Chainlink Runtime Environment Launches to Expand Smart Contract Capabilities Beyond EVM
Chainlink Runtime Environment Launches to Expand Smart Contract Capabilities Beyond EVM
🔓 Beyond the EVM
Chainlink has launched the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE), positioning it as the next evolution beyond the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) for smart contracts.
Key capabilities:
- Cross-chain and cross-system smart contract execution
- Built-in privacy features including private data, compute, and payments
- Integration with traditional financial systems
- Support for institutional-grade applications
The CRE SDK is now available for developers. Recent integrations include Mastercard's 3.5B+ users through Swapper Finance and 24/5 U.S. equities market access.
Chainlink emphasizes privacy as critical for institutional adoption, using trusted execution environments (TEEs) and decentralized oracle networks to maintain confidentiality while preserving verifiability.
Tokens need privacy. Blockchains need privacy. Smart contracts need privacy. Everything needs privacy. Enter Chainlink Confidential Compute.
The Chainlink privacy standard is how the world’s largest financial institutions are moving onchain.
The problem: Blockchains lack privacy by default. Their transparency enhances trust, but for institutions managing proprietary strategies and sensitive client information, it’s a major barrier to large-scale adoption. The solution: The Chainlink privacy standard enables private
True end-to-end interoperability goes beyond simple cross-chain transfers. To work at scale, it must support: • Data • Compliance • Privacy • Existing system integration • Orchestration How Chainlink is the end-to-end interoperability standard ↓ blog.chain.link/end-to-end-int…
Start building with the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) today: chain.link/chainlink-runt…
The EVM opened the door to smart contracts. The Chainlink Runtime Environment unlocks their full potential. Across any system. Any data. Any chain.
The Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) unlocks private smart contracts, so institutions can move entire financial operations onchain.
Chainlink features built-in privacy across its entire stack, unlocking: Private data. Private cross-chain. Private identity. Private compute. Private money. Private payments. Private everything. Any blockchain. Any token. Any use case.
Mission-critical to bringing TradFi onchain: Privacy. What Chainlink provides: Privacy.
Privacy is the final barrier blocking trillions in institutional capital from moving onchain. Enter the Chainlink privacy standard 🧵↓ chain.link/privacy
.@OrderlyNetwork, a leading omnichain perp DEX infrastructure, is integrating Chainlink’s 24/5 U.S. Equities Streams to enable developers to seamlessly launch secure equity perps markets across chains.
CRE is live. Learn to build institutional-grade smart contracts with the CRE SDK ↓
Chainlink is designed to support billions of users and trillions in value. How the Chainlink Runtime Environment enables @swapperfinance to bring 3.5B+ Mastercard users to DeFi ↓
Chainlink’s Runtime Environment (CRE) is making “real-world → onchain” workflows finally possible. Here’s how Swapper uses CRE to turn card payments + compliance + settlement into one verifiable flow - enabling 3.5B+ Mastercard users to enter DeFi. Read the full breakdown ↓
Chainlink is bringing the ~$80T U.S. equities market onchain via newly launched 24/5 U.S. Equities Streams. @EidJohann explains on @therollupco ↓
NEW EP: Chainlink Is Bringing $80T of U.S. Equities Onchain with Johann Eid Every asset on wall street is coming onchain. In today’s episode, @robbie_rollup sits down with @EidJohann, Chief Business Officer at @chainlink, to break down: - Why tokenized equities are finally
With $147+ trillion in global assets under management, modernizing fund infra is a critical step for global capital markets. How Chainlink enables tokenized funds at institutional scale ↓
“The Chainlink Runtime Environment is accelerating the creation of cross-chain, cross-system institutional-grade smart contracts.” —@blockworksres ↓ app.blockworksresearch.com/research/chain…
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