During a historic August, Chainlink’s Total Value Secured (TVS) – a metric representing the entire amount of economic value secured by Chainlink’s oracle networks – surpassed $95 billion across 452 protocols.
As the industry standard powering the majority of DeFi, Chainlink’s comprehensive web3 services support top protocols such as Aave, GMX, and Lido alongside some of the world’s largest financial infrastructures and institutions such as Swift, ANZ, and Fidelity International. More than 2,000 Chainlink Price Feeds hold over 67% of the total oracle market, securing over 83% of the value on Ethereum and nearly 100% of the value on Base.
To support the network’s continued growth and sustainability, Chainlink established a strategic onchain reserve of LINK tokens. The reserve launched with over $1M in LINK, with plans to accumulate more tokens over time. By the end of the month, the reserve surpassed 193K LINK, currently valued at over $4.4M.
The Chainlink Reserve operates as an extension of Payment Abstraction, which allows users to pay for Chainlink services in various alternative assets that are automatically converted to LINK. With a growing number of large enterprises paying offchain for access to essential services, Payment Abstraction now supports onchain and offchain payments.
Chainlink is now working with the United States Department of Commerce (DOC) to bring U.S. government macroeconomic data onchain from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). New Chainlink Data Feeds represent key metrics such as real gross domestic product (GDP), the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) Price Index, and real final sales to private domestic purchasers.
These Data Feeds, updated monthly or quarterly as applicable, will initially be available across ten blockchains – Arbitrum, Avalanche, Base, Botanix, Ethereum, Linea, Mantle, Optimism, Sonic, and ZKsync – with support for additional networks to be incorporated according to user demand.
Chainlink Data Feeds also recently became the first enterprise-grade solution for onchain data to receive an ISO 27001 certification and SOC 2 Type 1 attestation – two major security milestones that will further accelerate Chainlink’s adoption across DeFi and traditional finance.
Chainlink’s new partnership with Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the NYSE, is bringing ICE’s precious metal and FX data onchain via Chainlink’s oracle infrastructure. Chainlink is utilizing ICE’s Consolidated Feed data in deriving FX and precious metals rates for distribution via Chainlink Data Streams – a pull-based oracle solution that unlocks advanced onchain financial products through lower gas fees and faster price updates.
Chainlink recently launched new Data Streams for major U.S. equities and ETFs including SPY, CRCL, QQQ, NVDA, AAPL, and MSFT, with additional markets and asset classes on the horizon. Now available across 37 distinct blockchain networks, these Data Streams are being adopted by top DeFi protocols including GMX, GMXSOL, and Kamino Finance.
With the $273 billion market for tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) projected to reach $30 trillion by 2030, Chainlink Labs’ Chief Business Officer, Johann Eid, called the launch of Data Streams for U.S. equities and ETFs “a significant leap forward” for tokenized markets.
SBI Group, one of Japan’s largest financial conglomerates with the USD equivalent of over $200 billion in total assets, announced a strategic partnership with Chainlink to bridge the gap between traditional finance and the tokenized asset economy.
SBI Group and Japanese financial services companies will leverage Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP), SmartData, and Proof of Reserve to unlock the secondary market liquidity of tokenized assets while enhancing operational efficiency and maintaining compliance.
Aave Labs launched Horizon, an institutional platform enabling compliant stablecoin borrowing against RWAs. Horizon is adopting Chainlink’s SmartData asset suite, beginning with NAVLink to automate delivery of accurate net asset value (NAV) data for RWA collateral directly onchain.
Horizon’s broader Chainlink integration strategy also includes plans to integrate Proof of Reserve for transparent reserve verification and SmartAUM for granular asset composition tracking.
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