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LINKS: (That won't steal your links)
https://github.com/smartcontractkit/chainlink -the github
https://chainlink-docs.smartcontract.com/#installation -The ChainLink API documentation.
https://link.smartcontract.com/whitepaper -Whitepaper (Duh)
https://www.americanbanker.com/news/the-race-to-connect-smart-contracts-to-the-real-world American Banker [Financial Publication]
https://www.febelfin.be/sites/default/files/InDepth/smart-contracts.pd_.pdf - Capegemini report
https://image.slidesharecdn.com/worldeconomicforumtippingpoint2015blockchain41-170330211144/95/world-economic-forum-tipping-points-report-1-638.jpg?cb=1490908469 - World Economic Forum
https://www.gartner.com/doc/3698947/cool-vendors-blockchain-applications- - Garner Report
https://www.coindesk.com/swift-startup-winner-demos-smart-contract-trade-5-financial-firms/ - Barclays, BNP Paribas, Fidelity, Societe Generale and Santander test out Chainlink
https://twitter.com/addyching/status/919995073990979591 - SIBOS updates
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Additional Information:

I have seen a lot of FUD lately surrounding ChainLink and a lot of people losing faith. While everyone is waiting for news to drop, here is what we know about ChainLink as of now.

PARTNERS:
Here are some names of companies that ChainLink is working with, or at the VERY least has contacts with.

SWIFT: This one should be obvious to everyone by now. They just gave a working demo for SWIFT at SIBOS. They even state on the smartcontract website that they are indeed WORKING WITH SWIFT. The cheeky bastards even have SWIFT subtely underlined, as shown here:
https://imgur.com/a/UcnTf

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SONY & AXA: We all know who SONY is. Axa is the largest holder of financial derivatives in the world. It's a trillion dollar market. All three parties have signed a smart contract that deals with varying levels of insurance coverage depending on firewall uptime on May 9th 2016, viewable here:

https://create.smartcontract.com/#/contracts/317764c5bf532e8b33572b6e77ae2133
https://imgur.com/a/uzRH1


FACTOM: Factom and ChainLink have been working together since 2016. You can view Factom's announcement about it here:

https://www.factom.com/blog/smartcontract-factom-announce-collaboration
https://imgur.com/a/Lf6vr


CONFIDO: A new company that is using ChainLink to pull shipping data from off-chain. See following website about this here:

http://confido.io/
https://imgur.com/a/7Visz
Short video explaining how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SX0buv4bCc [Embed]

MICROSOFT: This one is a bit of speculation, but let's take a look.
https://imgur.com/a/VLmP0

In this video, Sergey states that they are indeed "working with Microsoft..." on the development of their cryptlets at 46:13 (Link below)

https://youtu.be/ytv8U0bejPA?t=2773 [Embed]

If you feel like reading up on what it actually is, then check the link below and scroll down to "Bletchley Introduces Cryrplets, which is a "Secure Blockchain Middleware into their architecture"

https://github.com/Azure/azure-blockchain-projects/blob/master/bletchley/bletchley-whitepaper.md

Also, an article stating that Microsoft recently joined Cornell, who is a ChainLink partner as stated on the Smartcontract website.

https://www.coindesk.com/microsoft-joins-cornell-blockchain-research-group/

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DATA USED FROM BANKS AT SIBOS DEMO: Now keep in mind that these banks are NOT announced partners, but ChainLink has used them for their POC in their demo at SIBOS:

Barclays
BNP Paribas
Fidelity
Societe Generale
Santander

https://www.coindesk.com/swift-startup-winner-demos-smart-contract-trade-5-financial-firms/?utm_content=buffer4ffb0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

COMMON FUD: I have seen a lot of the same FUD repeated on 4chan, lets take a look and see if we can dispell some of this shall we.

The big one that seems to be going around now is an old picture from a completely different presentation that Sergey is giving in what appears to be a small room. Here is the floor plan for the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, showing that the largest room is where the SWIFT presentations are in. (The room is actually next to restrooms though KEK)

https://imgur.com/a/4dSj4

"THEY ARE USING A SHITTY ERC20 TOKEN" : The token is only used to incentivize NODE operators. ChainLink itself can operate on the BTC blockchain, Ethereum blockchain, AND Hyperledger, as stated on the smartcontract website.

"THIS IS A PUMP AND DUMP SHITCOIN" : The developers have been working on ChainLink for over 3 and a half YEARS now. They haven't made any hype surrounding it or posted any skateboard pics. The largest wallets holding LINK have mostly not moved since ICO or are acquiring more LINK tokens. If this were a pump and dump they would be hyping the shit out of this coin and dumping it on us. This is clearly not the case.

"THE TEAM ONLY HAS 2 DEVS": This is true. However, they clearly already have a working product that is on their website, which they have already demo'd in front of a large crowd at SIBOS today. ChainLink is already a working product, unlike a lot of other shitcoins with a much higher market cap.

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RECAP:

So let's recap, ChainLink is working with or at the VERY LEAST have contact with the following companies/organizations:

-SWIFT
-Gartner
-Cornell
-World Economic Forum
-Sony
-Axa
-Microsoft
-Factom
-Confido

Is their any pie that ChainLink doesn't have their fingers in? Their tech is literally revolutionary. Smart contracts are fucking useless without being able to pull real world data from off-chain. This coin is already 4x up from ICO price without them even releasing any news yet. It is brand new and still in it's infancy. Do not let these 4chan biztards FUD you into selling a fucking goldmine.

If they release an announcement stating all of their partners + exchange listings, this thing will be the

BIGGEST. COIN. EVER

Let this sink in for a moment. I'll wait.


BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE!! ! ! !

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Ari Juels is a faculty member at the Jacobs Institute at Cornell Tech. He co-authored
this work in his separate capacity as an advisor to SmartContract ChainLink Ltd., in
which he has a financial interest. In 2004, MIT’s Technology Review Magazine named Dr. Juels one of the world’s top 100 technology innovators under the age of 35. Computerworld honored him in its “40 Under 40” list of young industry leaders in 2007. He has received other distinctions, but sadly no recent ones acknowledging his youth. - (http://www.arijuels.com/))
Chainlink was selected by the World Economic Forum's Tipping Point report as the "Shift in Action" for Smart Contracts, for their work on allowing smart contracts in the Bitcoin network to be automatically triggered by external data. -
(https://image.slidesharecdn.com/worldeconomicforumtippingpoint2015blockchain41-170330211144/95/world-economic-forum-tipping-points-report-1-638.jpg?cb=1490908469))

Chainlink is partnered with Cornell's IC3, to help launch the first Intel SGX secured link between smart contracts and external data. This more secure way of running an oracle is the future and they're glad to be moving it forward.
- (https://create.smartcontract.com/#/contracts/cc3ea3c76b5a60f171e0eaf223146f34?tab=info))


Chainlink has been chosen as a 2017 Blockchain Applications Cool Vendor by Gartner. This validates the value that CTOs and CIOs see in our more secure approach to connecting smart contracts with critical external resources. - (https://www.gartner.com/doc/3698947/cool-vendors-blockchain-applications-))

Chainlink is presently working with SWIFT on their own SWIFT Smart Oracle. Allowing smart contracts on various networks to make payments, send governance instructions, and release collateral with over 11,000 banks. - (https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/HJglipax9KmMPx))

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LMao literally this desperate for people to buy your bags

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SWIFT's premier blockchain project consists of two main pillars:
1) Distributed Ledger Tech or DLT (basically a blockchain)
2) Smart contracts

Smart contracts are meant to bridge the gap between external data and blockchains.

SWIFT is pretty far along with the first pillar (DLT), but has nothing at all yet for smart contracts; except for Smartcontract.com/Chainlink of course.

The "gpi" thing in OP's pic is a global payments initiative, and the third phase of gpi also involves DLT and related options.
This may very well include Smartcontract.com/Chainlink, of course; but the partnership is still in its infancy.

>SWIFT's premier blockchain project consists of two main pillars:
Source: https://www.swift.com/node/39911

Very first line of that SWIFT document:
>Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and Smart Contracts (SC) promise to transform automation in the financial industry, and are generating huge interest amongst financial institutions and technology providers.

Nicely outlines the two main parts as listed above: (1) DLT and (2) Smart Contracts.


Massive consulting firms like Capgemini are devoting entire reports to smart contracts, specifically mentioning Smartcontract.com (= Chainlink) and Sergey Nazarov by name as the sole smart contract solution that can use external data thanks to oracles.
Source: https://www.febelfin.be/sites/default/files/InDepth/smart-contracts.pd_.pdf

Excerpts:
>Sometimes, external inputs such as prices, performance, or other real-world data may be required to process a transaction, and oracle services help smart contracts with inputs such as these.

you forgot

>Sergay got AIDS in Canada and LINK will be disbanded
also
>banks will put supercomputers ON every City and make LINK obsolete