- Chainlink’s end-to-end platform maturity has enabled it to secure over $100 billion in assets, connect over 2,500 projects, and enable $20 trillion in transaction value.
- Chainlink’s TradFi Alliance has solidified its position as the go-to oracle for tokenization, and no competitor can match its institutional reach.
Chainlink (LINK) has solidified its position as the industry standard oracle platform. The integration of tokenization and real-world assets is accelerating and is expected to reach 16 trillion by 2030, about 10% of global GDP, with market experts saying this is just the beginning of the era of tokenization.
Among the network’s achievements, Chainlink reports that the network has surpassed $100 billion in total secure value (TVS). This represents a year-over-year growth of 163%, a measure of the total value of digital assets that rely on Oracle infrastructure to ensure reliable data and interoperability.
The network currently supports over 2,500 projects across decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, tokenized asset systems, institutional integration, and other smart contract-based applications. Reflecting this scale, Crypto News Flash reports that Chainlink holds approximately 63% of the oracle market.
According to intern Crypto Condom, a key driver of Chainlink’s momentum is its partnerships with transformative institutions. “With the production implementation of SWIFT scheduled for November 2025 and major banking partnerships with DTCC, Euroclear, JP Morgan and UBS moving from pilot to production, Chainlink represents an infrastructure bet on institutional DeFi adoption,” he said.
Chainlink’s CRE Growth Drivers
By launching the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) in October 2024, Chainlink positioned itself not just as an oracle network, but as a complete orchestration layer for Web3. The intern succinctly explained the change. “This paradigm shift positions Chainlink as the Java runtime environment for blockchain.”
They elaborated further and explained:
CRE transforms Chainlink into a modular platform. Developers can incorporate individual functions such as reading and writing to the chain, fetching external APIs, performing consensus, and performing off-chain computations into custom workflows that run seamlessly across the decentralized oracle network.
To illustrate this impact, the intern highlighted a high-profile proof of concept: a joint demonstration between Swift, UBS, and Chainlink that took place in September 2025. In this demo, we extended the solution by allowing ISO 20022 messages to trigger tokenized funds workflows via CRE and allowing institutions to trigger on-chain events more generally using Swift messages.
This is not an isolated experiment. Chainlink works with 24 of the world’s largest financial institutions and market infrastructures, including SWIFT, DTCC, Euroclear, SIX, UBS, and Wellington Management, to modernize the processing of corporate activities.
In these workflows, CRE acts as an orchestration layer, automating the extraction, validation, and coordination of events between traditional systems and blockchain networks.
Four standards of chain link
In particular, Chainlink’s technical architecture already integrates four open standards. More than 2,000 price feeds power Data Standard, achieving a 777% throughput increase through the OCR3 protocol and multi-stream architecture, ensuring faster and more reliable data delivery.
The interoperability standard enabled by Chainlink CCIP currently connects over 60 blockchains and has already facilitated over $2.2 billion in cross-chain transfers.
On the regulatory side, compliance standards are backed by Chainlink’s Automated Compliance Engine (ACE), which can enforce policies on both public and private blockchains. In particular, the ERC-3643 token standard approved by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for actual asset tokenization leverages ACE to automate compliance at the protocol level.
Adding to this institutional-grade stack is Chainlink’s proprietary security certification. In our previous article, we mentioned how Chainlink achieved International Organization for Standardization ISO 27001, a globally recognized benchmark for information security management systems, and American Institute of Certified Public Accountants SOC 2 Type 1, which validates a network’s controls for security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.
With Donald Trump’s re-election to office, the repeal of SAB 121, the creation of a dedicated crypto task force, and the US Department of Labor’s loosening of 401(k) crypto allocation limits, the pace of institutional adoption of Chainlink will likely accelerate.
He concluded:
Chainlink is the most essential protocol in cryptocurrencies because it is the only complete platform that connects every blockchain to everything else.
