Chainlink is a key player in numerous announcements detailing industry initiatives and partnerships. The firm’s platform uses decentralized oracle networks and has transacted tens of trillions in value.
Deutsche Börse puts market data on blockchain
Deutsche Börse Market Data + Services has partnered with Chainlink to introduce its reliable, high-quality market data to blockchain networks. This partnership enables the reliable publication of regulated market data from Deutsche Börse Group’s trading venues in real time via Chainlink’s DataLink service.
The data encompasses 41 selected real-time data points from various Deutsche Börse Group trading venues, including Xetra, Tradegate, 360T, and Eurex, spanning a broad spectrum of asset classes such as equities, derivatives, foreign exchange instruments, and more. Through this collaboration, over 40 public and private blockchains within the Chainlink ecosystem will gain access to this comprehensive set of data.
“Partnering with Chainlink to publish Deutsche Börse Group’s trusted market data onchain for the first time marks a major milestone in connecting traditional and blockchain-based financial markets. By making our data from Xetra, Eurex, 360T, and Tradegate accessible onchain through the Chainlink data standard, we are empowering global financial institutions to build the next generation of regulated financial products on the same high-quality data that underpins today’s markets”, said Alireza Dorfard, managing director and head of Market Data + Services at Deutsche Börse Group, in a statement.
Canton Network teams up with Chainlink for blockchain adoption
The Canton Network and Chainlink announced a partnership to accelerate the institutional adoption of the Canton Network ecosystem. The Canton Network has joined Chainlink Scale program and is integrating Chainlink Data Streams, SmartData (Proof of Reserve, NAVLink), and the Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP).
Chainlink provides the institutions in the Canton Network ecosystem with access to the same infrastructure that secures over $100 billion in the DeFi economy and has enabled $25 trillion in transaction value. Chainlink Labs will join the Canton Network as a Super Validator, a multi-component node consisting of a Validator and a Canton Synchronizer node, that participates in the Global Synchronizer.
“Together, we’re enabling large-scale real-world use cases and accelerating the convergence of traditional and decentralized capital markets,” said Sergey Nazarov, Chainlink co-founder, in a statement.
“As one of the most recognized leaders in decentralized services, Chainlink’s commitment to the Canton Network represents an important milestone in expanding the connectivity of capital markets,” said Yuval Rooz, CEO of Digital Asset, in a statement. “By bringing its community and solutions to Canton, Chainlink not only strengthens our governance and resilience, but also broadens the opportunities for innovators across traditional and decentralized finance.”
Chainlink partners with 24 firms for corporate actions
Chainlink announced that its working with 24 financial market participants to solve a “$58 billion corporate actions problem”. Market participants include DTCC, Swift, and Euroclear, as well as UBS, DBS Bank, BNP Paribas’ Securities Services business, ANZ, Wellington Management, and Schroders.
This second phase aims to standardize and streamline corporate actions processing using a combination of the Chainlink oracle platform, blockchain technology, and artificial intelligence (AI), which will enable organizations to receive structured and validated corporate actions data across multiple languages directly into their existing systems in minutes rather than days.
This solution can save the global financial systems tens of billions of dollars in processing costs annually with minimal disruption to existing processes. This means fewer settlement errors, faster reconciliations, and lower operational risk for financial institutions.
By standardizing how corporate actions data is extracted, validated, and delivered, the collaboration creates a shared foundation for asset servicing across both blockchain networks and traditional financial infrastructure.
Future efforts will focus on extending this workflow to support more complex corporate actions, like stock splits, expanding global coverage through support for additional jurisdictions and currencies, and introducing stronger privacy and governance controls to continue to meet the operational and compliance needs of global financial institutions.
“For asset managers, the ability to receive accurate corporate actions data quickly and consistently in a standardized format is essential. Chainlink’s platform helps enable this by supporting timely, reliable data delivery, which reduces operational overhead, lowers risk, and improves our ability to respond to time-sensitive events across global portfolios,” said Mark Garabedian, director of Digital Assets & Tokenization for Wellington Management, in a statement.
UBS and Chainlink advance tokenized fund workflows using Swift
Chainlink announced a technical solution enabling financial institutions worldwide to manage digital asset workflows directly from their existing systems using Swift messaging and the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE).
With Swift messages and CRE, banks and institutions can seamlessly access blockchains through the same Swift infrastructure they have relied upon for decades. This shows how institutions can access blockchains without needing to upgrade to new infrastructure, replace their existing processes, or integrate new identity and key management solutions.
A first use case involved a technical and operational pilot with UBS Tokenize, the in-house tokenization unit of UBS. Subscriptions and redemptions for a tokenized fund smart contract from UBS were triggered using ISO 20022 messages through CRE and Swift infrastructure. CRE received the Swift messages, which then triggered subscription and redemption workflows in the Chainlink Digital Transfer Agent (DTA) technical standard.
This new development builds on Swift, Chainlink, and UBS’ past tokenized asset use case in the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) Project Guardian in 2024, demonstrating the technical and operational possibility for settlement of tokenized fund subscriptions and redemptions using offchain cash settlement via Swift.
This original concept’s scale has been expanded by integrating CRE to further abstract away the complexities of interacting with tokenized assets by enabling institutions to use Swift messages to trigger on-chain events more generically. This interoperability unlock enables last-mile connectivity options already familiar and used by financial institutions and service providers today.
Sergey Nazarov, co-founder of Chainlink, said in a statement: “UBS is demonstrating how the use of smart contract-based technologies can be used by financial institutions to more readily explore new types of product lifecycle composability.”
GLEIF and Chainlink team up on identity solution for blockchain industry
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) and Chainlink have partnered to deliver an institutional-grade identity solution for the blockchain industry. By combining GLEIF’s verifiable Legal Entity Identifier (vLEI) with Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Identity (CCID) and Automated Compliance Engine (ACE), the solution embeds verifiable organizational identity directly into onchain wallets, smart contracts, and tokenized assets.
This innovation removes one of the most significant barriers to institutional adoption of digital assets: the lack of a trusted identity on-chain. Institutions, stablecoin issuers, and trading venues can now meet regulatory requirements, automate compliance, and verify counterparties across jurisdictions while safeguarding user privacy.
With trusted identity and compliance embedded at the protocol level, the partnership paves the way for banks, asset managers, and digital asset platforms to confidently scale tokenized finance and unlock significant institutional capital flows on-chain.