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So thank god for a voice of reason who gets it, so since the commodity announcement. LINK being a commodity the copy on chainlinks job postings states that there is equity grants just LINK. So every engineer , researcher and capital markets person is long on LINK and incentivized to route value capture to the token. Also their chief scientist Ari Juels specializes in researching incentives under adversarial conditions, so value capture is not just some half cocked marketing ploy for utility or governance but a game theoretic property that enables security. Many other legitimate tokens are scrambling to reconcile the bifurcation caused by have shareholders and tokenholders , but chainlink sidestepped this ethically by going full in on value capture for the token. Unfortunately there will be quarterly dumps until 2030 or so until they hit the supply cap of 1 billion tokens.

Swift is a just a cooperative for banks and has a €1.1 billion operating revenue, €1 billion in operating cost, thus only around ~€100 million total profit yearly. XRP has $70 billion marketcap and Chainlink has $5 billion marketcap. These two groups have been fighting with the narratives that XRP is going to replace Swift and LINK is going to be adopted by Swift for almost a decade now. None of this will happen but completely irrelevant if it ever did. Swift is essentially a non-profit and makes no money and there is no money to be made by this for these cryptos with massive marketcaps -- it's all just hype.

\> Literally using chainlink CCIP for the interoperability layer. \> bearish for LINK.

>it does **not** necessarily mean that the **LINK token** will be directly used or required by every bank transaction on Swift’s network You generated your post with AI and all link services require LINK to be paid directly to link node ops who complete the service.

From a crypto investment perspective, many analysts view this as making **Chainlink a key piece of infrastructure** for institutional blockchain connectivity. However, it does **not** necessarily mean that the **LINK token** will be directly used or required by every bank transaction on Swift’s network—the exact commercial use of LINK depends on how institutions deploy Chainlink’s services.

BTC and ETH are still the safest long-term bets in my opinion. Beyond those, I'd only allocate a small percentage to projects with real adoption and active development, like SOL or LINK. For a 10+ year horizon, survivability matters more than chasing the next 100x.

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The reason I like LINK is because it’s down significantly from its ATH, so I feel the downside risk is lower while the upside potential is still strong. It also has a real-world use case, which makes it more attractive as a long-term investment.