Following Chainlink’s exponential growth and dominance across onchain finance in 2025, the Chainlink ecosystem continued its growth in Q1, 2026, with a number of major wins, including: 

• Amundi, Europe’s largest asset manager (€2.3 trillion AUM), and Spiko launched a new tokenized mutual fund powered by Chainlink for data and interoperability, which has since become the fastest-growing tokenized fund in the world, with $400M+ in AUM.
• Polymarket introduced new 5- and 15-minute up/down crypto markets powered by Chainlink Data Streams, which are now their fastest-growing markets, with $5B+ in trading volume and over 3,000 algo traders and market makers signed up.
• 24/5 Equities Streams launched on mainnet, delivering fast and secure market data for U.S. equities and ETFs across all trading sessions, with major derivatives platforms adopting it at launch, including Lighter, BitMEX, and more.
• Aave deepened its integration with Chainlink, including adopting Data Feeds to power its new V4 markets, expanding SVR adoption to increase DAO revenue, and adopting CRE to support automation of cross-chain governance and treasury management orchestration.
• Big-4 firm Deloitte & Touche LLP completed SOC 2 Type 2 examination for Chainlink CCIP and Data Feeds. Chainlink is the only data and interoperability oracle platform that meets key institutional security standards, including SOC 2 Type 2, SOC 2 Type 1, and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification.
• The Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) sign-ups grew 50% month over month, with a number of high-profile integrations (e.g., Aave, Midas) and innovative use cases emerging, such as AI agents, privacy, prediction markets, compliance, strategy managers, vault curators, tokenization, and more.
• The U.S. SEC and CFTC issued a joint interpretation officially classifying the LINK token as a digital commodity.
• U.S. CFTC’s Innovation Advisory Committee (IAC) appointed Chainlink Co-Founder Sergey Nazarov to advise on accelerating the transition of U.S. markets onchain.

The following blog highlights the major product launches and industry adoption of the Chainlink platform since the start of 2026.

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Major Wins in Q1, 2026

TradFi and Government

• Amundi, Europe’s largest asset manager (€2.3 trillion AUM), and Spiko launched a new tokenized mutual fund powered by Chainlink for automated NAV reporting and secure cross-chain interoperability. The Spiko Amundi Overnight Swap Fund (SAFO) has since become the fastest-growing tokenized fund in the world, achieving $400M+ in AUM in just three weeks since launch. [Announcement]

• Chainlink was selected to participate in the Bank of England’s Synchronisation Lab. Chainlink is supporting synchronized settlement between central bank money and onchain securities. [Announcement]
• Coinbase integrated the Chainlink data standard to bring its premium exchange data to blockchains for the first time. This data, which powers billions in trading volume, gives DeFi markets direct access to critical market information, driving more accurate pricing, stronger risk management, and the creation of entirely new onchain markets. [Announcement]

• Chainlink Co-Founder Sergey Nazarov was appointed to the CFTC’s Innovation Advisory Committee (IAC), where he will advise on how to accelerate the transition of U.S. markets onchain. [Announcement]

Here is the full roster of the @CFTC Innovation Advisory Committee.👇 pic.twitter.com/J8YwpXQ8I9

— Mike Selig (@ChairmanSelig) February 12, 2026

• Institutionally focused blockchain FinChain adopted Chainlink to accelerate the distribution of its tokenized assets across Asia, starting with a now-live CCIP integration to support its FUSD stablecoin. [Announcement]
• EPOCH partnered with Chainlink and Synthesys to launch TreasuryPlus (TPLUS), the first institutionally-managed tokenized private credit fund across 6 global markets. Synthesys is using Chainlink’s data, interoperability, digital transfer agent standard, and CRE to automate fund operations, establishing a scalable blueprint for APAC managers to achieve institutional transparency and settlement. [Announcement]

• Visa, ANZ, ChinaAMC, & Fidelity International complete cross-border settlement solution powered by Chainlink. Under the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s e-HKD program, Chainlink enables secure transfers of regulated assets with automated compliance and atomic settlement. [Announcement]
• Chainlink Labs and Anchorage were founding members of the new Blockchain Leadership Fund (BLF). BLF champions the digital asset ecosystem and blockchain policy in the U.S. by supporting pro-innovation candidates, engaging voters, and conducting independent advocacy to ensure blockchain pioneers are represented at all levels of government. [Announcement]
• Robinhood partners with Chainlink as the oracle platform for Robinhood Chain, where builders can leverage Chainlink’s data, interoperability, and compliance standards to power advanced tokenization use cases. [Announcement]
• Canton Network adopted Chainlink’s data and interoperability standards to unlock institutional tokenization, including Data Streams, SmartData (NAV & AUM), Proof of Reserve, and CCIP. This development builds on the existing Scale partnership between Chainlink and Canton, as well as Chainlink Labs’ participation in the Canton network as a Super Validator.  [Announcement]

• Chainlink Labs joined two new government initiatives to accelerate digital asset adoption, including:
  
  • The Texas Blockchain Council to advance digital asset standards across Texas. [Announcement]
  • The Global Alliance for KRW Stablecoins (GAKS), led by WEMADE (600+ million users), to advance stablecoin standards in Korea. [Announcement]

DeFi

• Polymarket launched new 5- and 15-minute up/down crypto markets for BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, DOGE, HYPE, and BNB powered by Chainlink Data Streams. These markets have since become Polymarket’s fastest-growing markets, with $5B+ in trading volume and over 3,000 algo traders and market makers signed up. [Announcement]

• Aave deepens its 6+ year strategic partnership with Chainlink through multiple new integrations with the Chainlink platform: 
  • Aave’s new V4 hub-and-spoke markets are now live and powered by Chainlink as its exclusive oracle platform. These markets are fully powered by the Chainlink platform, including: 
    • Data Feeds for secure, reliable financial market data, which are key for maintaining protocol solvency and efficient liquidations of at-risk loans.

    • Smart Value Recapture (SVR) to reclaim non-toxic liquidation MEV and unlock new revenue streams.

    • Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) for governance and treasury automation across all chains where Aave is deployed.

    • Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) for secure cross-chain GHO transfers and governance via Aave Delivery Infrastructure (a.DI). 
  • Aave expanded its use of Chainlink SVR to Arbitrum and Base in a near-unanimous vote to increase DAO revenue. This builds upon Aave’s successful adoption of SVR on Ethereum, which has already recaptured $16.7M+ in non-toxic liquidation MEV.
  • Aave integrated Automation and CRE to automate critical governance operations across 18 chains, unlocking efficient onchain governance at scale.
• Stablecoin, real-world asset (RWA), and wrapped asset issuers and protocols continue to integrate Chainlink at a rapid rate to accelerate their distribution across onchain finance, including Asseto, BitSafe, Coinbase, GMTrade, Lombard, Morph, Multipli, Ondo, Tessara, Venus Protocol, USDD, and Zharta.
• An acceleration in Chainlink adoption by prediction markets
  
  • Jupiter, Solana’s largest DEX, adopted Chainlink Data Streams to power its newly launched prediction markets, Jupiter Predict. [Announcement] 
  • Forkast launched new 15-minute BTC and ETH markets, secured exclusively by Chainlink, including CRE and Data Streams. [Announcement]
  • Opinion adopted Chainlink to bring trusted, real-time equity data into prediction markets. [Announcement]
• Increased Chainlink adoption across onchain derivatives markets, including from 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.
• Leading bridge aggregator Li.Fi integrated Chainlink to support one-click, cross-chain wstETH staking. By eliminating the friction of app-hopping, DEX slippage, and bridge wait times, CCIP Direct Staking unlocks instant access to cross-chain yield. [Announcement]

Data

• Launched 24/5 US Equities, 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, 24/5 U.S. Equities Streams enable protocols to build onchain equity markets, including equity perps, prediction markets, and more, that operate beyond standard U.S. trading hours. Top derivatives exchanges are leveraging the solution to power their continuous RWA markets. [Announcement]

• Expanded Chainlink SVR to new blockchains, including Arbitrum, Base, BNB Chain, and Hyperliquid (HyperEVM). Furthermore, new DeFi protocols integrated SVR to recapture non-toxic liquidation MEV, including Vyro, Compound, and Steakhouse Finance (a leading risk curator), signaling accelerating adoption. Chainlink’s recent acquisition of Atlas, the order flow auction protocol built by FastLane Labs, helped enable this rapid expansion across new chains. [Announcement]
• All-time cumulative SVR value recaptured (revenue) reached \$18.3 million, with \$8.3M value recaptured in Q1 2026 alone. Chainlink SVR reached 99% of the total market share for oracle-related MEV capture.
• Launched 24/5 US tokenized equity feeds in partnership with Ondo and Sentora. Each feed reflects the full economic reality of the underlying asset, including corporate actions such as dividends. This represents a major milestone in DeFi, enabling tokenized securities to be used securely and reliably as productive DeFi collateral across lending markets, vaults, and structured products. [Announcement]
• Launched two new 24/7 RWA offerings on Data Streams: 24/7 Forex Data Streams powered by NCFX’s FCA-regulated, crypto-derived FX benchmark data and 24/7 Data Streams for select commodities, such as Gold and Silver, which are now being leveraged by GMX.
• Expanded Data Feeds to MegaETH (\$90M DeFi TVL) and Unichain (\$97M DeFi TVL).

Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE): Orchestration, Privacy, and Compliance

• The CRE Hackathon ‘Convergence’ saw the highest number of project submissions ever for a Chainlink hackathon, with over 3,400 signups and 554 submissions. It saw significant developer activity around the use of Chainlink to power AI agents, privacy, prediction markets, compliance, strategy managers, vault curators, and tokenization use cases, with developers leveraging new features, such as Confidential HTTPS, Agent Skills, and Private Transactions Sandbox. [Hackathon]
• Sign-ups for CRE grew 50% month over month, while total workflow executions on CRE increased 253%, signaling accelerating developer interest and customer adoption.
• Released agent skills for CRE for internal and hackathon use, enabling AI agents to successfully discover how to download the SDK, sign up for an account, run the CLI, and simulate CRE workflows. [GitHub]
• CRE workflows now support multiple triggers of the same type, allowing a single workflow to be invoked from different sources. For example, multiple onchain events across chains can trigger the same workflow, giving developers more flexibility in how they design and scale automation.
• CRE launched across more blockchains, which now includes 22 mainnets and 28 new testnets.
• Private workflow management and enterprise features for CRE are now in early stages of rollout and testing. Private workflows allow customers not to have to worry about gas or managing crypto private keys to deploy a workflow. In addition, we are rolling out a way for TradFI organizations to run workflows in a Chainlink-managed environment to align with strict security and compliance requirements.
• Upgraded the Digital Transfer Agent (DTA) technical standard, making it more scalable and ready for upcoming institutional flows.

CCIP

• Deloitte & Touche LLP completed SOC 2 Type 2 examination for Chainlink CCIP. Chainlink is the only interoperability platform that meets key institutional security standards, including SOC 2 Type 2, SOC 2 Type 1, and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification. For the world’s largest institutions and enterprises, an independent SOC 2 Type 2 attestation from a Big Four firm validates that Chainlink’s interoperability standard repeatedly upholds the highest security and operational controls. [Announcement]
• CCIP experienced continued growth over Q1, with transfer volume now growing 78% Quarter-over-Quarter (QoQ) and 319% Year-over-Year (YoY). Tokens active on CCIP are also up by more than 165% YoY, while fee revenue is up by 213% QoQ.

• Added many new blockchains to CCIP, including mainnet for Morph, MegaETH, Pharos, EdgeX, and ADI, as well as testnet for DogeOS, Arc, and Robinhood.
• Ongoing major developments to CCIP to enhance its developer experience, scalability, and reliability, making it easier to build, manage, and operate complex cross-chain applications.

Economics

• The Chainlink Reserve added 1,473,379 LINK in Q1, bringing the total now to 3.06M LINK with a $27.5M USD Value. [Reserve]
• Chainlink Payment Abstraction V2 underwent a Code4rena competitive audit. The V2 upgrade introduces a new permissionless Dutch auction design to unlock enhanced efficiency and reduced execution costs. Chainlink Payment Abstraction enables users to pay for oracle services in their preferred form of payment, including digital assets and fiat currency, which are programmatically converted into LINK using a decentralized exchange. [Announcement]
• Two new blockchains joined the Scale program, including Unichain and MegaETH. Each blockchain ecosystem contributed economic resources to cover the integrations, usage, and maintenance of Chainlink services on its network. 
• The U.S. SEC and CFTC issued a joint interpretation officially classifying the LINK token as a digital commodity. [Release]
• LINK futures launched on CME Group, the world’s largest CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange. This marked another major milestone in the expansion of regulated market infrastructure supporting LINK. [Announcement]

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