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You literally don't even understand how your own tech works. CCIP relies on link for data feeds to facilitate different settlements. It does not use link to settle. It is like how walking into a bank I am required to talk to the teller. That does not mean that the words we speak between each other to engage the deposit I am making (settlement from physical dollars to dollar denominated credit in my account) become valuable or are the medium or channel of settlement. Actually, they are a time friction preventing my speed of deposit which is much faster using an ATM. Link is the conversation with the teller facilitating the money transfer, slowing the transaction relative to alternatives. It also is equivalent in price impact to what it is in time impact, causing the settlement to be hundreds of times more expensive and hundreds of times slower, due explicitly to the part link is involved with. It is not used as a settlement layer. It is an optional utility coin for fees. The actual settlement of the transferred value (the value amount reaching the recipient) occurs on the destination blockchain, not within CCIP. CCIP
does not use the link coin as a settlement layer for P2P value transfers. It is a messaging and interoperability protocol-which as said is a hundreds of times slower/more expensive interop protocol than ILP which is feeless and allows payment of underlying settlement fees from the sender/receiver networks in any currency-not a blockchain or ledger. It coordinates coin transfers/messaging across settlement networks, with the actual settlement occurring on the source and destination networks (settlement layer). Stink is an optional fee payment coin, alongside native coin, and is not involved in custodying or settling the value being transferred. You LITERALLY don't' understand your own tech.