Hassan Maishera
Chainlink announced on Thursday that Lido, the largest liquid staking protocol, chose Chainlink CCIP as its official cross-chain infra to secure $20B in wstETH.
In its analysis, Lido discusses how Chainlink CCIP delivers strong decentralization, native safeguards, and issuer control as default protocol-level guarantees, which insulates wstETH from a number of attack vectors behind the Kelp / LayerZero exploit.
This decision was made last November by the Network Expansion Committee, with CCIP securing wstETH via 16 independent node operators, native rate limiting, and no vendor lock-in over token contracts.
Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and a market leader powering the majority of decentralized finance (DeFi). Chainlink stands to benefit most from emerging blockchain industry trends, such as stablecoin adoption, real-world asset tokenization, and institutional adoption of blockchain technology.
Chainlink is powered by the LINK token, which is used to pay for platform services and secure the network’s proper functioning. Chainlink leverages a novel fee model where offchain and onchain revenue from enterprise adoption is converted to LINK tokens and stored in a strategic Chainlink Reserve.
Chainlink is at the forefront of financial innovation and the global tokenization trend. Traditional financial institutions and infrastructure, such as SWIFT, DTCC, Euroclear, J.P. Morgan, Mastercard, the Central Bank of Brazil, UBS, SBI, Fidelity International, ANZ, and many others, are adopting Chainlink as a fundamental infrastructure as they move toward tokenizing trillions onchain. Demand for Chainlink has already generated hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue across a variety of traditional and decentralized use cases.
Chainlink Network (LINK) aims to provide tamper-proof inputs and outputs of data for smart contracts on any blockchain. LINK is down 0.1% over the past 24 hours, trading at $10.29.
