SmartCon 2025, Chainlink’s annual premier web3 conference, drew thousands of attendees to Manhattan’s Metropolitan Pavilion this November 4-5. The event featured transformative web3 use cases and critical Chainlink infrastructure taking global finance onchain.
The Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) – a universal orchestration layer for building end-to-end institutional-grade smart contracts – officially went live during SmartCon, sparking the next wave of innovation needed to bring the global financial system onchain at scale.
During his SmartCon keynote, Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov explained how CRE allows developers to build multi-chain, multi-oracle, multi-jurisdictional smart contracts with inherent compliance and legacy system connectivity faster than ever before.
CRE also introduces the capacity to manage multiple Chainlink oracle services such as Proof of Reserve, Automated Compliance Engine (ACE), and Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) as a single piece of code.
“There really isn’t another system like Chainlink that can give you the data, the cross-chain, the transfer agency contracts, identity and coordinate it into a single workflow,” Nazarov told his SmartCon audience.
Chainlink also announced plans to launch a breakthrough confidential compute service on CRE that will further accelerate institutional adoption by unlocking a new class of private smart contracts. Nazarov said the goal is to bring as much capital onchain as possible.
“The more capital, the more assets, the more cash that’s onchain, the better it is for all of us. That’s just a simple fact of life.”
This year’s theme, “From Crypto to Capitol Hill,” featured presentations from more than 100 web3 pioneers, financial leaders, and government representatives including Executive Director of the President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets, Patrick Witt, who told Nasdaq TradeTalks’ Jill Malandrino he’s optimistic about getting the much-awaited crypto market structure bill across the finish line.
Witt believes bipartisan support for digital asset legislation depends on government collaboration with technical experts in the private sector and infrastructure providers like Chainlink.
“Government can’t do it alone. You really have to rely on those folks in industry, who are good faith actors, to come in and give you an objective view about the issues that they’re facing from a regulatory standpoint and how to craft solutions.”
SmartCon was also an opportunity for prominent teams in the Chainlink ecosystem to announce new milestones that will define the evolution of onchain finance.
- Cap adopted Chainlink SmartData to deliver AUM data onchain for its cUSD stablecoin.
- Cryptex Finance unveiled CRYPTEX 40 to represent the performance of 40 leading digital assets by market capitalization, verified by Chainlink Data Feeds.
- Denaria launched a perpetual DEX and integrated Chainlink Data Streams to enhance the efficiency of its markets on Linea.
- DeXe Protocol launched its token on Base and upgraded to Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Token (CCT) standard to advance its multi-chain expansion.
- Ebisu integrated Chainlink Price Feeds to power its stablecoin credit markets on Ethereum and Plasma.
- Falcon Finance launched a new yield-bearing synthetic dollar protocol leveraging Chainlink Price Feeds.
- Mamo integrated Chainlink Price Feeds on Base to power secure and efficient markets around MAMO.
- OpenEden integrated Chainlink CCIP and Proof of Reserve to power USDO.
- Planet IX adopted CCIP to migrate its IXT token to the new AIX token on Base.
- Reservoir adopted Chainlink Data Streams and DataLink to power its yield-bearing stablecoin, wsrUSD, on BNB Chain, Plasma, and Solana.
- Solv Protocol is enhancing its use of Chainlink CCIP for cross-chain SolvBTC transfers by incorporating Symbiotic for additional cryptoeconomic guarantees.
- XSwap launched its Token Creation Platform (TCP) built on Chainlink CCIP.
Chainlink also launched Chainlink Rewards Season 1 – the next iteration of its community engagement and rewards program which enables Chainlink Build projects to make their tokens claimable by Chainlink ecosystem participants, including eligible LINK stakers. Season 1 expands on the Season Genesis pilot stage launched last May with Space and Time.
Featuring nine Build projects, Season 1 introduces a more advanced engagement and claiming mechanism. Cubes – a non-transferable, non-monetary unit of account that can be redeemed for token rewards – is designed to empower eligible LINK stakers to engage with Build projects through a more interactive, self-directed, choice-driven, and rewarding experience.
Chainlink’s ecosystem continued to expand in November.
WisdomTree, a global asset manager with over $130 billion in AUM, is collaborating with Chainlink to bring NAV data for the WisdomTree Private Credit and Alternative Income Digital Fund (CRDT) on Ethereum mainnet via Chainlink’s institutional-grade data publishing service, DataLink.
Securitize, a leading tokenization platform with over $4 billion in tokenized securities, adopted the Chainlink data standard to price Securitize tokenized funds used as collateral on Aave’s tokenized real-world asset market, Horizon. The initial integration will price VBILL, the first tokenized fund from VanEck, a global asset manager with over $130 billion in AUM.
Injective, a high-speed layer-1 blockchain optimized for building web3 finance applications, is adopting Chainlink Data Streams as its preferred oracle infrastructure. Injective’s premier spot and derivatives exchange, Helix, will also upgrade to Data Streams to power its onchain perpetual futures markets.
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