DTCC’s Collateral AppChain, a shared infrastructure platform for collateral, will leverage the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) and Chainlink data standard to enable near real-time collateral management across financial markets and blockchains
New York/London/Hong Kong/Singapore/Sydney, May 12, 2026 ‒ The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced that its digitally native Collateral AppChain platform – designed as shared infrastructure to modernize collateral mobility and improve capital efficiency – will leverage the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) and Chainlink’s data standard to support key orchestration, data and automation capabilities.
Chainlink will be integrated into DTCC’s Collateral AppChain to enable the seamless pairing of asset prices, valuations and movement with the aim of overhauling how market risk is managed globally. CRE is built to operate at institutional scale and provides access to a resilient data and orchestration layer, unlocking automated workflows for the Collateral AppChain’s advanced eligibility, valuation, margining, collateral optimization, settlement, and related post-trade processes. Rather than relying on one-off integrations, CRE provides a reusable framework that enables DTCC’s Collateral AppChain to scale across new data types, asset classes and collateral use cases.
As a shared infrastructure platform for collateral, DTCC’s Collateral AppChain is designed to provide a common, interoperable foundation across market participants including collateral providers, receivers and managers, along with triparty agents and custodians. DTCC’s Collateral AppChain was publicly unveiled during DTCC’s Great Collateral Experiment and is expected to go live in Q4 2026.
“By leveraging tokenization and distributed ledger technology (DLT) to modernize collateral mobility, our goal is to enable 24/7, near real-time collateral management across global markets and blockchains,” said Nadine Chakar, DTCC Managing Director, Global Head of Digital Assets. “The integration of Chainlink’s CRE and data standard will allow us to deliver a unified on-chain environment, bringing on-chain asset prices, valuations and other collateral agreement data to support this transformative industry initiative.”
“It has been great working with DTCC, and I am very excited to see DTCC’s Collateral AppChain progressing closer to production to bring the full value of smart contracts to the traditional finance industry. Chainlink’s Runtime Environment will advance DTCC’s collateral management and data capabilities because it can pull together and orchestrate many critical outputs in a secure, private and compliant manner,” said Sergey Nazarov, Co-Founder of Chainlink. “Collateral management is the killer app that traditional finance has been waiting for from our industry, and we look forward to bringing it to the industry.”
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About DTCC
With over 50 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 20 locations around the world, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes, and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency, enhancing performance and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. Industry owned and governed, the firm innovates purposefully, simplifying the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, transaction processing, trade reporting and data services across asset classes, bringing enhanced resilience and soundness to existing financial markets while advancing the digital asset ecosystem. In 2025, DTCC’s subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at U.S. $4.7 quadrillion and its depository subsidiary provided custody and asset servicing for securities issues from over 150 countries and territories valued at U.S. $114 trillion. DTCC’s Global Trade Repository service, through locally registered, licensed, or approved trade repositories, processes more than 25 billion messages annually. To learn more, please visit us at www.dtcc.com or connect with us on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.
About Chainlink
Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and the market leader powering the majority of decentralized finance (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, Lido, GMX, 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.