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Tech

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 LINK token surged in price.

Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov speaks at the project's SmartCon conference in Barcelona. (Chainlink)

Tech

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 how the platform evolves.

Lybra Finance launched its version 2 test network on Arbitrum Wednesday morning. (Getty Images)

Consensus Magazine

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)

Tech

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)

Markets

Bitcoin Breakout Toward $45K 'Imminent' Says Matrixport

Polygon's MATIC and Chainlink's LINK led altcoin gains Wednesday afternoon.

CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index (CoinDesk)

Markets

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.

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Markets

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)

Markets

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)

Finance

Vodafone, Chainlink Show Blockchain Can Support Global Trade Processes

The proof of concept enabled devices to act autonomously and produce accurate information to support trade document exchange, the companies said.

Cargo (Athanasios Papazacharias / Unsplash)

Markets

Large Crypto Trader's $7M LINK Deposits to Binance Signals Profit-Taking as Token Hits 17-Month High

LINK surged 9% to $11 Monday, posting one of the best monthly returns among large-cap cryptocurrencies with a 43% gain.

LINK price on Oct. 23 (CoinDesk)