Chainlink said it has strengthened its position as the industry-standard infrastructure for on-chain finance in 2025, as governments, banks, and asset managers increasingly adopted its technology to move real-world financial activity onto blockchains, according to a blog post published by the company.
The report emphasized 2025 as an important year in which Chainlink’s oracle and interoperability standards became embedded across public- and private-sector financial systems used for everything from government data publication to institutional tokenized funds.
Government use of blockchain infrastructure marked progress during the year. Chainlink said the U.S. Department of Commerce partnered with the network to publish macroeconomic data on-chain using Chainlink Data Feeds sourced from the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov also participated in high-level policy discussions in Washington, including the White House Digital Asset Summit, as U.S. President Donald Trump signed the GENIUS Act into law.
The engagement reflects growing coordination between policymakers and blockchain infrastructure providers as regulatory clarity improves.
In banking and capital markets, global financial institutions increasingly relied on Chainlink to execute production-grade on-chain workflows.
The research cites a partnership with Mastercard allowing more than three billion cardholders to purchase crypto assets directly on-chain via a Chainlink-powered application.
Asset managers also expanded tokenized offerings. UBS completed what Chainlink described as the world’s first live, end-to-end tokenized fund workflow using its Digital Transfer Agent standard, while firms such as WisdomTree and FTSE Russell began publishing institutional-grade net asset value and index data on-chain.
Financial market infrastructures, including DTCC, Euroclear, and SWIFT, collaborated with Chainlink to streamline corporate actions processing and cross-chain settlement using standardized messaging formats.
Decentralized finance and tokenization platforms also adopted Chainlink at scale in 2025. Coinbase selected Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) as the exclusive bridge infrastructure for its wrapped assets, while DeFi protocols, including Aave and Lido, upgraded their oracle and cross-chain infrastructure to support institutional-grade use cases.
Chainlink said the expansion of CCIP to non-EVM blockchains, including Solana, unlocked access to tens of billions of dollars in assets across multiple ecosystems.