Chainlink Establishes Leadership in Onchain Finance with Growing Institutional Adoption in 2025
In 2025, Chainlink solidified its position as the industry-standard infrastructure for onchain finance, achieving broad adoption by governments, banks, and asset managers. The U.S. Department of Commerce partnered with Chainlink to publish macroeconomic data onchain using Data Feeds sourced from the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Chainlink's co-founder Sergey Nazarov engaged in Washington policy discussions at the White House Digital Asset Summit as regulatory clarity improved, highlighted by the signing of the GENIUS Act into law. Through a partnership with Mastercard, more than three billion cardholders gained the ability to purchase crypto assets directly onchain via a Chainlink-powered application.
Asset managers expanded their tokenized offerings, including UBS’s live, end-to-end tokenized fund workflow using the Digital Transfer Agent, along with WisdomTree and FTSE Russell publishing onchain NAV and index data. Key market infrastructures such as DTCC, Euroclear, and SWIFT collaborated with Chainlink to streamline corporate actions processing and enable cross-chain settlement with standardized messaging.
Coinbase selected Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) as the exclusive bridge for wrapped assets, while DeFi protocols like Aave and Lido upgraded their oracle and cross-chain infrastructure to support institutional use cases. The expansion of CCIP to non-EVM blockchains, including Solana, unlocked access to tens of billions of dollars in assets across multiple ecosystems.
The year 2025 marked a turning point in onchain finance, with expectations that 2026 will see accelerated adoption of tokenization as institutions standardize around the shared Chainlink infrastructure.
