Chainlink & ICE Forge Historic Alliance: The Tokenized Markets Revolution Begins

Wall Street meets Web3 in a seismic shift as Chainlink's oracle network teams up with ICE—parent company of the NYSE—to bulldoze barriers in tokenized assets. Finally, institutional capital might stop pretending blockchain is 'just a fad.'

Oracle meets infrastructure

Chainlink's tamper-proof data feeds will plug directly into ICE's institutional-grade market infrastructure. No more handwringing about price accuracy—smart contracts get battlefield-grade reliability.

The custody paradox solved

By bridging ICE's legacy systems with on-chain execution, the partnership could finally crack the 'institutional adoption' code. Cue hedge funds scrambling to justify their 2% management fees for glorified index tracking.

Tokenization's tipping point?

With ICE's commodities and fixed income markets entering the fray, trillions in real-world assets now stare down the blockchain pipeline. TradFi dinosaurs can either adapt or face extinction.

One cynic's take: Nothing unites old money and new crypto like the scent of freshly minted transaction fees.

• Chainlink partners with ICE to bring foreign exchange and precious metals data on-chain, enhancing blockchain markets.
• ICE to integrate market data into Chainlink’s oracle network, improving pricing accuracy for DeFi platforms and applications.
• Tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) and stablecoins surge, signaling blockchain’s growing role in traditional finance.

Chainlink is partnering with Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), a Fortune 500 company headquartered in the United States, to integrate foreign exchange and precious metals data via the blockchain. Announced on Monday, the partnership will combine the ICE Consolidated Feed, which collects market data across 300-plus global exchanges and marketplaces, with data sets that are driving chainlink Data Streams.

ICE is a US company that operates leading global exchanges and clearinghouses. It is best recognized as the owner of the New York Stock Exchange. The firm matches buyers with sellers in a wide range of asset types. Integration with Chainlink will allow ICE to supply market data, which can enable blockchain applications to access accurate, sourced, and tamper-proof pricing data.

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Chainlink Boosts DeFi with ICE Data Integration

Chainlink is a Core part of the blockchain ecosystem that supports more than 2,000 decentralized applications (DApps). In this collaboration, the company will incorporate ICE pricing data into its Oracle platform. This will further improve the speed and quality of market data utilized in automated settlements and large-value transactions in DeFi. The partnership assists in risk mitigation, providing reliable data with low latency.

The partnership is a major milestone towards the evolution of blockchain markets, said Maurisa Baumann, Vice President of Global Data Delivery Platforms at ICE. She considers that such integration will make blockchain-based markets as transparent and reliable as the traditional financial markets. It is a necessary requirement in building confidence in blockchain-based financial mechanisms, particularly among institutional investors.

Source: ICE

Tokenized Markets Surge with Chainlink’s Partnership

Fernando Vazquez, the president of capital markets at Chainlink Labs, stated that the collaboration is a prerequisite for the establishment of global on-chain financial unification. Such a partnership allows tokenizing trillions of dollars’ worth of assets. Chainlink’s market push to institutionalize decentralized finance will enable the activation of the blockchain’s potential across traditional financial industries.

The announcement coincides with the growing popularity of tokenized real-world assets (RWAs). According to a June forecast by Standard Chartered, the RWA market could surpass $30 trillion by 2034. Data tracker RWA.xyz showed that RWAs on-chain were roughly $25.75 billion, whereas the stablecoins were more than $260.29 billion at the time of reporting.

Subsequent information showed that RWA asset holders on-chain had already exceeded 347,000 in terms of improved growth of 13.97% during the last 30 days. Moreover, holders of stablecoins exceeded 188.55 million, and the growth in this period was 2.82%.