You can multiply chains forever. You can carpet the world with execution layers. Blockchains themselves are adversarial. Each builds its own moat. But capital does not care about maximalist wars, it cares about connectivity. It cares about verifiable data, seamless transfers, and settlement finality. Block space is becoming a commodity. Anyone can spin up a chain, duplicate a VM, and inflate throughput. It is noise. What is scarce is coordination; truth flowing between silos, value moving across walls. $LINK connects adversaries, the neutral arbiter none of them can claim. That neutrality is its power. The fragmentation of blockchains mirrors the early internet: hundreds of protocols, all incompatible. What unified them was TCP/IP. @chainlink is building the TCP/IP of value transfer. The lesson of crypto history is that block space inflates. Narratives shift. But the need for trust, verification, and cross-chain alignment never goes away. Every bridge is a liability. $LINK becomes the arbiter of cross-chain truth. $LINK has positioned itself as the singular provider of those primitives. Its oracles are trusted across DeFi. Its messaging layer is becoming the default for institutions. SWIFT is not integrating with Chainlink because of hype. It is integrating because cross-chain messaging is the only way to connect capital markets to crypto rails. That connection will not be a feature. It will be the bloodstream of finance itself, animated by $LINK. They do not care which execution layer hosts them. They care about verification, settlement, and cross-chain liquidity. All of that routes through $LINK. The endgame is not chain wars. The endgame is unification above chains. The narrative of “multi-chain” is chaos. The reality of “orchestration” is order.