Chainlink on Thursday partnered with 24 large financial institutions to establish infrastructure to improve the processing of corporate activities. According to the company, this infrastructure leverages the Chainlink oracle platform, blockchain, and AI to extract, verify, and distribute corporate behavioral data across blockchains.
Chainlink has partnered with companies such as DTCC, Swift, Euroclear, SIX, TMX, CEVALDOM, Grupo BMV, ADDX, Orbit Technology, Marketnode, and Wamid.
The firm also worked with top asset managers and banks including ANZ, UBS, DBS Bank, BNP Paribas’ securities services business, Schroders, Wellington Management, Zürcher Kantonal Bank, CTBC Bank, Sygnum Bank, Vontobel, Amina Bank, Zand Bank and Causeway Capital Management.
Chainlink’s new infrastructure is built on Phase 1 project
Inefficiencies in today’s business lifecycle cost businesses $58 billion annually.
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— Chainlink (@chainlink) December 17, 2025
Chainlink pointed out that the global cost of processing corporate activities exceeds $58 billion annually. Custodian Trust Clearing Corporation reported Informal disclosures, repetitive verification steps, and inconsistent data flows between systems are likely responsible for the explosion in corporate litigation.
Citi reports that the average cost to process a single event is currently $34 million across more than 110,000 business interactions. The company also noted that annual processing costs jumped 10% in 2025.
“By leveraging DLT, we can increase the level of transparency, connectivity and accuracy in our ecosystem. We welcomed the opportunity to realize this use case and demonstrate how innovative technology can transform processes and deliver new capabilities and value to the industry.”
–Dan DonnieManaging Director and Chief Technology Officer of DTCC Digital Assets.
Chainlink said the new infrastructure will be built on Phase 1 of the project in partnership with Swift, Euroclear, and six financial institutions. Companies have successfully demonstrated that the processing of corporate actions can be significantly reduced.
It turns out that a distributed oracle network has allowed companies to demonstrate that large-scale language models can extract structured data from informal announcements of company activity. It also allowed data to be published on-chain as a unified golden record.
Chainlink plans to advance the Phase 2 project into a solution that meets the requirements of today’s large financial institutions. The company said Phase 2 demonstrated improved speed, reach and accessibility of corporate behavioral data.
Financial institutions leveraged the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) to process, validate, and distribute corporate activity data across systems using the Chainlink Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP). CRE converted the output of the validated AI model into ISO 20022 message format, and CCIP distributed the records to DTCC’s blockchain ecosystem and other blockchains.
Chainlink seeks to address market participant concerns in Phase 1
Chainlink said Phase 2 will focus on resolving timing delays. Currently, it takes 24 to 48 hours for corporate activity data to reach asset management companies from the time it is first announced.
The company also wants to reduce the loss of corporate activity data caused by distortions caused by different intermediaries applying different processing logic. Phase 2 also aims to prevent data fragmentation caused by publishing company activities in different formats and channels.
The decentralized oracle network has revealed that it will introduce a new data certifier role in Phase 2, allowing regulated entities to verify the accuracy of corporate activity data. This initiative aims to address concerns about authenticity raised It was done by market participants in the previous stage.
Chainlink is working to enable data contributors to provide missing information that is often excluded from initial disclosure. The company also plans to support integration with traditional financial infrastructure by generating ISO 20022-compliant messages to facilitate data delivery.
Mark Garabedian, director of digital assets and tokenization at Wellington Management, said it is essential that asset managers receive accurate corporate behavior data quickly and consistently in a standardized format.
Chainlink aims to expand the role of the system in the next phase by extending the current processing workflow to support more complex on-chain corporate actions on stocks. The company plans to record events such as stock splits and make them attestable to all market participants.
