We're excited to introduce Chainlink Rewards Season 1—the next evolution of the community engagement & rewards program.



Stake LINK.
Earn Cubes.
Allocate Cubes.
Claim Tokens.

Season 1 launches November 11, featuring nine Build projects.

🧵👇blog.chain.link/chainlink-rewa… Chainlink Rewards enables projects in the Chainlink Build program to make their native tokens claimable by Chainlink ecosystem participants, including eligible LINK stakers.

Building on the success of Season Genesis, Season 1 provides eligible LINK stakers a more interactive, choice-driven experience, while strengthening their engagement and connection with Build projects.

In this season, eligible LINK stakers receive Cubes—a non-transferable, non-monetary unit of account similar to credit card points or airline miles—that can be redeemed for token rewards from the projects of their choice.

Season 1 begins with a one-month allocation period, where Cubes can be allocated by participants to projects in any manner. The allocation period starts on November 11 and ends December 9. Cubes expire at the end of the allocation period.

The claim period begins on December 16, when tokens start to unlock and become claimable over time. The number of tokens a participant can claim from a Build project is determined by their proportional share of the total Cubes allocated to that project.

The snapshot determining Cubes balances for Season 1 was taken today based on each address’s historical participation in Chainlink Staking v0.1 and v0.2, reflecting both the amount and duration of LINK staked.

2025 was Chainlink’s biggest year at @Sibos yet.



Here’s a breakdown of the week’s biggest moments, including major announcements, product launches, & presentations that show Chainlink is bringing global finance onchain.

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• Chainlink announces major industry milestone in a global corporate actions initiative with 24 of the world’s largest financial organizations, including Swift, DTCC, and Euroclear.

• Chainlink Co-Founder Sergey Nazarov delivers a keynote speech on how onchain standards can combine with existing systems/standards to create next-gen digital assets.

• Swift, DTCC, and Euroclear join Chainlink on a panel to discuss major insights, key outcomes, and next steps on the corporate actions industry initiative.

We are excited to announce a major industry milestone in a global corporate actions initiative led by Chainlink in collaboration with 24 of the world’s largest financial organizations, including Swift (@swiftcommunity), DTCC (@The_DTCC), and Euroclear (@EuroclearGroup).

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Corporate actions are a critical building block for public equity to operate successfully onchain. Building on the foundation established in the first phase of our industry initiative, we now have successfully demonstrated how the Chainlink platform, blockchains, and AI help solve one of finance’s most complex data challenges in a production-grade solution with unparalleled data accuracy, ISO 20022 messaging functionality via Swift, connectivity across DTCC AppChain as well as additional public and private blockchains, and much more.

🧵⬇️ Understanding the Corporate Actions Problem

Corporate actions events, such as dividends, stock splits, tender offers, and mergers, remain one of the most fragmented and operationally-intensive processes in global finance.

The inefficiencies in today’s corporate actions lifecycle result in:

• $58B in annual costs across the global financial system
• $34M average cost per event with 110K+ firm interactions
• 75% of institutions still manually revalidate data

Corporate actions are typically announced through human-readable formats like PDFs and press releases, then passed through custodians, brokers, fund managers, and data vendors before reaching investors.

Along this journey, the data is frequently modified, delayed, and inconsistently processed. Key challenges include confirmation delays of 24 to 48 hours, reliance on incomplete and non-standard formats, and the absence of a single verified source of truth.

Chainlink had a number of successful economic product launches this year:

💱 Payment Abstraction
🏦 Chainlink Reserve
🪙 Chainlink Rewards: Season Genesis
🔁 Chainlink Smart Value Recapture (SVR)

What these milestones mean for the broader Chainlink ecosystem 🧵↓ 1. Chainlink Payment Abstraction

Introduced earlier this year, Payment Abstraction enables users to pay for services in their preferred form of payment (onchain crypto or offchain fiat).

These fees are then programmatically converted to LINK via a DEX.

https://x.com/chainlink/status/1906678098688430270

JUST IN: The U.S. House has officially passed the GENIUS Act.

This is a historic moment for the crypto industry as GENIUS establishes the first clear regulatory framework for fiat-backed stablecoins in the world’s largest economy 🧵↓ Stablecoins are the most established onchain use case, with over $250 billion already onchain. They enable global access to the U.S. dollar with near-instant settlement, low fees, and 24/7/365 availability.

We’re excited to announce that Chainlink and @Mastercard have partnered to enable billions of cardholders to purchase crypto directly onchain.

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Chainlink verifies and synchronizes key transaction details to enable Mastercard holders to access crypto directly onchain.

This marks a major step forward in the mainstream adoption of Web3. Chainlink and Mastercard power the new @swapperfinance platform, with @ZeroHashX providing the onchain service and access to liquidity needed to convert fiat into crypto with seamless smart contract execution, alongside @Shift4, and @xswap_link, with liquidity sourced from @Uniswap.

Combining Mastercard’s global payments technology and Chainlink’s industry-standard infrastructure creates a secure user experience for billions 🧵 The Chainlink-powered Swapper Finance app is live today, enabling cardholders to purchase crypto directly onchain from decentralized exchanges.

Swapper Finance leverages XSwap, the leading DEX built out of the Chainlink ecosystem that uses the Chainlink standard for data and interoperability.

Explore: swapper.finance

Blockchain isn’t just for finance.

Tamper-proof recordkeeping, real-time transparency, & secure automation can help modernize a wide range of government and public sector operations.

Here are 10+ ways that blockchain can strengthen U.S. federal agencies 🧵↓ 1. Food & Drug Administration (FDA)

Secure Recordkeeping for Food Safety and Recalls

Food safety incidents can spread across a complex supply chain.

Blockchain can be used to log inspection dates, temperature records, & other key data at critical points in the food supply chain.

The world’s assets are moving onchain.

But what does the tokenization process look like?

Here’s a 7-step overview—and why Chainlink’s infrastructure is essential for the full tokenized asset lifecycle ↓ Step 1: Choose the asset.

First, asset issuers decide what they want to tokenize.

It can be real estate, bonds, in-game items, gold, or even trademarks.

If it has value, it can be tokenized.

We’re excited to announce Chainlink Payment Abstraction is officially live on mainnet, enabling user fees to be converted into LINK.

Network fees generated from Chainlink SVR—including @aave's usage of SVR—will now be converted to LINK.

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blog.chain.link/payment-abstra… Payment Abstraction is a cross-chain-enabled payment system that reduces payment friction in the Chainlink Network.

It allows users to pay for Chainlink services with the assets they already have (e.g., gas tokens), which are automatically converted to LINK via @Uniswap.

.@aave has officially integrated Chainlink SVR in a near-unanimous vote to recapture liquidation MEV, starting with an initial set of markets.

As the largest DeFi lending protocol, Aave is establishing a new standard in cryptoeconomics with SVR.



🧵⬇️ prnewswire.com/news-releases/… Chainlink Smart Value Recapture (SVR) is a novel oracle solution that enables DeFi apps to recapture the non-toxic MEV derived from their use of Chainlink Price Feeds.

SVR was built in collaboration with @bgdlabs, Flashbots, & @aave DAO contributors.

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Introducing the Multistream upgrade for Chainlink Data Streams.

One decentralized oracle network (DON) can now support 1000s of unique data points per second—a 1000x throughput increase.

We've also improved operations to allow Streams to be launched faster than ever before 🧵 Chainlink Data Streams is a pull-based oracle solution, where data's aggregated offchain at sub-second intervals & users can pull data onchain at any time.

This enables the creation of high-frequency DeFi apps secured by Chainlink’s decentralized low-latency data infrastructure.

Introducing Chainlink Smart Value Recapture (SVR)—a novel non-toxic MEV recapture solution for users of Chainlink Price Feeds.

The initial version was created in collaboration with @bgdlabs, Flashbots, and other contributors to the @aave DAO.

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blog.chain.link/chainlink-smar… Researchers in the Chainlink community have a long history of MEV research, including Fair Sequencing Services (FSS) & Protected Order Flow (PROF).

They've also examined how DeFi protocols can recapture the oracle-related MEV generated from their usage.

We're excited to announce the results of an industry-wide corporate actions initiative between Chainlink, Euroclear, Swift, & 6 financial institutions.

We successfully demonstrated how AI, oracles & blockchains can solve a decades-long unstructured data challenge in finance🧵⬇️ Read the full report below, which covers the solution design, key outcomes, participant insights, and the next phase of the initiative:
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1/ #Chainlink Data Streams is now live on @avax with @GMX_IO V2.

How Data Streams levels up GMX’s DeFi perps with high-throughput market data and automated execution 🧵
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2/ Data Streams offers next-gen speed while utilizing Chainlink’s credibly neutral oracle infrastructure.

The low-latency oracle solution enables GMX to deliver a seamless UX by providing unprecedented onchain execution speed and security. gmxio.substack.com/p/gmx-v2-is-no…

We’re excited to share the results of a new Smart NAV industry pilot between @The_DTCC, Chainlink, and 10 of the world’s largest financial institutions that delivered key mutual fund data onchain.

Full report:

The significance for fund tokenization 🧵 dtcc.com/dtcc-connectio…
Processing $2+ quadrillion annually, The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is the premier post-trade market infrastructure that provides clearing, settlement, asset servicing, data management, & trade reporting around millions of security transactions each day.

Ready for @DeveloperWeek?

Here's what #Chainlink is up to at the world's largest developer and engineering conference 🧵👇 🎙️ Talks

Join Chainlink Labs Developer Advocate Richard Gottleber on February 22 at 9:30AM PT for a skeptic's introduction to building on the blockchain: developerweek2024.sched.com/event/1aDVe

1/ Cross-chain security isn't a nice-to-have—it's a necessity for all chains and protocols that want to keep their user funds secure.

How CCIP achieves the highest level of security 🧵 2/ CCIP features multiple layers of decentralization and an independent Risk Management Network for verifying transactions, making it the only cross-chain interoperability protocol that reaches the highest level of cross-chain security.
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NEW INDUSTRY REPORT

This new case study showcases how ANZ Bank (@ANZ_AU)—one the world’s largest banks with $1+ trillion in total assets under management—successfully demonstrated cross-chain tokenized asset settlement with #Chainlink CCIP.

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Using the ANZ Digital Asset Services (DAS) portal along with CCIP as an abstraction layer, the case study demonstrated how ANZ customers could use CCIP to securely transfer ANZ-issued stablecoins cross-chain to purchase nature-based assets.

#Chainlink is pushing the boundaries of what's possible with NFTs, one oracle service at a time.

A thread on NFT innovation 🧵 When you think of #NFTs, you're probably envisioning something like a #CryptoPunk—a unique, 1-of-1 token with an image attached to its metadata that never changes.

This static format represents most NFTs today. But what else is possible with NFTs?

1/ What’s the real difference between Web2 and Web3?

Cryptographic truth.

🧵👇 2/ Web2 runs on centralized servers that leave you vulnerable.

You have to trust medical companies not to leak your personal details, online stores to protect your credit card info, and social media companies not to censor you.

1/ With the collapse of a once trusted exchange, an unprecedented number of users are migrating to self-custodial wallets.

However, risk still exists in #DeFi with entities like exchanges minting wrapped tokens.

#Chainlink Proof of Reserve is critical for reducing this risk. 2/ Powered by oracles, Chainlink Proof of Reserve enables the reliable and timely monitoring of reserve assets backing wrapped tokens within the DeFi space.

💵 Stablecoins
🌉 Bridged tokens
🏠 Real-world assets
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