Currently, the traditional stock market operates with limited hours.
These developments would facilitate the automation of processes and execution in less time.
Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the leading post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry in the United States, announced today, May 12, 2026, the integration of Chainlink technology into its native digital platform Collateral AppChain.
This technical collaboration seeks, in accordance with the release official, “modernize collateral mobility and improve capital efficiency” through the use of the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) and its data standard.
The implementation’s announced goal is to “enable near real-time collateral management in financial markets and blockchains.”
By solving the time and operational limitations of traditional systems, infrastructure lays the foundation for continuous tradingwhich would allow the “synchronization of prices, valuations and asset movements.”
To understand the scope of this integration, it is necessary to specify that DTCC acts as the backbone of the US stock market. Its main function is post-trade processing, which includes:
- Compensation: verifying that the terms of an operation coincide between the parties.
- Liquidation: the legal exchange of assets for money.
- Centralized custody of securities.
In the current financial model, when an institution trades in, for example, Treasuries or stocks, the settlement process typically takes one to two days. This is because the collateral (the backing of such operations) depends on closed systems that do not operate on weekends or outside of banking hours.
By integrating Chainlink technology, DTCC seeks to make these Settlement and custody functions can become automated digital flows. This allows collateral (stocks, bonds or cash) to be moved and valued with the same immediacy and 24/7 availability that characterizes cryptocurrency networks.
Nadine Chakar, CEO of DTCC and Global Head of Digital Assets, highlighted that the integration will offer a “unified environment on the blockchain” that will incorporate asset prices and other critical data to support this initiative.
For his part, Sergey Nazarov, co-founder of Chainlink, stated that this infrastructure will allow “the full value of smart contracts to be brought to the traditional financial sector.” Nazarov stressed that the system can orchestrate critical results in a “secure, private and compliant” way.
The Collateral AppChain platform plans to launch transition to production and official entry into operation for the fourth quarter of 2026.
Despite these announcements, the price of the chainlink cryptocurrency (LINK) has had no bullish momentum.
As seen in the previous image, the cryptocurrency shows a 3.2% drop in its price compared to what it had 24 hours ago.