Chainlink Ignites 21X Surge in Tokenized Securities Revolution

Chainlink just rewired the entire tokenization game—and traditional finance didn't see it coming.

21 major institutions just plugged into Chainlink's oracle network, bridging real-world assets to blockchain with brutal efficiency. No more clunky legacy systems. No more settlement delays.

How It Works

Smart contracts now pull real-time pricing, custody verification, and regulatory compliance data directly from traditional markets. Stocks, bonds, and commodities flow on-chain without intermediaries taking their cut.

Why It Matters

This isn't just incremental improvement—it's a full-scale bypass of Wall Street's gatekeepers. Asset tokenization was always promised; Chainlink just delivered the infrastructure that actually makes it work outside a PowerPoint slide.

One cynical take? Banks will probably launch their own 'blockchain initiatives' next week—after years of calling crypto a scam.

Bottom line: Chainlink isn't just supporting the tokenized revolution. It's fueling it.

• 21X becomes the first EU-regulated exchange for tokenized securities to adopt Chainlink.
• Real-time, verifiable market data is now available on the Polygon blockchain.
• Integration strengthens transparency and opens doors for institutional adoption.

Chainlink has secured another milestone as 21X, the first EU-regulated on-chain exchange for tokenized securities, confirmed its adoption of the chainlink data standard. The collaboration is now live, delivering market data through the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) directly onto the Polygon blockchain.

This integration allows 21X to publish reliable bid and ask prices, along with last traded figures for securities listed on its platform. Unlike traditional reporting systems, this on-chain model offers real-time transparency and auditability, making it suitable for regulated digital markets in the European Union.

By embedding Chainlink’s infrastructure into its operations, 21X is creating an open and verifiable data LAYER for securities, including equities, debt instruments, and funds.

Chainlink Labs Sees Institutional Assets Flowing On-chain

The MOVE was significant in the view of 21X CEO Max Heinzle, who called it a building block in bridging traditional capital market systems with blockchain-based platforms. The adoption allows institutions to get access to live market data that is standardized, machine-readable, and directly usable in multiple applications.

CRE workflow makes it more effective to use tokenised securities by custodianship providers, lending protocols, and portfolio managers. From rebalancing automated portfolios to collateral management of lending platforms, tokenised assets’ usability is now furthered under regulated circumstances.

Chainlink, which currently underpins much of the decentralized finance space and has enabled trillions of value in transactions, gives 21X added credibility as a compliant blockchain trading platform.

Fernando Vazquez, President of Banking and Capital Markets at Chainlink Labs, said:

With Chainlink making 21X’s EU-regulated tokenized securities more usable across the on-chain economy and helping bring institutional-grade assets to DeFi protocols across the globe, this is a pivotal moment for the blockchain economy as it opens the floodgates of institutional capital to FLOW on-chain.

Building the Next Phase of Regulated Digital Markets

In the future, 21X will also expand its collaboration with Chainlink to include pre-trade data, complex analytics, and new assets. In furtherance of this expansion, regulators, developers, and financial institutions will benefit from an enhanced data ecosystem.

All of this data will continue to be available both via the 21X platform and in-chain endpoints, further reinforcing this platform’s focus on transparency. In the bigger financial ecosystem, this integration shows how regulated marketplaces and decentralized networks can come together to create scalable, efficient, and composable capital markets.