Chainlink Emerges as a Core Player in Institutional Tokenization

Chainlink has quietly become one of the key infrastructure providers for institutional tokenization, moving well beyond its original role as an oracle for DeFi price feeds. In 2025, the pace of high profile partnerships has accelerated, S&P Dow Jones Indices and tokenization platform Dinari selected Chainlink as the official oracle provider for the forthcoming S&P Digital Markets 50 Index, which will track both U.S. blockchain related equities and major digital assets and is designed to operate verifiably on chain.

Chainlink will deliver real-time index values and pricing data, enabling the index to be tokenized and used as collateral or investment exposure in DeFi protocols.

The project is part of a broader push to bring traditional financial data and instruments on chain.

Tradeweb, a major electronic marketplace for fixed income, has collaborated with Chainlink to publish U.S. Treasury benchmark data on chain via a product known as DataLink, opening the door for tokenized bond markets and programmable interest rate products.

Meanwhile, asset manager WisdomTree is using Chainlink infrastructure to provide on-chain NAV data for its tokenized private credit fund, allowing subscriptions and redemptions to be managed with institutional grade transparency.

Beyond data, Chainlink’s cross chain messaging and interoperability tools are being integrated into major experiments in central bank and wholesale finance.

The Central Bank of Brazil’s Drex program and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority have used Chainlink technology to facilitate cross-border delivery versus payment settlement between different networks, demonstrating how tokenized assets and payments can move securely across public and permissioned systems. In parallel, Abu Dhabi’s ADGM has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Chainlink to help design compliant tokenization frameworks for its financial center, signaling interest from regulators as well as market participants.

For the LINK token, this growing web of institutional relationships strengthens the narrative that Chainlink is becoming a core layer in the emerging “tokenized” financial stack.

While price will still move with broader crypto sentiment, the underlying story is shifting, from a speculative DeFi tool to a piece of infrastructure that major banks, asset managers and market operators are choosing to rely on.

If tokenization continues to gain traction, the projects plugged into Chainlink’s data and interoperability rails may become some of the most strategically important in the space and LINK will sit at the center of that ecosystem.