DTCC, Chainlink to Automate Global Collateral Workflows

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation will integrate Chainlink’s Runtime Environment (CRE) and Chainlink’s data standard into its Collateral Appchain to automate collateral workflows across blockchains, with a production target set for the fourth quarter of 2026.

CRE will handle orchestration, data access and automation for tasks such as eligibility checks, asset valuation, margining, collateral optimization and settlement. DTCC designed the Collateral Appchain as shared infrastructure to serve collateral providers, receivers, managers, triparty agents and custodians through a single interoperable foundation linking blockchains and legacy systems.

Chainlink’s data standard will pair asset prices, valuations and collateral movements onchain. CRE provides a reusable framework intended to eliminate one-off integrations for each new data type or asset class and to scale to additional collateral use cases without rebuilding core data pipelines.

DTCC processed securities transactions valued at $4.7 quadrillion in 2025 and held custody of securities from more than 150 countries with a total value of about $114 trillion. The firm operates from 20 locations and processes more than 25 billion trade messages annually through its Global Trade Repository service. Moving that volume into near-real-time collateral operations affects clearing, settlement and custody workflows.

DTCC and Chainlink say CRE is built to operate at institutional scale with a secure, private and compliant architecture designed to meet regulated market standards. A consistent data format for collateral information should reduce reconciliation errors and speed movement of assets between counterparties.

Sergey Nazarov, co-founder of Chainlink, called collateral management “the killer application that institutional finance has been waiting for from the blockchain sector” and described CRE as able to “pull together and orchestrate many critical outputs in a secure, private and compliant manner.” Nadine Chakar, DTCC managing director and global head of digital assets, described the CRE integration as delivering “a unified onchain environment for asset prices, valuations, and collateral agreement data” and said it will help enable 24/7 near-real-time collateral management across markets and chains.

DTCC first introduced the Collateral Appchain during its Great Collateral Experiment. The integration with Chainlink is part of the platform’s development as DTCC advances plans to place distributed ledger technology at the center of post-trade collateral workflows ahead of the planned Q4 2026 production launch.