Helping build @Chainlink. Member of the @PudgyPenguins huddle. Former Head of Marketing at @idexio
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Forrest Whaling retweeted
Robinhood Chain is now live on mainnet. Official data and cross-chain infrastructure: Chainlink. Powering Robinhood Stock Tokens ($NVDA, $GOOG, $AAPL) via CCIP, Data Streams, and Data Feeds from day one.
LIVE: @RobinhoodCrypto adopts Chainlink as its official data and cross-chain oracle.
Chainlink is now powering Robinhood Stock Tokens and unlocking access to the onchain economy for millions of users.
Live on day 1.
Forrest Whaling retweeted
SVR fee revenue back up for Aave.
SVR fees generated on @Aave recorded their third highest month ever.
@chainlink SVR introduces a way to recapture OEV, a subset of non-toxic MEV, most commonly observed during liquidations.
Introduced in 2025, it has already recaptured over $21M that would've otherwise gone to searchers, creating a new and significant revenue stream for both Aave and Chainlink.
• $14M for Aave
• $7M for Chainlink
• $21M+ recaptured in total
Forrest Whaling retweeted
NEW LAUNCH: Chainlink APAC Equities Streams are now live, starting with 🇯🇵Japan and 🇰🇷Korea.
Developers can now build onchain markets powered by fast, secure data around the largest companies in the Asia-Pacific region.
Samsung, SK Hynix, Toyota, Sony, SoftBank, & more 🧵
Forrest Whaling retweeted
JUST IN: Chainlink ranked #4 in Blockchain & Protocols on @FortuneMagazine’s Crypto 100 list.
fortune.com/ranking/crypto/2…
Forrest Whaling retweeted
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
Since launch, @Chainlink SVR has grown to become the most widely adopted oracle MEV recapture solution with ~99% market share
• Adopted by the largest DeFi lending markets including Aave, Compound, Venus, and various Morpho markets
• Exclusively recaptures the non-toxic liquidation MEV that would have leaked to L1 validators and searchers during DeFi loan liquidations
• Has generated $18.7M in revenue, split $12M to integrated DeFi protocols and $6.7M to Chainlink (supporting $LINK buybacks)
• Achieves a consistent 85% recapture rate (i.e., SVR recaptures ~$85 for every $100 in liquidation bonus made available)
• Has successfully processed over $700M in liquidation value for Aave alone, with zero bad debt accrual even during extreme market volatility like Oct 10
• Features the largest, most decentralized ecosystem of independent searchers, with over 115 independent liquidators (competition ensures solvency + drives up recapture rates)
• Enabled Chainlink to directly monetize its DeFi app total value secured, in addition to monetizing the integration, usage, and maintenance of oracle services by blockchains via the Scale program
Chainlink SVR = literal money printing machine
Forrest Whaling retweeted
DeFi's largest protocol @aave has integrated @Chainlink SVR into its V4 lending markets to recapture non-toxic liquidation MEV
To date, Aave's use of SVR has processed $700M+ in liquidations (w/ zero bad debt) & generated $17M+ in revenue, split 65/35 between Aave & Chainlink
Aave V4 Spokes now use @chainlink SVR price feeds for eligible assets.
Chainlink SVR routes oracle-related MEV from liquidations back to the protocol, creating a reliable revenue stream for Aave DAO.
Huge! 🔥
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.
Forrest Whaling retweeted
EXTREMELY timely security milestone from Chainlink
Big-4 accounting firm @Deloitte just completed a SOC 2 Type 2 examination for Chainlink CCIP and Data Feeds (Price Feeds, Proof of Reserve, NAV Feeds)
A SOC 2 Type 2 is an independent audit verifying that an organization's security, availability, and confidentiality controls have operated effectively over a sustained evaluation period, typically 3 to 12 months (in this case 6 months)
While this kind of milestone may sound boring, this is exactly the kind of attestation that major enterprises and financial institutions look for before integrating with a technology vendor
Chainlink is now the only oracle platform holding SOC 2 Type 2, SOC 2 Type 1, and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification
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Forrest Whaling retweeted
This week in recap, powered by @chainlink ⬇️
- @HastraFi adopts Chainlink to bring $20B in HELOC & auto loans onchain, alongside @Figure and @KaminoFinance
- @sixgroup, operator of the Swiss & Spanish national exchanges, is bringing €2T+ in European equities data onchain via Chainlink
- CCIP powers cbBTC bridging into @monad_xyz, with $20M+ already deployed
- favorite graphic of the week featured below
Forrest Whaling retweeted
Excited about the continued rollout of top institutional data on-chain via Chainlink; @sixgroup, the exchange of Switzerland has adopted @chainlink as the data standard it is using to get critical market data on-chain: six-group.com/en/newsroom/me….
Chainlink is the global leader powering DeFi and TradFi RWAs, with this data helping increase institutional demand for both. This is now starting to be driven by TradFi users wanting their existing data sources on-chain as they move more capital into institutional grade RWAs, which require market data to function in similar ways to how DeFi couldn't operate without a reliable data layer like Chainlink. Below are just some more examples of top institutional grade data providers choosing to put their data on-chain via Chainlink as the leading data standard powering over 70% of DeFi globally, with it now becoming the data standard that their institutional users will be asking for in order to consider an RWA as reliable enough to put institutional capital into.
Also, being able to easily access key market data from CRE workflows should accelerate your speed of building a tokenized fund, tokenized equity, on-chain vault and many other on-chain financial products. If Chainlink is the place you can receive all your needed market data, reference data and identity data on-chain, that is just the first initial level of Chainlink integration for your RWAs. If you are then choosing to build your entire on-chain financial product via CRE because it can help you reliably create key conditional statements around the use of that data, with privacy and off-chain level compute scalability, that is a whole new level of Chainlink integration. The type of data listed below opens the door for DeFi, Prediction Markets, RWAs and many new categories of on-chain smart contracts to adopt Chainlink, but then once the full capabilities of reliable on-chain data are combined with CCIP cross-chain and CRE chain abstraction, that becomes a whole different level of orchestration, reliability and privacy.
S&P: press.spglobal.com/2025-10-1…
FTSE Russell: theblock.co/post/377357/ftse…
Tradeweb: tradeweb.com/newsroom/media-…
Deutsche Börse Group: deutsche-boerse.com/dbg-en/m…
Intercontinental Exchange: finance.yahoo.com/news/chain…
Coinbase: prnewswire.com/news-releases…
Among many others....
Forrest Whaling retweeted
Chainlink SVR accounted for 34.4% of @aave’s revenue in February of this year
Over the past year, SVR has generated $17M in revenue, split $11M to Aave and $6M to Chainlink
Aave recently expanded their use of SVR beyond Ethereum to include Base and Arbitrum market deployments to increase protocol revenue
SVR generates revenue by recapturing the non-toxic liquidation MEV that would have leaked to third party bots and chain validators
Integrating Chainlink into your DeFi app not only protects your protocol from insolvency, it prints you money
There is a reason Chainlink secures 70%+ of DeFi, we build win-win outcomes
Forrest Whaling retweeted
Builders can now access Coinbase exchange data directly onchain.
With Chainlink DataLink, developers can tap into premium datasets to power the next generation of onchain apps across DeFi and beyond. xitter.cf/chainlink/status/20368…
NEW: @coinbase integrates Chainlink to bring its premium exchange data powering billions in trading volume to blockchains for the first time.
This unlocks a new distribution channel for data from the largest U.S. crypto exchange, bringing better pricing & risk management to DeFi
Forrest Whaling retweeted
2) Chainlink vs. Nobody 🏆
Chainlink dominates the data oracle market
Data oracles bring real-world info to blockchains (asset prices, NAVs, real-world outcomes, etc) = essential for tokenizing the world
Chainlink owns this crucial market today, and it isn't even close
Forrest Whaling retweeted
JUST IN: Taylor Lindman has been officially appointed as Chief Counsel of the @SECGov's Crypto Task Force.
We thank Taylor for his great 5 years as a key part of the Chainlink Labs team in his role as Deputy General Counsel. We all look forward to modernizing the U.S. financial system together, taking it to the next level of its development and rapid growth.
Forrest Whaling retweeted
JUST IN: @RobinhoodApp launches public testnet and partners with Chainlink as the oracle platform for Robinhood Chain.
Builders can leverage Chainlink’s data, interoperability, and compliance standards to power advanced tokenization use cases.
Robinhood 🤝 Chainlink
The Robinhood Chain public testnet is live 🛠️
Developers can now build on a financial-grade Ethereum Layer 2 built on @arbitrum— designed to support tokenized real-world and digital assets.
Start building with the core foundation of Robinhood Chain: docs.robinhood.com/chain
Learn more on our newsroom: robinhood.com/us/en/newsroom…
Forrest Whaling retweeted
New Change FX is proud to announce the launch of its 24x7 FX from Crypto Feed, delivering continuous FX insight via API and on 70+ blockchains through @chainlink. Covers 14 fiat currencies.
Read More: bit.ly/3NDYFAD
#FX #MarketData #Crypto
Forrest Whaling retweeted
What does @chainlink have in common with @nvidia? They have evolved from products into standards through network effects.
When people hear “network effects,” they often think of social networks or marketplaces, where value increases as more users join. In the case of NVIDIA and Chainlink, the dynamic is subtler but more powerful. Each has built a technology platform around which an ecosystem of developers, tools, integrations, and institutional practices has formed.
As more organizations build products and workflows on NVIDIA’s hardware and software stack, it becomes easier and safer for others to do the same. Expertise accumulates, tooling improves, and operational risk declines. Over time, choosing NVIDIA stopped being a bet on superior specifications and became the only decision for teams that needed reliability at scale. NVIDIA did not just supply GPUs; it became the standard foundation for AI development.
In many ways, Chainlink is similar. As more data providers, applications, and financial institutions integrate with the network, its reliability and security improve. That reliability and security, in turn, attract the largest DeFi protocols and traditional finance institutions that are adopting onchain infrastructure. Integration with Chainlink reduces coordination and trust costs, making it the global standard for serious applications rather than merely a competitive option.
The platform wins because it minimizes risk, aligns incentives across a broad ecosystem, and answers a critical question for decision-makers: What do the best teams in onchain finance already rely on? Chainlink.
