"Nazarov said DECO can be used as a foundation for permissionless credit or decentralized identification
An oracle like DECO could one day allow a smart contract to query off-chain credit information such as banking records without overreaching into personal data"
“DECO is the way a lot of collateral will make its way to DeFi,” @SergeyNazarov said.
Juels told CoinDesk this privacy is possible through DECO’s incorporation of zero-knowledge proofs"
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Obligatory thread of some of my unfiltered thoughts and predictions regarding the major crypto trends this year
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• Bitcoin as a Dominant Asset Class
The catalysts for $BTC are clear; a dozen or so spot ETFs a week from approval, halving in April, multiple interest rate cuts, and fiat money printer brrrrr
Initial ETF inflows won’t be as massive as expected but will ramp up over the year
$BTC spot ETF Issuers will battle over management fees (sub 40bps fees), advertising will be strong (Super Bowl ads), and a lawsuit with the SEC over allowing in-kind issuance/redemption vs just cash
$ETH ETF will be next and then no ETFs for other tokens this year (2025 tho…)
1. Risk of staking ETH 2. Risk of liquid staking ETH 3. Risk of restaking ETH 4. Risk of liquid restaking ETH
You’re not only exposed to slashing and smart contract bug risk at each tier, but risks that only appear when composing protocols
Hell, why not take this further
Deposit your liquid restaking token into an AMM DEX, get an LP token back in return, and then deposit that LP token into a money market as collateral so you can borrow even more ETH to liquid restake
What started as a single ETH/USD Price Feed has since expanded into a fully-featured platform of services
There are now 1,000+ #Chainlink oracle networks that span external data, offchain compute, and cross-chain interoperability
A thread 🧵
Oracles connect blockchains to external systems, enabling them to execute based on inputs/outputs from the real world
Before chainlink, oracles were highly centralized and insecure, with frequent oracle attacks resulting in exploits and loss of funds
garbage in -> garbage out
Chainlink solved this problem through the creation of decentralized oracle networks (DONs), backed by strong cryptoeconomic incentives and high quality node operators
Arta TechFin, a Hong Kong-based financial services institution, is collaborating with #Chainlink Labs on the creation of regulated, fiat-based, cross-chain tokenized funds 👀
Chainlink CCIP will enable the transfer of fund tokens across public and private chains, increasing liquidity through cross-chain atomic settlement
Chainlink Data Feeds will provide transparent data for onchain Net Asset Value (NAV) reporting, making the data instantly available to all market participants
Chainlink Proof of Reserve will verify that the onchain fund tokens are backed and secured by designated assets under traditional and crypto custodians
The future is on
Arta TechFin (HKSE: 0279) is a hybrid financial (HyFi) platform bridging traditional finance with blockchain-based financial system via technology innovations
Its regulated one-stop solution enables corporates, financial institutions, and family offices to access traditional assets and digital assets
Arta TechFin, through its various subsidiaries, are licensed under Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission
Other licenses include Hong Kong Stock Exchange participant, insurance brokerage license, trustee license and money lending license in Hong Kong as well as Eurex and Chicago Mercantile Exchange participants
@SergeyNazarov on the collaboration at @HongKongFinTech Week:
And not because of flimsy handwavey narratives or vague hyped up “connections”
But because @Chainlink has been working directly with the largest financial institutions globally on accelerating tokenized asset adoption via #CCIP
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The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (@swiftcommunity) on using CCIP for interoperability
Swift is used by 11,500+ financial institutions globally for inter-bank messaging, facilitating international money/security transfers swift.com/news-events/pr…
Participants in the Swift blockchain interoperability collaboration included 12+ of the largest financial institutions and market infrastructure providers in the world including:
Swift published a new results report about their recent collaboration with #Chainlink & 12+ of the largest financial institutions on using CCIP for blockchain interoperability 👀
CCIP connected existing Swift infra to multiple public/private blockchains
"Working with more than a dozen major financial institutions and market infrastructures and Chainlink, a leading Web3 services platform, Swift has successfully demonstrated that it can provide a single point of access to multiple networks using existing, secure infrastructure, thereby significantly reducing operational challenges and investment required for institutions to support the development of tokenised assets." - @swiftcommunity