- Chainlink enables near-round-the-clock access to U.S. stock and ETF market data.
- The new data removes off-hours pricing gaps, making onchain stock trading safer and more reliable.
- Platforms can now build equity perps, lending, and synthetic stock products on blockchain.
The U.S. stock market, worth around $80 trillion, is moving closer to the blockchain world.
Chainlink said it has launched 24/5 U.S. equities data streams, allowing decentralised finance platforms to access live stock and ETF prices almost around the clock. The move is directed at bringing traditional shares into onchain trading, lending, and derivatives markets for the first time at scale.
Until now, one of the hurdles to putting stocks on blockchain has been timing. Blockchains run 24 hours a day, but U.S. equity markets trade only during fixed sessions. Most onchain platforms only had access to limited price data during regular market hours, leaving gaps overnight and after-hours. That made stock-based crypto products risky and unreliable.
Chainlink says its new data streams solve this problem.
Always-on Stock Data for Onchain Markets
The new service delivers live equity and ETF pricing 24 hours a day, five days a week, covering regular trading, pre-market, post-market, and overnight sessions. This allows decentralised platforms to keep running even when Wall Street is officially closed.
Instead of a single price, the data includes bid and ask prices, trading volumes, last-trade prices, market-status flags, and freshness indicators. This added context helps platforms manage risk, prevent bad liquidations, and offer smoother trading during volatile periods.
The data is live across more than 40 blockchains, Chainlink said.
Why This is Important
Real-world assets, or RWAs, are one of the fastest-growing areas in crypto. Analysts estimate onchain RWAs could reach $30 trillion by 2030, but U.S. stocks have barely featured so far.
With continuous data now available, developers can build:
- Stock-based perpetual futures
- Synthetic shares and ETFs
- Equity-backed lending markets
- Prediction markets linked to stock prices
- Structured products and yield strategies
In short, U.S. equities can now behave more like crypto assets, trading beyond normal market hours.
Early Adoption by Major Platforms
Several well-known trading platforms are already using the new data. These include BitMEX, ApeX, HelloTrade, Decibel, Monaco, Opinion Labs, and Orderly Network.
BitMEX CEO Stephan Lutz said the data provides the “pricing context needed to operate beyond standard market hours,” while Lighter’s founder said it allows fair and fast execution without sacrificing data quality.
A Bigger Push Into Real-world Finance
Chainlink’s infrastructure already secures a large share of decentralised finance activity, having supported over $27 trillion in transaction value over its lifetime, according to the company. Chainlink said it plans to expand coverage to more assets and regions over time.
For now, the message is clear: stocks are no longer limited to Wall Street hours. With near-continuous data now available onchain, crypto markets are taking another step toward becoming always-on versions of traditional finance.
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