The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) today announced that its digitally native Collateral AppChain platform 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 the fourth quarter of 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.”