Chainlink (@chainlink): The Infrastructure Behind the Next Era of Capital Markets

The Infrastructure Behind the Next Era of Capital Markets Swift Completes Digital Asset Interoperability Milestone as Part of Work With Chainlink Swift has achieved a landmark digital asset interoperability milestone, most recently concluding its interoperability trials with a tokenized bond initiative involving major European Banks including BNP Paribas Securities Services, Intesa Sanpaolo, and Société Générale (FORGE). This latest trial demonstrated how Swift can orchestrate tokenized asset transactions, specifically bonds, across blockchains and existing enterprise systems. This milestone builds on Swift’s prior work with Chainlink and UBS Asset Management, which successfully demonstrated cross-chain settlement of tokenized assets with existing payment rails. That work, featuring 12+ major financial organizations including Citi, BNY Mellon, and BNP Paribas, contributed to the broader interoperability framework Swift is extending across its global network of 11,500+ financial institutions Establishing a Unified Standard for Asset Servicing With the Chainlink Platform, Blockchains, and AI Announced at Sibos 2025, Chainlink and 24 of the world’s largest financial institutions and market infrastructures, including Swift, DTCC, Euroclear, UBS, and Wellington Management, continued their work on corporate actions processing. Building on the foundations established in Phase 1, the second phase introduces a production grade system that includes new data attestor and data contributor roles. These roles enable trusted institutions to validate and enrich the LLM-extracted corporate actions records, allowing data accuracy for confirmed records to reach 100%. The Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) orchestrated the validation of multiple AI model outputs and transformed the confirmed results into ISO 20022-compliant messages, which were then transmitted to the Swift Network. In parallel, Chainlink Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) distributed these same confirmed records across DTCC’s blockchain ecosystem and additional public and private blockchain environments, enabling simultaneous access across traditional infrastructure and blockchain-based platforms. New institutionally-designated roles for data attestors and contributors were also introduced to cryptographically attest to data accuracy and contribute to any missing data fields, creating a verifiable chain of custody across the lifecycle of each corporate action. Throughout testing, the system achieved nearly 100% data consensus agreement among AI models across all evaluated corporate actions. The architecture also demonstrated support for multilingual processing across disclosures written in non-English languages, such as Spanish and Chinese, enabling broader global coverage across jurisdictions. This solution unlocks an onchain golden record for corporate actions, an attested, real-time source of truth that can be accessed simultaneously by smart contracts, custodians, and post-trade systems. It also enables tokenized equities, an increasingly adopted category of tokenized assets, to reference the same confirmed records across public and private blockchains, laying the groundwork for better synchronization and increased automation across onchain markets. By standardizing how corporate actions data is extracted, validated, and delivered, the initiative creates a shared foundation for asset servicing across both blockchain networks and traditional financial infrastructure. Swift and Chainlink Enabling Banks To Connect To Blockchains Using Existing Swift Standards and Chainlink Infrastructure At Sibos 2024, Chainlink Co-Founder Sergey Nazarov showcased significant new capabilities to accelerate blockchain adoption in capital markets, including the integration of Swift with blockchains. This integration enables banks to seamlessly connect to blockchains using existing Swift standards and Chainlink infrastructure, streamlining interoperability and enhancing efficiency in financial transactions. Swift and Chainlink Demonstrated a Secure and Scalable Way To Transfer Tokenized Assets Cross-Chain Using CCIP Swift—the international bank messaging standard for 11,500+ banks —is working with Chainlink to enable financial institutions to connect to any existing public/private chain using Chainlink and their existing Swift infrastructure and messaging standards. Chainlink CCIP was used to enable the cross-chain settlement of tokenized assets across public and private blockchains. The successful initiative featured 12+ world-leading financial institutions, including Euroclear, Clearstream, ANZ, Citi, BNY Mellon, BNP Paribas, Lloyds Banking Group, and SDX. Swift, UBS Asset Management, and Chainlink: Successfully Bridge Tokenized Assets with Existing Payment Systems As part of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) Project Guardian, Swift, UBS Asset Management, and Chainlink demonstrated the issuance and settlement of tokenized funds using traditional Swift fiat payment rails. As a result, digital asset transactions can be settled using the existing Swift fiat payment systems already used by 11,500+ financial institutions, across 200+ countries and territories. Euroclear, Swift, & 8 Major Financial Institutions: Transforming Asset Servicing With AI, Oracles, and Blockchains Chainlink, together with leading market infrastructures, Euroclear and Swift, and some of the world’s largest financial institutions, including UBS, Franklin Templeton, Wellington Management, CACEIS, Vontobel, and Sygnum Bank, launched an industry initiative to combine advancements in AI, oracles, and blockchains to solve a long-standing problem in corporate actions—the lack of real-time standardized data in fragmented markets like Europe. This initiative is a significant industry milestone that successfully demonstrates how AI, oracles, and blockchains can be combined to convert unstructured, human-readable financial data into structured, machine-readable, easily distributable data. GLEIF and Chainlink Form Strategic Partnership to Bring Institutional-Grade Identity Solution to Blockchain Industry The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) and Chainlink have partnered to deliver an institutional-grade identity solution for the blockchain industry. The solution combines GLEIF’s verifiable Legal Identity Identifier (vLEI) with Chainlink’s infrastructure for Cross-Chain Identity (CCID) and Automated Compliance Engine (ACE) to enable digital asset transactions that are verifiable, compliant, and trusted across jurisdictions while preserving user privacy. By enabling verifiable identity data to be embedded directly into onchain assets and smart contracts, GLEIF and Chainlink are empowering institutions and tokenization platforms to programmatically verify asset provenance, automatically enforce compliance policies, reliably recover control over assets if private cryptography keys are compromised, and seamlessly meet compliance requirements for regulatory frameworks across the globe.