Ondo Finance and Chainlink Join Forces to Bring Global Financial Institutions Onchain

Ondo Finance and Chainlink have announced a strategic partnership aimed at moving global financial institutions onchain. The collaboration combines Ondo’s real-world asset (RWA) tokenization infrastructure with Chainlink’s oracle and cross-chain technology.

The goal is to create a trusted bridge between traditional finance (TradFi) and decentralized finance (DeFi), enabling the tokenization and interoperability of trillions of dollars in global assets.

Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov added that this partnership showcases what institutional-grade tokenized assets look like in production.

"Ondo's deployment of tokenized stocks using Chainlink showcases what institutional-grade tokenized stocks look like in production” he noted.

What the Partnership Means

According to a joint statement released on Thursday, Chainlink will become the official oracle provider for Ondo’s tokenized stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The companies also plan to promote Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) as the standard for institutional cross-chain transactions.

Chainlink has also joined the Ondo Global Market Alliance, supporting the integration of tokenized stocks and ETFs into DeFi and institutional environments.

Both companies share the same goal — to create secure and transparent onchain financial infrastructure that allows institutions to issue, manage, and trade tokenized assets directly on blockchain networks.

Securing the Foundation of Tokenized Stocks

Ondo Global Markets is already one of the largest platforms for tokenized stocks and ETFs. It supports over 100 tokenized assets and holds more than $300 million in total value locked (TVL).

The platform will now leverage Chainlink’s institutional-grade oracle data to price its tokenized equities across supported blockchains.
This includes:

• Custom price feeds for each tokenized equity
• Accurate capture of dividends and corporate actions
• Continuous, onchain valuation updates

Chainlink’s data feeds will ensure each tokenized stock reflects real-time market conditions, providing the accuracy required for institutional-grade products.

By combining Ondo’s tokenization infrastructure with Chainlink’s oracle services, the two platforms can deliver reliable, transparent, and compliant pricing for digital securities.

How Chainlink’s Data Infrastructure Fits In

Chainlink acts as a decentralized oracle network — a bridge between smart contracts and real-world data sources such as APIs, payment systems, and financial market feeds.

This infrastructure ensures that onchain applications receive verified and tamper-resistant data, essential for pricing assets like tokenized stocks, ETFs, and real-world assets (RWAs).

In this partnership:

• Chainlink’s oracles provide verified market data to Ondo’s onchain assets.
• CCIP (Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol) enables assets, applications, and smart contracts to move seamlessly across blockchains.
• Ondo’s tokenized offerings gain access to multiple networks with standardized data inputs.

This technical alignment enhances security, transparency, and interoperability — three factors critical for institutional adoption.

Ondo has built one of the largest institutional ecosystems for RWA tokenization. Its assets are deployed across 10 blockchains and integrated with over 100 decentralized applications (dApps) and financial partners.

Now, with Chainlink’s support, Ondo plans to extend its infrastructure to help traditional financial institutions move their assets and operations onchain.

This effort aligns with ongoing global experiments in tokenization and interoperability. Ondo and Chainlink are already working alongside key capital market participants, including Swift, DTCC, and Euroclear, through Chainlink’s corporate actions initiative.

Bringing Capital Markets Onchain

The partnership between Ondo and Chainlink represents a practical step toward the onchain capital markets model. This model allows:

• Institutional investors to issue, settle, and redeem digital securities directly on blockchain networks
• Real-time auditability of assets
• Lower costs through automation
• Greater liquidity via fractional ownership and programmable assets

By adopting Chainlink as its official oracle infrastructure, Ondo Finance makes its tokenized assets interoperable across both DeFi and institutional frameworks.

As Ondo CEO Nathan Allman explained, the collaboration demonstrates how traditional and decentralized finance can now operate side-by-side on the same infrastructure.

"By adopting Chainlink as the official oracle infrastructure for our tokenized stocks we're making our tokenized assets seamlessly composable across DeFi and institutional rails,” Allman said.

Tokenization is the process of representing real-world assets (such as stocks, funds, and bonds) as digital tokens on a blockchain.
It enables:

• Fractional ownership, allowing investors to buy small portions of large assets
• 24/7 accessibility, unlike traditional market hours
• Improved transparency, as ownership and transactions are verifiable onchain

Ondo’s tokenization model focuses on regulated, institution-grade assets like equities and ETFs, distinguishing it from the retail-focused memecoin and NFT segments of crypto.

Through tokenization, Ondo seeks to make capital markets more efficient and inclusive while maintaining compliance with traditional financial standards.

A Broader Trend in Institutional Blockchain Adoption

The Ondo–Chainlink partnership follows a growing trend among regulated institutions exploring onchain infrastructure.

Recently, Virtune, a Swedish-regulated asset manager, integrated Chainlink’s Proof of Reserve system across its $450 million in exchange-traded products (ETPs). This system allows investors to verify onchain that each ETP is fully backed by its underlying crypto assets — such as Bitcoin, Chainlink, Arbitrum, Polygon, and Solana — without exposing wallet data.

Together, these moves show that verification, transparency, and cross-chain connectivity are becoming vital for traditional finance entering crypto.

Conclusion

The partnership between Ondo Finance and Chainlink brings together two complementary systems — tokenization and oracle infrastructure — to build a secure foundation for institutional blockchain adoption.

• Ondo provides the framework for issuing and managing tokenized securities.
• Chainlink delivers verified data, interoperability, and trust through its oracle network and CCIP protocol.

As a result, institutions can now operate onchain with accurate data, regulatory alignment, and cross-chain functionality. Rather than promising a future transformation, this collaboration focuses on building tangible infrastructure that already connects traditional markets with the blockchain economy.

Resources:

1. Chainlink X platform: https://x.com/chainlink

2. Ondo Finance X platform: https://x.com/OndoFinance

3. Press release - Ondo and Chainlink Announce Landmark Strategic Partnership to Jointly Bring Financial Institutions Onchain: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ondo-and-chainlink-announce-landmark-strategic-partnership-to-jointly-bring-financial-institutions-onchain-302599151.html

4. Ondo and Chainlink partner to bring financial institutions onchain - report by The Street: https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/markets/ondo-chainlink-partnership