Chainlink

Open Standard has standardized on Chainlink as the official data oracle for Open USD (OUSD), the dollar-backed stablecoin supported by 200+ financial institutions including Stripe, Mastercard, and Visa. OUSD features zero-cost mint/burn mechanics and shared rewards across its partner network.

• Chainlink will provide the oracle infrastructure underpinning OUSD's onchain pricing data
• The integration extends Chainlink's reach into the new stablecoin standard backed by major payments and financial firms

The announcement follows the recent launch of Open USD, which brought its issuer-led stablecoin model to market with commitments from Stripe, Visa, Mastercard, Coinbase and others to seed liquidity. The Chainlink partnership positions Chainlink's data infrastructure inside one of the most broadly backed stablecoin initiatives in the industry. Announcement

Bottomline, a top-three Swift service provider, has officially launched Global Pay Connect, an onchain payment connectivity platform for 600+ banks powered by Chainlink infrastructure. The launch follows the strategic partnership announced between Bottomline and Chainlink to enable cross-chain, cross-border payments, with Bottomline moving $16+ trillion in payments annually across its platforms.

At Sibos 2026, Natasha Lapierre, Bottomline's Global Head of Product Strategy and Innovation, explained the partnership with Chainlink in an interview, outlining how Global Pay Connect connects financial institutions to onchain payment rails via Chainlink infrastructure.

Chainlink launched CCIP 2.0, the next generation of its Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol, on September 28, and co-founder Sergey Nazarov said the release reflects feedback gathered from the world's top financial institutions on what institutional-grade bridging of data and the movement of digital assets across chains requires. The upgrade lets institutions distribute tokenized assets across blockchains through a single integration while carrying their security, compliance, and risk controls forward without rebuilding per chain. Tempo, the payments-first Layer 1 incubated by Stripe and Paradigm, confirmed CCIP 2.0 is live on its network.

Key new capabilities:

• User attestations — issuers can run their own Cross-Chain Verifier (CCV) via starter kits for AWS and Google Cloud
• Additive security — extra independent verification layers from providers like Infosys and Nethermind
• Built-in compliance — automated KYC, AML, and sanctions screening per transaction
• Configurable speed — near-instant transfers or full-finality settlement, with the first production deployment of the Fast Confirmation Rule

Launch partners include AllUnity, AWS, ANZ Bank, Archax, Bottomline, Deutsche Börse Group's Crypto Finance, Fidelity International, Google Cloud, Hastra, Infosys, Lombard, SBI Digital Markets, Sygnum, Taurus, and xStocks. Lombard has integrated custom verification into LBTC via the new CCV model. CCIP secures $84B+ in total cross-chain token value.

Chainlink launched Fulcrum, a cross-chain collateral and financing platform connecting banks, asset managers, sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds, and corporate treasuries to onchain markets — drawing independent coverage from CoinDesk. Built for round-the-clock collateral management and financing, including repo transactions, Fulcrum lets institutions mobilize collateral and access liquidity as tokenized assets expand across public and private blockchains.

• On stage at Sibos 2026, Chainlink and DTCC demonstrated how Fulcrum executed a cross-chain securities financing transaction
• Asset managers and issuers of tokenized funds and stablecoins can designate products as eligible collateral; corporate treasuries can place idle cash into yield-bearing arrangements under defined terms
• Positions Fulcrum as an access layer between TradFi institutions and onchain capital markets, alongside Chainlink's other Sibos 2026 announcements (CCIP 2.0 and the Swift blockchain ledger connection)

Chainlink announced at Sibos 2026 that it is enabling financial institutions to connect to Swift's blockchain ledger through the Chainlink platform. Through Chainlink, institutions in Swift's community can read and write to the ledger, supporting tokenized deposits and 24/7 cross-border payments.

• The Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) orchestrates workflows connecting institutions to Swift's ledger via a self-signing model that keeps transaction controls with the institutions
• Banks can bring new digital payment services to customers while retaining control of their own infrastructure
• Swift's network moves the equivalent of the world's GDP roughly every three days

The push builds on a multi-year Chainlink–Swift collaboration on connecting banking infrastructure to blockchain networks, and follows Swift's announcement at Sibos 2025 that it would launch a blockchain-based ledger.

DTCC announced that its Collateral AppChain, a shared infrastructure platform for collateral, will leverage the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) and Chainlink's data standard to enable near real-time, 24/7 collateral management across global financial markets and blockchains. DTCC's Dan Doney and Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov presented the collaboration at Sibos 2026.

• CRE and Chainlink data support pricing, valuation, margining, collateral optimization, and settlement
• Aims to modernize collateral mobility and improve capital efficiency ahead of an expected Q4 2026 launch
• Extends the DTCC–Chainlink relationship into tokenized collateral infrastructure

Succinct Labs announced it is now offering ZK verification to Chainlink CCIP 2.0 users. Succinct's zero-knowledge proof infrastructure can slot into CCIP 2.0's Cross-Chain Verifier (CCV) model, giving token issuers an independent, proof-based verification layer on top of Chainlink's default verifier network.

• Extends CCIP 2.0's additive security options beyond enterprise verifiers like Infosys and Nethermind
• Adds a zero-knowledge option for issuers that want proof-based verification on cross-chain transfers

Re, the decentralized reinsurance protocol, said its reUSD deposit token now reaches 8 chains via Chainlink CCIP, keeping RWAs composable without rebuilding per chain. Re is a launch partner for CCIP 2.0, which adds issuer-defined controls per transfer.

The expansion builds on Re's earlier move to decommission its legacy LayerZero-based bridging in favor of CCIP as its exclusive cross-chain infrastructure, following a security review. Re carries roughly $475M+ in TVL.

• reUSD connects users and liquidity across fragmented ecosystems
• Marks Re as an early adopter of CCIP 2.0's per-transfer controls

xStocksFi said the world's largest equities are now tradable onchain, powered by Chainlink infrastructure. Following the launch of CCIP 2.0, xStocks can now move across chains and plug into more markets and liquidity through a common interoperability standard, unlocking greater utility for tokenized equities onchain.

• xStocksFi lists major global equities onchain with Chainlink powering the market data
• CCIP 2.0 enables cross-chain movement of xStocks and access to more markets and liquidity
• Adds another tokenized-equities use case to the Chainlink ecosystem

Chainlink posted its latest periodic Adoption Update, reporting 14 integrations of the Chainlink standard across 6 services and 4 chains. Named users include Aave, dawninternet, Infosys, Paxos, predictdotfun, and TickerYardHQ.

• Another installment in Chainlink's weekly ecosystem adoption reporting
• Continues a run of multi-service, multi-chain integration growth tracked in prior updates