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Chainlink unlocks tokenization's global potential by enabling: • Secondary markets to settle tokenized assets on any blockchain • DvP settlement workflows via atomic asset swaps • Onchain and offchain synchronization Discover the new onchain era👇 https://blog.chain.link/tokenization-for-capital-markets/
As the only platform securely powering onchain data & cross-chain connectivity, Chainlink is becoming the universal data, compute, & interoperability standard for tokenized real-world assets (RWAs). How Chainlink unlocks the full benefits of tokenization: https://blog.chain.link/stages-enriching-real-world-assets/
Welcome Cultur3 to Lens 🌿 had an amazing podcast where I shared more vision on Lens and also DeFi 🎙️
**Q2 2023 Product Update** Chainlink Labs Chief Product Officer Kemal El Moujahid covers the latest deployments, what's next for Chainlink oracle services, and the power of Chainlink as the industry-standard platform for Web3 builders. Dive in: https://blog.chain.link/product-update-q2-2023/ Tune into this Thursday's Product Q&A on the Chainlink Official Discord, where Kemal will answer community questions about the Q2 update and highlight how the Chainlink platform is expanding to supercharge development across Web3: https://discord.com/invite/chainlink?event=1120359484963967017
Web3 development moves fast: Up-to-date resources are essential. Here's what you'll learn by taking @patrickalphac.lens's latest 27+ hour Solidity tutorial, Foundry edition. https://blog.chain.link/blockchain-course-learn-solidity-web3/
Chainlink is working with Swift and more than a dozen major financial institutions on experiments to enable connectivity to and interoperability across public and private blockchains: https://www.swift.com/news-events/news/swift-explores-blockchain-interoperability-remove-friction-tokenised-asset-settlement These experiments are a significant step forward from the biggest financial players across the globe to #LinkTheWorld of traditional finance to blockchains. “As banks endeavor to access multiple blockchains,” Sergey Nazarov explains, “a common connectivity layer across the various chains will be a critical building block for their adoption of on-chain finance.”
Ethereum staking is evolving into a prominent area for experimentation and innovation. To support this ongoing innovation, #Chainlink recently launched an on-chain source of truth for the global ETH staking rate of return—Chainlink ETH Staking APR Feeds. https://blog.chain.link/chainlink-eth-staking-apr-feeds/
4 years ago today, Chainlink launched on mainnet. We want to thank the many developers, researchers, data providers, node operators, users, and community members that have worked to make #Chainlink the standard for connecting the world to blockchains. Our story: https://youtu.be/Uh9zZ4__abk
We are excited to share the new #Chainlink plugin for web3.js v4.x. Built by ChainSafe with support from a Chainlink grant, it includes the ability to consume Price Feed data in smart contracts using one line of code, plus additional functionality. https://github.com/ChainSafe/web3.js-plugin-chainlink
Advancements in zero-knowledge proofs are poised to transform #Web3. From privacy-preserving oracle solutions to zkEVM layer 2s, zero-knowledge proofs can make blockchains, faster, more secure, and more accessible. Keep reading for a primer on how they work. Imagine a cave with a single entrance but two pathways (paths A and B) that connect at a common door locked by a passphrase. Alice wants to prove to Bob she knows the passcode to the door but without revealing the code to Bob. To do this, Bob stands outside of the cave and Alice walks inside the cave, taking one of the two paths (without Bob knowing which path was taken). Bob then asks Alice to take one of the two paths back to the entrance of the cave (chosen at random). If Alice originally chose to take path A to the door, but then Bob asks her to take path B back, the only way to complete the puzzle is for Alice to have knowledge of the passcode for the locked door. This process can be repeated multiple times to prove Alice has knowledge of the door’s passcode and did not happen to choose the right path to take initially with a high degree of probability. After this process is complete, Bob has a high degree of confidence that Alice knows the door’s passcode without her having revealed it to him. This general analogy can be extrapolated to a wide range of Web3 use cases. This process is used in zkEVMs to prove transaction validity, emerging oracle protocols like DECO to privately verify Web2 identity credentials, and on-chain games to create private "fog of war." Projects at the forefront of zero-knowledge technology will be at SmartCon 2023. Join them by registering now: https://chn.lk/3zbOEAc
Lisbon is amazing, no wonder crypto folks are parking here
Attention all Lenster frens! 📣 We want your input! Participate in our survey and share your thoughts and opinions with us. Help us gain a better understanding of what matters most to our community. Click the link to get started https://form.typeform.com/to/Xz9wvEjQ
Crypto gaming guilds bring together players, enthusiasts, and game developers within a single community that collaborates and shares resources. Explore how guilds help promote high-quality games and increase the adoption of #blockchain gaming: https://blog.chain.link/crypto-gaming-guilds/
What is the fundamental goal of #Web3 technology? News outlets like Forbes, consultancy firms like PwC, and finance titans like JP Morgan believe the value is in real-world asset tokenization, which can streamline processes, reduce counterparty risk, and enhance access to historically inaccessible or illiquid markets. Put simply, it's about connecting Web3 to underlying economic activity—primary (raw materials), secondary (processing and manufacturing), tertiary (services), and quaternary (technology and engineering). For example, commodities have been tokenized and traded on-chain, blockchains are being used to track products through the supply chain, dApps provide easily accessible lending and borrowing services, and oracles can place guardrails on AI systems. Web3 offers a better, more trust-minimized way of facilitating these mission-critical economic components. This is the vision of tokenized real-world assets and on-chain finance: Transitioning hundreds of trillions of dollars of already-existing assets into a Web3 format and codifying the processes that facilitate them in smart contracts. The groundwork for these processes has already been laid by #DeFi protocols. This ChainlinkGod article lays out the current state of real-world asset tokenization and on-chain finance, and explores the challenges ahead: https://blog.chain.link/tokenized-real-world-assets/ For those interested in the real-world impact of Web3, #SmartCon 2023 in Barcelona is a meeting ground for discussing what it takes to realize the vision of a Web3-enabled world. It's where Web3 gets real. Secure your ticket today: https://chn.lk/3zbOEAc
I'm excited to welcome the @celoorg.lens community to @chainlink.lens. Let's get some meetups going for the community soon. I can't wait to connect at #smartcon2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOF6OINJRW0soon
We’ve compiled over 40 of #Chainlink Co-Founder Sergey Nazarov’s keynotes, fireside chats, interviews, slides, and further material in a blog post we’ll continually update in the future. Explore the archive: https://blog.chain.link/sergey-nazarov-media-library/
#Chainlink Labs is going to #NFTNYC2023 NFT.NYC! Secure your spot for all of these events ⬇️ Sign up for Orange Comet, Inc.'s art exhibit & charity event, sponsored by Chainlink. To celebrate the release of The Remarkables Collection, Orange Comet will be using Chainlink VRF to gift one participant a 1-of-1 print by The Doodle Boy! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-exhibit-and-charity-event-hosted-by-orange-comet-tickets-599843807977 Finally, enroll in Chainlink Labs Developer Advocate Richard Gottleber's workshop on how to create your very own dynamic NFTs with a special guest from United Talent Agency. As a bonus, Chainlink BUILD member GALAXIS will present a real-world use case demo. https://lu.ma/uh0xpblq
DECO enables users to prove something is authentic without revealing the underlying data, unlocking new primitives for smart contracts without compromising privacy. • Prove your bank balance is over $10,000 without showing the sum. • Prove you control a LinkedIn account without sharing credentials. • Prove you liked a Twitter post without sharing your username. Read the first blog in the new DECO research series: https://blog.chain.link/deco-introduction/
Congrats https://twitter.com/theNerdLabs/status/1635674521855225856?s=20 @chainlink.lens @lensprotocol
Northern Trust and HSBC project that 5-10% of all assets globally will be tokenized by 2030. Real-world assets tokenized on a public blockchain can provide previously underserved markets with 24/7 access to equities, commodities, mutual funds, fixed-income products, and more. Explore how #blockchain technology is impacting asset servicing: https://www.northerntrust.com/content/dam/northerntrust/pws/nt/documents/asset-servicing/beyond-asset-tokenisation.pdf
Very cool to see this come together. https://twitter.com/chainlink/status/1631701570222948356?s=20
What are Chainlink Functions you ask? https://youtube.com/shorts/4DUWOh6IDls?feature=share
Introducing Chainlink Functions—the serverless #Web3 platform for connecting any data, device, or system to smart contracts. Chainlink Functions brings Web2 services like AWS, Meta, and Google Cloud on-chain to empower developers to link the world to Web3. https://blog.chain.link/introducing-chainlink-functions/ Watch @patrickalphac.lens explore the newfound power of Chainlink Functions. In this demo of the testnet beta, Patrick showcases how Functions makes it easier than ever for builders to connect any API and run custom computations on Chainlink oracle nodes: https://youtu.be/kFmOef5jL7w Looking for more inspiration? Developers across the ecosystem are starting to share the off-chain connections they've built and showcasing how any builder in any vertical can #UseChainlinkFunctions. Explore the new community website: https://www.usechainlinkfunctions.com/ Functions gives builders: -Limitless connectivity to the real world -Trust-minimized security via the same infrastructure powering the Chainlink Network -A serverless runtime environment for custom compute -Self-serve in a few lines of code Explore: https://chain.link/functions Find out how Chainlink Functions now makes it possible to connect smart contracts to some of the world's largest Web2 service providers. This empowers dApp builders to easily access a vast array of datasets and opens up a new generation of Web3 use cases: **https://chn.lk/functions-press-release**
#LinkTheWorld
Zk-rollups are one of the most promising layer-2 scalability solutions, moving computation and state off-chain while inheriting the security of the base layer through leveraging zk-proofs. Understand how zk-rollups can unlock widespread #Web3 adoption: https://blog.chain.link/zero-knowledge-rollup/
A question for the community builders. How do you explain to people what you do? I have tried a million different ways with my daughters, and they tell people, "Dad talks to people on the internet." Then they show them their favorite memes of me.
SmartCon 2023. Barcelona, Oct. 2-3. Get ready. https://smartcon.chain.link/
To date, ~$2.5B has been hacked from wrapped token bridges, with ~null.3B taken this year alone. But with $4B+ in monthly volume, it's clear that cross-chain token bridges are still in high demand. Ensuring a high bar of security and transparency should always be the top priority. Many developers of bridges focus solely on their wrapped token's core architecture under ideal circumstances. But with such security-sensitive infrastructure, a defense-in-depth approach must be employed. Transparency + safety is a must, not optional. Builders must ask themselves: If the worst-case scenario occurs, how can I help mitigate outcomes like: • Contagion risk • User-builder information asymmetry • Infinite mint hacks The answer is Chainlink Proof of Reserve (PoR). Discover how ⬇️ https://blog.chain.link/proof-of-reserve-for-wrapped-tokens/
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