Most people’s mental model of Chainlink $LINK is completely wrong They think of oracles as being like ‘sidecars’ attached to the side of a blockchain, simply injecting price data Hence, in their mind, Chainlink is “just an oracle” (i.e., who cares) A more complete mental model is that Chainlink is the global orchestration layer that sits above and across all blockchains and external systems A unified and modular platform that enables organizations to create advanced business workflows that span any number of blockchains, existing legacy systems, and oracle services All powered by a decentralized runtime environment (CRE) that provides an infinite amount of configurability This is how institutions adopt blockchains, not by betting on specific chains, but integrating with a global platform that provides them access to any public/private chain While blockchains fiercely compete amongst each other to become the transactional database layer, Chainlink wins regardless of which chains are used For Chainlink, every new blockchain introduced to the market is all the more justification for why organizations need Chainlink as their orchestration layer to manage the complexity That’s why financial market infrastructures like Swift, DTCC, Euroclear, and more have adopted Chainlink, they understand the financial system needs an orchestration layer Today, developers build on blockchains and plug into Chainlink In the future, developers will build on Chainlink and plug into blockchains That’s why Chainlink is the most indispensable protocol in crypto