Chainlink Blog

  2024 marks a turning point for the adoption of onchain finance in traditional markets, with Chainlink solidifying its position as the standard for verifiable data, cross-chain interoperability, and connectivity between blockchains and legacy infrastructure. This year featured several groundbreaking Chainlink product launches, solutions with some of the largest financial institutions and market infrastructures in the world, continued dominance across DeFi, substantial growth in key Chainlink programs such as Build and Scale, and much more. For a list of Chainlink’s biggest banking and capital markets announcements, check out the blog: Chainlink’s Work With Swift, Euroclear, and Major Banking and Capital Markets Institutions . Highlights of Chainlink’s collaborations with leading financial institutions and market infrastructure providers. This blog recaps the most notable Chainlink milestones of 2024. Dominance in Banking and Capital Markets Chainlink, Euroclear, Swi...

  We’re excited to introduce Chainlink Smart Value Recapture (SVR)—a novel oracle solution designed to enable DeFi applications to recapture the non-toxic Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) derived from their use of Chainlink Price Feeds.  The initial version of Chainlink SVR was built in collaboration with BGD Labs , Flashbots , and other contributors to the Aave DAO and will initially focus on enabling DeFi lending protocols to recapture oracle-related MEV from liquidations. Built on top of Chainlink infrastructure, SVR systematically reduces unnecessary third-party dependencies and eliminates the need to integrate intermediary smart contracts, making it a very minimal lift for existing Chainlink Price Feed users to adopt SVR. This version of SVR-enabled Price Feeds leverages Flashbots MEV-Share and a novel onchain “Dual Aggregator” contract architecture to provide efficiency and enhanced fallback security. Chainlink SVR is currently live on testnet and will soo...