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What if the biggest mistake in crypto is valuing $LINK against crypto?
The real TAM is global finance, tokenized assets, payments, data, AI and every chain that needs to talk to anything else.
I broke down why the market may be thinking way too small 👇
youtu.be/HqkABKbp-i8
The real TAM is global finance, tokenized assets, payments, data, AI and every chain that needs to talk to anything else.
I broke down why the market may be thinking way too small 👇
youtu.be/HqkABKbp-i8
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Some obscure $2.3T regional lender called @WellsFargo just took a 2nd grant on last year’s provenance patent. Same off-chain feeds paying out on-chain. The rewrite cut everything but the oracle loop.
Worth reading what a bank keeps when it trims. $LINK
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Some obscure $2.3T regional lender called @WellsFargo just took a 2nd grant on last year’s provenance patent. Same off-chain feeds paying out on-chain. The rewrite cut everything but the oracle loop.
Worth reading what a bank keeps when it trims. $LINK
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@WellsFargo didn’t publish random NFT patents in 2025.
They published 3, in sequence.
Each solves a different layer of the same problem:
How to enforce identity, access, provenance, & payment in the physical world w/o trust.
That stack quietly assumes $LINK at every step.
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Tokenized deposits go live at this bank this fall on its own chain, “inter-chain connectivity” promised next.
And its freshest patent says the invention is watching off-chain feeds and paying when the rule hits.
The feeds are the product. Something delivers them. $LINK
Tokenized deposits go live at this bank this fall on its own chain, “inter-chain connectivity” promised next.
And its freshest patent says the invention is watching off-chain feeds and paying when the rule hits.
The feeds are the product. Something delivers them. $LINK
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@StateFarm @CapitalOne @chainlink @futureverse @USDOT @WellsFargo @QOMPLX @KryptonLabsHQ @jpmorgan @Nike @LightNWonder @Fidelity @Nahmii_io @sealance_io @Telefonica @SmartContract @nChainGlobal @TrofiVentures 8/13/26
Assignee: Joshua Combs
Computer-Implemented Method and System for Implementing Real-Time Royalty and Enforcing Real-Time Royalty Payments in a Blockchain Network.
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Assignee: Joshua Combs
Computer-Implemented Method and System for Implementing Real-Time Royalty and Enforcing Real-Time Royalty Payments in a Blockchain Network.
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New $LINK patent reference from 8/13/26.
This one is built to kill ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC.
Real-time music royalties.
Streamed second = paid second. No PROs, no quarterly checks, no middlemen.
Written directly into the spec: @chainlink
Let's read it. 👇
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@StateFarm @CapitalOne @chainlink @futureverse @USDOT @WellsFargo @QOMPLX @KryptonLabsHQ @jpmorgan @Nike @LightNWonder @Fidelity @Nahmii_io @sealance_io @Telefonica @SmartContract @nChainGlobal @TrofiVentures @BankofAmerica @1inch 10/22/26
Method and System for Gaming Random Number Generation
Assignee: Nan-Hsuan HSU
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Method and System for Gaming Random Number Generation
Assignee: Nan-Hsuan HSU
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The house always wins because the house controls the dice.
A patent published this week pulls the dice out of the operator’s code and seeds them with @chainlink VRF.
Slot machines. Fish-hunting cabinets. Loot drops.
Casino randomness just got an oracle. $LINK 🧵
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@StateFarm @CapitalOne @chainlink @futureverse @USDOT @WellsFargo @QOMPLX @KryptonLabsHQ @jpmorgan @Nike @LightNWonder @Fidelity @Nahmii_io @sealance_io @Telefonica @SmartContract @nChainGlobal @TrofiVentures @BankofAmerica @1inch 11/3/26
Authentication of Videos Using Blockchain
Assignee: @BankofAmerica
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Authentication of Videos Using Blockchain
Assignee: @BankofAmerica
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Some tiny, no-name, small-AUM outfit called @BankofAmerica just had a patent issued. Today. Deepfake defense for video, on a blockchain.
I threaded the application in August.
The USPTO just signed it, and the $LINK citations inside weren’t stripped. They were granted. 🧵👇
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Some tiny, no-name, small-AUM outfit called @BankofAmerica just had a patent issued. Today. Deepfake defense for video, on a blockchain.
I threaded the application in August.
The USPTO just signed it, and the $LINK citations inside weren’t stripped. They were granted. 🧵👇
Some tiny, no-name, small-AUM outfit called @BankofAmerica just had a patent issued. Today. Deepfake defense for video, on a blockchain.
I threaded the application in August.
The USPTO just signed it, and the $LINK citations inside weren’t stripped. They were granted. 🧵👇
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@BankofAmerica just published a patent for authenticating video with blockchain. Deepfake defense, filed Feb 2025.
Buried at [0101]: @chainlink, named as the rails for cross-chain verification.
BofA isn't ignoring $LINK.
Their engineers wrote it into the spec. 🧵🚨⚠️
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Why a bank patents this. Column 1: fraudsters deepfaking advisors on video calls to move client money.
BofA’s answer: hash it, chain it, let oracles carry proof between networks. Application in August. Grant in November.
$LINK isn’t waiting on adoption. It’s being issued.
Why a bank patents this. Column 1: fraudsters deepfaking advisors on video calls to move client money.
BofA’s answer: hash it, chain it, let oracles carry proof between networks. Application in August. Grant in November.
$LINK isn’t waiting on adoption. It’s being issued.
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Arca retweeted
🚨Still think YOUR chain is about to win?
Here are some clips from institutions talking about making their chains.
Let's just say, they are definitely gonna need @chainlink for that.
Here are some clips from institutions talking about making their chains.
Let's just say, they are definitely gonna need @chainlink for that.
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Back to Asheville we go! What an incredible couple of days. Huge thanks to the @chainlink team for putting on such an awesome event, and to all the Twitter friends I finally got to meet IRL. So glad we got a chance to connect.
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And special thanks to @TheLinkPanda for finding my purse 💅 and @rorypiant for organizing everything, including the run (which so many of you attended). 🙄
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