>>60688383
Sergey has a subscription program. He keeps all the payments for himself. Even those payments that you say are majored for certain services, they don't trigger a link buy. They just go in his pocket.
Here is how the CCIP Ethereum to Arbitrum contract works (0x925228d7b82d883dde340a55fe8e6da56244a22c) as an example.
>Users can pay fees in either LINK or WETH.
>When a fee is paid in LINK, it's directly added to a running total of LINK fees owed to Node Operators.
>If a fee is paid in WETH it calculates how much LINK that amount of WETH is worth.
>This conversion is added to the running total of LINK fees owed to the Node Operators. **NO ACTUAL TOKEN SWAP OCCURS HERE**
>Since Node Operators are always paid in LINK - the contract keeps track of how much LINK is owed to Node Operators based on all fees paid (in LINK or WETH equivalent).
>Since users can pay in WETH and Node Operators need LINK, there needs to be a way to ensure enough LINK is available.
>A separate contract called LinkAvailableBalanceMonitor (at address 0x25204a85dBC29300ce60133cedA267aAdb73CfBD) periodically adds LINK to this contract (manually triggered by ChainLink Labs). Ensuring there's always enough LINK to pay the Node Operators, even if many users paid in WETH.
>Since WETH is never actually converted to LINK, the WETH simply accumulates over time in this contract.
>The accumulated WETH can only be withdrawn by the contract owner (ChainLink Labs).
>There's a special function (withdrawNonLinkFees) that allows ChainLink Labs to take out all the WETH.
>This WETH withdrawal can happen at any time, as long as there's enough LINK in the contract to cover what's owed to Node Operators.
So essentially, CCL gets to keep all ETH fees and Node Operators get LINK.
This is not FUD, this is simply how the contract works; they have never used the withdrawNonLinkFees function and it's unclear what they intend to do with the WETH but it needs to be clear to everyone that a WETH/LINK swap NEVER happens.
