Chainlink reaches commercial milestone as enterprise adoption drives revenue into the Chainlink Reserve system.
Key developments:
- Payment Abstraction converts both offchain enterprise revenue and onchain fees into LINK tokens
- Strategic reserve accumulates LINK using revenue from large enterprise adoptions
- System creates sustainable funding cycle for network growth
LINK token utility expands across five areas:
- Service payments for oracle data and interoperability
- Simplified payment options through abstraction layer
- Strategic reserve building from enterprise deals
- Network security through staking mechanisms
- Rewards program for active ecosystem participation
Smart Value Recapture milestone: Over $1.1M recaptured from liquidation MEV, processing $32M+ in transactions with 80%+ recapture rates.
The Reserve demonstrates how enterprise adoption directly supports network sustainability and growth.
Enterprise adoption → Revenue Revenue → LINK LINK → Chainlink Reserve
Why launch the Chainlink Reserve now? @SergeyNazarov explains, stating that Chainlink reached "a commercial milestone in terms of adoption and a technical milestone in how revenue from adoption can be put back into the system."
Chainlink economics continues to expand and scale as network adoption grows. As the native token of the Chainlink Network, LINK is integral to the network’s long-term security, growth, and sustainability. Here are five ways in which LINK is actively used today:
Offchain revenue 🤝 Chainlink Reserve 🤝 Onchain revenue Institutional adoption → Offchain deal revenue → Chainlink Reserve
Chainlink Smart Value Recapture (SVR) has officially recaptured over $1.1M in non-toxic liquidation MEV and processed over $32M in liquidations. SVR is a novel oracle solution that enables DeFi protocols like @aave to recapture oracle-related MEV from liquidations that would
Revenue → Payment Abstraction → LINK → Reserve @SergeyNazarov on how Payment Abstraction powers the Chainlink Reserve ↓
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 🧵↓
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