Canton and Chainlink announced today that Chainlink’s data standard is now live across the Canton ecosystem, a move both projects say will accelerate institutional-grade tokenization and bring stronger, market-ready data to regulated onchain assets. The firms also confirmed that Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) will follow shortly, enabling secure cross-chain transfers of tokenized real-world assets.
The deployment builds on an existing strategic Scale partnership and brings a suite of Chainlink infrastructure to Canton: Chainlink Data Streams, SmartData NAV and AUM feeds, and Proof of Reserve. Those components will deliver continuous price feeds, portfolio valuation data, and verifiable collateral backing, capabilities Canton’s founders and partners argue are essential for lending, margining, settlement and risk management in regulated markets moving onchain. Canton will also support Chainlink’s recently launched 24/5 Equities Streams, which the teams say opens onchain access to the roughly $80 trillion U.S. stock market by delivering fast, secure stock and ETF market data.
Real-world production use has already arrived. Canton ecosystem participants are using the Chainlink data standard in live applications: CBTC by BitSafe, trading and risk protocol Unhedged, and firms including Thetanuts Finance and Kairo by AngelHack & Temple are combining Canton’s privacy and compliance features with Chainlink’s data to enable onchain collateral, decentralized options, privacy-preserving prediction markets and other institutional use cases.
Targeting Institutional Finance at Scale
Since its mainnet debut in May 2024, Canton has positioned itself as a go-to public blockchain for regulated tokenized assets, claiming support for more than $8 trillion in onchain RWAs and processing roughly $350 billion in daily U.S. Treasury repo transactions. Chainlink, meanwhile, remains the most widely adopted oracle network in the blockchain industry; the network has been credited with enabling over $28 trillion in transaction value and is used across many DeFi and institutional onchain workflows.
Chainlink Labs is also taking a hands-on role inside the Canton network as a Super Validator, contributing to governance, transaction sequencing, and Canton’s Global Synchronizer interoperability layer that is designed to bridge traditional financial systems with onchain infrastructure.
“It’s been exciting to see how quickly the Canton ecosystem has embraced Chainlink’s data and interoperability standards in real-world production use cases. We’ve seen positive momentum and continue to expand the range of offerings available to the ecosystem to facilitate additional growth,” said Eric Saraniecki, Co-Founder and Head of Network Strategy at Digital Asset, in prepared remarks.
Johann Eid, Chief Business Officer at Chainlink Labs, added that Canton’s adoption marks a “defining step toward institutional finance operating fully onchain,” noting that the shared infrastructure will allow regulated markets to move onchain with the security and reliability needed to operate at scale.
Beyond startups and protocols, Chainlink’s standards have attracted interest from major financial institutions and market infrastructure providers. Organizations such as Swift, Euroclear, Mastercard, Fidelity International, UBS, S&P Dow Jones Indices, FTSE Russell, WisdomTree and ANZ have adopted aspects of Chainlink’s infrastructure, while major protocols such as Aave, Lido and GMX rely on Chainlink feeds for key functions.
For Canton, the Layer-1 focus on privacy, compliance and scalability, combined with Chainlink’s market-grade data services, creates a package aimed squarely at capital markets, where proof of reserves, accurate NAV calculations and auditable data feeds are table stakes. Canton’s governance is overseen by the Canton Foundation, which the network credits with guiding its permissionless, institutional-grade mission.
The live deployment is likely to draw close attention from asset managers, custodians and trading venues exploring tokenization, and it underscores the continuing push by both blockchain infrastructure builders and incumbents to stitch together trusted data, interoperability and privacy for the next wave of institutional blockchain adoption.
