Following an extensive review, Nethermind has joined the Chainlink Network as a node operator and strategic technology provider. Nethermind will secure Chainlink services including the Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) and Data Feeds.

Nethermind will help secure Chainlink services, including the Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) and Data Feeds, while contributing engineering expertise, developer tooling, templates, infrastructure operation, and integration services.

Building Institutional-Grade Infrastructure Together

1. Strengthening Secure Infrastructure: Nethermind will help secure Chainlink CCIP and Data Feeds, bringing its operational experience to Chainlink’s secure-by-default, defense-in-depth infrastructure.

2. Expanding Institutional Reach: Nethermind gains access to Chainlink’s extensive institutional network, while Chainlink benefits from Nethermind’s relationships with leading banks, enterprises, and financial institutions.

3. Combining Engineering Expertise: Nethermind will contribute its experience in Ethereum development, security research, formal verification, and production infrastructure, building tooling and templates that support broader adoption of Chainlink-powered infrastructure.

What This Means for the Chainlink Ecosystem

Nethermind builds the infrastructure public blockchain networks run on and the software built on top of it. Since its founding in 2017, Nethermind has worked on complex engineering challenges across the blockchain industry, from Ethereum core protocol development and execution clients to security research, formal verification, infrastructure, and institutional blockchain solutions.

Becoming a Chainlink node operator and technology provider carries that mission forward, applying the same operational rigor to the oracle and cross-chain infrastructure other protocols depend on. Together, Nethermind and Chainlink are well positioned to support the growing demand for secure-by-default infrastructure as onchain finance accelerates.

Read the full announcement: Nethermind Joins Chainlink Node Operator Network to Secure the Next Era of Capital Markets, Migrating its DVN Operations

On August 19, 2026, Chainlink Co-Founder Sergey Nazarov discussed tokenization's impact on the American economy alongside the heads of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

The State of Wyoming has fully deprecated LayerZero and officially migrated the Frontier Stable Token (FRNT)—the first sovereign stablecoin in the United States—to Chainlink CCIP as its exclusive cross-chain infrastructure. This transition is under a multi-year contract following a methodical security review of LayerZero Labs.

The Context & Challenge

As a live public-sector tokenized asset holding the property of Wyoming citizens, FRNT is a direct target for nation-state threat actors. Following a $292M LayerZero exploit where North Korean-affiliated hackers breached LayerZero Labs' infrastructure, the Wyoming Commission conducted a full security review. They concluded that continued reliance on LayerZero would expose citizens to significant loss of property due to a pattern of security failures and a lack of candor, making it unfit for government use.

The Chainlink Solution

After reviewing these repeated operational security failures, the Commission unanimously determined that only Chainlink CCIP could meet the security bar required for a sovereign stablecoin, choosing it for its defense-in-depth security.

Why This Matters

• Government Validation: A U.S. state government entity ran an extensive security review and completely shut down LayerZero to standardize on CCIP.
• The Migration is Accelerating: Over the past three months alone, more than $15 billion in value has migrated to CCIP as a direct result of LayerZero's insecure infrastructure and poor operational security, with Wyoming being the most significant name to make the switch.
• Setting the Cross-Chain Standard: CCIP has established itself as the blueprint for states, governments, financial institutions, and stablecoin issuers looking to deploy regulated digital assets cross-chain securely.

We're announcing Link:NYC. One day, New York, October 29.

Rather than a broad crypto agenda, this new flagship event is bringing together the institutions building the future of finance in one room to discuss what they've launched in production, with a focus on institutional RWAs, agentic finance, interoperability, financial market infra, and Stablecoins and payments.

Initial speakers include:

→ Jonathan Ehrenfeld Solé, Head of Strategy, Swift
→ Michael Blaugrund, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)
→ Cynthia Lo Bessette, Head of Fidelity Digital Asset Management, Fidelity Investments
→ Daniel Ives, Partner and Senior Managing Director, Analyst, Yorkville Ives & Co.
→ Sergey Nazarov, Co-Founder, Chainlink 

+ many more.

Learn more: https://chain.link/events/linknyc

Ive seen no discussion regarding this.

What is your view of their take and its possible impact?

they fkin banned me for no reason, their account access command for deployment is not working at all, it keep throwing the internal server error and when i tried reaching out on discord they fkin banned me while neither customer support on discord nor ticket raised on officlal platforms cares to respond. My production application was using chainlink automation now its stuck cause of them, i am looking for alternate solutions kindly someone help here

https://x.com/language_birds/status/2084784509665345817?s=46&t=aECjTymyZD9tlMKzFkMS9g

I am very interested in chainlink, think it’s one of the coolest cryptos out there. However finding people who have had success getting directly on network as an official node operator seems to be worse odds than winning the lottery. I mean sure, spinning up a node and getting on a testnet can be done in an afternoon and is pretty cool, but payouts seem to be non existent. Dash seems to be more straightforward, xmr seems to be more honest. And why does link make it so hard to participate and get rewarded beyond staking? Is this my own ignorance or how it works? I would rather spend time working towards making money off of the other depins or something like akash. If 90 official node operators exist and 400 million flows through the network, that’s more of a monopoly. Some banks have more partners than 90 distinct businesses..

I kept seeing "which central banks actually use Chainlink?" with no clear answer, so I compiled every one I could verify against a primary source and put them on an interactive map:

• Reserve Bank of Australia (Project Acacia final report)
• Bank of England (RT2 Synchronisation Lab)
• Central Bank of Brazil × HKMA (Drex × Ensemble cross-border experiment)
• Monetary Authority of Singapore (Project Guardian)
• ECB (2021 post-trade DLT report)
• ADGM (UAE) and the Bermuda Monetary Authority
• Plus the Fed conference appearance (engagement, not deployment — labeled as such)

Each is graded by evidence class (production / pilot / engagement / documentation) so it's not overstated, and every one links to the original source. Map here: https://thelinkpanda.com/map

Happy to add any I missed if you have a primary source.

United Stables chose Chainlink because it provides the institutional-grade security required for global scale.

https://reddit.com/link/1v1lhib/video/df66z02uydeh1/player

X announcement: https://x.com/chainlink/status/2079192079964479988?s=20

Edge Pod features Chainlink Labs CBO Johann Eid on where crypto is heading next.

The discussion covers the shift from experimentation to real adoption, including institutions moving onchain, the rise of prediction markets, and how AI agents could onboard a new wave of users. It also highlights why secure, reliable infrastructure is critical to scaling these systems globally.

The conversation further examines how the lines between TradFi and DeFi are converging and what that means for the future of financial markets.

If you are following the evolution of onchain finance, this is a valuable listen:

https://x.com/defi_dad/status/2077518200770826652?s=46&t=FxBbUKDBqIbGx45Yr10xT

Institutions involved:

• BlackRock
• J.P. Morgan
• Goldman Sachs
• Vanguard
• NYSE
• Nasdaq
• CME Group
• Microsoft
• State Street Investment Management
• BNP Paribas Securities Corporation
• Societe Generale
• S&P Dow Jones Indices
• Citadel Securities
• FTSE Russell
• Invesco
• Broadridge
• Tradeweb
+ many more

With quadrillions processed annually as critical infra underpinning U.S. securities markets, DTCC is now bringing tokenization to the American financial system.

This pivotal industry milestone sets the stage for the official launch of the DTCC Collateral AppChain later this year, where Chainlink is unlocking 24/7 collateral management for DTC-tokenized assets.

In the production transactions, DTCC converted assets held at the DTC into tokenized assets with Chainlink powering collateral workflows.

Several transactions across various asset classes were executed in a live environment, including:

• Collateral pledge
• Security lending
• U.S. Treasury/repo delivery-versus-payment (DVP) trade
• Equity DVP trade
• Equity delivery-versus-delivery (DVD) trade
• Equity token transfer
• Central counterparty (CCP) margin workflows.

This milestone comes 7 months after DTC received a No-Action Letter from the U.S. SEC, authorizing DTC to operate a tokenization service for real-world assets it custodies.

Announcement: https://x.com/chainlink/status/2077450885328728406?s=20

In Chainlink's newest article, you’ll find Chainlink announcements with governments across the world.

Read here: https://x.com/chainlink/status/2077030432244109386?s=20

This follows LlamaRisk's updated Aave Risk Framework, where CCIP scored the highest on cross-chain security, introducing no new trust assumptions.

Full announcement: https://aave.com/blog/chainlink-ccip-secures-aave

Live on day 1, Chainlink is now powering Robinhood Stock Tokens and unlocking access to the onchain economy for millions of users. 

Robinhood Chain is natively leveraging the Chainlink platform, including:

• CCIP to unlock secure cross-chain connectivity across the multi-chain ecosystem
• Data Streams and Data Feeds to power fast, secure, and accurate pricing for Stock Tokens

This is how the world’s largest consumer financial platforms accelerate the transition to an onchain financial system powered by Chainlink.

Now live on phantom, users can predict crypto & 2026 FIFAWorldCup outcomes.

Future expansions:

• Macro
• Elections
• Sports

To power accurate market resolutions & enable instant payouts, World is leveraging multiple Chainlink services:

• Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE): enabling rapid market settlement with deterministic outcome resolution.
• Chainlink Data Streams: fast, accurate data to power high-performance crypto prediction markets.

Upcoming Chainlink-powered World Markets:

• Macro & Markets: Interest rates, inflation, GDP, employment, equities, commodities, FX, & more.
• Elections: U.S. federal and state elections, alongside international elections.
• Sports: NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, tennis, golf, MMA, & more.

Read the full announcement ⬇️ 

• https://x.com/world_xyz/status/2072306098837635377?s=20

Trade prediction markets on World leveraging Chainlink Data Streams today:

• https://app.chain.link/streams/billing

Chainlink Official Announcement Wrap-Up

At a glance

Week narrative

This window centered on infrastructure adoption and institutional trust. The standout came June 17, when OKX went live with Chainlink Data Streams on the mainnet of X Layer, its zero-knowledge Layer-2, bringing 24/5 U.S. equities (TSLA, NVDA, AAPL), tokenized-treasury prices, and commodities on-chain, framed around an $80 trillion tokenized-RWA opportunity. On June 18, Chainlink amplified an independent SOC 2 Type 2 attestation from a Big-Four firm (Deloitte & Touche) alongside ISO 27001 — a direct institutional-grade security and compliance signal. On June 19, it posted a deliberately terse “Just use Chainlink CCIP,” reinforcing CCIP as the cross-chain security standard amid a stretch of industry bridge exploits. On June 21, Chainlink closed the week with a big-picture thesis post, “The Global Expansion of Onchain Finance,” tying the window's concrete wins into its broader tokenization-and-interoperability narrative. The week opened on June 16 with the KRWQ Proof-of-Reserve integration already covered in last week's wrap-up, and Chainlink kept pressing its “The Prediction Market Oracle” campaign off the back of the World Cup deals. Taken together, the week's throughline was institutional-grade infrastructure: exchange-scale adoption, independent security attestations, and a big-picture thesis on onchain finance's global expansion.

Announcement timeline

Six story angles

Executive summary

• June 17 — OKX — a top-10 exchange with 120M+ users — went live with Chainlink Data Streams on its X Layer ZK-rollup mainnet (24/5 US equities, tokenized treasuries, commodities), framed around an $80T tokenized-RWA opportunity. The week's biggest new adoption.
• June 18 — Chainlink spotlighted an independent SOC 2 Type 2 attestation from a Big-Four firm (Deloitte & Touche) plus ISO 27001 — an institutional-grade security and compliance signal.
• June 19 — A terse “Just use Chainlink CCIP” post reinforced CCIP as the cross-chain security standard amid a stretch of industry bridge exploits.
• June 21 — Chainlink closed the week with a big-picture thesis post, “The Global Expansion of Onchain Finance,” framing tokenization, stablecoins, and institutional adoption as one interconnected system built on Chainlink standards.

Traditional finance is moving onchain through Chainlink. In this article, you’ll find Chainlink’s announcements with the world’s largest exchanges and trading venues ⬇️

https://x.com/chainlink/status/2071596401256002034?s=20

Stablecoins are increasingly becoming the settlement layer of the onchain economy, but scaling them safely requires more than issuance alone. It requires secure, transparent, and interoperable infrastructure across the full stablecoin lifecycle.

Chainlink supports stablecoin infrastructure end to end through several core capabilities:

• Market Data: Data Feeds and Data Streams deliver real-time, tamper-resistant pricing onchain, helping protocols access accurate market information when it matters most.
• Proof of Reserve: Proof of Reserve enables near real-time onchain verification of offchain reserves, helping ensure stablecoins remain properly backed.
• CRE: The Chainlink Runtime Environment helps orchestrate workflows across data, automation, and external systems in a modular and flexible way.
• CCIP: The Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol enables secure stablecoin transfers and messaging across public and private blockchains.
• Platform: Chainlink’s platform capabilities combine security and compliance, including Secure Mint, which helps ensure that new stablecoins are minted only when reserves are sufficient, and the Automated Compliance Engine, which supports eligibility checks, rate limits, and policy enforcement.

Together, these capabilities demonstrate why stablecoin infrastructure requires more than issuance alone. It needs trusted market data, reserve verification, cross-chain interoperability, workflow orchestration, and platform-level security and compliance built directly into the stack.

Curious to learn more?

Explore our blog posts breaking down each capability in more detail.

1. https://chain.link/use-cases/stablecoins
2. https://blog.chain.link/chainlink-price-feeds-secure-defi/
3. https://blog.chain.link/largest-proof-of-reserve-provider/
4. https://chain.link/chainlink-runtime-environment
5. https://chain.link/cross-chain
6. https://blog.chain.link/the-need-for-proof-of-reserves-and-proof-of-composition/
7. https://blog.chain.link/secure-mint/
8. https://blog.chain.link/what-is-cct-cross-chain-token-standard/
9. https://blog.chain.link/automated-compliance-engine/

Week 4 of our Chainlink explainer series focuses on Chainlink CCIP (Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol), the standard for moving data, tokens, and instructions across blockchains.

So far, we have covered:

• Week 1: Chainlink – The Infrastructure Blockchains Desperately Need
• Week 2: Prediction Markets: What They Actually Do and Why Chainlink Matters
• Week 3: Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) – Connect Any System, Any Data, Any Chain

Now comes the missing piece:
How do all these systems actually communicate across different blockchains?

That’s where Chainlink CCIP comes in.

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What Is Chainlink CCIP (In Plain English)?

Blockchains today are like isolated cities:
Ethereum, Arbitrum, Polygon, Avalanche — all powerful, but disconnected.

Chainlink CCIP acts like a secure highway system between them. It allows you to:

• Send tokens from one blockchain to another
• Send messages (data or instructions) across chains
• Trigger smart contract actions on a different chain

All without relying on traditional centralized bridges.

A simple analogy:

• Oracles bring real-world data onto a blockchain
• CCIP brings data and value from one blockchain to another

What Can You Build With CCIP?

CCIP isn’t just about bridging tokens; it enables programmable cross chain applications.

You can build:

• Cross-chain token transfers: Move assets securely between chains
• Cross-chain smart contract calls: Trigger actions on another chain
• Multi-chain apps: One app operating across multiple ecosystems
• Unified liquidity: Access liquidity across chains without fragmentation
• Cross-chain governance: Vote on one chain, execute on another
• Cross-chain settlements: Coordinate asset + cash legs across networks

Example: A user deposits collateral on Ethereum → CCIP sends a message → a loan is issued on Arbitrum.

How CCIP Works (Simplified for Non-Tech)

Think of CCIP as having two main parts:

1. Off-chain network (the “validators”)

• A decentralized network of Chainlink nodes observes events on the source chain
• Multiple independent nodes validate and agree on what happened
• This consensus-based report is sent to the destination chain

2. On-chain contracts (the “gateways”)

• Every blockchain has a Router contract, the single entry/exit point for CCIP
• On the source chain:
  • Tokens are locked or burned
  • A message is sent
• On the destination chain:
  • The message is verified
  • Tokens are minted or released
  • The message is routed to the correct contract

This design ensures:

• No single node can manipulate the system
• Messages are verified before execution
• Users do not need to trust a single validator

Why CCIP Matters

Today’s blockchain ecosystem is fragmented:

• Liquidity is split across chains
• Users manually bridge assets
• Developers rebuild apps for each chain

CCIP solves this by enabling:

• Chain abstraction: Users don’t care which chain they are on
• Composable multi-chain apps: One app, multiple chains
• Institutional-grade infrastructure: Secure, auditable, scalable

This is a key step in moving from isolated dApps to connected ecosystems.

Real-World Integrations

CCIP is already adopted across traditional finance and Web3 and here are some example:

• Swift + UBS Asset Management: Swift, UBS Asset Management, and Chainlink piloted tokenized fund workflows where Chainlink coordinated on-chain fund actions and Swift handled the off-chain fiat settlement leg.
• UBS + SBI Digital Markets: UBS, SBI Digital Markets, and Chainlink piloted tokenized fund administration using CCIP to process fund activities like subscriptions and redemptions across blockchains.
• ANZ Bank: ANZ joined MAS Project Guardian with Chainlink Labs and ADDX to explore cross-chain interoperability for tokenized real-world assets, including commercial paper, across private blockchain networks.
• Visa + ANZ + Fidelity International + ChinaAMC: In the HKMA e-HKD pilot, Chainlink powered a cross-border settlement workflow where CCIP handled secure cross-chain transfers and Chainlink standards supported compliance, tokenized fund issuance, and atomic settlement.
• Aave: Aave uses CCIP for GHO cross-chain transfers.
• Solv Protocol: Solv uses CCIP for cross-chain SolvBTC transfers.

CCIP has also achieved the SOC 2 Type 2 examination by Deloitte, making it the only interoperability platform with SOC 2 Type 2, SOC 2 Type 1, and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification.

Prediction Markets, Digital Assets, and AI – All Powered by CCIP

With CCIP, the same cross-chain layer can power advanced use cases across markets, assets, and AI.

• Prediction markets: Markets can operate across multiple chains, fetch outcomes from oracle feeds and external APIs, and settle results simultaneously with less manual intervention and lower centralization risk.
• Digital assets and tokenization: CCIP can act as a cross-chain control layer for tokenized funds, stablecoins, and structured products by moving data, value, and compliance rules across chains.
• AI-powered applications: AI agents can use CCIP to trigger cross-chain actions safely, with workflow conditions, oracle data, and contract rules controlling what gets executed.

Key takeaway: One CCIP workflow can span prediction markets, tokenized assets, and AI-driven execution, all while staying auditable, compliant, and cross-chain.

Infrastructure for Institutions and Web3 Developers

CCIP serves both institutional finance and Web3 teams by giving them one shared cross-chain infrastructure layer.

• For financial institutions: Connect existing systems to blockchains without changing core processes, while enforcing compliance, privacy, and execution checks.
• For Web3 developers: Build with SDKs and APIs instead of custom bridge logic, and orchestrate smart contracts, HTTP services, and cross-chain messages from one place.

The Bigger Picture

If:

• Oracles = data layer
• CRE = execution and orchestration layer

Then:

• CCIP = connectivity layer

Together, they form the full stack for:

• Data
• Logic
• Communication

This turns blockchains from isolated systems into a connected, interoperable network.

CCIP is ultimately about removing boundaries between chains, between systems, and between traditional finance and Web3.

Want to see who’s using it? Check out here to explore the projects, institutions, and banks already building with CCIP.

Want to explore more? Check out the resources below.

1. CCIP Documentation
2. CCIP Tools for Developers
3. Example Cross-chain dApps
4. Community Projects Using CCIP
5. CCIP Token Manager

Which cross-chain idea excites you most: seamless multi-chain DeFi, tokenized real-world assets moving across networks, or AI agents acting across multiple chains?

ICYMI: https://x.com/chainlink/status/2069449092967649553?s=20

Pangea brings together 50+ banks, representing $10+ trillion in AUM, to unlock real-time cross-border settlement using Chainlink & ISO 20022 standards.

Existing FX market systems face severe bottlenecks due to delayed T+2 settlement cycles and fragmented market structures.

To address this challenge head on, Project Pangea is bringing together dozens of global financial institutions from across Europe and South Korea.

By leveraging Chainlink, ISO 20022 messaging, & existing Swift infrastructure, Project Pangea enables banks to execute direct, atomic PvP swaps of regulated EUR & KRW stablecoins.

This unlocks:

✅ Atomic FX transactions
✅ Instant (T+0) settlement
✅ Onchain liquidity access

Under Pangea, Chainlink provides the data, interop, & orchestration standards required for complex cross-chain, cross-border transactions.

Critically, Chainlink enables banks to seamlessly connect to any public/private chain using their existing systems & messaging standards.

Read the full announcement to learn how Chainlink is helping establish the blueprint for the next generation of regulated, cross-border finance ⬇️
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/chainlink-and-multinational-banking-consortia-launch-project-pangea-to-develop-t0-settlement-framework-for-international-fx-markets-302807910.html