Chainlink News: Chainlink enables $27.4 trillion in transactions, stores 1.2M+ LINK, and powers governments, banks, and DeFi adoption globally.

Chainlink enables $27.4 trillion in transactions, stores 1.2M+ LINK, and powers governments, banks, and DeFi adoption globally.

Chainlink emerged as the leading oracle platform in 2025, enabling over $27.4 trillion in onchain transaction value. Consequently, governments, banks, and DeFi protocols increasingly relied on Chainlink infrastructure to standardize onchain finance.

Furthermore, Chainlink Reserve was built up with more than 1.2 million LINK tokens to ensure sustainability for the network. Adoption grew tremendously as institutions were seeking a secure, reliable, and interoperable data solution based on blockchain.

Governments and Major Banks Strengthen Onchain Integration

In 2025, the United States Department of Commerce entered into a partnership with Chainlink that will see official economic datasets published on-chain. These datasets were taken from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and delivered safely.

Sergey Nazarov was present at the White House Digital Asset Summit with President Donald Trump, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, and other senior leaders. Additionally, Nazarov met with US representatives, including Bryan Steil and Tom Emmer for regulatory and technical adoption.

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Global banks scaledthe infrastructure of Chainlink as well. Mastercard allowed more than 3 billion cardholders to access crypto onchain via the Chainlink-powered Swapper app. UBS conducted the first live repo end-to-end tokenized fund workflow using its uMINT fund on Ethereum, using the Digital Transfer Agent technical standard.

Moreover, Swift, DTCC, Euroclear, and 24 major institutions unite corporate actions processing using Chainlink, in production environments on cross-chain interoperability.

Moreover, Kinexys by J.P. Morgan and Ondo Finance made cross-chain Delivery vs Payment transactions for tokenized U.S. Treasuries. Central banks of Brazil and of Hong Kong conducted cross-border experiments, powered entirely by Chainlink.

S&P Global Ratings published Stablecoin Stability Assessments on-chain and WisdomTree, with more than $130 billion AUM, provided institutional-grade NAV data for tokenized funds. Deutsche Börse secured real-time multi-asset market data to more than 2,000 applications that are part of the Chainlink ecosystem.

DeFi, Tokenization, and Product Innovations Expand Use Cases

DeFi and tokenized asset platforms adopted Chainlink at scale in 2025. Coinbase integrated CCIP at $7 billion in wrapped assets. Base provided Solana support and provided $19 billion in cross-chain liquidity. Lido with $33 billion TVL upgraded CCIP for wstETH, Aave Horizon used the Automated Compliance Engine for secure tokenized markets.

On the other hand, Ondo Finance, xStocks, and Spiko integrated Chainlink to implement cross-chain compliance and pricing. Maple Finance was able to exceed $3 billion in cross-chain deposits with CCIP.

Chainlink also released several innovations in 2025. The Chainlink Runtime Environment went live and made complex on-chain finance workflows possible. The Automated Compliance Engine worked with 20+ compliance providers. Confidential Compute unleashes private smart contracts.

In addition, the Chainlink Reserve had the potential to support long-term network growth, with more than 1.2 million LINK. Developer and staker incentives in the form of Chainlink Rewards to bring more community participation.

Overall, $27.4 trillion worth of transactions were made possible thanks to Chainlink infrastructure, securing billions in payments and becoming the central oracle standard for governments, banks, and decentralized finance around the world, making it the leader in 2025.