On September 1st, DeFi yield protocol Pendle Finance announced integration with Chainlink price oracle on the Arbitrum and Optimism mainnets, providing accurate price data for ETH liquidity staking assets (such as rETH and stETH) to ensure accurate exchanges in its liquidity pools. Pendle Finance allows users to split yield-generating assets into initial capital and yield. Users can deposit ETH to mint two types of tokens: PT stETH (ETH capital) and YT stETH (stETH staking yield).

Bank information system Swift and the Web3 service platform Chainlink have successfully experimented with tokenized transfers across multiple private and public blockchains. In June, Chainlink and Swift announced that they would collaborate with dozens of financial institutions to test how to connect multiple blockchain networks. French bank BNP Paribas, New York Mellon Bank, Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, and Lloyd's Banking Group worked with Swift on the experiment. Swift used Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) to connect different blockchains. Chainlink's CCIP aims to help build cross-chain applications and services and was launched in July.

Chainlink announced that its Chainlink Staking v0.2 version is expected to be launched in the fourth quarter of this year, with an initial expansion pool size of 45 million LINK. The launch of the v0.2 beta upgrade will gradually expand access to a wider range of participants, starting with the priority migration period for existing v0.1 stakers, then entering the early experience phase, and then public access. <br>

According to official news from GMX, the GMX V2 integrated with Chainlink real-time feed has been launched on the Arbitrum Goerli testnet.

Scroll Foundation, based on zkEVM, announced a partnership with Chainlink Labs to provide Chainlink Web3 services for Scroll developers. Scroll has joined the Chainlink SCALE (sustainable Chainlink access enabled on layer 1 and layer 2) program to help promote adoption of its Ethereum-native zkEVM scaling solution.

On August 21st, "Chainlink restriction on disabling the crvUSD price oracle" proposal, initiated by Curve founder Michael Egorov, has started on-chain voting and will end on the early morning of August 27th.

Curve has released a proposal to disable the Chainlink price oracle restriction for crvUSD. The proposal states that currently all price oracles in crvUSD have a "security limit" of Chainlink +/- 1.5%. This means that if the Chainlink price deviates too much (1.5%) from the internal oracle price (EMA), it will use Chainlink as the source. It seems that when the market fluctuates greatly, the Chainlink price can cause unnecessary losses. If the volatility is high enough, price oracles limited by Chainlink may still deviate. Therefore, I suggest disabling the Chainlink restriction in all market price oracle contracts, except for the old frxeth market (which will soon be replaced by a new market). The specific method is to call all price oracle contracts from the controller owner (Ownership DAO) through set_use_chainlink(False).

There are 3 Chainlink services on 7 different blockchains with a total of 12 integrations: Arbitrum, Avalanche, Base, BNB Chain, Ethereum Foundation, Optimism, and Polygon. The new integrations include: Apeiron, Banshees, Base, BOXTradEx, Crypto-Guilds, Hellobot Universe Official, Lendvest, LS TRADE, PANZ.NEXTGEN, Pocket - Metaboards, Qi Dao, and DSLA.

According to Santiment, wealthy crypto investors are buying large amounts of Chainlink as the token's development activity increases. The market intelligence platform reports that crypto whales and sharks purchased $192.2 million worth of LINK in less than four weeks. During this time, Chainlink's development activity on GitHub also increased significantly, ranking it among the top five most developed assets in the last 30 days. <br>

Altcoin Sherpa, a pseudonymous trader, has identified Maker (MKR), an altcoin based on Ethereum, as having the potential to surge by almost 30% from its current price. The trader believes that MKR has shown "immense strength" in the current market environment and could reach above $1,700 if it overcomes the resistance level of around $1,330.