In September, after the SEC released 23 proposed rules that would make it easier to tokenize real-world assets in the United States, Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov met with SEC Chairman Paul Atkins and key policymakers at the White House to further examine how the U.S. can become a global leader in blockchain and digital asset innovation.
In an interview with CNBC Crypto’s MacKenzie Sigalos, Nazarov described the SEC’s “very serious effort” to establish clarity around transfer agency, compliance, and cross-chain interoperability for tokenized assets.
“I think they’re pretty straightforward technical, legal changes that, through some amount of guidance and rulemaking, can happen pretty quickly,” he said.
“Tokenization in the U.S. markets should be an easy, smooth, and riskless process – that is something that [the SEC] has made extremely clear now.”
Ahead of this year’s Sibos, Nazarov sat down with Swift Chief Innovation Officer Tom Zschach to discuss how increasing regulatory clarity in the U.S. will accelerate global institutional digital asset adoption.
“We’re beyond experiments,” Zschach said. “I would say the PoC fatigue has set in and people are looking for real value now. The intensity and the urgency has been turned up.”
At Sibos, Chainlink announced a groundbreaking solution for global financial institutions to advance tokenized fund workflows using the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) alongside their existing systems and Swift messaging standards.
The first use case involved UBS Tokenize, the tokenization unit of UBS Asset Management, one of the world’s largest private banks with over $6 trillion in assets under management, and utilized the new Chainlink Digital Transfer Agent (DTA) technical standard, which defines how transfer agents and fund administrators can support tokenized assets in accordance with existing regulatory frameworks.
Chainlink also completed the second phase of its industry initiative with 24 of the world’s largest financial services institutions to standardize corporate actions processing using oracles and AI. The production-grade deployment is poised to save the global financial industry tens of billions of dollars in annual processing costs with minimal disruption to existing processes.
CFTC Acting Chairman Caroline D. Pham announced new members of the Global Markets Advisory Committee and subcommittees. Chainlink Labs’ general counsel, Ben Sherwin, was among four new crypto industry leaders named to the Digital Asset Markets Subcommittee (DAMS), established in 2023 to promote effective regulation and responsible innovation that fosters digital asset adoption within the traditional financial system.
Sherwin’s DAMS appointment expands Chainlink’s ongoing work with policymakers to ensure the U.S. digital asset economy sets the standard for a global method of tokenization.
Chainlink Labs was also named one of Fortune’s 2025 Best Medium Workplaces and 2025 Best Workplaces in Technology. Chainlink Labs’ Chief People Officer, Giovana Totini, told Chainlink Today that independent awards like Fortune’s Best Workplaces highlights Chainlink Labs as a place where top international talent can challenge their limits and redefine what’s possible.
“This award affirms that our culture fuels the bold creativity and collaboration needed to lead the future of web3,” she said.
The Chainlink ecosystem continued to expand in September.
Ondo Finance adopted Chainlink as the official oracle provider for the newly launched Ondo Global Markets platform, which offers 24/7 onchain access to over 100 U.S. stocks and ETFs.
PublicAI, is joining the Chainlink Build program and integrating CRE to unlock AI-powered oracle use cases such as trust/reputation scores, dynamic risk assessments, and prediction market resolution.
Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) is now live on Aptos, enabling tokenized asset flows and institutional use cases that expand Aptos’ digital asset economy.
Sei Network, the fastest layer-1 EVM blockchain for high-frequency applications, integrated Chainlink Data Streams as its preferred oracle infrastructure.
Polymarket, the world’s largest onchain prediction markets platform, partnered with Chainlink to enhance how prediction markets are created and settled using Data Streams and Automation.
21X, the first EU-regulated onchain exchange, adopted the Chainlink standard to deliver market data onchain for its tokenized securities.
Onchain yield platform DualMint is joining Chainlink Build to connect essential businesses to DeFi and support sustainable onchain finance via Chainlink Data Feeds and Proof of Reserve.
Bluprynt has formed a strategic partnership with Chainlink and will integrate Chainlink’s Automated Compliance Engine (ACE) to power its automated compliance suite for digital assets.
World Chain, the layer-2 supporting World Network and its 35M+ users, adopted CCIP to transfer its WLD token cross-chain and Data Streams to unlock advanced DeFi applications.
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