Chainlink has launched new Data Streams for U.S. equities and exchange-traded funds (ETFs), delivering institutional-grade financial data on-chain across 37 blockchain networks.
This upgrade enables developers to access sub-second price data feeds for highly traded U.S. assets such as SPY (S&P 500 ETF), QQQ (Nasdaq 100 ETF), Apple (AAPL), Nvidia (NVDA), and Microsoft (MSFT). This development provides a significant advancement for decentralized finance (DeFi) and tokenized real-world asset (RWA) applications.
Chainlink’s new Data Streams go live, backed by leading DeFi protocols, including GMX, Kamino, and GMX-Solana. They are designed to support a new generation of on-chain applications such as synthetic ETF trading, tokenized stock portfolios, on-chain derivatives, and lending markets.
The real-time price data, courtesy of reputable institutional sources like Finalto, Tiingo, and Finnhub, delivers critical boosts such as market hours detection, circuit breaker alerts, and stale data identification making them ideal for serious financial pursuits.
With more than $275 billion tokenized in real-world assets today, demand for speedy and accurate data delivery is greater than ever. Chainlink’s expansion enables this growing universe by bridging traditional finance data to blockchain applications.
The move also plays an essential role in bringing Wall Street infrastructure into Web3, enabling use cases previously hampered by latency in data or reduced market coverage.
As capital markets increasingly become on-chain, this Chainlink upgrade could be the harbinger for the next wave of DeFi innovation where financial instruments from the physical world get traded with frictionless native crypto assets with total transparency and at maximum velocity.
