I remember a couple years ago how the chainlink hype was built off the confidence that this space was going somewhere and smart contract adoption was inevitable, following the EEA and enterprise interest, big firms and enterprise people entering the space etc
Consensys is still bleeding money and tightening the belt, fired 100 people last month (15% of its staff) and abandoned Kaleido - which was supposed to be their big shot Blockchain as a Service platform to onboard big businesses to use ethereum and their other services like Openlaw. It turns out they're not generating any business, enterprises are simply not interested in blockchain it seems and all the EEA stuff was always just a sham. Now Kaleido is opening itself up to Corda to try to remain relevant but it's pretty obvious they'll just quietly go bankrupt and shut down in a couple of years. Remember Clovyr too? Haven't heard of them forever, despite supposedly being the other big BaaS competitor, by the former JPM blockchain roastie... Keep seeing the same patterns, like Masters also leaving DA and DA firing staff and pivoting to DAML, going nowhere... AXA shut down Fizzy quietly, there's been zero adoption of smart contracts in the insurance field, and on the legal side Openlaw is also not seeing any adoption besides worthless eth community meme like the LAO, meanwhile Accord's law firms haven't done anything besides a couple of unused prototypes, and now they pivoted to """digital contracts""" ie non blockchain related dumb contracts. And JPM itself abandoning Quorum, letting Consensys have it... But just like Kaleido, Consensys won't manage to do anything with it. Baseline is their last hype attempt, let's see what happens but seems like a lot of fluff and not much results. Wolpert supposed to unveil big partners soon, we'll see.
https://www.coindesk.com/r3-corda-partners-with-kaleido-after-ethereum-startup-spins-out-of-consensys
https://www.coindesk.com/new-layoffs-hit-ethereum-incubator-consensys