- Arca recently shared a thread with X, which breaks down how ChainLink's infrastructure works, calling it the TCP/IP value.
- ChainLink has already secured a total of over $20 trillion, and was enabled in the first quarter of 2025 through a decentralized Oracle network.
Chain Link is the bridge between blockchain and the real world. This is a decentralized Oracle network that delivers directly to smart contracts directly to actual data, such as stock prices, weather updates, and even identity verification. This allows these contracts to actually accommodate real events and can be used for insurance payments, fair gameplay in blockchain-based games, accurate pricing of derivatives, and more.
In X's recent thread, Crypto analyst Arca states it in full. In other words, ChainLink may not only grow, but it may not even have a ceiling.
Core tools behind the link
ChainLink's infrastructure drives critical systems across the industry. From banks and governments to capital markets, insurance, gaming, artificial intelligence (AI), IoT, and even distributed financial finance (DEFI) and TRADFI, Links are the engines that connect real data to smart contracts. Whether it's checking prices, triggering payments, connecting off-chain information to blockchain logic, ChainLink is a bridge.
Arca further explained that ChainLink is middleware when it comes to data feeds. As CNF reported in a previous article, data feeds provide real-time information such as crypto prices and market rates directly to smart contracts. Secure calculations with ChainLink's distributed Oracle Networks (DONS) allow for off-chaining with highly reliable data processing. Cross-chain messaging enabled by the ChainLink Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) enables various blockchains to communicate and transfer data or assets securely.
Traders also mention real-world asset (RWA) tokenization. This ensures that trusted data entry, such as valuation, ownership, and location, is verifiably attached to the tokenized asset. Dynamic automation is achieved through tools such as ChainLink Automation. This allows you to execute contracts based on real-world triggers without manual input. ChainLink also strengthens reserve evidence to confirm centralized facilities such as Stablecoin publishers and custodians. Even KYC enforcement can be handled by providing identity verification data to SMART contracts via secure Oracle.
To give a perspective, he laid out the comparison. Think about how AWS will operate the $1.4 trillion cloud industry, how Visa will handle global payments worth $500 to $1 trillion, how Microsoft will control trillion dollars of corporate software, and how Palantir will manage sensitive government and corporate data worth $120 to $20 billion. Each of these giants owns a key part of our digital economy.
“Links? Touch and unify all these sectors. All blockchain = silos without chain links. All smart contract = blinds without data. All AI, banks, insurance companies, and GOV systems = disconnect without oracle. Next, ChainLink describes it as TCP/IP of Value, as it plays the same basic role as Web3 that TCP/IP did for the Internet.
Just as TCP/IP is allowed to allow websites, servers, and devices to communicate seamlessly across the web, ChainLink allows blockchains, banks, protocols, and real world systems to connect to shared data, agree and essentially “talk the same truth.” ChainLink's current prices have increased 4.08% over the past 24 hours and 0.33% over the past week.
