As if to add a touch of irony to this grand affair, CoinMarketCap, in its coverage on April 12, pointed out that most existing on-chain data solutions offer merely a solitary price point for equities during the dull trading hours of 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM ET. What a delightful gap this created, where on-chain markets floundered in their attempts to reflect reality at all hours! Chainlink’s 24/5 streams gallantly fill this void, allowing synthetic equities, automated trading, collateral management, and lending markets to thrive with live data instead of stale relics from the past. The protocol is already woven into the very fabric of institutional giants such as Swift, Euroclear, JPMorgan, Mastercard, UBS, and Fidelity International-oh, how they must revel in their own grandeur!