Chainlink expands leadership in onchain finance.

The report highlights 2025 as an important year in which ChainLink speech and communication standards are incorporated into public and private sector financial systems used in everything from government data publishing to institutional finance.

Accelerates government adoption.

The year also marked growth in the use of government blockchain infrastructure. Chainlink The US Department of Commerce has partnered with the Network to publish macroeconomic data onChain using ChainLink data feeds from the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Chainlink founder Sergey Nazarov has participated in high-level policy discussions in Washington, including the White House Digital Asset Summit when US President Donald Trump signed the Genius Act into law.

The engagement highlights the growing synergy between policymakers and blockchain infrastructure providers as regulatory transparency improves.

Banks and capital markets operate onchain

In banking and capital markets, global financial institutions are increasingly relying on ChainLink to execute production-level onchain workflows.

The study cited its partnership with Mastercard to allow more than three billion cardholders to shop directly onchain through a Chainlink-powered app.

Asset managers have also expanded their tokenized offerings. While UBS has begun publishing institutional-level net asset value and index data on-chain, ChainLink has completed its workflow as the world's first live end-to-end tokenized fund.

Financial market infrastructures, including DTCC, Euroclear, and SWIFT, have partnered with ChainLink to streamline the processing and cross-chain transactions of corporate transactions using standardized messaging formats.

DeFi and Tokenization scale up

Decentralized financial and token platforms adopt Chainlink at scale by 2025. Coinbase chose the ChainLink Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) as the sole bridging infrastructure for its blockchain assets, while DeFi protocols including Aave and Lido have leveraged the on-chain infrastructure to support institutional-level use cases.

Expanding CCIP to non-EVM blockchains, including Solana, has opened up access to tens of billions of dollars in assets across multiple ecosystems, according to Chainlink.

Set the infrastructure push for 2026

Beyond adoption, ChainLink also introduced new platform capabilities in 2025, including a Runtime Environment, Automated Compliance Engine, and a cryptographic computing service to protect privacy and support compliant onchain applications.

According to the report, 2025 marked a turning point for onchain finance.

“Governments, financial institutions and market infrastructure are aligning around Chainlink standards,” the company said, positioning the network as a major pipeline for the transition to global capital markets.