s a hard but honest truth— your L1/2 doesn’t matter, they’re easily replaceable (cope harder). New blockchains are being spun up constantly and they’re getting increasingly more advanced and competitive. The universal data interoperability, orchestration and compliance layer is the biggest value capture opportunity in the entire DLT ecosystem, y’all just haven’t come to that inevitable conclusion yet. What do you think is going to happen to $LINK when it’s the universal gas token for the mycelium that connects ALL the chains, private and public alike? ⛽️ 🚀 🥁 The best is yet to come, stick around…

In the past week, Chainlink SVR generated $3.57M in revenue by recapturing non-toxic liquidation MEV for lending protocols like Aave, Compound, Venus, and Morpho This revenue was split $2.3M to integrated DeFi protocols and $1.27M to Chainlink, supporting the economic sustainability of DeFi and the oracles that underpin it Year-to-date SVR revenue now totals over $12.43M, with all-time SVR revenue exceeding $22.35M Offchain and onchain revenue in the Chainlink ecosystem support weekly Reserve ethereum:0x514910771af9ca656af840dff83e8264ecf986ca buybacks, with $49.5M in inflows to date

We said the oracle explanation was coming in a follow-up. Apparently that already counts as "long awaited." So — our sincere apologies for the long-awaited explanation. Here it is. On oracles: if a chain truly wants to maximize its DeFi safety, the gold standard is paying @chainlink a few million to integrate. Or, for the budget-conscious: a "single TEE-attested node" — the kind already running in a bolt-on L2 lending protocol — for a few hundred dollars a month in server fees. (Just maybe don't run it in us-east-1. It goes down a little too often.) But here's the thing, and it's common sense to anyone who's actually built one: a binary market needs no price data from an oracle at all. It needs a single bit — did YES happen, or NO. That bit comes from an LP multisig, or a user-bond vote. No feed, no 30-second refresh, no "fair price" to defend. One bit, once, done. So even in that exact same worst case — a single node: • Lending reads the price LIVE, on every interaction, with leverage, and the result is

Global Layer One (GL1), a public-private collaboration involving regulators and financial institutions around the world defining the standards and infrastructure for regulated digital asset markets, is integrating the Chainlink Automated Compliance Engine (ACE) to power the next generation of compliant digital asset transactions. https://t.co/dOWIMHIT6x GL1 is developing the common standards, specifications, and toolkits needed to build open, interoperable shared ledger infrastructures for regulated digital assets, including tokenized deposits, securities, and stablecoins. Its Programmable Compliance (PC) Toolkit provides a framework for encoding and automating policy and regulatory requirements directly within digital assets and on-chain transactions. Together, Chainlink ACE and GL1’s PC framework are providing dynamic, policy-driven compliance capabilities for on-chain transactions, and to ensure transactions are conducted by verified entities operating under enforceable policy constraints. Each particip