Last year, Chainlink Labs was among five digital asset projects admitted to the SEC’s Crypto Task Force. This February, Taylor Lindman, Chainlink Labs’ former deputy general counsel, was selected to succeed Michael Selig as the task force’s chief counsel. Chainlink celebrated Lindman’s appointment as the next step toward modernizing the U.S. financial system onchain.
Lindman spent over five years at Chainlink Labs, where he served in several senior legal positions promoting oracle networks and smart contract data infrastructure within institutional finance. Chainlink’s industry-leading oracle platform has enabled over $28 trillion dollars in transaction value and provides vital infrastructure for tokenizing real-world assets (RWAs) to optimize efficiency, security, and globally accessibility.
Canton, a top chain supporting regulated RWAs, deployed Chainlink’s data standard via Data Streams, SmartData, and Proof of Reserve. Canton’s ecosystem, which underpins over $8 trillion in RWAs, can now utilize SmartData’s NAV and AUM feeds, Proof of Reserve’s real-time reserve verification, and Data Stream’s low-latency market data including Chainlink’s 24/5 Equities Streams, which unlock the ~$80 trillion U.S. stock market onchain.
Canton ecosystem partners are already leveraging Canton’s privacy capabilities with Chainlink’s high-quality data. Institutional BTC yield platform BitSafe adopted Proof of Reserve and Data Streams to power CBTC, Canton’s first and only wrapped BTC asset, and enable use cases such as lending, borrowing, swaps, and other onchain applications across Canton.
Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov was appointed to the CFTC’s Innovation Advisory Committee (IAC), launched and sponsored by Chairman Selig to advise the Commission on complex issues at the intersection of technology, law, policy, and finance. Nazarov will provide feedback on oracle networks’ key role in creating secure and reliable onchain markets, as well as how the U.S. can position itself as a hub of innovation for cryptocurrency, DeFi, and RWAs.
Texas Blockchain Council (TBC) and Chainlink Labs announced a strategic partnership to advance digital asset standards across Texas. Together, TBC members and Chainlink Labs are engaging policymakers to embrace innovation, while Chainlink provides vital data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards the state needs to lead the U.S. in digital asset adoption.
Chainlink was selected to participate in the Bank of England’s Synchronisation Lab, a platform for validating the Bank’s renewed RTGS service, RT2, by showcasing a diverse range of use cases. As the Lab’s decentralized solution provider, Chainlink will facilitate a model to execute synchronized atomic settlement between central bank money and tokenized securities in a simulated environment.
CME Group, the world’s largest CFTC-regulated crypto derivatives marketplace, officially launched LINK futures (5,000 LINK) and Micro LINK futures (250 LINK). LINK is the Chainlink platform’s native token, used by global organizations to pay for oracle services as well as network service providers to enhance security and earn rewards.
Chainlink was also selected as an inaugural member of RealFi Alliance: a strategic ecosystem initiative to advance RWAs by unifying institutional asset issuers, financial infrastructure providers, and onchain builders within a standardized, scalable, operational execution framework.
RealFi Alliance was created by Pharos, a programmable open financial layer-1 that uses Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) as its canonical cross-chain infrastructure and Data Streams to support secure, interoperable, high-performance RWA markets with ultra-fast and accurate price data.
Chainlink’s ecosystem continued to expand in February.
Morph, a consumer-focused Ethereum layer-2 designed to scale web3 payments, integrated Chainlink CCIP as the exclusive cross-chain issuance and transfer mechanism for BGB, Morph’s gas and settlement token with a market cap over $2.1 billion.
MegaETH, the first real-time blockchain, joined the Chainlink Scale program and integrated Data Feeds, Data Streams, and CCIP, giving MegaETH users immediate access to top DeFi protocols such as Aave, GMX, Avon, and HelloTrade, as well as nearly $14 billion in assets including Lido’s wstETH and Lombard’s BTC.b and LBTC.
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