Chainlink Strengthens Its Position in Onchain Finance Amid Growing Institutional Endorsement

Chainlink has solidified its role as the foundational infrastructure for onchain finance in 2025. With an increasing number of governments, banks, and asset managers adopting its technology, real-world financial activities are being successfully integrated onto blockchains, based on insights shared in a recent company blog post.

Key Takeaways

Chainlink is becoming the standard for onchain finance as adoption rises among institutions.
Government entities, such as the U.S. Department of Commerce, are utilizing Chainlink’s capabilities to publish macroeconomic data on the blockchain.
Major financial institutions are leveraging Chainlink for executing compliant onchain workflows.
Decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms are increasingly adopting Chainlink's technologies to support advanced financial use cases.
With new features being introduced in 2025, Chainlink is preparing for a surge in tokenization and further integration in 2026.

The report underlines 2025 as a pivotal year when Chainlink’s oracle and interoperability standards became deeply embedded within both public and private financial systems, facilitating everything from government data sharing to the management of institutional tokenized funds.

Government Adoption Accelerates

The year saw significant progress with the use of blockchain infrastructure by the government. Chainlink announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce collaborated with its network to publish macroeconomic data on the blockchain using Chainlink Data Feeds sourced from the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Government Adoption

Additionally, Sergey Nazarov, Chainlink’s co-founder, engaged in high-level policy discussions at events like the White House Digital Asset Summit. The signing of the GENIUS Act by U.S. President Donald Trump highlights the increasing synergy between policymakers and blockchain service providers as clarity surrounding regulations improves.

Banks and Capital Markets Move Onchain

Within banking and capital markets, global financial institutions are turning to Chainlink to implement production-grade onchain workflows. The report notes a partnership with Mastercard that enables more than three billion cardholders to purchase crypto assets directly on-chain through a Chainlink-enabled application.

Moreover, asset managers are broadening their tokenized offerings. Notably, UBS achieved what Chainlink described as the first live, end-to-end tokenized fund workflow using its Digital Transfer Agent standard. Other firms, including WisdomTree and FTSE Russell, have begun to publish institutional-grade net asset value and index data on the blockchain.

Major financial market infrastructures like DTCC, Euroclear, and SWIFT have also collaborated with Chainlink to enhance corporate actions processing and cross-chain settlement through standardized messaging formats.

DeFi and Tokenization Scale Up

The adoption of Chainlink within decentralized finance and tokenization platforms has significantly increased in 2025. Coinbase has chosen Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) as the exclusive bridge infrastructure for its wrapped assets. Furthermore, DeFi protocols like Aave and Lido have upgraded their infrastructure to utilize Chainlink, facilitating institutional-level use cases.

Chainlink’s expansion of CCIP to include non-EVM blockchains, such as Solana, has opened up access to tens of billions of dollars in assets across various ecosystems.

Infrastructure Push Sets Stage for 2026

In addition to increased adoption, Chainlink has rolled out new platform capabilities in 2025, such as its Runtime Environment, Automated Compliance Engine, and Confidential Compute service designed to support privacy-focused and compliant on-chain applications.

The report concludes that 2025 marks a critical juncture for onchain finance, anticipating that 2026 will see an acceleration in tokenization as institutions align around shared infrastructure.

“Governments, financial institutions, and market infrastructures are increasingly coordinating around Chainlink standards,” the company stated, emphasizing its network as essential infrastructure for the global transition toward onchain capital markets.