Today, industry-standard oracle platform Chainlink launched 24/5 U.S. Equities Streams across more than 40 blockchains. For the first time, decentralized finance (DeFi) has secure access to U.S. equity and ETF market data 24 hours per day, 5 days per week, including after-hours and overnight sessions, unlocking the ~$80 trillion U.S. stock market onchain.
24/5 U.S. Equities Streams are an expansion of Chainlink Data Streams, which allow protocols to consume data more quickly and cost-effectively while reducing the risk of frontrunning and MEV. Leveraging Chainlink’s time-tested oracle infrastructure, which has facilitated over $27 trillion in transaction value, Data Streams expand DeFi’s reach by unlocking advanced products like perpetual futures contracts that require lower gas fees and faster price updates.
Because tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) provide numerous benefits such as atomic settlement, fractionalization, programmability, global access, and increased capital efficiency, the market is projected to reach $30 trillion by 2030. However U.S. equities – one of the largest and most liquid asset classes – have been significantly underrepresented onchain, due to limited trading hours that create pricing gaps and blind spots.
24/5 U.S. Equities Streams transform fragmented U.S. equity market data into continuous, cryptographically signed Data Streams, giving onchain equity markets access to more reliable pricing, safer liquidations, stronger risk management, and consistent user experiences beyond standard trading hours.
Delivering context-aware data such as mid-price, bid-ask data, last trade prices, volumes, market-status flags, and staleness indicators directly onchain unlocks use cases including perpetuals and derivatives, prediction markets, synthetic equities and ETFs, lending markets, and structured products and vaults.
Top exchanges Lighter and BitMEX, as well as ApeX, HelloTrade, Decibel, Monaco, Opinion Labs, and Orderly Network, are already leveraging 24/5 U.S. Equities Streams to power continuous RWA markets.
“We’re excited to expand our partnership with Chainlink as Lighter’s official oracle solution for RWA markets by integrating 24/5 U.S. Equities Streams,” said Lighter CEO Vladimir Novakovski.
“This enables us to extend our fair, low-latency perp execution beyond regular market hours without compromising data integrity.”
“For derivatives markets, security and data integrity matter more than anything,” said BitMEX CEO Stephan Lutz.
“Chainlink’s 24/5 U.S. Equities Streams are a critical component of our professional-grade 24/7 equity derivatives infrastructure, providing the verifiable pricing context needed to operate beyond standard market hours.”