Industry experts and analysts highlight the increasing adoption of multiple layer-1 blockchains by major financial institutions and corporations, emphasizing the importance of interoperability protocols. Chainlink is identified as the key interoperability standard facilitating trust-minimized coordination across diverse blockchain networks. The proliferation of corporate and institutional blockchains is viewed as supportive of Chainlink's role, with comparisons drawn between Chainlink's position in blockchain infrastructure and NVIDIA's role in artificial intelligence or AWS in cloud computing. Chainlink's capabilities extend to enabling secure market data, proof of reserves, cross-border payments, decentralized finance, tokenized real-world assets, and on-chain settlement. The multi-chain ecosystem is expected to foster a more interconnected and prosperous blockchain environment rather than fragmenting existing public blockchains.