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We’re excited to announce the launch of the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE)—the all-in-one orchestration layer powering the next massive leap in the adoption of onchain finance. https://lnkd.in/daSSmKMg CRE is already being adopted by the largest financial institutions and top DeFi protocols to simplify how they build institutional-grade smart contracts that enable the next stage of our industry. CRE provides an all-in-one orchestration layer for building end-to-end institutional-grade smart contracts. These are advanced smart contracts that are easily connected to external data, cross-chain enabled, compliance-ready, and privacy-preserving, which are able to securely interoperate across thousands of public and private blockchains, existing identity systems, and core financial infrastructure. This is the next major technological leap needed to bring the global financial system onchain and propel our industry from a few trillion dollars in value to hundreds of trillions. With CRE, you get: • Seamless interoperability across public & private chains • Embedded compliance, privacy, & enterprise-grade security • Direct integration with existing data, systems, custody providers, and key management solutions Where others solve half or just one part of the problem, CRE solves all your onchain requirements. A wide variety of use cases in onchain finance are being built and deployed on CRE today: • Cross-chain DvP transactions across public & private chains • Tokenized fund workflows using ISO 20022 messaging • Tokenized fund subscriptions and redemptions • Hybrid smart contracts combining cloud infra with onchain execution • Streamlined processing of corporate actions data • The purchase of crypto assets onchain using existing credit card providers • Compliant, interoperable, institutional-grade stablecoins • And much more Leading institutions, Web2 enterprises, and Web3 protocols are increasingly adopting CRE to power their expansion into onchain finance. Similar to how Chainlink Price Feeds supercharged DeFi ecosystems, CRE is now supercharging institutional adoption and tokenized RWAs in blockchain ecosystems. The abstraction of complexity enabled by CRE leads to more assets being issued onchain, more liquidity being deployed onchain, and ultimately more onchain transaction volume to the benefit of all blockchain ecosystems connected to CRE.

We’re excited to announce that S&P Global Ratings—the leading credit rating agency relied on by 95% of the top 20 global institutional investors—is collaborating with Chainlink to publish its Stablecoin Stability Assessments (SSAs) onchain for the first time via DataLink. https://lnkd.in/dQGzTjH5 The launch comes at a pivotal moment in the evolution of digital assets. As of October 2025, the size of the stablecoin market exceeds $300 billion. With the passage of the GENIUS Act in the United States, stablecoins are becoming a core financial primitive of global finance, underpinning payments, settlement, and trade. However, to support institutions seeking to adopt stablecoins at scale, they require a standardized, reliable, and transparent onchain way to evaluate stablecoin risks. S&P Global Ratings’ SSAs assess the stability and resilience of widely used stablecoins by evaluating credit, market, and custody risks to the overall asset quality, along with additional risk factors. This data provides institutions and DeFi protocols alike critical information that can be used to evaluate a stablecoin's ability to maintain a stable value relative to its pegged fiat currency, enhancing risk management operations. By securely making this data directly available to smart contracts via Chainlink’s institutional-grade DataLink publishing service, S&P Global Ratings and Chainlink are empowering 2,400+ financial institutions, protocols, and developers in the Chainlink ecosystem to confidently integrate stablecoins into next-generation financial products, strengthening risk management, enhancing market integrity, and unlocking innovation across the onchain economy. "The launch of SSAs on-chain through Chainlink underscores our commitment to meeting our clients where they are. By making our SSAs available on-chain through Chainlink's proven oracle infrastructure, we're enabling market participants to access our assessments seamlessly using their existing DeFi infrastructure, enhancing transparency and informed decision-making across the DeFi landscape," said Chuck Mounts, Chief DeFi Officer at S&P Global. The collaboration leverages Chainlink's infrastructure, which has powered the majority of the onchain economy for more than half a decade, enabling over $25 trillion in transaction value while actively securing nearly $100 billion in DeFi TVL. As a turnkey service, DataLink empowers data owners like S&P Global Ratings to seamlessly publish data to blockchains in a secure and reliable manner—without the need to build or maintain new infrastructure.

We’re excited to announce that FTSE Russell, An LSEG Business, a leading global index provider with $18T+ in AUM benchmarked, is collaborating with Chainlink to publish its world-leading global indices onchain for the first time via DataLink. https://lnkd.in/dJxeKJKk With this integration, the Russell 1000 Index, Russell 2000 Index, Russell 3000 Index, FTSE 100 Index, WMR FX benchmarks, FTSE DAR Digital Asset Prices, and the FTSE Digital Asset Index will be available on 40+ blockchains via DataLink, an institutional-grade data publishing service powered by Chainlink. FTSE Russell indexes are globally adopted, covering 98% of the investible market worldwide: • Russell 1000 Index—A U.S. equity index composed of ~1K of the largest publicly traded U.S. companies, representing the large-cap segment of the U.S. equity market, with an average market cap of $1.2T+. • Russell 2000 Index—Tracks approximately 2K small-cap U.S. equities and is often regarded as the leading benchmark for U.S. small-cap equity performance. • Russell 3000 Index—Includes ~3K U.S. stocks and represents ~98% of the investable U.S. equity market. It serves as the broad benchmark for U.S. equities, covering both large and small-cap segments. • FTSE 100 Index—Tracks the 100 largest companies listed on the London Stock Exchange by market cap. The index serves as the primary performance indicator for United Kingdom blue-chip equities. • WMR FX benchmarks—Provides globally recognized FX benchmark rates used by institutions for currency valuation, trading, and index construction. • FTSE DAR Digital Asset Prices—Delivers independently calculated digital asset prices sourced from vetted exchanges to meet institutional data standards. • FTSE Digital Asset—Provides institutional-grade benchmarks for the digital asset market. It covers the top ~95% of eligible digital assets and is rebalanced quarterly. DataLink leverages Chainlink’s proven infrastructure to enable institutions to seamlessly distribute and commercialize their data onchain, while retaining full control and eliminating the need to build and maintain dedicated infrastructure. By bringing FTSE Russell benchmarks onchain, DataLink accelerates institutional adoption of digital assets by providing financial institutions access to the same trusted data they already rely on today to support their financial services. Ultimately, DataLink brings foundational institutional use cases to the blockchain economy while enabling onchain applications to launch new assets and markets faster.

Lido Finance, the leading liquid staking protocol and one of the largest DeFi protocols with $28B+ TVL, is upgrading to Chainlink CCIP as the official cross-chain infrastructure for wstETH, across all chains. https://lnkd.in/daKNX3k9 With this upgrade, all cross-chain transfers of Lido's Wrapped Staked Ether (wstETH), the largest LST in the industry, will be secured by Chainlink CCIP by leveraging the Cross-Chain Token (CCT) standard. Work is ongoing to upgrade wstETH across all 16 existing chains the token is currently deployed on. In addition, early expansions are already happening across Plasma, Monad, Ink, 0G, and Ronin via CCIP. This upgrade builds on Lido’s existing use of the Chainlink platform, including secure Data Feeds that facilitate the adoption of stETH/wstETH across DeFi and CCIP-powered Direct Staking rails that enables users to stake ETH directly from other networks and receive wstETH. By upgrading to CCIP, the interoperability standard chosen by the world's largest financial institutions and leading DeFi protocols, Lido is enhancing the security, interoperability, and composability of wstETH across the multi-chain ecosystem, driving new opportunities for wstETH holders and DeFi protocols alike.

We're excited to announce the launch of the Chainlink Reserve, a new upgrade centered on the creation of a strategic onchain reserve of LINK tokens. https://lnkd.in/ejkfbWib The Chainlink Reserve is designed to support the long-term growth and sustainability of the Chainlink Network by accumulating LINK tokens using offchain revenue from large enterprises that are adopting the Chainlink standard and from onchain service usage. The Chainlink Reserve is being built up by using Payment Abstraction to convert offchain and onchain revenue into LINK, using a combination of Chainlink services and decentralized exchange infrastructure. Demand for Chainlink has already created hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, substantially from large enterprises that have paid offchain for access to the Chainlink Platform. With increasing demand from a number of the world’s largest banking and capital markets institutions, this form of paying for the Chainlink standard is expected to grow into the future as the industry grows. The Reserve has already accumulated over $1M worth of LINK from this early stage launch phase, which is expected to gradually grow in the coming months as more revenue is converted into LINK and placed into the Reserve. We do not expect any withdrawals from the Reserve for multiple years and thus it is expected to grow over time. We believe that as the industry demand for Chainlink’s unique capabilities increases, that adoption of Chainlink services will enable the Reserve to grow further.

We’re excited to announce that Tradeweb has collaborated with Chainlink to publish its U.S. Treasury data onchain for the first time via DataLink. https://lnkd.in/d_8BJPqq As one of the world’s leading electronic marketplaces used by institutional investors, Tradeweb offers over 50 products in more than 85 countries across the globe, with an average daily volume of $2.4 trillion. More than 3,000 clients connect to Tradeweb to form a global network of the world’s largest banks, asset managers, hedge funds, insurance companies, wealth managers, and retail clients. DataLink is now making Tradeweb's FTSE U.S. Treasury Benchmark Closing Prices available to 2,000+ onchain applications across 60+ public & private blockchains in the Chainlink ecosystem, driving a new wave of tokenization by established institutions and onchain innovators alike. “Tokenization represents one of the fastest-growing opportunities in our markets today, and our collaboration with Chainlink is a significant step forward in modernizing traditional financial markets through blockchain applications. By making our Tradeweb FTSE U.S. Treasury Benchmark Closing Prices available onchain, we aim to unlock new opportunities for innovation and 24/7 access across the global financial ecosystem.” — Chris Bruner, Chief Product Officer at Tradeweb As an institutional-grade data publishing service, DataLink leverages Chainlink infrastructure to enable providers to seamlessly distribute and commercialize their data onchain, while retaining full control and eliminating the need to build and maintain blockchain infrastructure. Ultimately, DataLink brings foundational institutional use cases to the blockchain economy while enabling onchain applications to launch new assets and markets faster.

Building on years of innovation and engineering, we’re announcing Chainlink Confidential Compute, a breakthrough service that unlocks private smart contracts on any blockchain. https://lnkd.in/dpTWnqHh The lack of privacy for smart contracts is the greatest barrier holding back large-scale institutional adoption of onchain finance—we’re fixing that. Chainlink Confidential Compute unlocks a new class of private smart contracts that connect to real-world financial data and Web2 systems and interoperate across blockchains while keeping proprietary data, business logic, external connectivity, and computation fully confidential. This unlocks new, previously impossible onchain use cases for institutions, such as: • Private Transactions: Enable onchain value exchange with confidentiality, concealing key transaction details so transactions and market positions remain confidential. • Privacy-Preserving Tokenization (RWAs): Bring new types of institutional real-world assets (RWAs) onchain, such as tokenized bonds, private credit pools, and fund allocations, without exposing investor information, deal sizes, or pricing terms. • Confidential Data Distribution: Monetize and securely distribute your proprietary data onchain, such as benchmark indices, reference rates, and valuations, to approved subscribers only in a privacy-preserving manner, while also giving smart contracts the capacity to perform operations without revealing underlying data. • Privacy-Preserving Cross-Chain Interoperability: Execute transactions across public and private blockchains without revealing key transaction data to Chainlink node operators or other third parties, enabling use cases like Delivery vs. Payment (DvP) settlement where tokenized assets and stablecoins/CBDCs exist on different chains. • Privacy-Preserving Identity and Compliance: Prove compliance and verify identities using existing identity providers and APIs without revealing underlying personal or institutional data onchain or to the nodes themselves.

BREAKING NEWS: The GENIUS Act is now law. Moments ago at the White House, Chainlink’s Sergey Nazarov joined senior government and digital asset leaders as U.S. President Donald Trump signed the GENIUS Act into law. From representing the blockchain industry at key public and private government events to shaping crypto policy through countless meetings across the Senate, House, and regulators including the SEC, Chainlink is actively immersed in U.S. digital asset policy. Next step: Power hundreds of trillions in regulated assets onchain via the Chainlink standard.

We’re excited to announce that UBS has successfully completed the world’s first in-production, end-to-end tokenized fund workflow leveraging the Chainlink Digital Transfer Agent (DTA) technical standard. https://lnkd.in/d66vbjsJ UBS—one of the world’s largest private banks with over $6 trillion in AUM—worked with its in-house tokenization unit UBS Tokenize and DigiFT to showcase a live, in-production tokenized fund transaction that leverages the Chainlink DTA technical standard to complete the first-ever subscription and redemption request of a tokenized fund. This development marks a major achievement that builds upon prior work between UBS and Chainlink within the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Project Guardian initiative and proves how fund operations can be seamlessly automated onchain for increased efficiency and utility gains. In this live transaction, DigiFT functioned as the onchain fund distributor and leveraged the DTA standard to successfully request and process a subscription and redemption order. This new end-to-end tokenized fund workflow can cover every stage of the fund lifecycle, including order taking, execution, settlement, and data synchronization across all onchain and offchain systems. The DTA technical standard leverages key Chainlink platform capabilities, including: • Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) for orchestration across onchain environments and existing in-house systems used by financial institutions. • Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) for interoperability across any public or private chain. • Automated Compliance Engine (ACE) for programmable compliance. • NAVLink for robust pricing inputs required for fund subscriptions and redemptions.