Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov speaks at the project's SmartCon conference in Barcelona. (Chainlink)
Chainlink Teams Up With Circle to Allow Cross-Chain Stablecoin Transfers
The integration allows developers to build cross-chain use cases via Chainlink's CCIP that involve multichain transfers of Circle's USDC stablecoin.
Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov speaks at the project's SmartCon conference in Barcelona. (Chainlink)

Sergey Nazarov Chainlink Co-founder (Chainlink Labs)
Chainlink Data Feeds Available on Polygon zkEVM
Developers building on Polygon’s zkEVM will be able to incorporate these data feeds into their on-chain applications.
Sergey Nazarov Chainlink Co-founder (Chainlink Labs)

Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov speaks at the project's SmartCon conference this week in Barcelona. (Chainlink)
Chainlink Staking Program Quickly Pulls in $600M, Hitting Limit; LINK Jumps 12%
The blockchain-oracle project's "v0.2" staking program expanded the capacity to 45M LINK tokens from 25M, and the portion reserved for the community quickly filled up. The LIN...
Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov speaks at the project's SmartCon conference this week in Barcelona. (Chainlink)

Lybra Finance launched its version 2 test network on Arbitrum Wednesday morning. (Getty Images)
Pyth Oracle Network Brings Industry Heavyweights Into Governance Post-Airdrop
The low-latency oracle network's new "strategic partners" include Castle Island Ventures, Multicoin Capital and Wintermute Ventures. They could play a major role in shaping ho...
Lybra Finance launched its version 2 test network on Arbitrum Wednesday morning. (Getty Images)

Sergey Nazarov (Mason Webb/CoinDesk)
Sergey Nazarov: The Crypto Oracle
Chainlink is where digital assets meet the real world, and Nazarov is predicting TradFi and crypto will become intertwined.
Sergey Nazarov (Mason Webb/CoinDesk)

"Oracle" projects like Pyth and Chainlink help to feed real-world data – such as asset prices – onto blockchain-based protocols and applications. (Unsplash)
The PYTH Airdrop Is Finally Here. But What Is Pyth Network?
Pyth Network's speed-focused oracle service aims to challenge Chainlink as the go-to data source for blockchain finance.
"Oracle" projects like Pyth and Chainlink help to feed real-world data – such as asset prices – onto blockchain-based protocols and applications. (Unsplash)

CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index (CoinDesk)
Bitcoin Breakout Toward $45K 'Imminent' Says Matrixport
Polygon's MATIC and Chainlink's LINK led altcoin gains Wednesday afternoon.
CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index (CoinDesk)

Chainlink (Tetra Images)
Grayscale Chainlink Trust Zooms to 200% Premium, Indicating Institutional Demand for LINK
The trust is one of the only ways for institutional investors to gain exposure to LINK tokens through a regulated product.
Chainlink (Tetra Images)

Crypto fund flows per week (CoinShares)
Crypto Funds See $767M Six-Week Inflow, Best Since 2021 Bull Market: CoinShares
Bitcoin funds attracted most of the demand, while ether funds saw their largest inflows since August 2022.
Crypto fund flows per week (CoinShares)

MATIC and LINK moved from FTX-related wallets (Arkham Intelligence)
FTX Moves Millions Worth of LINK, MATIC, AGLD to Coinbase as Sam Bankman-Fried Testifies
The latest transactions followed $19 million worth of crypto moved from FTX cold wallets to exchanges.
MATIC and LINK moved from FTX-related wallets (Arkham Intelligence)