Episode Details

E135: Chainlink CoFounder: Why Crypto Needs Wall Street to Go Mainstream
8/21/2025
When Shift Happens Podcast β†—

Key Insights

Bullish:

  • 🟒 $LINK - Chainlink is positioned as a crucial platform for enabling next-generation smart contracts, connecting global transactions into an 'Internet of contracts' that can mathematically guarantee various relationships and transactions.
    • β€œChainlink is a platform for enabling next generation smart contracts that connect all of the world's transactions into a single Internet of contracts where you and me can mathematically guarantee our relationship, whether that's a banking relationship, whether that's a trading relationship, whether that's a insurance relationship, whether it's a purchase of concert tickets.” - Sergey (1:12:12)
    • β€œSo there's other companies now building on those standards, and every additional company that builds the infrastructure and a service on those standards drives more and more adoption of the standards. Right? And and and that's where I think Chainlink is gonna excel” - Sergey (1:44:00)
  • 🟒 $DEFI - πŸ”’
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  • 🟒 $MA - πŸ”’
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  • 🟒 $CRYPTO - πŸ”’
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Bearish:

  • πŸ”» $FIAT - πŸ”’
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