- Ondo Finance and Chainlink form a major alliance to bring global financial institutions on-chain.
- Chainlink becomes the official oracle provider for Ondo’s $350 million tokenized assets.
- The partnership sets a new benchmark for on-chain finance and institutional adoption.
Ondo Finance and Chainlink have announced a strategic partnership to bridge traditional finance and blockchain technology. The two firms aim to help global financial institutions transition their assets and operations on-chain, marking a significant milestone in the evolution of digital finance.
Ondo has developed one of the most extensive institutional ecosystems in the tokenization sector, connecting over 100 major financial organizations, protocols, and applications.
By joining forces with Chainlink, the leading oracle platform, Ondo intends to leverage the CCIP as the preferred system for cross-chain transactions across traditional financial institutions.
This partnership follows their earlier collaborations with top market players, including integration with Kinexys by J.P. Morgan, which explored cross-chain settlement for tokenized assets.
Ondo is also now participating in Chainlink’s corporate actions initiative, alongside 24 global institutions such as Swift, DTCC, and Euroclear, a move expected to further strengthen its foothold in institutional-grade tokenization.
Chainlink Becomes the Oracle Backbone
Ondo Global Markets, the biggest tokenized stocks/ETFs platform, has already accumulated more than $350 million in total value locked and $700 million in total trading volume.
Now, with the new alliance, Chainlink becomes the official provider of oracles to Ondo, which helps in facilitating real-time prices in addition to transparency on all blockchains supported by Ondo.
The institutional-grade data feeds offered by Chainlink would offer custom pricing for every tokenized asset, including equities and ETFs. This takes into consideration economic events such as dividends and corporate actions and provides on-chain valuation for them.
Such an approach provides assurance to the tokens issued on Ondo to remain authentic and trustworthy to serve well in acting as collateral in DeFi markets.
The inclusion of Chainlink technology is an improvement in Ondo’s structural set-up because it makes it possible for tokenized assets to behave in the same manner as regular assets while being auditable on blockchains.
Building the Next Generation of Capital Markets
The coming together of Ondo and Chainlink marks the beginning of a new era in institutional DeFi. With assets on 10 different blockchains and ties with more than 100 apps, Ondo is clearly gearing to be one of the biggest players in connecting real-world assets to the DeFi space.
Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov further clarified that the process of asset tokenization is driving major shifts in the way in which global markets function. While Ondo founder Nathan Allman added that this brings the world of finance one step closer to programmable on-chain capital markets.
Together, they are establishing the basis for the trillion-dollar tokenized economy that has transparency, connectivity, and institutional trust redefining the global finance space.
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