Bitcoin price on February 5 (CoinDesk)
Bitcoin Slips Towards $42K as Interest Rates Soar; Chainlink's LINK Defies Crypto Slump
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell reiterated his hawkish stance on rate cuts in a Sunday interview, weighing on risk assets.
Bitcoin price on February 5 (CoinDesk)

Buying the dip. (Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)
Bitcoin Floats Above $43K as 'Buy The Dip' Sentiment Prevails
Buying on dips remains the dominant tactic in the crypto market, one trader said.
Buying the dip. (Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Chainlink's LINK Token Notches 22-Month High
Chainlink's LINK Token Notches 22-Month High
Chainlink's (LINK) surged to a 22-month high on Friday, ending a three-month bull breather for the token of the leading decentralized oracle network. This comes as the CoinDes...
Chainlink's LINK Token Notches 22-Month High

LINK's price (CoinDesk)
Chainlink's LINK Token Taps 22-Month High of $18, Ending Three-Month Breather
Analysts consider LINK as the safest bet to profit from the tokenization narrative.
LINK's price (CoinDesk)

Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov speaks at the project's SmartCon conference in Barcelona. (Chainlink)
Chainlink Teams Up With Circle to Allow Cross-Chain Stablecoin Transfers
The integration allows developers to build cross-chain use cases via Chainlink's CCIP that involve multichain transfers of Circle's USDC stablecoin.
Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov speaks at the project's SmartCon conference in Barcelona. (Chainlink)

Sergey Nazarov Chainlink Co-founder (Chainlink Labs)
Chainlink Data Feeds Available on Polygon zkEVM
Developers building on Polygon’s zkEVM will be able to incorporate these data feeds into their on-chain applications.
Sergey Nazarov Chainlink Co-founder (Chainlink Labs)

Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov speaks at the project's SmartCon conference this week in Barcelona. (Chainlink)
Chainlink Staking Program Quickly Pulls in $600M, Hitting Limit; LINK Jumps 12%
The blockchain-oracle project's "v0.2" staking program expanded the capacity to 45M LINK tokens from 25M, and the portion reserved for the community quickly filled up. The LIN...
Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov speaks at the project's SmartCon conference this week in Barcelona. (Chainlink)

Lybra Finance launched its version 2 test network on Arbitrum Wednesday morning. (Getty Images)
Pyth Oracle Network Brings Industry Heavyweights Into Governance Post-Airdrop
The low-latency oracle network's new "strategic partners" include Castle Island Ventures, Multicoin Capital and Wintermute Ventures. They could play a major role in shaping ho...
Lybra Finance launched its version 2 test network on Arbitrum Wednesday morning. (Getty Images)

Sergey Nazarov (Mason Webb/CoinDesk)
Sergey Nazarov: The Crypto Oracle
Chainlink is where digital assets meet the real world, and Nazarov is predicting TradFi and crypto will become intertwined.
Sergey Nazarov (Mason Webb/CoinDesk)

"Oracle" projects like Pyth and Chainlink help to feed real-world data – such as asset prices – onto blockchain-based protocols and applications. (Unsplash)
The PYTH Airdrop Is Finally Here. But What Is Pyth Network?
Pyth Network's speed-focused oracle service aims to challenge Chainlink as the go-to data source for blockchain finance.
"Oracle" projects like Pyth and Chainlink help to feed real-world data – such as asset prices – onto blockchain-based protocols and applications. (Unsplash)