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Everyone wants to know the same thing: What actually survives the next decade of tokenized finance? When you apply a Buffett-style filter — moats, tollbooths, trust, and irreplaceable utility — Chainlink lands in rare territory.

Bitcoin’s recent 25% decline didn’t happen because crypto lost faith. It happened because dollar liquidity tightened — and that single fact tells you more about the global financial system than the price drop itself.

Russia and Kazakhstan, both BRICS members, have now eliminated the U.S. dollar from all bilateral trade, completing a full shift to local currencies — the ruble and the tenge — by 2025. Earlier this year, they were already settling about 90% of trade without the dollar. Now it’s 100%.

For decades, the U.S. dollar has been the cornerstone of the global economy — the default currency for trade, oil, and financial reserves. But that dominance is now being challenged. Around the world, developing countries are accelerating their push toward de-dollarization, seeking greater economic sovereignty and freedom from the U.S.-controlled financial system.

Three BRICS nations — China, Brazil, and India — just made one of their most coordinated financial moves yet: offloading $47 billion in U.S. Treasuries in a single month.China led the exodus with $25.7B, followed by Brazil ($13.6B) and India ($7.7B) — a collective signal that the world’s emerging economies are growing tired of funding America’s debt addiction.

Most people read about de-dollarization like it’s distant geopolitics. But if the BRICS alliance — now expanded to 11 nations with 22 more applying — is building a gold-based settlement system tied to blockchain, that’s not just diplomacy.