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LINK futures now trade 24/7 on CME Group, the world's largest CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange. This milestone unlocks enhanced institutional access and reflects the growing maturity of digital commodity markets. LINK the world. 24 hours a day. Seven days a week.

Strategy’s STRC digital credit is now onchain, powered by Saturn and Chainlink. Saturn, an onchain structured digital credit protocol, has adopted Chainlink CCIP as its official cross-chain infrastructure solution to unlock the onchain distribution of STRC across chains. With USDat and sUSDat deposits surpassing $220 million within 6 weeks of launch, Saturn required cross-chain infrastructure that matched the scale and institutional demand for onchain digital credit. After performing an extensive security review of all available interoperability solutions, Saturn found that Chainlink CCIP provides the highest level of cross-chain security, meeting strict institutional risk management and security requirements. By adopting the Chainlink interoperability standard, Saturn is enabling tokenized credit markets to scale across the onchain economy, backed by the same secure-by-default infrastructure powering the majority of DeFi today.

In 2009, Bitcoin demonstrated to the world that decentralized systems could power the transfer of money without intermediaries. But quietly, it pointed to something bigger: the ability to program anything of value and automate its execution through code running on a decentralized network. This gave rise to Ethereum and the introduction of smart contracts. Yet, Chainlink Co-Founders Sergey Nazarov and Steve Ellis recognized early on that smart contracts lacked one critical capability. They couldn’t communicate with the outside world. This was the oracle problem. Chainlink was created in 2017 to solve it. As outlined in the original whitepaper, the goal was simple but ambitious. Make smart contracts truly useful by connecting them to real-world data, existing systems, and other blockchains. From that core belief, Chainlink began by solving the most urgent oracle requirement: bringing trusted data onchain to unlock decentralized finance (DeFi). Chainlink Data Feeds launched in 2019 and fueled the explosive rise of DeFi. Now, Chainlink data powers over ~70% of the industry, including many of its biggest protocols, such as Aave, Lido, ether.fi, Maple Finance, Jupiter, Kamino, and many more. That was only the start. Chainlink started applying its decentralized oracle networks to use cases beyond data in 2020, laying the foundation for the Chainlink we see today: a full-stack platform powering advanced institutional smart contracts. Today, Chainlink spans five key verticals: 1. Data: Delivering high-quality data securely onchain to power critical smart contract execution 2. Interoperability: Enabling the secure movement of data and value across public and private blockchains 3. Compliance: Embedding identity and policy controls in smart contracts to enable regulated onchain activity 4. Privacy: Preserving confidentiality of sensitive data and business logic while maintaining verifiability 5. Orchestration: Coordinating workflows across blockchains, offchain systems, and Chainlink services in a unified environment Chainlink is no longer just a data oracle; it’s the infrastructure layer enabling global capital markets to move onchain. First, it powered the rise of DeFi. Now, it’s accelerating the adoption of smart contracts and tokenized assets across traditional financial institutions, including Swift, UBS, Euroclear, and others. All of this is leading to the end goal of converging DeFi and traditional finance into a single, global financial system where value, data, and contracts move seamlessly, with cryptographic guarantees at every step.

Fragmented infrastructure is holding back global finance from capitalizing on the $867 trillion tokenization opportunity. That's why Swift, J.P. Morgan, UBS, & many more institutions adopt Chainlink to connect to the onchain economy. The world is moving onchain through Chainlink.

Requirements for the mainstream adoption of stablecoins: • Accurate pricing • Reliable proof of reserves • Secure cross-chain infra That's why leading issuers & DeFi protocols like Circle, Aave, & Maple use Chainlink to eliminate data & cross-chain risk.

Swift ⇄ Chainlink ⇄ Ethereum ⇄ Chainlink ⇄ Euroclear ⇄ Chainlink ⇄ Canton ⇄ Chainlink ⇄ J.P. Morgan ⇄ Chainlink ⇄ Solana ⇄ Chainlink ⇄ FTSE Russell ⇄ Chainlink ⇄ Hyperliquid ⇄ Chainlink ⇄ UBS ⇄ Chainlink ⇄ Base ⇄ Chainlink ⇄ S&P Global ⇄ Chainlink ⇄ TRON ⇄ Chainlink

The Chainlink data standard: Now available to millions of AWS developers ⚒️

Chainlink privacy capabilities are enabling a new wave of privacy-enabled onchain finance applications. This year's Convergence hackathon proved what’s now possible when privacy is treated as a core feature in onchain development. Leveraging Chainlink's privacy standard, including Confidential HTTP and Chainlink Confidential Compute, teams built onchain applications that unlock: • Confidential financial activity • Sensitive data and protected logic • Privacy-preserving compliance workflows • Institutional market, payment, and risk systems Institutional onchain finance requires privacy at the infrastructure level. Chainlink’s privacy standard provides the capabilities developers need to build confidential, compliant, and scalable digital asset applications. Read the full blog on privacy-enabled apps from the Convergence hackathon ↓ https://lnkd.in/e5TGCJDD

NEW MILESTONE Chainlink Total Value Secured: $110,000,000,000+ ↳ Cross-Chain Tokens (CCIP): $60B+ ↳ DeFi (Data Feeds): $50B+