June 27, 2025 By Matthew Hayward Current LINK price: $13.03 Everyone’s Chasing Hype. I’m Watching Chainlink. In a world where crypto hype is louder than a nightclub at midnight, one project is quietly laying the pipes for the future of finance — and almost no one’s talking about it. While influencers flood your feed with meme coins, XRP cult jargon, and “top 5 altcoins to buy before Friday,” Chainlink (LINK) is doing something radical: It’s working. No BitBoy pump. No delusional army. No sugar-coated nonsense. Just cold, hard utility. The Most Underrated Project in Crypto? Let’s run the checklist: ✅ MasterCard partnership ✅ Powering SWIFT and DTCC pilots ✅ Securing billions in DeFi with oracles ✅ Launching CCIP to bridge traditional finance and Web3 ✅ Zero hype, maximal development While the rest of the market is a casino, Chainlink is the infrastructure behind the scenes. It’s not trying to be flashy. It’s trying to be indispensable. And it’s succeeding. Numbers Don’t Lie — But They W...
By Matthew Hayward 7/13/2025 Let me say this clearly: the National Guard was created to defend the states, not to enforce the will of the federal government. It was meant to serve as a local militia—an armed extension of the people under the control of the state. The highest authority a Guard member was ever supposed to answer to is their elected governor, not a bureaucrat in Washington, not a federal agency, and certainly not a sitting president weaponizing military force on domestic soil. Yes, I know the laws have changed. I know the Montgomery Amendment, the National Defense Act, and the Supreme Court's decision in Perpich v. DoD rewrote the rules. But legal doesn’t mean constitutional. Gradualism doesn’t legitimize usurpation. You don’t get to trample foundational principles and call it progress. What’s happening now—federalizing state forces to deploy them in cities without gubernatorial consent—is blasphemous. It's an insult to the very spirit of the Constitution. The ...