CitiBank Report: LINK May Eclipse BTC in Value $100 March 31st
... and you guys keep questioning the value of LINK ... LINK is quite simply the most critical infrastructure asset of our lifetime that major investment banks like CitiBank are beginning to realize the value of LINK and its mission critical data infrastructure services that will be required as THE STANDARD among smart contracts.
Chainlink May Gain Prominence Over Bitcoin
In the final sections of the report, the team at Citi explored the role played by Chainlink in the smart contract arena of blockchain technology by first pointing out that Chainlink was recognized by the World Economic Forum in its 100 most promising Technology Pioneers of 2020.
Furthermore, Chainlink has gone on to expand beyond the original Ethereum network by gaining adoption on other blockchains such as Tezos and Polkadot. As a result, the use of Chainlink technology could ultimately lead to the LINK token gaining prominence over Bitcoin as explained below.
Developers that utilize the Chainlink network pay with the protocol’s native token, LINK. Thus, a token that helps to facilitate the growth of the on-chain ecosystem may also gain prominence over Bitcoin in time as it becomes increasingly critical to the operation of the blockchain infrastructure.
It is thus already possible to envision a commerce-linked or infrastructure-linked coin that may eventually eclipse Bitcoin . More such possibilities may emerge. Innovation in the chain-based ecosystem is continuing apace and today’s offerings may yet give way to a new invention that garners more attention and assets than Bitcoin .
Source: en.ethereumworldnews...bitcoin-citi-report/
LINK is severely undervalued. Global data / infrastructure assets are worth nearly $12 Trillion in Equity value alone. When you add in the debt capital invested in global data infrastructure assets, we're talking easily about a $30 trillion asset class.
LINK is only worth $11 billion in market equity ... meaning it is valued at less than 3 one hundredths of total data economy.
Santander Bank estimates that middleware service providers - such as LINK - will save global corporations nearly $20 billion in annual cost savings. That's a number that will be saved IN PERPETUITY!
This means that middleware infrastructure assets like LINK should be valued at a minimum at the annual cost savings that will accrue to corporations!
"The opportunity to streamline clearing and settlement processes with the blockchain and smart contracts is immense. In 2015, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. (DTCC) processed more than $1.5 quadrillion worth of securities, representing 345 million transactions.10 Santander Bank’s innovation fund, Santander Innoventures, expects blockchain technology to lead to $15–20 billion in annual savings in infrastructure costs by 2022.11 Seven start-ups, retaining funding of more than $125 million, have platforms or services targeting this space: The list of more than 35 investors behind these companies is equally impressive; it includes not only major venture funds such as Khosla Ventures and SV Angel, but also large banks such as Citigroup , JP Morgan, and Santander, and other organizations such as NASDAQ and the DTCC itself.12
Wall Street has also been busy exploring this space. More than 40 global banks within the R3 consortium participated in testing that included clearing and settlement activity,13 and many of those banks have pursued further trials individually. The Australian Securities Exchange is also working on a smart contracts-based post-trade platform to replace its equity settlement system,14 and four global banks and the DTCC recently ran a successful trial of a smart contracts solution for post-trade credit default swaps."
Source: www2.deloitte.com/us...smart-contracts.html
Chainlink May Gain Prominence Over Bitcoin
In the final sections of the report, the team at Citi explored the role played by Chainlink in the smart contract arena of blockchain technology by first pointing out that Chainlink was recognized by the World Economic Forum in its 100 most promising Technology Pioneers of 2020.
Furthermore, Chainlink has gone on to expand beyond the original Ethereum network by gaining adoption on other blockchains such as Tezos and Polkadot. As a result, the use of Chainlink technology could ultimately lead to the LINK token gaining prominence over Bitcoin as explained below.
Developers that utilize the Chainlink network pay with the protocol’s native token, LINK. Thus, a token that helps to facilitate the growth of the on-chain ecosystem may also gain prominence over Bitcoin in time as it becomes increasingly critical to the operation of the blockchain infrastructure.
It is thus already possible to envision a commerce-linked or infrastructure-linked coin that may eventually eclipse Bitcoin . More such possibilities may emerge. Innovation in the chain-based ecosystem is continuing apace and today’s offerings may yet give way to a new invention that garners more attention and assets than Bitcoin .
Source: en.ethereumworldnews...bitcoin-citi-report/
LINK is severely undervalued. Global data / infrastructure assets are worth nearly $12 Trillion in Equity value alone. When you add in the debt capital invested in global data infrastructure assets, we're talking easily about a $30 trillion asset class.
LINK is only worth $11 billion in market equity ... meaning it is valued at less than 3 one hundredths of total data economy.
Santander Bank estimates that middleware service providers - such as LINK - will save global corporations nearly $20 billion in annual cost savings. That's a number that will be saved IN PERPETUITY!
This means that middleware infrastructure assets like LINK should be valued at a minimum at the annual cost savings that will accrue to corporations!
"The opportunity to streamline clearing and settlement processes with the blockchain and smart contracts is immense. In 2015, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. (DTCC) processed more than $1.5 quadrillion worth of securities, representing 345 million transactions.10 Santander Bank’s innovation fund, Santander Innoventures, expects blockchain technology to lead to $15–20 billion in annual savings in infrastructure costs by 2022.11 Seven start-ups, retaining funding of more than $125 million, have platforms or services targeting this space: The list of more than 35 investors behind these companies is equally impressive; it includes not only major venture funds such as Khosla Ventures and SV Angel, but also large banks such as Citigroup , JP Morgan, and Santander, and other organizations such as NASDAQ and the DTCC itself.12
Wall Street has also been busy exploring this space. More than 40 global banks within the R3 consortium participated in testing that included clearing and settlement activity,13 and many of those banks have pursued further trials individually. The Australian Securities Exchange is also working on a smart contracts-based post-trade platform to replace its equity settlement system,14 and four global banks and the DTCC recently ran a successful trial of a smart contracts solution for post-trade credit default swaps."
Source: www2.deloitte.com/us...smart-contracts.html
Comment:
The fundamental use case of LINK just continues to grow daily...
"Travala.com to Integrate Chainlink (LINK) for Payments at 2.2M+ Hotels Globally"
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"Travala.com to Integrate Chainlink (LINK) for Payments at 2.2M+ Hotels Globally"
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Comment:
$2k could be a potential target for LINK depending on adoption and integration. Once a firm like TSLA adopts LINK's oracle tech for mission critical autonomous driving ... LINK will be out of sight. SWIFT integration is happening a lot sooner than anyone realizes and yet it's not priced in. A lot of people will look quite lost when LINK rips their face in two.
My background is in Telecoms and Connectivity and LINK is without a doubt the most undervalued infrastructure asset globally currently. Telecom and data infrastructure assets are worth nearly $12 Trillion in value globally... LINK is only a teeny tiny $12 billion sliver and has massive room to grow due to its reach and adoption with 8 out of 10 DeFi projects relying on LINK's tech.
Additionally, LINK drives technological advancements that have unknown use cases which is where the real emergent value phenomenon occurs on the margins and has 2nd derivative impacts and feedback loops back into value. Buying LINK here is massive discount to its future value and LINK will begin to enter the mainstream investor consciousness at triple digits which is when in my view the mainstream realizes that the technology and mission critical infrastructure status and its relation to how smart contracts will work in the end is understood and then it will be a race to buy LINK before it hits quadruple digits.... Grayscale releasing the LINK Trust was instrumental and will continue to be instrumental for institutions to accumulate a major base as they wake up to the fact that LINK is necessary for the survival of nearly every blockchain to interoperate successfully with Legacy IT systems and with other digital blockchain protocols as well as frontier IoT devices not yet connected to the internet by the trillions of devices.
My background is in Telecoms and Connectivity and LINK is without a doubt the most undervalued infrastructure asset globally currently. Telecom and data infrastructure assets are worth nearly $12 Trillion in value globally... LINK is only a teeny tiny $12 billion sliver and has massive room to grow due to its reach and adoption with 8 out of 10 DeFi projects relying on LINK's tech.
Additionally, LINK drives technological advancements that have unknown use cases which is where the real emergent value phenomenon occurs on the margins and has 2nd derivative impacts and feedback loops back into value. Buying LINK here is massive discount to its future value and LINK will begin to enter the mainstream investor consciousness at triple digits which is when in my view the mainstream realizes that the technology and mission critical infrastructure status and its relation to how smart contracts will work in the end is understood and then it will be a race to buy LINK before it hits quadruple digits.... Grayscale releasing the LINK Trust was instrumental and will continue to be instrumental for institutions to accumulate a major base as they wake up to the fact that LINK is necessary for the survival of nearly every blockchain to interoperate successfully with Legacy IT systems and with other digital blockchain protocols as well as frontier IoT devices not yet connected to the internet by the trillions of devices.
LINK will be the big innovator in this space and will drive untold amounts of value and cost savings for corporations globally. LINK should be worth a min of $200 today