1/ New patent drop while I was in NYC for smartcon. It’s $LINK's Risk Management Network (RMN), and it explains exactly how they plan to keep CCIP bulletproof as it starts moving real institutional money. Separate network. Separate codebase. Separate trust domain. 👀🧵👇
2/ Forget “bridge security.” This is a separate network that doesn’t trust CCIP, it verifies it. Rebuilds the Merkle root from the source chain, checks it against the destination, and only if they match does the message go through. $LINK
3/ If it matches = Blessed. If not = Cursed. That’s the actual terminology. Bless ➡️ execute. Curse ➡️ freeze the lane and investigate. Tell me you played Warcraft without telling me you played Warcraft. $LINK
4/ Every chain has its own Risk Management Contract. Offchain RMN nodes vote to bless or curse based on what they see. Quorum reached? The system acts. $LINK
5/ If blessed, the OffRamp contract executes the message. If cursed, everything stops. No silent failures. No “bridge drained in 10 minutes” headlines. $LINK
6/ The codebase is lean, ~10k lines, completely separate from CCIP. That split means one exploit can’t nuke both networks. It’s a clean, paranoid design for real money movement. $LINK