/biz/ - Business & Finance

Biz and link threads are boring as shit these days so I'm going to spoon fed you a little bit.

Web3 will be big. A lot of surprises. Chainlink is organizing its own event. There will multiple keynotes and tech demos from all the various parts of the ecosystem. Linkpool will unveil its node marketplace and CLC will showcase their Honeycomb marketplace. In case you do not understand the implications: after web3, the network will be open to any node, and any node will be free to service any type of data. This is the decentralized and third party part of the network going live.

There will be a panel for node operators. Jonny from linkpool has already announced, others will announce soon.
There will be a panel for data providers. CLC will be talking, other guests will announce soon.
There will be a panel for blockchain platforms. Hedera already announced, other guests will announce soon. Probably Polkadot and Eth2 representatives.
Expect other panels. Smart contract devs, etc.

Linkpool holders may have noticed they're getting new profits that's not coming from the heartbeat. Linkpool has already started on boarding node operators on its marketplace. You can check the etherscan addresses. Some of them are known nodes already listed by chainlink, but there's also an unknown node. This could be the first neet node to get jobs on mainnet.

For those still wondering if linkpool will be the only option to stake their stacks, all the other chainlink listed nodes will also be providing pool staking. Some of them are also discussing Node as a service offerings. Listed node operators are already busy building new adapters. As the list keeps growing, so will the various contributions to the ecosystem.

And in case you missed it, LP announced that any node listed on their marketplace will have a plug and play option to enable anyone to stake with them - lp lending their audited pooling contract to any node, for a small fee. This means 100s of easy to implement staking pools.