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Chainlink Timeline Overview

A chronological overview of key Chainlink developments, milestones, announcements and integrations from project inception to the present day. Each timeline entry contains a URL that expands on the events described.

2022

June

  • 07 Jun 22. Chainlink release the article entitled "Chainlink Staking: Exploring the Long-Term Goals, Roadmap, and Initial Implementation." Read the full article HERE.
  • 04 Jun 22. Chainlink launches price feeds on Solana mainnet. This represents the first native integration on a non-EVM chain. Read the full announcement HERE.

May

  • 16 May 22. Kemal El Moujahid, former director of product management for TensorFlow at Google, joins Chainlink Labs as chief product officer (CPO). Read the full announcement HERE.

April

  • 22 Apr 22. Chainlink Spring 2022 Hackathon begins. Watch the Hackathon opening ceremony HERE.

March

  • 29 Mar 22. Former LinkedIn Vice President Mike Derezin joins Chainlink Labs in the role of Chief Operating Officer (COO). Read the full announcement HERE.
  • 23 Mar 22. Startup with Chainlink. Chainlink launches "Startup with Chainlink", an enablement program for early-stage Web3 startups. Read the official Chainlink announcement HERE.

February

  • 28 Feb 22. stc Bahrain becomes the first telecommunications provider and digital enabler in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to launch an official Chainlink node. Read the announcement HERE.

January

  • 28 Jan 22. Diem co-creator & chief economist Christian Catalini joins Chainlink as an advisor. Read the full announcement HERE.
  • 28 Jan 22. Stanford cryptographer Dan Boneh joins Chainlink as an advisor. Read the full announcement HERE.
  • 02 Jan 22. In his speech entitled "The Future of Chainlink", Sergey Nazarov (Co founder of Chainlink) announced that 2022 will see the launch of CCIP and the implementation of staking. View the entire video HERE. Time stamp 58min.

2021

December

  • 01 Dec 21. Moonbeam, the Ethereum-compatible (EVM) smart contract platform on Polkadot, announces the native integration of Chainlink price feeds on Moonriver. Read the announcement HERE.

November

October

  • 21 Oct 21. The Associated Press. AP launches an official Chainlink node (Official Tweet) to bring high-quality economic data, sports outcomes, and business financials onto blockchains to support smart contract innovation. Read the official announcement from AP

Spetember

August

  • 05 Aug 21. Swisscom (a major telecommunications provider in Switzerland) joins the Chainlink ecosystem as a node operator. Read the full announcement HERE.

July

June

  • 07 Jun 21. Chainlink Keepers open Beta goes live. Read the announcement HERE.

May

  • 28 May 21. NBA star LaMelo Ball announces release of limited-edition dynamic NFTs that leverage Chainlink oracles and the Ether cards. Read the full announcement HERE.
  • 14 May 21. Chainkink joins the GoodFi advisory board. Along with other stakeholders, Chainlink aims to help GoodFi achieve their goal of getting 100 million users into DeFi by 2025. Read the announcement HERE.

April

  • 15 Apr 21. Chainlink release whitepaper v2.0. Chainlink 2.0: Next Steps in the Evolution of Decentralized Oracle Networks. Authored by Lorenz Breidenbach, Christian Cachin, Benedict Chan, Alex Coventry, Steve Ellis, Ari Juels, Farinaz Koushanfar, Andrew Miller, Brendan Magauran, Daniel Moroz, Sergey Nazarov, Alexandru Topliceanu, Florian Tram`er, Fan Zhang.

March

February

  • 23 Feb 21. Chainlink VRF goes live on Polygon. Read the announcement HERE.

January

2020

December

  • 09 Dec 20. The World Economic Forum (WEF) in conjunction with Chainlink release a paper entitled, "Bridging the Governance Gap: Interoperability for Blockchain and Legacy Systems". In the paper, the WEF lays out a new standard for integrating traditional infrastructure with blockchain technology. Read the full paper HERE.

November

  • 19 Nov 20. Matic/Polygon announces the launch of 5 Chainlink price feeds on mainnet. Read the full announcement HERE.

October

  • 22 Oct 20. VRF goes live on Ethereum mainnet. Read the announcement HERE.

August

  • 30 Aug 20. Ari Juels joins Chainlink Labs as its Chief Scientist. Read the announcement HERE.

July

  • 22 Jul 20. Deutsche Telekom’s T-Systems MMS IT Services group joins the Chainlink ecosystem as a node operator. Read the full announcement HERE.
  • 03 Jul 20. Huobi becomes first major exchange to run a Chainlink node. Read the announcement HERE.

June

March

  • 04 Mar 20. Chainlink announces it will serve on the technical steering committee of the Baseline Protocol. Read the full announcement HERE.

2019

October

  • 14 Oct 19. First Chainlink Hackathon begins. Hackathon runs from the 14th to the 31st of October. Read the full announcement Here.

September

  • 10 Sep 19. Chainlink launches the official Chainlink Discord channel. Read the announcement HERE.

June

  • 28 Jun 19. Coinbase announces support for Chainlink (LINK) at Coinbase.com and in the Coinbase Android and iOS apps. Read the full announcement HERE.
  • 14 Jun 19. Google releases article in which it details how Google Cloud users can use Chainlink to connect to their data analytics platform BigQuery. Read the full article HERE.

May

2018

2017

September

  • 08 Sep 17. Evan Cheng (Director of Engineering at Facebook) joins ChainLink as a technical advisor. Read the announcement HERE.
  • 04 Sep 17. Chainlink releases its Whitepaper v1.0 "ChainLink A Decentralized Oracle Network". Authored by Steve Ellis, Ari Juels, and Sergey Nazarov.

July

  • 20 Jul 17. Steve Ellis (Co founder of Chainlink) proposes the addition of a new function to the ERC20 (Ethereum Request for Comments) token contracts. ERC677. Read the full ERC677 standard proposal HERE.
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