Chainlink Secures $100B Across 2,500 Projects — But the Real Story Is What Comes Next

• Chainlink’s end-to-end platform maturity has propelled it to secure more than $100 billion in assets, connect 2,500+ projects, and enable $20 trillion in transaction value.
• Chainlink’s TradFi alliances have cemented its position as the go-to oracle for tokenization, with no competitors close to matching its institutional reach.

Chainlink (LINK) has solidified its position as the industry-standard oracle platform. Tokenization and real-world asset integration are accelerating, and market experts say that it’s just the beginning of an era for tokenization, as it’s projected to reach 16 trillion in 2030, approximately 10% of global GDP.

In one of the network’s achievements, Chainlink reports that its network has surpassed $100 billion in Total Value Secured (TVS), representing 163% year-over-year growth, a measure of the total value of digital assets that depend on its oracle infrastructure for reliable data and interoperability.

The network now supports more than 2,500 projects spanning decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, tokenized-asset systems, institutional integrations, and other smart contract–based applications. Reflecting this scale, Crypto News Flash reports that Chainlink holds around 63% of the oracle market.

According to crypto condom, an intern, a major driver of Chainlink’s momentum is its transformative institutional partnerships. “With SWIFT production deployment scheduled for November 2025 and major banking partnerships with DTCC, Euroclear, JPMorgan, and UBS transitioning from pilots to production, Chainlink represents the infrastructure bet on institutional DeFi adoption, ” he said.

Chainlink’s CRE Growth Driver

By launching the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) in October 2024, Chainlink positioned itself not just as an oracle network but as a full orchestration layer for Web3. The intern described the shift succinctly: “This paradigm shift positions Chainlink as the Java Runtime Environment for blockchain.”

They elaborated further, explaining that:

To illustrate the impact of this, the intern highlighted a high-profile proof of concept: the September 2025 joint demonstration between Swift, UBS, and Chainlink. In this demo, ISO 20022 messages triggered tokenized fund workflows via CRE, expanding the solution by enabling institutions to use Swift messages to trigger on-chain events more generically.

This isn’t an isolated experiment. Chainlink has been working alongside 24 of the world’s largest financial institutions and market infrastructures, including SWIFT, DTCC, Euroclear, SIX, UBS, and Wellington Management, to modernize corporate actions processing.

In these workflows, CRE acts as the orchestration layer, automating the extraction, validation, and coordination of events between traditional systems and blockchain networks.

Chainlink’s Four Standards

Notably, Chainlink’s technical architecture already unifies four open standards. More than 2,000 price feeds power the Data Standard and has achieved a 777% throughput increase through the OCR3 protocol and Multistream architecture, ensuring faster and more reliable data delivery.

The Interoperability Standard, enabled by Chainlink CCIP, now connects over 60 blockchains and has already facilitated more than $2.2 billion in cross-chain transfers.

On the regulatory front, the Compliance Standard is anchored by Chainlink’s Automated Compliance Engine (ACE), which allows policy enforcement across both public and private blockchains. Notably, the ERC-3643 token standard, endorsed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for real-world asset tokenization, leverages ACE to automate compliance at the protocol level.

Adding to this institutional-grade stack are Chainlink’s exclusive security certifications. We mentioned in our previous story that Chainlink earned the International Organization for Standardization ISO 27001, a globally recognized benchmark for information security management systems, and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants SOC 2 Type 1, which validates the network’s controls around security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.

With Donald Trump back in office, the reversal of SAB 121, the creation of a dedicated Crypto Task Force, and the U.S. Department of Labor easing restrictions on 401(k) crypto allocations, the pace of institutional adoption for Chainlink is set to accelerate.

He concluded,