Key Takeaways:

• Chainlink 24/5 U.S. Equities Streams provide fast and secure market data across all major U.S. equities and ETFs—24 hours per day, 5 days per week. 
• For the first time, DeFi has secure access to U.S. equity market data that also includes after-hours and overnight sessions, unlocking the ~$80T U.S. stock market onchain.
• For traders: Chainlink enables your favorite stocks and ETFs to now be used onchain 24/5, unlocking a wide range of onchain use cases, including trading, lending, and more.
• For builders: 24/5 U.S. Equities Streams go beyond just delivering a mid-price by also delivering bid-ask data, last trade prices, volumes, market-status flags, and staleness indicators, giving builders the market context needed for advanced logic, robust risk controls, and safer execution.
• Top exchanges, such as Lighter (the 2nd largest perp dex by volume) and BitMEX (the inventor of crypto perps), as well as ApeX, HelloTrade, Decibel, Monaco, Opinion Labs, and Orderly Network, are leveraging the solution to power their continuous RWA markets.

We’re excited to announce the launch of Chainlink 24/5 U.S. Equities Streams, an expansion of Chainlink Data Streams that delivers fast and secure market data for U.S. equities and ETFs across all trading sessions. 

Live across 40+ blockchains, Data Streams enable protocols to build onchain equity markets, including equity perps, prediction markets, and more, that operate beyond standard U.S. trading hours. This marks a major step toward unlocking always-on, institutional-grade equity markets onchain.

The Problem Holding Back Onchain RWA Markets

Real-world assets (RWAs) are gaining rapid onchain adoption (estimated to reach $30T by 2030) due to their ability to provide global access, seamless composability, and increased capital efficiency. However, U.S. equities, one of the world’s largest and most liquid asset classes, remain significantly underrepresented onchain.

A core reason for this is structural: blockchain-enabled trading operates continuously 24/7/365, while U.S. equity markets trade across fragmented sessions during dedicated market hours. Furthermore, most onchain data solutions only provide a single price point for equities during standard trading hours (weekdays 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM ET), creating a gap where onchain markets are unable to reliably replicate market conditions all 24 hours of the day. These limitations create pricing blind spots, increase risk during off-hours, and make it difficult to build secure, scalable equity-based financial products onchain.

As onchain markets mature and global participation grows, such as via equity perps, there is increasing demand for continuous, high-fidelity equity data that reflects real-world market dynamics at all times, beyond just standard trading hours.

How 24/5 Data Unlocks Continuous Trading For Equity Perps and New RWA Markets

Chainlink 24/5 U.S. Equities Streams were built specifically to solve these challenges by transforming fragmented U.S. equity market data into continuous, cryptographically signed Data Streams. As a result, onchain equity markets gain access to more reliable pricing, safer liquidations, stronger risk management, and consistent user experiences beyond standard trading hours.

What Makes Chainlink RWA Data Different

• Continuous 24/5 Coverage: 24-hour availability of reliable sub-second pricing across regular, pre-market, post-market, and overnight sessions removes pricing gaps, blind spots during off-hours, and the risk of stale reference prices.
• Complete Market Context Beyond Price: 24/5 Streams offer critical asset data beyond price, tailored specifically for financial applications. This data provides a more complete picture of market conditions, enabling smarter pricing logic, enhanced risk management, and faster execution for onchain protocols. The result is an evolution in pricing with greater precision and better capture of the market. 24/5 Streams include the following fields:
  
  • Market status flags (regular, pre, post, overnight, weekend / closed, unknown)
  • Bid and ask price
  • Bid and ask volume
  • Mid price
  • Staleness indicator
  • Last traded price
• Proven Infrastructure at Scale: 24/5 Streams are built on the battle-tested Chainlink Data Standard, which has enabled over $27 trillion in transaction value, delivered over 19B total verified messages onchain, and secures ~70% of oracle-related DeFi. This ensures secure, real-time market data delivery, even during volatile market conditions.

The expanded coverage and enhanced data schemas of 24/5 U.S. Equities Streams enable a wide range of onchain use cases, including:

• Perpetuals and derivatives: Build 24/5 U.S. equity perps with continuous trading, precise pricing, and enhanced liquidation logic.
• Prediction markets: Resolve markets accurately using continuous, verifiable equity pricing.
• Synthetic equities and ETFs: Create synthetic representations of U.S. stocks that trade beyond standard market hours.
• Lending markets: Power dynamic margining, collateral valuation, and risk management.
• Structured products and vaults: Enable new yield and exposure strategies tied to U.S. equities.

Adopted by Industry-Leading Exchanges and RWA Market Providers

Chainlink 24/5 U.S. Equities Streams are already being leveraged by top protocols, such as Lighter (the #2 perps DEX by volume), BitMEX (the inventor of crypto perps), and others, including ApeX, HelloTrade, Decibel, Monaco, Opinion Labs, and Orderly Network.

“We’re excited to expand our partnership with Chainlink as Lighter’s official oracle solution for RWA markets by integrating 24/5 U.S. Equities Streams. This enables us to extend our fair, low-latency perp execution beyond regular market hours without compromising data integrity.” – Vladimir Novakovski, Founder & CEO, Lighter

“For derivatives markets, security and data integrity matter more than anything. Chainlink’s 24/5 U.S. Equities Streams are a critical component of our professional-grade 24/7 equity derivatives infrastructure, providing the verifiable pricing context needed to operate beyond standard market hours.” — Stephan Lutz, CEO, BitMEX

This early adoption reflects the growing demand for institutional-grade data infrastructure that can support always-on equity markets.

Get Started Today with 24/5 U.S. Equities Streams

Live on 40+ blockchains, developers can start integrating Chainlink 24/5 U.S. Equities Streams today using the official documentation, which details available feeds, schemas, and integration paths, or by reaching out to our team for assistance.

What’s Next for Onchain RWA Data

The launch of 24/5 U.S. Equities Streams marks another milestone in Chainlink’s ongoing mission to solve the hardest onchain data problems and unlock robust, real-world financial markets onchain.     

As Chainlink continues to expand data coverage across new asset classes and geographies, products like 24/5 U.S. Equities Streams lay the foundation for a future where onchain markets are always on, globally accessible, and institution-ready. And 24/5 is just the beginning. Reach out to learn more about how to access 24/7 coverage.

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