Chainlink is now live on Stellar, unleashing a new wave of DeFi innovation across a $4B+ RWA ecosystem

Chainlink is unleashing a new wave of DeFi adoption on the Stellar network. With Chainlink’s Data Feeds and Data Streams now live on Stellar, developers have access to the market data needed to launch secure lending markets, prediction markets, perpetual futures, and other innovative onchain financial applications that connect the Stellar network’s growing real world asset (RWA) ecosystem to DeFi.

The Stellar network already supports $4+ billion in RWAs, but assets moving onchain are only part of the story. These assets also need to be priced, traded, borrowed against, and used as collateral. The next phase is utility and distribution. Chainlink is providing industry-standard data infrastructure required to put more of that value to work securely and reliably.

Through Chainlink, assets and liquidity on the Stellar network become the foundation of a productive DeFi ecosystem where stablecoins, tokenized equities, and other digital assets gain utility as collateral and tradable assets, giving users more ways to put their capital to work. Chainlink creates a powerful engine for the Stellar network’s growth by removing a critical barrier to launching new DeFi applications, enabling developers to build the markets that attract new users and capital.

Enhancing asset utility is the next phase of the lifecycle after asset issuance. This integration gives builders access to the same Chainlink oracle infrastructure that secures the vast majority of DeFi and has enabled tens of trillions of dollars in onchain transaction value.

This launch delivers on the previous announcement about the Chainlink Scale program by giving developers access to Chainlink’s high-quality, enterprise-grade oracle infrastructure.

Leading ecosystem applications are adopting Chainlink data infrastructure on the Stellar network at launch to power critical DeFi functions including collateral processing, loan-to-value calculations, automated liquidations, and stablecoin reference rates.

“The Stellar network’s adoption of Chainlink as its data infrastructure unlocks a new generation of DeFi and tokenized asset applications across its ecosystem. With Data Feeds and Data Streams now available natively, developers have the high-quality, reliable market data needed to build secure lending markets, stablecoins, and tokenized assets and scale them for widespread adoption.”—Johann Eid, Chief Business Officer at Chainlink Labs

“Tokenization is only the beginning. For onchain financial markets to operate at institutional scale, assets need reliable infrastructure for pricing, execution, and movement. Chainlink's oracle infrastructure strengthens that foundation by giving developers access to the data and connectivity required to build next-gen financial applications on Stellar. As these layers mature together, the opportunity shifts from simply issuing assets onchain to putting them to work.”—Raja Chakravorti, Chief Business Officer, Stellar Development Foundation

About Stellar

The Stellar network is a decentralized, fast, scalable, and uniquely sustainable blockchain built for financial products and services. It offers builders smart contracts functionality and a protocol optimized for payments, with a design intended to keep fees low and to provide transaction speeds that can scale with increased adoption. Financial institutions and innovators worldwide issue assets and settle payments on the Stellar network, which has processed billions of operations with millions of accounts since the network was first launched.

About Chainlink

Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and the market leader powering the majority of DeFi. The Chainlink stack provides the essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards needed to power advanced blockchain use cases for institutional tokenized assets, lending, payments, stablecoins, and more. Since inventing decentralized oracle networks, Chainlink has enabled tens of trillions in transaction value and now secures the vast majority of DeFi.

Many of the world’s largest financial services institutions have also adopted Chainlink’s standards and infrastructure, including Swift, Euroclear, Mastercard, Fidelity International, UBS, S&P Dow Jones Indices, FTSE Russell, WisdomTree, ANZ, and top protocols such as Aave, Polymarket, Lido, Lighter, and many others. Chainlink leverages a novel fee model where offchain and onchain revenue from enterprise adoption is converted to LINK tokens and stored in a strategic Chainlink Reserve. Learn more at chain.link.