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Page 59 of ICMA's June 2026 report.
Swift is hosting a panel together with the international capital markets association (ICMA) about scaling tokenized assets on the 10th of september 👀
The distributed ledger was the first step. Expansion to other DLT usecases is the next one and @chainlink will be the one powering this!
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Chainlink keeps pumping out new products that all the institutions need. They are literally being told "We need this solved" and Chainlink leans into the fact it holds all the marbles (data + interop + orchestration + more) to make it happen.
Collateral stays with the custodian. When an institution deposits collateral with their qualified custodian, the custody balance is published onchain via Chainlink Proof of Reserve, providing a verifiable onchain record of collateral anyone can verify.
Collateral is represented onchain. A transfer-restricted receipt token representing the assets held in custody is then posted to the onchain lending market. Its supply reflects the assets held in custody and carries no claim on the underlying assets outside the lending integration.
Clients borrow directly. Assets move from the lending market to the borrower in a single transaction. Every borrow, repayment, and interest accrual is recorded in the custodian's records automatically.
Both systems priced from the same source. The lending market reads Chainlink Data Feeds onchain, while Chainlink Data Streams deliver identical values directly to the custodian’s offchain systems, so both sides calculate LTV from the same data.
The collateral agent facilitates liquidations. If a loan breaches the defined liquidation threshold, the appointed collateral agent sells through its own process. CustodySync records the committed sale proceeds onchain ensuring the position remains stable while the sale settles, with final settlement executing via a single atomic transaction.
CustodySync combines multiple components of the broader Chainlink platform into a single solution:
$LINK
Chainlink Just Gave Big Institutions a Safe Way Into DeFi Lending
@Chainlink released a solution called CustodySync.
With this solution, eligible custodians will let institutional customers access the DeFi lending market while keeping assets in custody at all times.
@Anchorage, which runs the country’s first federally chartered digital asset bank, is the official launch partner and its first custodian.
This opportunity is big. The DeFi lending market is $80 billion, while about $700 billion in digital assets under custody represents only 0.5% of total assets under custody.
The new solution helps keep custody and lending systems aligned, so there are no premature or delayed liquidations due to valuation discrepancies in loans.
LinkDrake retweeted
Alright, so we got CCIP 2.0, Fulcrum, and now Chainlink CustodySync so institutions can make the most of their assets that are sitting idly with a custodian.
And it’s launching with the most trusted custodian in the game - Anchorage.
$LINK gives tokenized assets utility.
Introducing Chainlink CustodySync, a new solution that lets qualified custodians give their institutional clients access to DeFi lending markets, all while assets remain securely in custody.
With @Anchorage as the official launch partner, together we’re establishing a new standard for institutional DeFi.
CustodySync keeps custody and lending systems in sync across the full lifecycle of a loan:
→ For custodians: faster time to market and lower operational overhead, with custodian-managed controls
→ For lending markets: independent, verifiable data and a consistent risk framework
→ For institutions: passive capital becomes productive capital
More than $80 billion sits in DeFi lending markets. Meanwhile, the roughly $700 billion in digital assets under custody is less than 0.5% of all $250 trillion in traditional assets under custody. The opportunity to connect traditional institutional capital to onchain finance remains vast.
Large institutions have lacked a secure way of accessing these markets. Regulations require many of them to keep their digital assets with a qualified custodian, a firm that meets specific requirements for holding assets on behalf of clients, and custody systems were never built for DeFi. Even when custody and lending systems are connected, inconsistent loan valuations can trigger premature liquidation or delayed liquidations, exposing borrowers and lenders to significant financial risk.
@Anchorage, home to the first federally chartered digital asset bank in the U.S., is the first qualified custodian to adopt CustodySync, connecting its institutional clients to DeFi lending markets while their assets remain in regulated custody.
Institutional capital no longer has to choose between the security of custody and the liquidity of DeFi.
With Chainlink, it gets both.
LinkDrake retweeted
Introducing Chainlink CustodySync, a new solution that lets qualified custodians give their institutional clients access to DeFi lending markets, all while assets remain securely in custody.
With @Anchorage as the official launch partner, together we’re establishing a new standard for institutional DeFi.
CustodySync keeps custody and lending systems in sync across the full lifecycle of a loan:
→ For custodians: faster time to market and lower operational overhead, with custodian-managed controls
→ For lending markets: independent, verifiable data and a consistent risk framework
→ For institutions: passive capital becomes productive capital
More than $80 billion sits in DeFi lending markets. Meanwhile, the roughly $700 billion in digital assets under custody is less than 0.5% of all $250 trillion in traditional assets under custody. The opportunity to connect traditional institutional capital to onchain finance remains vast.
Large institutions have lacked a secure way of accessing these markets. Regulations require many of them to keep their digital assets with a qualified custodian, a firm that meets specific requirements for holding assets on behalf of clients, and custody systems were never built for DeFi. Even when custody and lending systems are connected, inconsistent loan valuations can trigger premature liquidation or delayed liquidations, exposing borrowers and lenders to significant financial risk.
@Anchorage, home to the first federally chartered digital asset bank in the U.S., is the first qualified custodian to adopt CustodySync, connecting its institutional clients to DeFi lending markets while their assets remain in regulated custody.
Institutional capital no longer has to choose between the security of custody and the liquidity of DeFi.
With Chainlink, it gets both.
LinkDrake retweeted
Road to Link:NYC 🇺🇸
Senator @JimJustice_WV and Babydog have a message of support ahead of Link:NYC.
Thank you, Senator, for your support of our industry and what we are collectively building.
LinkDrake retweeted
considering how much crypto twitter seems to be stuck in the fantasy that A blockchain could replace the global financial SYSTEM - i asked grok to create a simple hub and spoke diagram of how the Global Hub and Spoke with Swift and DTCC sitting at the center actually looks like.
Everything. $LINK'ed.
LinkDrake retweeted
it took 21 years of Swift, Central Banks and BIS pushing banks and other FMI - after multiple delays because they weren't ready - for ISO20022 to become mandatory in 2025.
now do blockchain. without Swift driving adoption in a way that does no harm to existing flows nor causes additional fragmentation to the world's economy.
there is no switch to flip. a blockchain does not unwind 50 years of network effects, technical debt and trust.
if we want to bring all the worlds systems onchain - then the onchain systems have to be interoperable with the offchain systems - until such time the offchain systems become onchain systems. They learned their lesson more than once. Theyre done with vendor lockin. Theyre done with technical debt. Theyre done with incompatible systems.
The future-proof Chainlink Abstraction and Orchestration Layer and data standards fixes this.
$LINK is the only way
LinkDrake retweeted
>maybe there are industry plants
jfc its been right in front of you all - all along.
DeFI was Chainlink's battle testing grounds.
ethereum was Chainlink's loss leader.
Institutions have been building for the past decade. And they built their systems according to their - and their counterparties and clients - exact requirements for how they would securely implement private and public chains into their existing systems and workflows.
Orchestrated by the Chainlink Runtime Environment.
Payable in $LINK.
"Any asset, […] any jurisdiction, with any custodial system, any time of day is now mobile in terms of collateral. This truly changes the game.”
- Dan Doney, CTO of @The_DTCC
LinkDrake retweeted
Chainlink co-founder @SergeyNazarov says banks look at the alternatives and come back to Chainlink
"There's no other provider that has anywhere close to these capabilities"
"That certification and security level is also not close to Chainlink"
Chainlink co-founder @SergeyNazarov takes a shot at every bridge that got hacked
"The big problem was I need reliable bridging, and so Chainlink has solved that problem, right?"
"Because Chainlink doesn't lose $290 million. Chainlink doesn't lose $220 million"
"That's how you solve that problem"
W/ @andyyy , @robbieklages , @chainlink , @therollupco
LinkDrake retweeted
New docs for the Chainlink Platform 👀
Every organisation now gets Billing, Payments and Limits controls. CRE has its own Limits.
Now connect that to what we already know:
• Every CRE workflow run is metered for compute time.
• Usage is counted in credits priced in USD.
• A recent GitHub pull request calls these usage reports "billing receipts".
• The Fulcrum x DTCC demo shows a 0.01 LINK orchestration fee.
• Chainlink Functions, which has been upgraded to CRE, prices in USD and charges in LINK.
• The Chainlink Reserve converts revenue, including off-chain payments, into LINK, which can clearly include Credits bought offchain with dollars.
Connecting the dots . . .
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LinkDrake retweeted
Chainlink co-founder @SergeyNazarov takes a shot at every bridge that got hacked
"The big problem was I need reliable bridging, and so Chainlink has solved that problem, right?"
"Because Chainlink doesn't lose $290 million. Chainlink doesn't lose $220 million"
"That's how you solve that problem"
W/ @andyyy , @robbieklages , @chainlink , @therollupco
LinkDrake retweeted
Crypto OGs (and everyone else that followed) really saw @arijuels - the long time RSA researcher and head of RSA Laboratories - not to mention coining Proof of Work - name on the Chainlink whitepaper and smugly wrote it off as just a DeFI price feed with an unneeded $LINK token.
Hollywood couldnt make this shit up.
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The time until the world realizes everything runs on @chainlink is rapidly approaching 0.
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NEW: LG CNS, the technology arm of LG Group, enters a strategic partnership with Chainlink to advance Korea’s $68B digital asset market.
LG Group is one of Korea’s largest business groups, with approximately ₩186 trillion in assets across 63 affiliates. LG CNS is the lead contractor for the Bank of Korea’s flagship digital currency initiative, Project Hangang.
Through the partnership, LG CNS and Chainlink will:
• Enhance LG CNS’s digital asset platform solution with Chainlink’s cross-chain, data, and orchestration infrastructure
• Collaborate on digital asset solutions for Korean institutions using the full Chainlink platform
• Advance the next generation of technical standards underpinning Korea’s digital asset economy
The partnership is built for one of the world’s most active and technologically advanced digital asset markets. Korea is Asia's second-largest digital asset market, with the Korean won consistently ranking second in crypto trading volume, behind only the U.S. dollar.
By combining LG CNS’s institutional expertise with Chainlink technology standards, the partnership establishes the foundation for compliant digital asset infrastructure in Korea and for global expansion.
LinkDrake retweeted
Chainlink's Q3 update came out yesterday with $140B secured and $15B+ migrating to CCIP with DTCC and Swift on the TradFi side.
"Today they know what to do. They know how to do it," @Chainlink's Head of RWAs @KarwanLiam05 said about institutions on @_TalkingTokens
LinkDrake retweeted
We now have the head of crypto at Charles Schwab fighting the $LINK fudders. 🤣
Thank you @jimferraioli You are becoming a real $LINKMarine 🫡
Appreciate the acknowledgment, but to clarify, we do not view link as a grift. We are a regulated financial institution, and just provide fair and balanced coverage. That means acknowledging potential risks. This is a similar risk shared by many cryptocurrencies because fundamentally they are not equities and not entitled to protocol cash flows. That said, increased adoption of chainlink would potentially result in more demand for link. For now, demand likely grows in-line with broader crypto activity (Defi/ lending / etc) but as more finance moved on chain, it’s TAM could expand massively
LinkDrake retweeted
the launch of the DTCC Tokenization Service before the Collateral Management system has to do with distribution. got to get the assets to be traded tradable first.
its like when the dealer shuffles the deck and deals to all the players. And then If you need more money at the casino once trading starts - the House (The DTCC Collateral Management System) will be there to hook you up with a Chainlink Fusion powered loan.
Payable in $LINK
The asymmetric opportunity is closing. At least you wont be able to say you didnt know.👍
DTCC AND CHAINLINK AT SIBOS 2026
DTCC's Dan Doney and @SergeyNazarov presented how @The_DTCC is collaborating with Chainlink to advance 24/7 collateral management.
DTCC's Collateral AppChain provides shared infrastructure near real-time collateral management across financial markets and blockchains.
“The problem being solved is the fragmentation of data, how everybody connects to move collateral and settle transactions, and the different systems that need to talk to each other but cannot do so quickly enough to allow intraday collateral movement.” - Sergey Nazarov
DTCC’s Collateral AppChain will leverage the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) for orchestration between those systems and data sources, and CCIP which enables the movement of assets, value, and liquidity to and from the AppChain.
"You finally have a reliable and legally binding ledger from the DTCC that everyone can rely on, just like they rely on the DTCC now. That's a very powerful thing that I think the capital markets have been waiting for, where they can't get that from just any chain because those guarantees with the DTCC are fundamentally different" Nazarov also added.
The DTCC Collateral AppChain is expected to launch in Q1 2027.
Presentation slides here: chn.lk/dtcc-chainlink-sibos-…
Watch the full presentation ↓
LinkDrake retweeted
This stuff shows that Chainlink's revenue will be directly proportional to the amount of CRE usage, because it's embedded into the code, and it strongly looks like it's billed in LINK.
So not only is the token built into CRE, but there's a clear path to more and more revenue over time as institutions adopt CRE, as workflows grow in number, and as workflows contain more steps and contain more complex computations.
Because it looks certain that there'll be massive usage of CRE, we can also assume that revenue will grow significantly.
If revenue grows significantly, we can probably assume that the weekly buyback amounts will also grow.
As the total value secured by node operators increases, the need for more and more LINK to be staked too over time, to keep cryptoeconomic incentives aligned over time.
Then you've got the ETFs which are accumulating more and more LINK over time (e.g. Grayscale).
From the speculative point of view alone, LINK will likely reprice. Most people are still clueless what Chainlink even is, nevermind that it'll be acting as the central abstraction and orchestration layer for countless institutions and protocols, not a specific L1.
Now couple that with demonstrable revenue numbers. They're hiring an "Institutional Relations Lead" whose job it will be to talk about protocol revenue, revenue models, staking mechanics, etc.. (see attached post).
There's multiple reasons that point towards Chainlink reaching critical mass, not only in terms of the protocol development and the wave of adoption that we're on the verge of, but in terms of how that is reflected in the token price too
just my opinion, but in terms of what's most likely, it points towards the token going a lot higher
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LinkDrake retweeted
Chainlink Data Streams looks like it's going to add commodity futures 🪙🛢️
A new beta "Futures" documentation page says:
"Futures streams provide price data for exchange-traded futures contracts. These streams enable onchain protocols to build markets around futures price exposure."
Coverage listed: Gold, Silver, US Oil, UK Oil, and Natural Gas, each with front, second, and third-month feeds that roll over automatically when a contract expires, so builders "never need to re-point feed endpoints".
How this impacts revenue:
Chainlink's Q3 review says Data Streams "opened self-serve paid access for market makers and algorithmic traders, with subscriptions to individual streams and market bundles."
This is another Data Streams product to sell.
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LinkDrake retweeted
you must like pounding sand. because none of what you and the thot class are saying changes whats already been built and going into production.
You keep talking about trust. But you stll havent done the work to see how their chains work to solve trust using the Chainlink abstraction and orchestration layer.
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DTCC’S NADINE CHAKAR & SERGEY NAZAROV AT SIBOS 2026
Nadine Chakar, Managing Director & Global Head of @The_DTCC Digital Assets, joined @SergeyNazarov to discuss what it takes to bring tokenization to market scale.
As Nadine put it: “We shouldn’t care which rail it’s on, what type of asset it is; we should care that it’s interoperable, it’s compliance-aware, & that it’s operating 24/7 anywhere that a client needs to manage risk.”
On tokenized equity, Sergey added: “This AppChain and the tokenization of equity in this reliable institutional-grade form will accelerate the use of tokenized stock.”
Watch the full conversation ↓