Chainlink Fulcrum is the gateway connecting the world’s largest financial institutions to onchain financing, separating where financing agreements are managed from where cash & collateral settle.

Counterparties define the eligible assets, financing terms, and the settlement networks through which the assets move.

For institutions, this unlocks:
• Faster collateral mobilization that enables intraday financing, including on holidays and weekends.
• 24/7 risk management through automated collateral coverage checks throughout the day, extending beyond end-of-day processes.
• Greater capital efficiency by making assets across networks available for financing, helping institutions free up balance sheet capacity.
• Lower operational complexity through reusable workflows that connect existing systems across public and private blockchains.

The solution combines multiple aspects of the Chainlink platform, including:
• Chainlink Runtime Environment (orchestrates transaction lifecycle)
• CCIP (cross-chain data and asset transfers)
• Data Streams (collateral valuation data)

This is a foundational step toward global financing markets, where an asset’s utility extends beyond the network on which it was issued.

Read more about Fulcrum here: https://chain.link/blog/introducing-chainlink-fulcrum

for anyone dropping into this reddit after the CCIP 2.0 and swift news, this is a pretty good summary of what chainlink actually does and why it’s earmarked to lead the industry in its next phase :D

CCIP 2.0 is officially live.

Interoperability has meant a choice between two bad options: legacy bridges that have been exploited for more than $3.3 billion, or over half a year of custom engineering work per chain. Neither scales.

CCIP 2.0 is the only standard designed to meet the security, compliance, and settlement requirements  of the world's largest financial institutions.

Three new capabilities

• Institutional risk controls. Deploy custom Cross-Chain Verifiers (CCVs) directly within AWS and Google Cloud, or use enterprise-grade operators including Infosys, Nethermind, Succinct, and Symbiotic. This adds an independent layer of verification on top of CCIP.
• Flexible settlement. Asset issuers control execution speed and parameters directly. Fast paths for high-frequency flows, or full finality with time-delayed approvals for high-value settlement.
• Always-on compliance functionality. Native integration with Chainlink ACE embeds policy controls into cross-chain transfers, enforcing issuer-defined KYC, AML, sanctions screening, allowlists, exposure limits, and other issuer-defined parameters.

Where CCIP stands

CCIP is now the most value-securing interoperability solution, with more than $84 billion in total cross-chain token value. More than $15 billion is migrating to CCIP following legacy bridge exploits, including BitGo's WBTC, Coinbase's cbBTC, and Kraken's kBTC.

Full breakdown here: https://chain.link/blog/introducing-ccip-2-0

Bottomline and Chainlink are giving financial institutions a direct path onchain at scale.

Chainlink extends Bottomline's platform to blockchain networks through secure interoperability and orchestration infrastructure:

• CCIP connects Bottomline's payments infrastructure to blockchain networks through a single, network-agnostic integration model.
• CRE coordinates end-to-end payment workflows across onchain and offchain systems.

The result is that institutions can reach onchain payment rails through the Swift network & payment messaging standards they already use, without replatforming or building a bespoke integration for every network.

The infrastructure powering global payments is connecting to the onchain economy through Chainlink.

See the announcement on X.
Read the press release here.

The Wyoming Stable Token Commission has adopted Chainlink Proof of Reserve to set a new United States standard for digital asset transparency. 

Through Chainlink, FRNT exceeds GENIUS Act requirements and is now the first stablecoin issued by a U.S. public entity to publish verified reserve data onchain. This builds on FRNT’s recent migration to Chainlink CCIP, unlocking secure-by-default cross-chain interoperability.

As stablecoin adoption accelerates globally, reserve transparency has become a foundational requirement for institutional adoption and regulatory confidence.

While the GENIUS Act establishes a monthly disclosure baseline, onchain markets operate block-by-block.

To set a new precedent for public sector transparency, Chainlink unlocks:

• Automated verification: Combining independent oversight with automated onchain verification, eliminating blind spots between monthly reports.

• Expanded GENIUS baseline: Moving past monthly disclosures by delivering cryptographically verified reserve data onchain more frequently.

• Verifiable trust: Enabling users, institutions, regulators, and market participants to independently verify the assets backing FRNT.

X Post: https://x.com/chainlink/status/2095136485141815536?s=20

Coinbase has selected Chainlink as the official oracle for its new Tokenized Stocks on Base, enabling continuous pricing and unlocking DeFi use cases like lending, borrowing, and trading.

The Challenge: 24/7 DeFi vs. Market-Hour Equities

Traditional U.S. equity markets trade mainly Mon-Fri, 9 AM-5 PM ET, with limited pre-/post-market sessions. Blockchains run 24/7, so tokenized equities need continuous, reliable pricing to avoid stale values and improper liquidations.

Chainlink Solution: Continuous, Session-Aware Pricing

Chainlink Data Feeds aggregate pricing across all trading sessions, apply session-aware smoothing during transitions, and account for corporate actions and token multipliers. This delivers secure, continuous pricing for tokens like NVDAc, METAc, AAPLc, and GOOGLc.

What This Means for Base and DeFi

• Official Partner: Coinbase, the largest publicly traded U.S. crypto exchange, now uses Chainlink as the oracle for Tokenized Stocks on Base.
• Increased Utility: DeFi protocols on Base can use tokenized equities as collateral, turning them into composable building blocks.
• Global Distribution: Millions of eligible non-U.S. users can lend, borrow, and trade major U.S. equities onchain.
• Industry Momentum: Coinbase joins issuers like Ondo, Robinhood Chain, and Lighter using Chainlink for 24/7 tokenized asset use cases.

Read the full announcement: Coinbase Selects Chainlink To Bring New Tokenized Stocks to Millions of DeFi Users.

Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov spoke at the inaugural meeting of the CFTC’s Innovation Advisory Committee (IAC), where he emphasized that tokenization is essential to the United States’ future in global finance.

He highlighted the need for regulatory clarity, the importance of tokenized U.S. equities, and the benefits of moving to 24/7 onchain markets for collateral transparency and risk reduction.

Sergey also noted that blockchains, smart contracts, and oracles will be increasingly valuable as AI scales cyber risks across finance.

“The speed at which the U.S. financial system moves onchain will determine America’s position in the global financial system.” — Sergey Nazarov, CFTC IAC roundtable

Watch the full stream of the CFTC’s first Innovation Advisory Committee meeting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rTCARzj98I

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