The new Smartcontract.com logo and tagline is incredibly bullish. "Developing #Chainlink into the standard oracle framework relied on by smart contracts across blockchains."
Smartcontract.com has always been seen as different than Chainlink in that they are the enterprise oracle solution operating centralized oracles on private blockchains, whereas Chainlink is the public open source decentralized oracle network operating on ETH mainnet. By combining Smartcontract with Chainlink it could be suggesting a bridging of the two projects, a merger between enterprise solutions and public mainnet; a symbiosis of sorts.
What do you think they mean when they say Chainlink is live on Hyperledger? What do you think they mean when they say they work with SWIFT? What do you think they mean when Maersk trialed Smartcontract.com in 2015? What do you think they mean when they say Town Crier is live and functioning? What do you think they mean when they say threshold signatures are already live and functioning?