Strategic Initiatives @Chainlink | Digital commodity enjoyer | Opinions are my own

Joined December 2012
🚨 New CLG Podcast is live 🚨 Two years since our last episode, @Crypto___Oracle and I discuss how institutional adoption is reshaping crypto and who will benefit as tokenization scales This one was long overdue Link in the next tweet 👇
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Very excited about the Link:NYC conference next week in New York. Excited to be bringing together the top TradFi and DeFi teams and their senior leaders to discuss the future of the new global financial system. chain.link/events/linknyc
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.@chainlink is proud to partner with @hedera, @Aptos, @AvaLabs, and @StellarOrg in urging the SEC to codify its digital commodity framework. Builders need lasting certainty. Codifying this progress would be a meaningful step toward keeping America the home of digital asset innovation. H/t @jackson_mueller for leading this effort 🫡
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On October 29 we’re bringing senior leaders from across global finance to New York, behind closed doors: banks, exchanges, market infrastructure, asset managers, issuers, treasury teams and regulators. The Future runs on Chainlink. See you in NY!
Link:NYC is bringing together the senior finance leaders shaping how value moves in a digital, always-on, AI-driven economy in NYC, 10/29. More than 35 speakers from: → DTCC → CFTC → Swift → ICE → Fidelity → Citi → Morgan Stanley → Bank of America → Wells Fargo → Deutsche Börse → Robinhood → Apex Group → and many more Apply → chain.link/events/linknyc/ap…
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Direct staking on Ethereum L2s is live via the Lido UI. Stake ETH on @arbitrum, @base, @LineaBuild & @Optimism in just a few clicks, all without manually bridging to Ethereum and back. Powered by @chainlink CCIP.
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Lately it’s been hard to come to grips with the fact that the crypto world I grew up in and loved is mostly gone and I don’t fit in with or relate to what’s popular in crypto anymore Hopeful that this will change one day but I’m not going to hold my breath
$400m worth of crypto at a private invite only pumpfun party (but you wouldn’t know it)
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Haven’t been tweeting as much lately since most of my mental energy has been absorbed by ramping up at @chainlink In the first 6 weeks I’ve had the opportunity to meet many of my new colleagues in person as well as have client and partner conversations at Sibos. Plus supporting massive product and partner announcements. I’m more excited by the day about Chainlink’s role in the industry and the immense talent I see on the team. Plan to continue sharing insights about what I see in the digital asset space and the broader tech landscape, sprinkled with ideas about organizations, marketing, parenting, and more. Thanks for following along!
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Chainlink and DTCC demo how Chainlink is going to enable the collateral mobility for all the world's pension funds, hedge funds, banks, asset managers for repo, securities lending, etc. DTCC CTO: We're showing in this particular case, a pension fund and a hedge fund, but folks will recognize that the transaction we are doing here is the central transcaction in instittuional finance. Basically, parties are trading liquidity for yield. The same mechanism we are showing here works for repo, securities lending, and well beyond. Effectively, this is a model that ultimately amounts to transactions in excess of $20 trillion per day and automates them. This demo is legit sick. $LINK
DTCC AND CHAINLINK AT SIBOS 2026 DTCC's Dan Doney and @SergeyNazarov presented how @The_DTCC is collaborating with Chainlink to advance 24/7 collateral management. DTCC's Collateral AppChain provides shared infrastructure near real-time collateral management across financial markets and blockchains. “The problem being solved is the fragmentation of data, how everybody connects to move collateral and settle transactions, and the different systems that need to talk to each other but cannot do so quickly enough to allow intraday collateral movement.” - Sergey Nazarov DTCC’s Collateral AppChain will leverage the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) for orchestration between those systems and data sources, and CCIP which enables the movement of assets, value, and liquidity to and from the AppChain. "You finally have a reliable and legally binding ledger from the DTCC that everyone can rely on, just like they rely on the DTCC now. That's a very powerful thing that I think the capital markets have been waiting for, where they can't get that from just any chain because those guarantees with the DTCC are fundamentally different" Nazarov also added. The DTCC Collateral AppChain is expected to launch in Q1 2027. Presentation slides here: chn.lk/dtcc-chainlink-sibos-… Watch the full presentation ↓
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Ledger is investigating reports of loss of funds from users in South East Asia who purchased products from a reseller named CryptoBillis. As a precaution, and pending the results of our investigation, we have asked CryptoBilis to pause all sales and shipments of Ledger devices. We recommend Ledger users who purchased from this reseller in the last 90 days to not initiate set up if you have not done so yet. If you have set up your Ledger device, consider moving assets to a new Ledger signer (with new seed). We will continue to inform customers of updates as the investigation progresses. Reach out to Ledger customer support through official channels with any questions: support.ledger.com/
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So this is how a lot of "old heads" feel when they lived through something and then see an adaptation of for it via a show/movie. Because what the fuck is going on here? None of this happened. For example, This is from an actual interview she did and this is from her blog:
All in. Every time. Julia Garner and Anthony Boyle star as Caroline Ellison and Sam Bankman-Fried in this limited series about the love scorned prodigies behind the FTX scandal. The Altruists premieres November 19.
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They turned a $10B retail fraud scheme from a group of degens in an amphetamines-addicted sex cult living in a $100M Bahamas compound into ... a normie love story This movie was never going to be good, but man what a missed opportunity
All in. Every time. Julia Garner and Anthony Boyle star as Caroline Ellison and Sam Bankman-Fried in this limited series about the love scorned prodigies behind the FTX scandal. The Altruists premieres November 19.
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Replying to @kmad @matthew_pines
I think we might lose public key cryptography.
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Today I call upon the blockchain industry to calmly begin planning for "bunker mode". My personal recommendation is to set in motion a controlled mass migration of assets to fresh addresses, i.e. addresses whose pubkeys remain hidden behind a hash. Holders, starting with large and sophisticated ones, should consider moving the bulk of their funds to addresses that have never signed a transaction. And when they do sign one, they should also move remaining funds to a new address (possibly generated from the same seed phrase). Don't rush. While I believe there is cause for action a rushed migration would do more harm than good. Don't panic either. Moving assets to protected addresses is a simple, preventative step which does not require new cryptography or new wallets. IMO it is now reasonable to brace for the possibility that ECDSA breaks before qday, in the worst case in months not years. By "break" I mean fast private key recovery (e.g. in one week) on available hardware (e.g. a large GPU cluster). Recent days have been humbling for human mathematical intuition. Long-held, unquestioned hypotheses have fallen. This includes the n log(n) bound for integer multiplication and the 3SUM conjecture. In hindsight, May's unexpected disproof of the Erdős unit distance conjecture was our warning shot. Yesterday's OpenAI drop made it clear that mathematical superintelligence is upon us. They say there are weeks where decades happen. We are about to live through weeks where centuries of mathematical progress happen. Could our magic 64-byte ECDSA signatures be too good to be true? Was it just security through obscurity all this time? Elliptic curves feel especially vulnerable to superintelligence. Curves carry rich structure, with room for fancy tricks like Schoof, Frobenius, pairings. (By contrast, hashes are designed to minimise algebraic structure.) Separately, as Ewin Tang can attest, an efficient quantum algorithm sometimes foreshadows an efficient classical one. We should be open to the possibility of a classical counterpart to Shor that breaks elliptic curves and RSA at once. Also noteworthy is the striking under-representation of cryptographic breakthroughs among the 722 mathematical results OpenAI published. I've witnessed first-hand the US government censoring academic quantum cryptanalysis results. Backroom interventionism is my base case. I urge large, sophisticated actors to lead by example. Project11's "risq list" (bitcoin-risq-list.projecteleven[.]com) is a great tracker of exposed BTC pubkeys. Binance, Bitbank, Robinhood, Bitfinex, and Tether have an opportunity to harden their cold storage. Next month I'll address institutions in London in a live Q&A (forum.ethereuminstitutional[.]org/london-2026). Again, please do not rush. Wallets holding under 50 BTC enjoy partial cover from "Satoshi's shield", i.e. his 20K exposed addresses that hold 50 BTC each. Load-bearing signers like oracles and L2 security councils should consider rotating ECDSA pubkeys with every signed message and/or multi-signing with a hash-based schemes like SPHINCS. Exiting bunker mode safely will require post-AI cryptography. My inclination is to go all-in on hash-based cryptography and avoid structured mathematical assumptions entirely, whether from curves, lattices, or isogenies. A single battle-tested hash (e.g. from the SHA or BLAKE families) yields plausible post-AI security. The Ethereum roadmap on strawmap[.]org fully embraces hash-based cryptography with end-to-end formal verification as a response to the quantum threat. Those timelines must now be revisited and accelerated in light of mathematical superintelligence. I'll be pushing for maximum defensive acceleration.
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