ChainLinkGod was a teenager when he started the account: X Hall of Flame

Chainlink guru Zach Rynes solely doxed himself as the person behind the six-year-old pseudonymous account “ChainLinkGod” a month in the past. However he can’t stress sufficient the perks of beginning out in crypto anonymously. 

“It is best to in all probability be anon first until you’ve got a great motive to be doxed as a result of you possibly can all the time go doxed from being anon, however you possibly can’t go the opposite approach round,” he tells Corridor of Flame.

Starting incognito additionally gives you the flexibleness to step again with out embarrassment in case your account is a flop throughout the group.

When Rynes began posting on X, he was only a child.

“I joined crypto in early 2018. I used to be a highschool pupil. I wasn’t even really sufficiently old to open a Coinbase account on the time.”

He began ChainLinkGod the next yr aged 18. Raised within the Southwest United States, Rynes’ favourite topics at school had been historical past and pc programming. Aside from crypto, the now 24-year-old lately enjoys mountaineering, off-roading and heading all the way down to the taking pictures vary to have interaction a unique a part of his mind.

Regardless of beginning out younger, he was sensible sufficient to grasp the importance of Chainlink. 

“I knew there was an issue with sensible contracts the place they will’t hook up with something within the exterior world. How helpful may they be actually at scale? And from there, I stumbled upon Chainlink,” he explains.

Again in these days, most individuals within the Chainlink group had been members of the frog military.

“I believe it’s extra like each group has its personal memetic vitality to it. The Chainlink group was frogs and cubes and hexagons, and everyone was like a frog identification on the time,” he provides.

Rynes’ instructional threads about Chainlink ended up being a success with the Chainlink group, garnering him 171,800 X followers.

“I noticed that there was this info hole the place individuals didn’t actually perceive oracles, and I needed to step in and be that liaison,” he says.

Nevertheless it’s been troublesome for ChainLinkGod to talk at crypto conferences or unfold the phrase about LINK in actual life because of the account’s anon nature, which helped immediate his choice to unmask himself.

“So actually it was simply becoming a member of the group camaraderie, however I figured over time it made extra sense to go doxed.”

How did ChainLinkGod get Twitter Fame?

Rynes has been grinding away for six years, posting lengthy instructional threads on Chainlink, which followers have been accessing over time, leading to a gradual uptick in followers.

“After I began doing these instructional tweet threads, like these technical deep dives, I believe that basically helped function an accelerant,” he says.

Rynes explains that the rising Chainlink group is a “very tight-knit group” and he was fortunate to get in early and nab the Website positioning-friendly X username “Chainlink God.”

“When you lookup Chainlink, my account is one the primary ones that pops up as a result of it’s ChainLinkGod. The Website positioning port labored in my favor just a little bit.”

It was in DeFi summer season in 2020 and the “craze of yield farming” that Rynes started noticing a large spike in followers, probably as a result of a “honest quantity of protocols that had been enabled by Chainlink launched for the primary time.”

“I believe I pulled lots of people into the channel after which helped them alongside their Chain journey throughout that point interval,” Rynes provides.

What kind of content material does ChainLinkGod like?

Rynes primarily follows “thought leaders within the area” for the long-form content material they publish on social media.

Particularly, he enjoys ShapeShift CEO Eric Vorhees’ content material, a non-maximalist Bitcoin OG with over 640,000 X followers.

Rynes explains that Vorhees’ ideas on Bitcoin are all the time simply “very nicely knowledgeable,” and he has realized so much by means of his posts.

He’s additionally a fan of each Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin and BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes for his or her “ridiculous quantity of weblog content material.”

“That’s as a result of whether or not they find yourself being proper or fallacious, I like seeing what individuals’s thought processes are,” he explains.

From time to time, you possibly can even catch him having a great outdated chat with Buterin on X.

For fun, he additionally enjoys standard pseudonymous crypto troll Gwart and “their content material and deadpan sarcasm.”

What kind of content material does ChainLinkGod do?

“I’m predominantly targeted on Chainlink, so if you wish to study something and every part about Chainlink oracles and flexibility, then I’m positively the particular person for that,” he declares.

“Typically, I tweet about what I see are the key megatrends occurring, akin to tokenized property and DeFi as an entire.”

You’ll additionally catch Rynes chiming in every time there’s a correct circus occurring within the crypto business.

“I additionally simply get pleasure from tweeting in regards to the issues that I discover attention-grabbing in regards to the business, which may embody calling out the shenanigans as I noticed them in 2022,” he says.

The truth is, his hottest put up on X was him making a sly dig towards the crypto alternate FTX following its collapse in November 2022.

He’s additionally expanded out from simply social media. 

“I’ve completed an entire lot of various kinds of content material. I write tweet threads and blogs. I’ve completed podcasts. Individuals all the time love podcasts,” he says.

ChainLinkGod’s value predictions?

Sadly, we didn’t get any value predictions from Rynes. Not everybody’s as open as Tim Draper together with his $250,000 Bitcoin forecast.

“Numerous cryptos are simply tied to what’s occurring macro sensible, and so macro sensible rates of interest drop that could possibly be excellent for the business. However there’s so many various components which can be exhausting to account for thus I’m all the time cautiously optimistic in relation to crypto.”

By no means thoughts. Whether or not the value of Chainlink crashes or goes by means of the roof, Rynes will preserve churning out his instructional content material and doubtless maintain onto any Chainlink he owns eternally.

“I’m in it for the long term to allow them to go up, down or in circles, and I’m nonetheless going to be right here,” he laughs.

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Ciaran Lyons

Ciaran Lyons is an Australian crypto journalist. He is additionally a standup comic and has been a radio and TV presenter on Triple J, SBS and The Challenge.