Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE)
Connect any system, any data, any chain
The all-in-one orchestration layer unlocking institutional-grade smart contracts—data-connected, compliance-ready, privacy-preserving, and interoperable across blockchains and existing systems.
Simplify blockchain complexity
Interoperate seamlessly across public and private blockchains through one integration with CRE. No need for custom integrations with each new chain and managing gas tokens.
Seamless, secure integration
Integrate your existing systems with blockchains without friction. Transact onchain without replacing your infrastructure, custody and identity providers, or key management solutions.
Accelerate time-to-market
Solve all your data, interoperability, compliance, privacy, and system integration requirements in one orchestration layer. Deploy complex multi-system, multi-chain smart contracts in days, not months.
Verifiable execution and enterprise-grade security
Build on infrastructure that’s already enabled $26+ trillion in transaction value and proves every step occurred as defined. Operate with real-time visibility, integrity assurances, and proven security.
Build institutional-grade smart contracts with the Chainlink Runtime Environment
Build and customize workflows
CRE is an orchestration layer purpose-built for onchain finance. Developers can build, test, and deploy advanced workflows for institutional-grade smart contracts without needing to manage new infrastructure or complex onchain logic.
Connect to chains and any external system
Link workflows to any blockchain, API, Chainlink service, or external system—including financial infrastructure, data providers, and payment networks—via standardized connectors that simplify integration and support seamless cross-environment execution.
Operate with control and visibility
Use built-in tools for identity, observability, privacy, and access control, enabling secure, compliance-focused workflows from launch to scale.
Run with verifiable execution
Run workflows across decentralized oracle networks with built-in consensus and cryptographic verification, ensuring a secure, tamper-proof, and high-availability execution environment that proves every step occurred as defined.
CRE is the next era in onchain development
Powering the next generation of digital assets and financial services
Chainlink Digital Transfer Agent (DTA) Technical Standard
Asset Managers: Capture the tokenized asset opportunity by tapping into new onchain customers.
Transfer Agents: Become infrastructure providers for the tokenized economy without upgrading existing systems.
Fund administrators: Strengthen operations by monetizing data across multiple blockchain networks simultaneously.
Enable DvP for tokenized assets with institutional-grade Chainlink infrastructure
Orchestrate tokenized asset transactions across any blockchain network.
Automate onchain delivery of critical financial data across any environment.
Enable atomic or hybrid settlement across chains and traditional systems.
Leverage Chainlink for cash leg settlement via offchain payment rails.
Facilitate settlement of tokenized assets using existing offchain payment networks.
Enable secure orchestration of DvP workflows across blockchains and bank rails.
Bridge digital and traditional finance through compliance-ready cross-system connectivity.
Unlock compliance-ready, transparent, and interoperable stablecoins through the Chainlink Platform.
Accelerate adoption by supporting trusted, compliance-ready stablecoins, for global financial rails.
Expand stablecoin reach with secure, interoperable infrastructure across global markets.
Enable regulated stablecoins uphold transparency, auditability, and monetary integrity at scale.
“By securely and thoughtfully connecting our institutional payments solution with both external public and private blockchain infrastructures seamlessly, we can offer our clients and the broader financial ecosystem a wider range of benefits and scalable solutions for settling transactions.”
“Delivering scalable digital market infrastructure means aligning new solutions with the systems institutions already trust, and the Chainlink Runtime Environment makes this alignment seamless by enabling new technologies to integrate within existing workflows.”
“By integrating Chainlink’s ACE and Runtime Environment (CRE), Horizon gains the compliance and orchestration framework required to connect institutional capital with DeFi liquidity, enabling trusted, programmable onchain finance at global scale.”
“At Amazon Web Services, we're focused on helping customers accelerate innovation while maintaining enterprise-grade security and reliability. The Chainlink Runtime Environment enables customers to integrate AWS workloads with smart contracts, unlocking use cases such as custom price feeds, stablecoin reserve verification, and off-chain computation within trusted execution environments.”
“By leveraging the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE), Ondo completed the first-ever atomic cross-chain Delivery-vs-Payment transaction between public and private blockchains in collaboration with J.P. Morgan’s Kinexys. This milestone demonstrates the power of compliant, scalable blockchain infrastructure for real-world assets.”
“Tokenization at scale requires trusted, compliant infrastructure that can bridge physical and digital systems. With the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) and our Pairpoint by Vodafone SecurePoint capabilities combined we can help to enable secure execution environments for tokenized assets and IoT-driven data flows...”
“The Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) provides the trusted infrastructure we need to bring regulated fund operations fully onchain. By leveraging CRE through the Chainlink Digital Transfer Agent (DTA) standard, DigiFT can streamline subscription and redemption processes onchain with real-time traceability and compliance...”
The orchestration layer for institutions and Web3
Infrastructure for composable onchain finance
Local development tools and environments for easy app testing and iteration.
Secure and verifiable offchain computation available across all major chains.
Simplified cross-chain logic — build once, deploy everywhere without cross-chain bridging.
Composable infrastructure for developers
Access a self-serve environment with runtime tooling.
Build modular services using APIs and templates.
Run across testnet and mainnet environments seamlessly.
Build anything, verify everything, run securely
CRE in action
See how leading organizations are leveraging CRE.
