Introducing Chainlink CustodySync, a new solution that lets qualified custodians give their institutional clients access to DeFi lending markets, all while assets remain securely in custody.
With @Anchorage as the official launch partner, together we’re establishing a new standard for institutional DeFi.
CustodySync keeps custody and lending systems in sync across the full lifecycle of a loan:
→ For custodians: faster time to market and lower operational overhead, with custodian-managed controls
→ For lending markets: independent, verifiable data and a consistent risk framework
→ For institutions: passive capital becomes productive capital
More than $80 billion sits in DeFi lending markets. Meanwhile, the roughly $700 billion in digital assets under custody is less than 0.5% of all $250 trillion in traditional assets under custody. The opportunity to connect traditional institutional capital to onchain finance remains vast.
Large institutions have lacked a secure way of accessing these markets. Regulations require many of them to keep their digital assets with a qualified custodian, a firm that meets specific requirements for holding assets on behalf of clients, and custody systems were never built for DeFi. Even when custody and lending systems are connected, inconsistent loan valuations can trigger premature liquidation or delayed liquidations, exposing borrowers and lenders to significant financial risk.
@Anchorage, home to the first federally chartered digital asset bank in the U.S., is the first qualified custodian to adopt CustodySync, connecting its institutional clients to DeFi lending markets while their assets remain in regulated custody.
Institutional capital no longer has to choose between the security of custody and the liquidity of DeFi.
With Chainlink, it gets both.
Road to Link:NYC 🇺🇸
Senator @JimJustice_WV and Babydog have a message of support ahead of Link:NYC.
Thank you, Senator, for your support of our industry and what we are collectively building.
Road to Link:NYC 🇺🇸
Senator @JimJustice_WV and Babydog have a message of support ahead of Link:NYC.
Thank you, Senator, for your support of our industry and what we are collectively building.
LATEST: 🇰🇷 Chainlink and LG CNS announced a partnership to integrate Chainlink's oracle and cross-chain infrastructure into LG CNS's digital asset platform for Korean institutions.
NEW: LG CNS, the technology arm of LG Group, enters a strategic partnership with Chainlink to advance Korea’s $68B 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.
Appreciate the acknowledgment, but to clarify, we do not view link as a grift. We are a regulated financial institution, and just provide fair and balanced coverage. That means acknowledging potential risks. This is a similar risk shared by many cryptocurrencies because fundamentally they are not equities and not entitled to protocol cash flows. That said, increased adoption of chainlink would potentially result in more demand for link. For now, demand likely grows in-line with broader crypto activity (Defi/ lending / etc) but as more finance moved on chain, it’s TAM could expand massively
Very excited about the Link:NYC conference next week in New York. Excited to be bringing together the top TradFi and DeFi teams and their senior leaders to discuss the future of the new global financial system.
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⬡ CHAINLINK Q3 MOMENTUM ⬡
• Launched CCIP 2.0
• $15B+ migrates to CCIP
• $140B secured across onchain finance
• TradFi adoption: DTCC, Swift, & more
• Enterprise adoption: Infosys, Robinhood, & more
• Work with policymakers across the U.S., UK, & Hong Kong
Pete Christiansen explains why @Citi downgraded Securitize to neutral:
“We do believe that tokenization is going to proliferate among equities, bonds, what have you, but how much are they gonna get paid for it is a big question.”
⬡ Swift
8.4 billion messages across 11,500+ institutions
⬡ Mastercard
Over 3.5 billion cardholders worldwide
⬡ Euroclear
€40.7 trillion in assets under custody (AUC) across 1.7 million securities held
⬡ J.P. Morgan
$3.9 trillion in AUM across 100+ countries
⬡ Clearstream
300 thousand bonds, equities, and investment funds deposited
⬡ Franklin Templeton
$1.6 trillion in AUM
⬡ Fidelity International
$900.7 billion in AUM
⬡ Citi
$28 trillion in AUC/A
⬡ ANZ Bank
Over A$1.2 trillion in total assets
⬡ UBS Asset Management
Part of UBS, the largest private bank in the world managing over $6 trillion in invested assets
⬡ BNP Paribas
€602 billion in AUM and $15.4 trillion in AUC
⬡ Wellington Management
Over $1 trillion in client assets managed across more than 60 countries
⬡ SBI Digital Markets
Participant in the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) Project Guardian
⬡ Vontobel
CHF 235.1 billion in AUM
⬡ Bancolombia Group
One of Latin America’s financial institutions with $72.8 billion in total assets
⬡ Westpac
Australia’s oldest bank, which has grown to over 12 million customers
⬡ Emirates NBD
One of the largest banks in the MENAT region with over AED 1 trillion in total assets
⬡ Banco Inter
37 million app users
⬡ Sygnum Bank
$4.5+ billion in assets under administration across 60 countries
⬡ Six Digital Exchange
World’s first fully regulated blockchain-based stock exchange
⬡ ADDX
SGD 2 billion in transactions for investors from over 50 countries
⬡ 21X
Europe’s first tokenized securities trading and settlement system
And many, many more.
Explore Chainlink’s major banking and capital announcements ↓
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Following an extensive security review, @kamino found Chainlink CCIP provides the secure-by-default architecture required to underwrite cross-chain collateral risk.
Assets secured by CCIP qualify for higher borrowing limits & LTV ratios.
Security. Reliability. Institutional-grade compliance.
These are the non-negotiable requirements for moving trillions in tokenized assets across blockchains.
@SergeyNazarov explains why CCIP 2.0 became the interoperability standard for global finance.
🚨🚨🚨 Chainlink CRE fees may be much higher than we initially estimated 🚨🚨🚨
👀 We were assuming that there's only 1 orchestration fee in this DTCC transaction, but it looks like there's actually 4 separate orchestration fees, plus a CCIP fee too 👀
𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝟓 𝐬𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 🔥🔥🔥
The CRE orchestration fee isn't charged once per transaction. It's charged on every workflow step a user signs (see attached images - blurry because they're screenshots from the live demo).
In the DTCC demo at Sibos, every wallet signature shows "Orchestration fee 0.01 LINK":
13:30 Create financing contract
14:48 Deposit $10m tUSD
17:22 Request $5m loan against MSFT
29:44 Repay loan
That's 4 separate Orchestration fees, paid in LINK.
On top of that there's a separate CCIP fee (20:15) for bridging the collateral to the DTCC AppChain.
Repo + securities lending is $20T+ a day.
Even a tiny share, with multiple LINK fees per transaction, adds up fast.
The scaling is clear: more steps in a workflow means more fees.
$LINK