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Ripple has partnered with Chainlink, a decentralized oracle network, to improve the adoption and utility of its Ripple USD (RLUSD) stablecoin in decentralized finance (DeFi) applications. The collaboration will provide price feeds for RLUSD on Ethereum and the XRP Ledger, which aim to support cost-effective transactions and DeFi use cases for the enterprise-grade stablecoin. https://ripple.com/ripple-press/ripple-adopts-the-chainlink-standard-to-further-rippleusd-utility-and-access-in-defi/

"Blockchain technology is powerful but has a fundamental limitation: it cannot access real-world data on its own. Smart contracts, essential to many blockchains and decentralized finance applications, rely on external data to function. This is where "oracle networks" like Chainlink come in. Oracles enable smart contracts to securely pull data from a wide range of information sources, instead of relying on a single provider. Over 14 blockchain ecosystems are compatible with Chainlink, including Ethereum, Avalanche, Polygon, and BNB Chain. Through these integrations, over 1,600 projects are using Chainlink's technology as of 2025."

As part of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) Project Guardian, SBI Digital Markets, UBS Asset Management, and Chainlink completed the implementation of a tokenized fund. They showed how tokenization, smart contracts, and Chainlink infrastructure can automate the fund management process for fund administrators and transfer agents. The pilot demonstrated the possibility for a tokenized fund to maintain its share register on one blockchain while using Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) to enable the processing of intensive fund lifecycle activities on another blockchain with different underlying security, cost, and efficiency properties.

And while Bitcoin has plunged by 15% on a seven-day period, dragging most of the cryptocurrency market along with it, some altcoins have survived the drop and massive price correction: Chainlink (LINK), Uniswap (UNI), and Polkadot (DOT) have recorded gains of 11%, 21%, and 20% over the same seven-day period.

Arbol, a platform that allows farmers to hedge weather risks, is integrating Chainlink data oracles. With blockchain, settlements and payouts can be instant, whereas in the centralized world, participants may have to wait weeks, if not months. Farmers can hedge against various adverse weather conditions having a negative impact on their crops. They can buy a hedge - for example, if a temperature in their region reaches a critical level, which will trigger an automatic payout. By adding Chainlink's oracalized weather data feeds, the company's platform has become more decentralized and resilient.

"With Chainlink Proof of Reserve (PoR), stablecoin protocols are able to enhance their stability and transparency, providing real-time insight into their reserves and boosting user and market confidence."

Banco Central do Brasil has reportedly selected Banco Inter alongside Microsoft Brazil, 7COMm and Chainlink to build a trade finance solution as part of the 2nd phase of Brazil's DREX central bank digital currency (CBDC) experimentation. The solution leverages blockchain technology and oracles to automate supply chain management and improve trade finance processes. The goal of the pilot is to demonstrate the automated settlement of agricultural commodity transactions across borders, across platforms, and via different currencies.

Outside of tokenomics, there is a lot more power in the blockchain, especially in regards to smart contracts. Thus, a recent partnership between Google and Chainlink, a company that provides on ramps and off ramps for information necessary to run smart contracts, may hint at Google wanting a bigger slice of the pie.

Grayscale Investments, via its "statutory trustee" Delaware Trust Company, filed for five digital asset trusts with Delaware's corporations registry: Chainlink, Basic Attention Token, Decentraland, Livepeer and Tezos.

Grayscale has incorporated six more trusts, tied to Polkadot (DOT), Aave (AAVE), Monero (XMR), Cardano (ADA), Cosmos (ATOM), and EOS.IO (EOS). All the six trusts were formed Wednesday by Delaware Trust Company, Grayscale's "statutory trustee." The new trust formations come a week after Grayscale incorporated [six more trusts, including those tied to Chainlink (LINK) and Tezos (XTZ) tokens]. However, trust formations do not mean the firm will launch these products.

Aggarwal, Chainlink, Web3 Foundation and Hashed say their names were used without their permission on the OpenLibra slide deck presented at Devcon. The OpenLibra project aims to ensure that access to the Libra stablecoin and its technology remains free from corporate control.

DeFi Money Market (DMM), one of the earliest projects aiming to bring real-world assets on-chain, has ceased operations as a result of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) inquiries. Users deposit DAI, USDC, USDT, or ETH to the DMM smart contract in exchange for DMM mTokens that offered over 6% interest rates on the real-world car loans that backed them. DMM runs off a custom-built Chainlink oracle. The SEC subpoena requested information about the mTokens (DMM's interest earning stable coin tokens), the DMG governance tokens, and other details surrounding DMM's operations and governance.

Trading in Bitwise Asset Management's 10 Crypto Index Fund is live. It tracks the 10 largest crypto-assets and allows investors to buy shares that represent them. It is billed as the first publicly traded crypto index fund in the United States. The Fund debuted with $120 million in assets under management. 75% of the assets are Bitcoin, 13% in Ether and the remaining 12% split between XRP, Litecoin, Chainlink, Tezos, Bitcoin Cash, Stellar, and EOS.

SWIFT and Chainlink will be collaborating with dozens of financial institutions to test how they can use Swift's infrastructure to instruct the transfer of tokenized assets across blockchains. This builds on a series of successful trials in 2022, and also will explore how the industry could address potential operational and regulatory pitfalls facing financial institutions when operating in blockchain environment.

"Chainlink Proof of Reserve enables the reliable and timely monitoring of reserve assets using automated audits based on cryptographic truth."