Dusk, the privacy-preserving, compliance-first blockchain built for financial markets, and NPEX, a fully regulated Dutch stock exchange, said Thursday they will adopt Chainlink’s interoperability and data standards to bring regulated European securities onchain and into the wider Web3 economy. The move, announced in a joint release, pairs Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) with its Data Streams and DataLink products to create an end-to-end framework for compliant issuance, cross-chain settlement and high-frequency market data publication.
Under the agreement, Chainlink CCIP will act as the canonical interoperability layer for tokenized assets issued by NPEX on the DuskEVM, enabling those assets to be made composable across multiple blockchain ecosystems. The partners say that, by combining CCIP with the Cross-Chain Token (CCT) standard, they will be able to enable cross-chain transfers of the DUSK token, for example, from Ethereum to Solana, while preserving the regulatory and compliance characteristics needed for institutional use. That technical backbone draws on Chainlink’s established CCIP/CCT specifications for secure cross-chain messaging and token transfers.
Data will play a central role in the integration. Dusk and NPEX will use Chainlink DataLink to put official exchange data from NPEX onchain, with the press release describing DataLink as the exclusive onchain data oracle solution for the exchange. When paired with Chainlink Data Streams, the partners say this will allow verified, low-latency market data to feed smart contracts with the transparency, auditability and reliability institutions require, effectively making the exchange itself an onchain publisher of regulatory-grade financial information.
A Stepping Stone
The announcement frames the work as a stepping stone toward new distribution and settlement models for tokenized equities: financial instruments can be issued under European regulation on Dusk while being accessed or settled in DeFi environments across chains. For investors and institutions, the companies argue, that means unified access to compliant digital securities regardless of which network they operate on, a bridge between regulated capital markets and multi-chain DeFi rails.
Emanuele Francioni, CEO and co-founder of Dusk, described the integration as foundational for bringing DUSK into a cross-chain environment and for scaling “the next generation of real-world asset markets onchain.” Johann Eid, Chief Business Officer at Chainlink Labs, said the collaboration helps “define the blueprint for regulated markets to operate natively onchain.”
The partners also reiterated background details about their platforms. NPEX, founded in 2008, holds both a Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF) and a European Crowdfunding Service Providers (ECSP) license from the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) and has facilitated over 100 financings on its platform. Chainlink positions itself as the industry-standard oracle platform that supplies the interoperability and data infrastructure powering many institutional tokenization, lending and stablecoin use cases, noting a long list of large financial services organizations and DeFi protocols that have adopted its standards.
Taken together, the agreement between Dusk, NPEX and Chainlink signals another push to fold regulated capital markets into onchain infrastructure while keeping compliance and data integrity front and center. If the implementations work as advertised, tokenized securities issued under European rules could become more easily tradeable, programmable and composable across blockchains, a practical experiment in marrying regulatory oversight with the composability that has driven decentralized finance.
