Chainlink Quarterly Review: Q2, 2026

The Chainlink ecosystem had a strong Q2, highlighted by over $7 billion in cross-chain token value migrating to CCIP, representing a broad industry shift toward secure-by-default cross-chain infrastructure. Chainlink was also central to the growth of prediction markets, with 10 different apps adopting Chainlink for fast, accurate results and instant payouts, including ADI Predictstreet, the official prediction market partner for the 2026 FIFA World Cup™. 

Institutional momentum accelerated too, with the DTCC announcing it’s integrating CRE and Chainlink's data standard into its Collateral AppChain to unlock 24/7 collateral workflows, while Chainlink and more than 50 banks launched Project Pangea to modernize international FX markets with T+0 settlement. 

These wins and more helped push Chainlink's Total Value Secured to $110 billion and earned Chainlink the #4 spot on Fortune's Crypto 100 list for Blockchain and Protocols. Rounding out the quarter, Chainlink Labs brought on Andrew McCormick as the Head of Institutional and Market Development, bringing 15+ years of trading and capital markets experience to the team.

The following blog highlights the major product launches and industry adoption of the Chainlink platform since the Q1 Quarterly Review 2026.

Be sure to follow the recently launched DevHub Changelog as the go-to resource for new updates on every Chainlink product. You can also visit the community-run Chainlink Ecosystem page to discover the latest projects using Chainlink and track key metrics across network usage and ecosystem adoption at Chainlink Metrics.

CCIP

• Over $7 Billion in cross-chain token value migrated to CCIP in Q2, driven by a “flight to safety” to secure-by-default interoperability infrastructure. CCIP also posted one of its strongest quarterly volumes at $4.90B, a 353% YoY increase.

• Numerous protocols deprecated their legacy bridging solution and migrated to CCIP as their exclusive cross-chain infrastructure. This includes:‍
  
  • Kraken, a leading U.S. crypto exchange, for $330M+ in Kraken Wrapped Bitcoin (kBTC) and all future Kraken Wrapped Assets. [Announcement]‍
  • Mantle for $2.5B+ in MNT, with the Mantle Super Portal, built with Bybit, upgrading to CCIP as its exclusive cross-chain infrastructure. [Announcement]‍
  • KelpDAO for $1.5B in rsETH, following the exploit of its legacy bridging provider. [Announcement]‍
  • Virtuals for its $700M+ VIRTUAL token used in cross-chain payments for AI agents across chains. [Announcement]‍
  • Lombard Finance to secure its $1B+ in Bitcoin assets. [Announcement]‍
  • Solv for its $700M+ in tokenized BTC. [Announcement]‍
  • Re to secure $475M in reUSD distribution across chains. [Announcement]‍
  • Galaxy Digital-backed Tenbin Labs for its tokenized FX stables and commodities. [Announcement]‍
  • Pleasing Market for its tokenized precious metals. [Announcement]‍
  • Huma to power its cross-chain yield products for 100K+ users. [Announcement]‍
  • Yuzu Money to distribute institutional yield products across DeFi. [Announcement]‍
  • Commertize for its tokenized real-world asset ecosystem. [Announcement]
• ‍Multiple DeFi protocols published updated cross-chain risk frameworks following extensive security reviews, highlighting why they chose CCIP as their preferred cross-chain solution:‍
  
  • LlamaRisk, Aave’s risk manager, published an updated risk framework that incorporates Chainlink’s data, cross-chain, and orchestration standards to manage and reduce protocol risk. The DAO proposal vote passed with 100% approval. [Post]‍
  • Lido, one of the largest DeFi protocols by TVL, published the security principles behind wstETH’s multi-chain strategy, including why CCIP was selected as the official cross-chain solution. [Blog]‍
  • Turtle, a leading liquidity distribution protocol, stated that CCIP was the gold standard for cross-chain infrastructure due to its secure-by-default architecture, and that assets relying on configurable, ad-hoc bridging will be priced with a haircut. [Announcement]
• ‍Robinhood Chain adopted Chainlink as its official data and cross-chain oracle to power Robinhood Chain and all Robinhood-issued assets, including Stock Tokens like NVDA, GOOG, AAPL, and more. The integration was live on day 1 of its mainnet launch. [Announcement]‍
• Citi's new Tokenization 2030 report highlights Chainlink CCIP as the interoperability standard connecting the tokenized global financial system. Citi projects that tokenized asset markets can reach $8.2 trillion by 2030, with secure cross-chain connectivity being critical. [Report]‍
• Tempo, the payments-first L1 incubated by Stripe and Paradigm, adopted CCIP to bring Coinbase Wrapped BTC ($5B+ circulating) to its network. For the first time, the world's largest crypto asset is available on Tempo, backed by institutional-grade security. [Announcement]‍
• CCIP extended mainnet support for new blockchain ecosystems, including Robinhood, Tempo, Creditcoin, NeoX, ADI, Edge, and Pharos.‍
• The Cross-Chain Token (CCT) standard, powered by CCIP, added 84 new tokens, including Saturn Dollar (USDat & sUSDat), PayFi Strategy Token (PST), Solstice (SLX), and Bitget Wrapped BTC (BGBTC), as well as 20 new Solana subnet-based tokens.

• Major tokens increasingly leveraging CCIP for cross-chain transactions in Q2, such as:
  
  • Maple’s syrupUSDT/syrupUSDC did $2.5B+ in combined volume.
  • Coinbase's wrapped BTC, cbBTC, gained traction, with volume rising 278% QoQ.
  • The GHO stablecoin expanded its cross-chain usage with $579M in volume, a 94% QoQ growth rate.

TradFi

• DTCC, the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, announced it is integrating CRE and the Chainlink data standard into the DTCC’s Collateral AppChain. Together, DTCC and Chainlink are advancing 24/7, near-real-time collateral workflows across global markets and blockchains, with an expected go-live of Q4 2026. [Announcement] The firm also successfully converted assets held at The Depository Trust Company into tokens that were then used in real production trades, a notable milestone that marks the largest tokenization production initiative in breadth of use cases, asset classes, and number of participants. Multiple firms, blockchain networks, wallets, exchanges, issuers, and applications participated, including Chainlink. [Announcement]

“The integration of Chainlink’s CRE and data standard will allow us to deliver a unified on-chain environment, bringing on-chain asset prices, valuations and other collateral agreement data to support this transformative industry initiative.” — Nadine Chakar, DTCC Managing Director, Global Head of Digital Assets.

• Fidelity International, a global asset manager with $1+ trillion total client assets, launched its first tokenized fund, FILQ, powered by Chainlink. Through onchain NAV, Chainlink is enabling Fidelity International to bring regulated yield-bearing liquidity into a 24/7 digital market. [Announcement]

• Chainlink, alongside multinational banking consortia, launched Project Pangea to develop a novel solution to redefine international FX markets. Pangea brings together 50+ banks, representing $10+ trillion AUM, to unlock cross-border T+0 atomic settlement via Chainlink, ISO 20022 messaging, and existing Swift infrastructure. [Announcement]

• Vayana, India’s most trusted trade credit infrastructure, with $62B+ in financing facilitated, adopted Chainlink to power tokenized asset distribution. With a network of 3,000+ supply chains, Vayana is leveraging the full Chainlink platform to upgrade India's financial ecosystem. [Announcement]

• State Street Investment, a global asset manager with $5+ trillion AUM, and Galaxy launched SWEEP, a tokenized liquidity fund powered by Chainlink. Through NAV data and CCIP, Chainlink is enabling regulated yield-bearing liquidity in 24/7 digital markets. [Announcement]

• The Bermuda Monetary Authority completed an initiative demonstrating how Chainlink embeds regulatory requirements into digital asset infrastructure. Together with Apex Group, Bluprynt, and Hacken, the initiative moves compliance from manual processes to real-time enforcement. Chainlink capabilities demonstrated in the initiative include: compliance via ACE + CCID, reserve data via Proof of Reserve, cross-chain interoperability via CCIP, and workflow orchestration via CRE. [Announcement]

• Amazon’s AWS Marketplace listed the Chainlink data standard. Now, millions of AWS developers and hundreds of thousands of businesses have access to the secure data infrastructure required to build institutional-grade blockchain apps. Chainlink services now available on AWS include Data Feeds, Data Streams, and Proof of Reserve. [Announcement]

• SIX, the operator of the Swiss & Spanish national exchanges, adopted Chainlink to bring its premium European equities data onchain. Chainlink and SIX Group are unlocking the tokenization of €2+ trillion in European equities. [Announcement]

• Chainlink’s role at the center of international digital asset policy continued to grow:
  
  • Engaged with leaders at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Spring Meetings on the emerging role of tokenized assets in global markets.
  • Joined the Atlantic Council to examine the latest shifts in U.S. crypto policy and their implications for global markets
  • Took part in engagements at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and on Capitol Hill aimed at advancing the understanding of blockchain technology. [Announcement]‍

• Hastra, the DeFi arm of Figure, adopted Chainlink as its official oracle infrastructure to bring $20 billion in HELOC and auto loans to DeFi markets. Chainlink's data and interoperability standards are enabling HastraFi's PRIME and AUTO tokenized RWAs to be used as collateral in Solana DeFi. [Announcement]

• Bridgetower adopted Chainlink to tokenize $11B+ in securities from the DOM X Arizona Copper-Gold Project. In the live deployment, Chainlink powers key tokenization capabilities through CCIP, Proof of Reserve, NAVLink, and CRE, while also working with Bridgetower on privacy-preserving workflows using Chainlink’s privacy standard. [Announcement]

• The Capital Markets and Technology Association (CMTA), a leading organization developing standards for tokenized assets, adopted the Chainlink interoperability standard. CMTAT tokens can now be registered with CCIP and natively transferred across the multi-chain economy without requiring any modifications to the CMTAT codebase. [Announcement]

• T-RIZE adopted Chainlink to power proof-of-insurance for its novel tokenized private credit product on Canton Network. With Chainlink bringing insurance coverage data onchain, T-RIZE is eliminating manual processes for RWAs in the $3 trillion private credit market. [Announcement]

• Wenia launched its USD-based stablecoin, USDW, leveraging Chainlink Proof of Reserve to ensure transparent offchain collateral and protection against over-minting. [Announcement]

Prediction Markets

• Polymarket’s high-speed up/down crypto markets reached $7+ billion in total trading volume, with market resolution powered by Chainlink Data Streams. Total market coverage expanded to include BTC, ETH, SOL, DOGE, HYPE, BNB, and more.

• ADI Predictstreet, the official 2026 FIFA World Cup™ prediction market partner, adopted Chainlink as its exclusive oracle infrastructure. To mitigate the risks of slow manual resolution or market outcome disputes, ADI Predictstreet is using CRE to automate market creation, resolution, and settlement. [Announcement]

• Nine additional prediction market applications adopted Chainlink for fast, accurate resolutions and instant payouts, including:
  
  • World, the premier prediction market on Solana, adopted Chainlink as its oracle infrastructure to power markets around crypto, the 2026 FIFA World Cup, macro events, elections, and additional sports. [Announcement]
  • Predict.fun, BNB Chain’s top prediction market, to power new 15-min Bitcoin markets. [Announcement]
  • Myriad to power its new FIFA World Cup prediction markets for more accurate market resolutions and faster payouts. Myriad also adopted Chainlink Data Streams as its exclusive oracle infrastructure to power real-time settlement for its new crypto prediction markets, while CRE gives Myriad a unified orchestration layer to automate market creation, resolution, and settlement. [Announcement, Announcement]
  • Limitless, the largest prediction market on Base, to power high-speed resolution for short-term, high-volume crypto markets with instant payouts. [Announcement]
  • Turbo Flow to power new continuous prediction markets for gold, BTC, and ETH. [Announcement]
  • P2P.me, Forkast, and Vault777 to power fast crypto prediction markets with immediate resolution. [Announcement].
  • XO Market to power its high-speed Pulse Markets. [Announcement]

Data

• Chainlink APAC Equities Streams are now live, starting with Japan and Korea. Developers can now build onchain markets powered by fast, secure data around the largest companies in the Asia-Pacific region, including Samsung, SK Hynix, Toyota, Sony, SoftBank, and more. [Announcement]
• OKX, a Top-10 crypto exchange with 120M+ users, adopted Chainlink to unlock the $80 trillion tokenized RWA opportunity on X Layer. Chainlink enables devs to create advanced apps, bringing the agentic economy and high-speed DeFi to Chainlink Scale member XLayer. [Announcement]

• SGX FX, a leading technology partner for the global institutional FX ecosystem, adopted Chainlink to bring its premium OTC FX market data onchain. Via Chainlink, SGX FX is unlocking more robust DeFi currency markets, powered by the same data that underpins global forex markets. [Announcement]

• Aave V4 Spokes now use Chainlink SVR price feeds across eligible assets. This follows the success of SVR in Aave V3, where SVR processed over $884 million in liquidations. Chainlink SVR is the industry standard for returning non-toxic MEV from liquidations back to the protocol that created it, opening up a reliable revenue stream for the Aave DAO while supporting the economic sustainability of Chainlink oracles through a revenue split. [Announcement]

• Temple, the first private trading platform on the Canton network, adopted Chainlink to power fast, privacy-preserving spot markets. With crypto, commodities, and equities to follow, Chainlink Data Streams is unlocking secure institutional markets on Temple. [Announcement]

• Tydro, the largest lending protocol on Ink blockchain, officially migrated to Chainlink as its primary oracle infrastructure following an exploit of its legacy oracle provider. The Chainlink data standard now secures all its current ($400M+) and future lending markets. [Announcement]

• KRWQ, the first fully-backed Korean won stablecoin built by IQ and Frax Finance, adopted Chainlink to enhance reserve transparency. Chainlink Proof of Reserve helps unlock regulatory readiness for the world’s largest onchain Korean won FX market. [Announcement]

• MegaETH launched with the Chainlink data standard on day 1 of its mainnet launch. Chainlink Data Feeds and Streams are unlocking the distribution of MEGA across onchain finance, with initial users including Decibel, GMX, Katana Perps, and more. [Announcement]

• GMX launched WTI, Brent, and Natural Gas perp markets fully powered by Chainlink Data Streams. [Announcement]

• Launched a 24/7 Gold price feed based on a proprietary methodology in partnership with Tenbin Labs, extending continuous market coverage to commodities.

 Economics

• The Chainlink Reserve accumulated 1.44M+ LINK in Q2, bringing total Reserve holdings to 4.5M LINK. The Reserve supports the long-term growth and sustainability of the Chainlink Network by accumulating LINK using offchain revenue from enterprise adoption and onchain revenue from service usage. [Reserve]

• Chainlink SVR, the most widely adopted oracle MEV recapture solution, received a major upgrade on Ethereum. SVR now supports multiple orderflow auctions in parallel, including Titan Builder, increasing searcher competition and maximizing revenue for DeFi protocols like Aave, while supporting the economic sustainability of Chainlink oracles through a rev-share split. [Announcement]

• Chainlink SVR total value recaptured surpassed $23M+, with proceeds split ~$15M to integrated DeFi protocols and ~$8M to the Chainlink Network. To date, SVR has processed over $880M in DeFi liquidations, with zero bad debt accrual.  

• The Build program is evolving. Chainlink Labs is transitioning from payments made in project tokens to focusing on commercial agreements involving fees paid in LINK or other liquid assets that can be readily converted to LINK. Read the full blog for details. [Blog]

• Arc, the L1 chain developed by Circle, joined Chainlink Scale to provide devs access to institutional oracle infrastructure, including CCIP, Data Streams, Data Feeds, and Proof of Reserve. [Announcement]

• Ink, Kraken’s L2 chain, joins Chainlink Scale to provide DeFi devs with cost-efficient access to enterprise-grade oracles. They also upgraded to Data Feeds as the ecosystem’s data oracle solution. [Announcement]

• Kalshi launches new LINK perps, in an industry first for a U.S. company regulated by the CFTC. [Announcement]

• CME Group, the world's largest CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange, now offers 24/7 trading of LINK futures. This milestone unlocks enhanced institutional access and reflects the growing maturity of digital commodity markets. [Announcement]

Chainlink Runtime Environment: Orchestration, Privacy, and Compliance

• CRE (Chainlink Runtime Envrionment) was integrated across the TradFi and DeFi ecosystems, including by DTCC, Fidelity International, multiple prediction markets, and more.

• Chainlink ACE (Automated Compliance Engine) Private Beta launched on mainnet, introducing a powerful control plane that enables customers to manage identities, enforce compliance policies, and generate configuration reports via REST APIs and a dedicated UI with no Web3 experience required. [Announcement]

• CRE Connect Private Beta was launched on testnet and mainnet, offering design partners and internal teams a seamless Web2 experience over key CRE functionality. REST APIs, specialized SDK extensions (DTA, DvP, ACE), and a comprehensive UI dramatically simplify chain orchestration, enable gas-sponsored transactions, and accelerate enterprise blockchain adoption. [Docs]

• CRE expanded to 9 new mainnets—Celo, Gnosis Chain, Ink, Linea, Mantle, MegaETH, Plasma, Scroll, and Sonic—and 8 new testnets, further broadening coverage for developers and partners. [Docs]

• Expanded Chainlink Developer Agent Skills, a set of AI tools for building with Chainlink. In addition to the previously available CRE skills, five new services can now be integrated into AI agents: CCIP, ACE, Chainlink Data Feeds, Chainlink Data Streams, and VRF. Each skill teaches a compatible assistant how to help you with a specific product area, so devs spend less time hunting for docs and more time shipping. [Docs]

• The Global Layer One (GL1) featured Chainlink in its new white paper on solving compliance for regulated tokenized assets. The paper, which has contributions from global financial institutions, policymakers, and other industry organizations, including the BIS Innovation Hub, IMF, Monetary Authority of Singapore, and more, highlights Chainlink ACE as a compatible solution for implementing a modular, composable compliance framework for tokenized assets at scale. [White Paper]

• Chainlink Functions and Automation are officially upgraded from being stand-alone services to CRE workflows. CRE offers all the capabilities historically provided by Functions and Automation, along with additional functionality and a superior DevEx. [Docs]

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