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Chainlink partners with DTCC to connect $114 Trillion in stock, bonds and commodities to Real World pricing.
Written May 14, 2026
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CHAINLINK (LINK) – What if you owned a well-known, established business, and you sign a client where you are connecting $114 Trillion dollars of assets to real world, real-time pricing? You’d consider that a good contract right? And it could be the door to more contracts around the globe.
Who is DTCC?
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is the central infrastructure hub for the U.S. financial markets, providing post-trade clearing, settlement, and information services. As a user-owned organization, it ensures safe, efficient transactions for stocks, bonds, and other securities, managing millions of transactions daily to reduce risk and costs.
Key Aspects of DTCC:
- Core Function: It acts as the backbone of financial markets, handling the “plumbing” after a trade is made—ensuring the seller gets paid and the buyer receives their securities.
- Main Subsidiaries:
- DTC (Depository Trust Company): Acts as a central securities depository, holding custody of securities and facilitating book-entry transfers.
- NSCC (National Securities Clearing Corporation): Provides clearing, netting, and risk management services for trades.
- FICC (Fixed Income Clearing Corporation): Clears government securities and mortgage-backed securities.
- Ownership: DTCC is owned by the financial industry it serves, including banks, broker-dealers, and mutual funds.
- Scale: In 2024, DTCC subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at U.S. $3.7 quadrillion and provided custody for assets valued at $99 trillion
Who is Chainlink (LINK*) $10.32
Chainlink (LINK) is the industry-standard decentralized oracle network that enables blockchain smart contracts to securely connect with real-world data, events, and external APIs. It bridges the gap between blockchains and off-chain systems, powering DeFi, enterprise, and cross-chain applications by providing reliable data feeds.
May 04, 2026 • Press Release for complete story
DTCC Advances Development of New Tokenization Service,
Convenes 50+ Firms to Drive Digital Assets Adoption
DTC Tokenization Service Timeline
DTCC plans to facilitate the initial, limited production trades of real-world assets tokenized using DTC’s tokenization service in July 2026 and then plans to launch the service in October 2026. DTCC will continue collaborating with the DTCC Industry Working Group to align best practices, advance industry readiness and prove operational and technical workflows, including the use of DTC tokenized assets in a production environment and their ability to interoperate across many chains.
DTC’s tokenization service will enable the tokenization of real-world, DTC-custodied assets that provide the same entitlements, investor protections and ownership rights as the assets held in traditional form, supported by DTC’s resilience and accountability. Today, DTC custodies assets are valued at over $114 trillion.
May 12, 2026 • Press Releases for full press release.
DTCC Collaborates with Chainlink to Advance 24/7 Collateral Management
DTCC’s Collateral AppChain, a shared infrastructure platform for collateral, will leverage the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) and Chainlink data standard to enable near real-time collateral management across financial markets and blockchains
New York/London/Hong Kong/Singapore/Sydney, May 12, 2026 ‒ The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced that its digitally native Collateral AppChain platform – designed as shared infrastructure to modernize collateral mobility and improve capital efficiency – will leverage the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) and Chainlink’s data standard to support key orchestration, data and automation capabilities.
Chainlink will be integrated into DTCC’s Collateral AppChain to enable the seamless pairing of asset prices, valuations and movement with the aim of overhauling how market risk is managed globally. CRE is built to operate at institutional scale and provides access to a resilient data and orchestration layer, unlocking automated workflows for the Collateral AppChain’s advanced eligibility, valuation, margining, collateral optimization, settlement, and related post-trade processes. Rather than relying on one-off integrations, CRE provides a reusable framework that enables DTCC’s Collateral AppChain to scale across new data types, asset classes and collateral use cases.
As a shared infrastructure platform for collateral, DTCC’s Collateral AppChain is designed to provide a common, interoperable foundation across market participants including collateral providers, receivers and managers, along with triparty agents and custodians. DTCC’s Collateral AppChain was publicly unveiled during DTCC’s Great Collateral Experiment and is expected to go live in Q4 2026.
Who are some of Chainlink’s Biggest partners?
As of early 2026, Chainlink (LINK) has solidified its position as the industry-standard oracle network, with major adoption spanning both traditional finance (TradFi) and decentralized finance (DeFi).
Here are some of Chainlink’s biggest users and partners, according to Q1 2026 reports and ecosystem updates:
Traditional Finance (TradFi) & Institutions
- Swift: Uses Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) to enable bank connections to multiple blockchains for tokenized asset transfers.
- Mastercard: Partners with Chainlink to connect on-chain transactions with off-chain payment systems, aiming to allow users to buy crypto directly.
- Euroclear: Utilizes Chainlink to facilitate on-chain finance and tokenized asset projects.
- ANZ Bank: Leverages CCIP for cross-chain transactions of tokenized assets.
- Fidelity International: Adopts Chainlink for tokenized real-world assets (RWAs).
- Deutsche Börse Market Data + Services: A user of Chainlink’s DataLink, which provides institutional-grade data publishing.
- Tradeweb: Collaborates with Chainlink to bring financial data on-chain.
- UBS: Uses Chainlink for institutional on-chain initiatives.
- JP Morgan: Uses Chainlink to make blockchain deposit accounts interoperable with public blockchains.
Data & Technology Partners
- Coinbase: Integrates Chainlink, specifically utilizing Data Streams for, for example, their wrapped Bitcoin products (cbBTC) and on-chain price data.
- U.S. Department of Commerce (BEA): Collaborates with Chainlink to bring official U.S. macroeconomic data (inflation, GDP) on-chain.
- S&P Dow Jones Indices: Provides data for Chainlink’s institutional-grade DataLink service.
- FTSE Russell: Uses Chainlink for on-chain data publishing.
DeFi Protocols & Web3 Applications
- Aave: A major user of Chainlink Price Feeds and Smart Value Recapture (SVR) for its lending/borrowing markets.
- Polymarket: Uses Chainlink for decentralized price feeds and data for its prediction markets.
- Lido: Uses Chainlink for price feeds to support its staked ETH (stETH) products.
- GMX: Relies on Chainlink for accurate, low-latency price data for decentralized derivatives.
- Trader Joe: Utilizes Chainlink oracles for its decentralized exchange ecosystem.
- Liquity: Uses Chainlink to secure its interest-free borrowing protocol.
Key Trends & Adoption (2026)
- Chainlink CCIP: The primary driver for connecting TradFi institutions to blockchain technology.
- Data Feeds: 24/7 FX data and U.S. equities are being heavily utilized for tokenized RWAs.
- Amundi: Recently partnered with Chainlink in early 2026.
How to buy Chainlink (LINK*)?
The Chainlink altcoin can be purchased directly on a crypto exchange. Two leading crypto exchanges in the USA are Coinbase (COIN) and Kraken. It looks like Kraken will be coming public later in 2026. Kraken was the first cryptocurrency exchange to be awarded a recognized U.S. bank charter in September 2020.
You can also buy Chainlink through an ETF at most traditional stock brokerage firms.
There are two well-regarded ETFs that offer Chainlink in their ETFs. These are
Grayscale (GLNK*) $9.05 and Bitwise (CLNK) $18.60
There are numerous short videos on YouTube discussing the “tokenization of everything” and on Chainlink’s benefit from tokenization.
As of early 2026, Chainlink commands a dominant 70% to 84% market share of the blockchain oracle sector, which functions as the primary bridge between digital assets and real-world data. It is widely recognized as the market leader for connecting traditional finance to blockchain technology, securing over $100 billion in total value.
Note the difference between the over $100 Billion mentioned here in early 2026, and the $114 Trillion they are bringing on with DTCC above.
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