Introducing Chainlink 24/7: Always-On Markets for Real-World Assets

Chainlink 24/7 is now live, providing always-on market data for stocks, commodities, and many other traditional assets to blockchain markets. Aave, the largest DeFi lending market with over $34 billion in total value secured (TVL), is actively adopting Chainlink 24/7 to securely manage collateral around the clock.

Earlier this year, Chainlink 24/5 U.S. Equities Streams launched, delivering market data for U.S. equities and ETFs across every weekday trading session: pre-market, regular, post-market, and overnight. Now, Chainlink 24/7 is extending pricing coverage to weekends and holidays. Markets powered by Chainlink 24/7 never sleep, giving users the ability to trade, borrow, and manage their positions at any time while ensuring asset issuers and DeFi applications can properly manage risk at all times. 

Chainlink 24/7 is delivered through Data Feeds and Data Streams, built on Chainlink’s industry-standard decentralized oracle infrastructure that secures ~70% of DeFi, powers over 80% of lending markets on Ethereum and Solana, supports over 81% of tokenized RWA value, and has enabled over $1 trillion in perpetuals trading volume in 2026. This battle-tested infrastructure has proven secure and reliable during the most extreme market volatility, blockchain network congestion, and major cloud infrastructure outages.

Chainlink 24/7 is critical infrastructure for a financial transformation that goes far beyond extended trading hours, ultimately unifying the world’s financial markets onchain. Stocks, commodities, funds, and other assets from all over the world are being tokenized at an accelerating rate, opening them to a global investor pool that can access them to trade, obtain liquidity, manage risk, and put their capital to work wherever they are, at any time of the day. Breaking news in Asia, a weekend opportunity in Europe, or a financing need in the Americas no longer waits for an opening bell. Chainlink is underpinning this shift with the continuous market data that makes 24/7 global markets a reality.

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The Barrier Preventing Around-the-Clock Asset Trading

Tokenization brings traditional assets such as equities and commodities onto blockchains that operate around the clock. However, the gap between traditional market operating hours (e.g., Mon-Fri; 9:30AM – 4:00PM ET in the U.S.) and onchain market hours (24/7) makes it difficult to reliably price and manage these types of assets when traditional markets are closed. 

Chainlink 24/5 Streams closed the weekday gap by providing trusted market data onchain across regular, pre-market, post-market, and overnight sessions. Yet a gap remained from 8PM ET Friday to 8PM ET Sunday, as well as on market holidays. 

Onchain applications have historically had to manage these gaps themselves, forcing them into difficult trade-offs: pause markets, rely on the last available price, or build their own off-hours methodology and switching logic. These limitations make it harder to provide a consistent trading experience and manage the value of tokenized collateral during market closures. 

For onchain finance to reach its full potential, applications require unified pricing infrastructure to support traditional assets throughout the week. Not only does this make new markets possible, but it's critical to managing risk, especially in applications with automated liquidations and risk parameters. For example, lending protocols assume risk by holding tokenized RWAs as collateral over the weekend and holidays when the underlying markets are closed, making off-hours pricing a DeFi solvency risk that must be addressed.

How Chainlink 24/7 Unlocks Always-On Markets for RWAs

Chainlink 24/7 stitches together prices from active trading sessions with an off-hours reference to create a single continuous price series for each supported asset. As a result, applications gain a consistent foundation for pricing and risk management without having to assemble it themselves.

During regular, extended, and overnight trading sessions, the price draws on existing Chainlink 24/5 session data. When the underlying traditional market closes, it uses quotes from multiple top perp venues. This off-hours engine reflects fresh trading in derivatives linked to the asset; it is not a live quote from the closed traditional exchange.

Chainlink connects these sources using session-aware stitching, which manages transitions between pricing sources as market sessions change. Built on the established blending engine behind Chainlink’s 24/5 tokenized equity pricing, this approach enables applications to maintain continuity across the week while preserving immediate price discovery at the regular-session opening bell.

Chainlink 24/7 Innovations

• One Continuous Reference Per Asset: Chainlink handles the transition between session-specific data and off-hours pricing, so developers can spend less time building feed-selection logic and more time bringing utility to RWAs.
• Off-Hours Pricing Informed by Multiple Perps Venues: The reference aggregates quotes from multiple perps venues, filters out stale inputs, and limits the influence of outlier prices, improving resilience and reducing reliance on any single off-hours venue. Supported assets must meet Chainlink’s high standards for market coverage, liquidity, and pricing consistency.
• Two Onchain Delivery Paths: Each application gets the delivery model suited to its use case. Prediction markets and perpetual exchanges can retrieve low-latency pricing offchain directly through Data Streams when needed. Lending protocols can read prices published directly onchain through Data Feeds.
• Market Context for Informed Risk Decisions: Data Streams reports identify the current market session and include bid and ask prices during open sessions. Applications can use this context to adapt risk settings as market conditions change. 

New Markets for RWAs

Continuous pricing expands the range of financial products developers can build onchain around traditional assets, including:

• Perpetuals and Derivatives: Price, fund, and settle perpetual markets on traditional assets through weekends and holidays, with a reference price that keeps moving when markets are closed. 
• Lending Against Tokenized Assets: Value eligible collateral around the clock with a price designed for liquidations, allowing protocols to maintain their risk parameters beyond traditional market hours.
• Short-Duration Prediction Markets: Establish markets based on asset price movements using time-weighted average pricing (TWAP) as a consistent reference to determine outcomes and help prevent price manipulation.

Industry Leader Aave Adopts Chainlink 24/7

Aave is using Chainlink 24/7 Data Feeds to price tokenized RWAs used as collateral within its institutional lending platform Horizon, starting with high-volume U.S. Equities.

“Bringing assets onchain should increase the number of ways users can put capital to work. With Chainlink 24/7, Aave can reliably value RWA collateral through weekends and holidays, enabling institutions to realize the full potential of always-on lending backed by the robust risk management they require.” — Stani Kulechov, Founder and CEO, Aave

The Future of Finance Is Markets That Never Sleep

Global demand for U.S. markets is surging. According to Nasdaq, foreign holdings of U.S. equities nearly doubled between 2019 and mid-2024, reaching $17 trillion. Yet markets still run on a schedule set by a single time zone. An investor in Seoul shouldn’t have to wait for New York to wake up to capitalize on an opportunity. Chainlink is providing the mission-critical infrastructure for the next era of finance, where opportunity is accessible across borders and around the clock.

Chainlink 24/5 broke the first barrier by extending onchain equity markets on weekdays beyond standard trading hours. Chainlink 24/5 has already extended markets beyond standard trading hours for nearly half of the tokenized equities, powering pricing for more than $1.6 billion in tokenized stocks across six blockchains for Ondo, xStocks, Robinhood, and Coinbase. 

Now, Chainlink 24/7 breaks the last barrier by bringing continuous pricing data to onchain markets for real-world assets throughout weekends and holidays. As coverage expands, builders can now bring more traditional assets into always-on trading and lending markets, giving investors greater freedom to deploy capital, access liquidity, and manage exposure throughout the week at any hour.

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