digital transfer agent (DTA) Technical standard
Unlock the full potential of tokenized financial assets
Enhance efficiency, expand utility, and generate new business value by bringing your operations onchain—securely, compliantly, across any network.
Accelerated innovation
Deploy technical and operational changes in days via modular smart contracts, rather than waiting months or years for traditional IT upgrades.
Instant, global distribution
Seamlessly integrate with fund administrators, tokenized fund issuers, and fund distributors to quickly expand your transfer agency services.
Composability and enhanced utility
Build on programmable infrastructure that all counterparties across the fund lifecycle can use, unlocking treasury automation, instant stablecoin settlement, and collateralization in DeFi protocols.
Reduced operating costs
Scale services efficiently across diverse funds without an exponential increase in back-office costs, eliminating costly, fragmented integrations and reconciliation complexity.
Access to new distribution channels
Allow your customers to tap into 220M+ active wallets worldwide across multiple blockchains, realizing new network effects and greater investor access.
Seamless, secure integration
Leverage CRE to integrate new capabilities and workflows without disrupting legacy infrastructure and current processes.
Unlock streamlined tokenized fund operations with the Digital Transfer Agent (DTA) technical standard
Initiate requests
Distributors initiate subscription or redemption requests through the DTA technical standard contracts.
Process requests
Transfer Agent processes the distributor’s request on the DTA technical standard contracts.
Fetch NAV data
NAVLink Feeds deliver accurate, real-time NAV data from administrators to ensure correct fund pricing.
Validate compliance
Chainlink ACE enforces compliance requirements (e.g., eligibility checks, limits, role-based access) directly in the transaction flow.
Issue, distribute, and settle
DTA technical standard contracts handle payment, mint or burn fund tokens, and transfer them to distributor wallets, leveraging CCIP to allow fund tokens to be distributed or redeemed across multiple blockchains.
Record and reconcile
CRE synchronizes fund ownership records across onchain and offchain systems for transparent, regulator-ready reporting.
Adoption in action
See how leading financial organizations are leveraging the Digital Transfer Agent (DTA) technical standard.
The technical standard for the entire fund ecosystem
Capture the full potential of tokenized assets
Reduce operating costs.
Expand distribution across blockchains while tapping into new onchain customers.
Leverage existing systems and partners through integration with the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE).
Rapidly test innovative offerings scale seamlessly.
Become infrastructure providers for the tokenized economy
Offer digital transfer agency services without massive technology investments.
Maintain your role as the trusted record keeper.
Access new revenue streams from blockchain-native funds.
Provide enhanced services like real-time NAV updates and instant settlement.
Make your data more valuable
Monetize data across multiple blockchain networks simultaneously.
Maintain data quality and authoritative status.
Enable new use cases without additional infrastructure investment (e.g., intra-day NAV).
Reach blockchain-native applications and protocols directly.
Future-proof your fund operations
