Excited to see our industry reaching new heights and getting global adoption from governments because of the fundamental value that our technology provides. The GENIUS Act is a huge step forward for stablecoins, forming the basis of on-chain payments for retail users in both highly developed and emerging markets. With even more fiat value now going on-chain, we are now off to the next stage of our industry's development, a Real World Asset (RWA) Tokenization boom phase. I'm excited and grateful to be at the white house today to witness the historic signing of the GENIUS Act into law by the president. This administration is doing amazing things for our industry and we should all be very grateful for how supportive they are being. Thank you @realDonaldTrump, the U.S. Congress and the U.S. Senate for supporting our industry at this critical time.

Excited to see the Chainlink Standard getting adopted across multiple financial ecosystems, various chains, many high value use cases and the top institutions. The future of the global financial system is on-chain and the on-chain world has to have a globally adopted set of standards for how on-chain transactions reliably work, both inside a country's financial ecosystem and across countries, to create the new global financial system.

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

Was very excited about this thoughtful conversation with Jonathan Ehrenfeld, Head of Strategy at Swift. I think it clearly showcases the large benefits of Swift as a private key signing infrastructure, financial standards organization and network for routing key financial messages/information across the capital markets, among many other key services it already provides. It is clear to me that for our industry to go to the next stage, we need to make sure that blockchains become compatible with the existing financial system. Chainlink has a key role to play in making that happen, by simplifying the connectivity of those traditional data, payment and compliance systems into all blockchains, as well as the connectivity of those blockchains between each other. There will continue to be more and more critical data, identity, payment, compliance and other key systems to be integrated into and across blockchains securely, which I feel Chainlink is in a unique position to address in ways no other system can. You can hear my and Jon's views in the full podcast here:

Stablecoin regulation in the US will kick off a wave of new stablecoins in the US and all over the world. They will all need proof of reserves and cross-chain connectivity to be used as a source of payment for the growing digital asset economy and tokenized funds. Chainlink is the only platform that provides proof of reserves and cross-chain connectivity in one system. This is before we look at the need for on chain identity and the ability to use stablecoins as a form of payment with minimal friction when fulfilling compliance requirements. Chainlink will then be the only platform to provide proof of reserves, cross-chain connectivity and on-chain identity/compliance in a single system. As the complexity of blockchain transactions grows with more data, connectivity, compliance and other requirements, Chainlink will be being built as the only platform that can fulfill all those requirements in a single unified system of transactional standards. All of these Chainlink capabilities can then be easily configured, deployed and managed in one piece of workflow code on CRE. So you're getting all the services you need to prove reserves, connect across chains, solve compliance/identity issues and manage all this complexity with a single piece of code, in one system.

Really excited about Chainlink being used to connect JP Morgan's private chain together with Ondo's public chain for Delivery vs Payment of Ondo's tokenized treasuries product in exchange for cash payment on the JP Morgan Kinexys chain. This is using the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE), which allowed this connection to happen quickly, securely and in a way that met the compliance needs of large institutions. Looking forward to moving this forward and enabling even more collaboration between large capital market institutions with great solutions like Kinexys Payments and leading public chain/DeFi team's like Ondo.

I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to have been invited to attend the Crypto Summit at the @WhiteHouse today. It was a great event that had some of the top leaders in our industry in attendance, all of whom got the chance to share their views on the crypto reserve, regulation, legislation and the overall strategy for how our industry will be able to evolve in the United States financial system. Since the US financial system is the world's leading financial system and many other financial systems follow its lead, this was a truly historic day for our industry. Having the most senior members of the cabinet that cover these topics, the Secretary of the Treasury @SecScottBessent and the Secretary of Commerce @howardlutnick attending the event and actively participating before we were joined by @POTUS says a lot about the US's new found commitment to cryptocurrencies, blockchains and its own evolution as a financial system using our industry's approach. Having top legislators that have been supporting our industry for many years like Congressional Whip Tom Emmer/@GOPMajorityWhip and Digital Asset Subcommittee Chair Bryan Steil/@RepBryanSteil also in the room showed a clear alignment between the executive and the legislative branch. The executive branch and legislative branch working together to get our industry adopted by the US financial system is very important. After this summit and my recent trips to DC it has become clear to me that the large macroeconomic effects of our industry on the US financial system makes it not only a bipartisan issue but possibly even a nonpartisan issue that is obviously in both parties interests because it is clearly in the US's overall interests. This level of cooperation between both parties of the house and senate greatly accelerates our industry's ability to gain entirely new laws and regulations. It may actually be one of the most cooperative issues in the legislative process right now. I am also very impressed by the intelligence, commitment and deep industry understanding of the people that the @realDonaldTrump has chosen to plan things out for our industry from the executive branch; @DavidSacks and @BoHines are both knowledgeable about our industry and clearly very committed to helping it reach an entirely new level of adoption. They are helping bring together the most senior members of the US government to reorient the US financial system towards our industries technologies as the future. They did a great job on this summit and are doing many other great things for our industry's future as well. It is clear to me that @realDonaldTrump has chosen our industry as a critical component of his plans for the US economy. In the attached video you can clearly see him saying "I thought it was very important that we stay in the front of this one, this is a big one" in response to points about how our industry is leading to the evolution of the global financial system. As an industry we are all immensely lucky that this is now the approach that US's executive branch has towards our industry. Thank you. There were many comments made during the summit by various top industry leaders, but I found @ZachWitkoff's comments about the need to create regulatory clarity that makes all existing US institutions comfortable enough to participate in our industry, particularly insightful. I personally think that what he and the team at @worldlibertyfi are building is at the next level of DeFi and will be in a good position to take advantage of this next iteration/evolution of the US financial system.

Excited to be in DC this week. Many meetings with top legislators like Congressman Tom Emmer and great advocates for our entire industry from the executive branch like Bo Hines. I am seeing an entirely different level of interest about how to modernize the US financial system to make it the preferred place to generate digital assets/RWAs and make the US financial system a leading force in Web3. I have always been interested in how to make a better global financial system and do believe that the technology created by the Chainlink community can help both the US and the world arrive at a better version of the financial system. Right now we are still at the stage where building the foundational infrastructure that creates a more tamper-proof/fair, reliable and transparent financial system is a key step that is still in motion and which the US can become a global leader in. Excited to meet with more great folks in DC to see how we can make this happen.

We do not choose the times we live in, all we can do is choose how we respond to them. Technology gives us new and better ways to respond to old challenges that may have previously been impossible to solve. Cryptographic guarantees are a way we can solve many old challenges.

Great work by @Everipedia and @AP in making US election data secured and available on-chain, across multiple chains, through #Chainlink. Election data can now be utilized in blockchain prediction markets: