/biz/ - Business & Finance

>announced the game-changing acquisition of DECO for confidential oracles (mentioned in recent JPM paper)
>Ari now on board as full time chief scientist, full R&D team also including Miller, Zhang, other ic3 and Harvard phds, working on staking, scalability/gas costs, data confidentiality, new whitepaper coming
>SmartContract soft rebranding as "Chainlink Labs" (new site), +30 open positions, incl. new senior legal counsel, financial analyst, China office, etc. job announcements talk about building a new website for customers side, nodes doubling by the end of the year (35>70), meaning t-sigs completion, onboarding of big providers like t-sys, etc. Linkpool and SDL also hiring to build grants-funded third party infrastructure.
>Wolpert said Baseline is in talks with +600 corporates, including another Big 4 firm besides EY, hints that Google will announce something link-related in the coming weeks (probably something deco-related), Baseline progress fast
>OpenLaw plug-in for Microsoft office so legal boomers can now draft linked contracts
>low-key partnerships announced like Oasis Labs (confidential txs), RSK (smart contracts on bitcoin), Armanino one of the top 25 US accounting firms, new startups like Teller (credit scores on chain, likely thanks to deco, for uncollaterized loans, ie the next big defi shift for aave and co, pushed by Framework 'midas touch' Ventures etc), Agoric (javascript smart contracts by js pioneers), Dindu app, farming insurance
>Framework launching its own Labs too, 8mil seed, to strengthen the whole link/aave/snx ecosystem
>BSN chinks hinting at big chink things
>SNX dropping its own oracles and going all in link this week (huge sign of confidence, loads of feeds coming)
>Arbitrum v2 soon, promises x100 eth scalability (through link nodes)
>bzx v2 mainnet this week relying on link, more defi flash loans hype, Celsius also on mainnet
>Eric/Rory mentioning how link has "1 year/5 years/20 years plans"