Link:NYC Recap 2026 | Key Announcements, Product Launches, Highlights, and More
Key Takeaways
- Chainlink launches CustodySync to connect institutional capital to DeFi lending markets, with Anchorage Digital as the official launch partner, and releases Chainlink 24/7 to unlock always-on pricing for tokenized RWAs, with Aave adopting it.
- Chainlink expands work with S&P Global Ratings, while LG CNS, OpenZeppelin, and more adopt Chainlink.
- Sergey Nazarov outlines the vision for building the new global financial system at Link:NYC, which brought together leaders from DTCC, Swift, ICE, Fidelity, BlackRock, Bank of America, the CFTC, and more.
Link:NYC is the convergence point for the senior executives and industry leaders upgrading global financial markets: the banks, market infrastructure providers, asset managers, and institutional allocators deciding how value moves in a digital, AI-driven economy.
Across institutional RWAs, agentic finance, interoperability, financial market infrastructure, and stablecoins and payments, Link:NYC brings together hundreds of executives and leaders, with speakers from DTCC, Swift, ICE, Fidelity, BlackRock, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, State Street, Standard Chartered, Deutsche Börse, FTSE Russell, AWS, Robinhood, the CFTC, and many more, as well as featured major Chainlink product launches and announcements shared on the Road to Link:NYC.
Explore the highlights below, from major Chainlink announcements to keynotes, industry discussions, and perspectives from U.S. policymakers.
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Product Launches
Introducing Chainlink CustodySync: Connecting Institutional Capital to DeFi Lending Markets
Chainlink CustodySync is a new solution that keeps a qualified custodian’s existing systems and DeFi lending markets in sync across the full lifecycle of a loan, from deposit and borrowing through repayment and liquidation. CustodySync enables the qualified custodian to retain control of its clients’ digital assets, with both the custodian and the lending market acting on the same verified data delivered by Chainlink.
CustodySync goes live with Anchorage Digital Bank, N.A. as the official launch partner. Anchorage Digital's custodial infrastructure and its Atlas Collateral Management product work in tandem with lending protocols, providing borrowers the institutional tri-party framework they are accustomed to while facilitating core functions on behalf of protocols as their appointed collateral agent.
CustodySync coordinates two independent systems: a qualified custodian's collateral management system, which remains the source of truth for collateral balances, and an onchain lending market, which provides liquidity. CustodySync keeps the two systems in sync at every stage.
CustodySync combines multiple components of the broader Chainlink platform into a single solution, including the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE), Data Feeds, Data Streams, and Proof of Reserve, to turn passive capital into productive capital by letting institutions borrow against custodied assets that would otherwise sit idle.
Introducing Chainlink 24/7: Always-On Markets for Real-World Assets
Launched at Link:NYC, Chainlink 24/7 delivers market data for equities, commodities, and other real-world assets around the clock, unlocking always-on markets for onchain finance across every trading session, weekend, and holiday.
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.
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.
Tokenized assets, prediction markets, and perpetual futures now have robust real-time pricing to support 24/7 trading and settlement, while lending protocols can value tokenized collateral after traditional markets close, expanding when investors can put their capital to work. Developers no longer need to pause weekend markets, manage the complexity of multiple feeds, or build custom switching logic. Chainlink 24/7 provides one continuous, unified pricing reference per asset.
Reach out to a Chainlink expert to learn more and start building today.
Chainlink Adoption With S&P Global Ratings, LG CNS, and More
Chainlink Expands Collaboration With S&P Global Ratings To Bring Vault Risk Assessments Onchain
Chainlink expanded its collaboration with S&P Global Ratings by making the firm's Vault Risk Assessment (VRA) data available onchain. Now live on Base, the integration gives institutions and DeFi platforms direct access to independent vault risk analysis onchain, enabling users to evaluate risk where they deploy capital and bringing greater transparency to the $10 billion lending vault market.
The integration leverages DataLink, an institutional-grade data publishing service, with CRE orchestrating the retrieval of S&P Global Ratings' assessment data and its publication onchain. A Chainlink decentralized oracle network retrieves the source data, reaches consensus on the reported values, and delivers them onchain.
This live integration expands Chainlink’s existing collaboration with S&P Global Ratings, which previously brought its Stablecoin Stability Assessments onchain.
LG CNS Enters Strategic Partnership With Chainlink to Advance Korea’s $68B Digital Asset Market
LG CNS, the technology arm of LG Group, has entered a strategic partnership with Chainlink to advance Korea’s $68 billion digital asset market.
LG Group is one of Korea’s largest business groups, with approximately ₩186 trillion in assets across 63 affiliates. LG CNS is the lead contractor for the Bank of Korea’s flagship digital currency initiative, Project Hangang.
Through the partnership, LG CNS and Chainlink will:
- Enhance LG CNS’s digital asset platform solution with Chainlink’s cross-chain, data, and orchestration infrastructure.
- Collaborate on digital asset solutions for Korean institutions using the full Chainlink platform.
- Advance the next generation of technical standards underpinning Korea’s digital asset economy.
The partnership is built for one of the world’s most active and technologically advanced digital asset markets. Korea is Asia's second-largest digital asset market, with the Korean won consistently ranking second in crypto trading volume, behind only the U.S. dollar.
By combining LG CNS’s institutional expertise with Chainlink technology standards, the partnership establishes the foundation for compliant digital asset infrastructure in Korea and for global expansion.
OpenZeppelin Embeds Chainlink Into Its Tooling Standard Behind $38+ Trillion in Transferred Value
OpenZeppelin, which S&P Global agreed to acquire, has embedded Chainlink into its tooling standard used by the vast majority of the industry, including BlackRock, WisdomTree, Franklin Templeton, and more.
Developers now access Chainlink infrastructure inside the OpenZeppelin tools they already use:
- CRE for orchestration and applicable Defender migrations
- CCIP for secure cross-chain token deployment
- ACE for programmable compliance
"OpenZeppelin and Chainlink each set a standard: we secure how onchain systems are developed, and Chainlink connects them to the data, chains, privacy, compliance and orchestration they depend on to securely scale. Embedding CRE, CCIP, and ACE natively into the OpenZeppelin development flow gives developers and institutions a clearer path from design to deployment, from tokenized assets and compliant financial products to entirely new onchain markets." — Jonathan Alexander, CTO, OpenZeppelin
Archax Adopts Chainlink To Scale Its Tokenized Treasury Product Across Institutional Markets
Archax, the UK's first FCA-regulated digital asset platform, has adopted Chainlink to make GOVY, its 24/7, auto-rolling U.S. tokenized Treasury product, usable across institutional markets.
GOVY offers institutional holders 1:1 regulated custody, 24/7 instant settlement, and frictionless redemption. As each T-Bill matures, it is automatically replaced, providing continuous Treasury exposure without the need for manual reinvestment.
Data Streams provides reliable, low-latency pricing data that enables institutions to turn GOVY into programmable, productive collateral by unlocking:
- Treasury holdings as productive collateral
- Automated treasury and collateral management strategies
- Greater capital efficiency across lending and trading
- Reduced operational friction of integrating real-world assets
With more than $15 billion in distributed value across tokenized U.S. Treasuries, the market’s next phase is not simply bringing Treasuries onchain, but making them productive and programmable. Chainlink provides the critical data infrastructure needed to make that possible and bring all the world’s assets onchain.
Hanwha Investment & Securities Forms Strategic Partnership With Chainlink to Tokenize, Connect, and Collateralize RWAs Worldwide
Hanwha Investment & Securities, a financial affiliate of Hanwha, a Fortune Global 500 company, announced a strategic partnership with Chainlink that spans the full path of tokenizing real-world assets (RWAs). The partnership involves working together on institutional use cases while meeting compliance and custody requirements; valuation and reserve verification methods; use cases and standards for using a wide range of RWAs as collateral; and technology and compliance aligned with the institutionalization of tokenized securities in Korea.
As part of the partnership, Hanwha Investment & Securities is adopting the Chainlink data standard and Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) as the official data and interoperability infrastructure of its global tokenization platform. This includes Chainlink providing trusted pricing and net asset value (NAV) data for the assets it issues, while CCIP enables those assets and liquidity to move securely across public and private blockchains.
“Our goal is to tokenize quality assets that clients have wanted but found difficult to access, and to open a new financial market where they are issued, distributed, and used as collateral across global markets. Chainlink is our key global strategic partner in realizing this vision, and with Chainlink’s standards at the core of our platform, we can build it on a stable and trusted technology foundation.” — Insung An, Chief Digital Officer at Hanwha Investment & Securities
Further Asset Management Leverages Chainlink To Power Tokenized Asset Compliance Platform Within Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM)
The Abu Dhabi-based asset manager has adopted Chainlink to power tokenized asset compliance workflows in Anubis, its new platform for machine-readable regulations. Further is embedding Chainlink’s Automated Compliance Engine (ACE) in Anubis to implement configured jurisdiction-specific compliance policies across all institutional tokenized asset workflows.
Initial deployment is focused on compliance within ADGM, the UAE capital’s international financial center home to 340+ institutions, with workflows designed to support compliance with applicable Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) requirements.
ADGM introduced one of the world's first comprehensive regulatory frameworks for virtual assets in 2018, and its FSRA is recognized as a global pioneer in digital asset regulation. Today, ADGM is home to 347+ financial institutions and 171 asset and fund managers overseeing 244+ funds. By enforcing compliance rules in its Anubis compliance engine via Chainlink ACE, Further Asset Management is giving these institutions a programmable, automated path to issuing and transacting digital assets in full alignment with Abu Dhabi’s regulatory standards.
Hong Kong Gold Exchange (HKGX) Is Bringing Its Gold-Backed Token to Chainlink CCIP
The Hong Kong Gold Exchange (HKGX), the world’s fourth-largest gold trading venue by volume, is bringing its gold-backed token to Chainlink CCIP.
GoldZip (XGZ), issued by HKGX’s BVI subsidiary, is integrating CCIP with Midas Labs. Each XGZ token is supported by physical gold stored in accredited vaults, and CCIP enables it to move securely across multiple blockchains.
CCIP provides the gold-backed token:
- Secure-by-default transfers, with every cross-chain transaction verified by 16 independent node operators.
- Built-in compliance controls, such as KYC and AML checks, that issuers can apply to every transfer.
- One integration that carries the token’s security and compliance setup to every supported chain.
Sergey Nazarov Keynote: Building the New Global Financial System
Chainlink Co-Founder Sergey Nazarov delivered his keynote address, outlining a vision for a new global financial system that brings traditional finance and DeFi together into a unified onchain economy.
He covered what gives tokenized assets true utility, how lending and credit are tokenization’s killer app, the growth of tokenized equities, how Chainlink is connecting traditional finance with DeFi, and much more.
Full presentation slides: https://pages.chain.link/hubfs/LinkNYC_Keynote-SergeyNazarov.pdf
Industry Panels
Upgrading the Foundations of Global Finance | DTCC and Chainlink
Frank La Salla, CEO of DTCC, and Sergey Nazarov discussed the next evolution of global capital markets, bringing the infrastructure at the heart of finance onchain.
They explored how tokenized securities and 24/7 collateral movement can unlock billions in trapped liquidity and transform how capital moves around the world:
"We are going to free up billions and billions of dollars of trapped liquidity that, in the current structure, is stuck." — Frank La Salla, CEO, DTCC
Panelists:
- Frank La Salla, CEO, DTCC
- Sergey Nazarov, Co-Founder, Chainlink
Unifying Global Finance via Shared Standards | Swift, Bank of America, and Chainlink
Sergey Nazarov joined Jonathan Ehrenfeld Solé of Swift and Sonali Theisen of Bank of America to discuss how the convergence of banking and blockchain is reshaping the global financial system.
They examined how shared standards and interoperability enable money, collateral, and tokenized assets to move seamlessly across banks and blockchains. With Chainlink connecting these networks, the panel outlined a future where capital flows wherever and whenever it is needed, unlocking liquidity and bringing the power of onchain finance to the scale of the global economy.
“Blockchains are one of the best technologies that you have to actually make money intelligent.” — Jonathan Ehrenfeld Solé, Head of Strategy, Swift
Panelists:
- Jonathan Ehrenfeld Solé, Head of Strategy, Swift
- Sonali Theisen, Global Head of Digital Assets Platform, FICC E-Trading & Markets Strategic Investments, Bank of America
- Sergey Nazarov, Co-Founder, Chainlink
From Market Hours to Market Infrastructure: Enabling 24/7 Collateral Mobility | DTCC, ICE, Cboe, FTSE Russell, and Chainlink
Leaders from DTCC, ICE, Cboe Global Markets, and FTSE Russell joined Chainlink Labs’ Frank Seibold to discuss how institutional-grade data and interoperability are enabling 24/7 collateral mobility.
The discussion showed how bringing pricing, eligibility criteria, and collateral operations onchain can accelerate asset movement, unlock liquidity, and improve capital efficiency across global markets. Panelists highlighted Chainlink’s role in delivering trusted data across blockchains while preserving existing commercial relationships, with DTCC pointing to its work with Chainlink on Fulcrum as a demonstration of how collateral held on one chain can support financing on another. The end goal is turning tokenized assets into productive collateral that institutions can put to work around the clock.
“When we start talking about large sums of money moving around, people are going to really care: where did that data point that triggered that smart contract or triggered that collateral movement come from?” — Kristen Mierzwa, Head of Digital Assets, FTSE Russell
Panelists:
- Tom Pikett, Product, DTCC
- Michael Blaugrund, VP, Strategic Initiatives, Intercontinental Exchange
- Kristen Mierzwa, Head of Digital Assets, FTSE Russell
- JJ Kinahan, SVP, Cboe Global Markets
- Frank Seibold, Managing Director, Global Head of Banking & Capital Markets, Chainlink Labs
The Asset Manager's Playbook | Fidelity, Morgan Stanley, BlackRock, and Chainlink
Leaders from Fidelity, Morgan Stanley, and BlackRock joined Chainlink Labs’ Ryan Lovell to explore how tokenization can transform fund distribution, liquidity, and asset utility.
The discussion covered how the industry needs to move beyond issuing tokens to making fund shares usable across lending protocols, collateral markets, and onchain portfolios. The panelists highlighted 24/7 liquidity, composability, and transparent ownership records as the most important benefits, while emphasizing the infrastructure needed to connect existing operations with onchain markets. The opportunity is turning fund shares into mobile, productive assets within a globally connected financial ecosystem.
“The hard part isn't representing the fund share onchain. The hard part is … how do you make a share more useful and a better overall experience for investors than just simply holding it in their brokerage account today?” — Cynthia Lo Bessette, Head of Digital Asset Management, Fidelity
Panelists:
- Cynthia Lo Bessette, Head of Digital Asset Management, Fidelity
- Amy Oldenburg, Head of Digital Asset Strategy, Morgan Stanley
- Maxwell Stein, Director, Digital Assets, BlackRock
- Ryan Lovell, Director, Capital Markets, Chainlink Labs
Tokenization at Scale | Broadridge, State Street Investment Management, DBS Bank, PwC, and Chainlink
Leaders from Broadridge, DBS Bank, State Street Investment Management, and PwC joined Chainlink Labs’ Andrew McCormick to discuss what it takes to scale tokenization in institutional markets.
The panel explored how 24/7 asset mobility and programmable collateral can improve capital efficiency, as well as the practical requirements for adoption: trusted infrastructure, lower costs, and seamless connectivity across financial systems.
Panelists:
- Mark Nichols, Co-President Digital Assets, Broadridge
- Sam ten Cate, Managing Director - Digital Strategy, State Street Investment Management
- Evy Theunis, Managing Director and Head of Digital Assets, Institutional Banking Group, DBS Bank
- Matthew Blumenfeld, Global & U.S. Digital Asset Lead, PwC
- Andrew McCormick, Head of Institutional & Market Development, Chainlink Labs
CFTC Chairman Michael S. Selig Address
CFTC Chairman Michael S. Selig shared his personal views on the future of onchain finance and Chainlink’s role in connecting traditional finance with the onchain economy.
“As a provider of blockchain oracle services, Sergey and Chainlink Labs are enabling collaboration between institutions, DeFi protocols, and onchain applications in a way once thought impossible. This expertise has proven extremely powerful not only in practice but in discussions amongst industry and government leaders, including the CFTC's innovation advisory committee of which Sergey is a member.”
Industry News
- Chainlink, S&P Bring Vault Assessments Onchain. Markets Media.
- Further Asset Management adopts Chainlink. Asset Servicing Times.
- Chainlink and S&P Global Ratings Bring Vault Risk Assessment Data Onchain. Fintech Finance News.
- Chainlink and S&P Global progress on-chain risk analytics. Finadium.
- Chainlink adds weekend pricing for tokenized assets, with Aave as launch partner. CoinDesk.
- Tokenized asset compliance comes to ADGM with Further and Chainlink. Lara On The Block.
- Hanwha Investment & Securities Signs MOU With Chainlink on Real-World Asset Tokenization. Bloomingbit.
- Hanwha Investment & Securities Partners With Chainlink on Digital Asset Platform. Seoul Economic Daily.
- Hanwha Investment & Securities Co., Ltd. Teams Up with Chainlink to Build Out RWA Infrastructure. Financial News.
- Further Asset Management Adopts Chainlink ACE for Abu Dhabi Asset Checks. TokenPost.
- Chainlink: Hanwha adopts CCIP for its global tokenization platform – 30 Oct 2026. CoinMarketCal via TradingView.
- ADQ-backed Further picks Chainlink to police tokenized trades in Abu Dhabi. Crypto News.
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