Chainlink Founder: Crypto Hodlers have NO IDEA what comes next
Published: 2025-11-06
Status:
Analyzed
Published: 2025-11-06
Status:
Analyzed
Predictions from this Video
Incorrect: 2
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The Clarity Act (market structure bill) has a 70-80% chance of passing before the US 2026 midterms.
"before midterms? Yeah, I think it's more than 50%. I think we're in like the 70 80% realm. Uh I do see the the White House actively, you know, pushing to to make things happen... before the midterms I can see it at 70%. Maybe more, 80%. I can see it for sure. There's a lot of political will."
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If future regulation is implemented via on-chain contracts, demand for smart contracts and oracle systems will significantly increase.
"what all this regulation will do if it if it happens through onchain contracts is it'll skyrocket the demand for the contracts and the oracle systems that power those contracts."
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The Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRA) will massively simplify smart contract development, leading to a boom in blockchain innovation, new use cases, and institutional contracts, significantly reducing development time and cost (e.g., from 10 engineers for 10 months to 1 engineer for 1 month).
"what this should do is the same thing that JavaScript uh did for the internet and what the EVM did for tokenization in our industry is that it should massively simplify the process of building smart contracts... then we should see a boom in innovation right we should see a large amount of new new blockchain use cases new smart contracts new institutional contracts that were easy for people to build and launch on CR that would have taken them 10 engineers and you know 10 months but now it takes two engineers and two months and then we want to get it down to you know one engineer in one"
Pending
The forthcoming boom in smart contracts, particularly institutional ones, will create a rapidly growing category of developer and IT jobs.
"as the smart contract and institutional smart contract boom happens, it'll be, you know, a really booming growing category of of developer jobs and kind of jobs for for IT folks in general."
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Chainlink's private smart contracts and confidential compute will unlock significant institutional capital, identity, and compliance applications to flow on-chain.
"It's really going to unlock I think a lot of identity. It's going to unlock a lot of compliance. It's going to unlock a lot of institutional capital that can flow on chain."
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Tokenization of real-world assets (stocks, bonds, funds, equity, real estate) will go mainstream and lead to the formation of associated on-chain markets in 2026.
"So you know it's next year... I think I think next year is very possible... I think we're kind of at the point where the assets are going to go unchained and you're going to start seeing the formation of these markets next year."
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Even if the market structure bill (Clarity Act) does not pass, the pro-crypto SEC and CFTC will provide regulatory clarity through guidance and rulemaking, accelerating the issuance of tokenized assets on-chain.
"if the if the market structure bill doesn't doesn't go through, then we'll be in a world where the SEC and the CFTC have to create guidance clarity through guidance and through rulem instead of legislation, which they will... the very pro- crypto SEC and CFTC will create guidance and clarity and and rulemaking. They create rules which which I think will also accelerate the um you know issuance of these assets on chain."
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Within five years (by November 2030), DeFi will be significantly larger and become the primary area for innovation in the financial system.
"In another five years, we'll be looking at a world, I think, where DeFi is much bigger than it is today. I think DeFi will be the innovation area of the financial system."
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Institutional capital, driven by client demand for higher yields, will flow into DeFi, potentially increasing its size by 10x 'overnight'.
"the capital into that stuff will come from these institutions because their clients have all the money... that will 10x Defi overnight if that happens"
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Within five years (by November 2030), the institutional, DeFi, and traditional financial worlds will merge into a unified blockchain-based financial system, with cryptocurrencies classified as commodities.
"I think the institutional world and the DeFi world and the non-blockchain world and the blockchain world will just merge just become it'll be just be the financial system... cryptocurrency will be classified as like a commodity or something and it'll go in the commodity part of the global financial system and the global financial system will run on blockchains, smart contracts, oracle networks and it'll be very complex... in five years"
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