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While Financial Market Infrastructures Are Positioning Themselves for Digital Assets, Chainlink Is Connecting the Connectors

April 4, 2025 | 1 minutes reading time | By Michael Shashoua

The blockchain company’s standard for onchain finance “creates highly reliable agreements and transactions that are fundamentally better than what currently exists,” asserts co-founder Sergey Nazarov.

The list of projects on a Chainlink blog page could have come off of an international banking and capital markets directory. There are names of infrastructure operators (Swift, Euroclear), banks (ANZ, Bancolombia, Emirates NBD) and asset managers (Fidelity International, Sygnum), as well as blockchain initiatives of Germany’s Börse Stuttgart (BX Digital and BX Swiss).

Those are just a sampling of the partnerships with which Chainlink, a self-described “standard for onchain finance,” is involved in addressing “mission-critical financial systems” as they evolve toward tokenization and decentralized finance (DeFi).

With the Swift international financial communications cooperative and UBS Asset Management, Chainlink announced last November completion of a pilot for settling tokenized fund subscriptions and redemptions using the Swift network. That fell under the umbrella of the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Project Guardian alongside a host of other global participants.

Swift said it was the latest demonstration of “how its infrastructure can provide a secure, scalable way for financial institutions to connect to multiple types of...

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