Who can predict what the first big partnership will be? Here's my weak analysis:
SWIFT: they took link into their arms when link was nothing and did a POC with them. This is strange, how and why did this giant banking service pick out a super small start up? its been two years since that POC, the link website says they still work with them so thats why i think SWIFT might be the first to announce, everything is all set for them. Also theres so much confusion over if they are still partners that they might say something to make it concrete
Docusign: how obvious is this? How does tom gonser have a fireside chat with sergey, basically tells the whole world that yeah chainlink would be a great service for docusign and stops there. Hmmm seems like they are obviously setting up for a partnership, these lead up event are just a way of anti hyping these partner ships, aka "priced in" before they even announce some might say. all im saying is its so fishy how much gonser loves link and leaves it at that, there needs to be more.
Microsoft: their cryplets project or whatever its called, is literally a replica of chainlink. very easy for them to announce this too.
Coinbase: not really a "partnership" but imagine if they announce a link listing plus a staking service to go along with it...this def isnt as easy to integrate as the other options but coinbase having staking/node services for link is huge i think, very normie friendly, its probably taking them a long time cause they go thru strict rules
So my guess if either docusign or microsoft for the first big announcement, what do you guys think?