DTCC Targets 24/7 Collateral with Chainlink Deal

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), says its digitally native Collateral AppChain platform – designed as shared infrastructure to modernise collateral mobility and improve capital efficiency – will leverage the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) and Chainlink’s data standard to support key orchestration, data and automation capabilities as part of a push to 24/7 collateral management.

Chainlink will be integrated into Collateral AppChain to enable the pairing of asset prices, valuations and movement with the aim of overhauling how market risk is managed globally. CRE provides access to a data and orchestration layer, unlocking automated workflows for the Collateral AppChain’s eligibility, valuation, margining, collateral optimisation, 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.

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, and is expected to go live in Q4 2026. 

“By leveraging tokenisation and distributed ledger technology to modernise collateral mobility, our goal is to enable 24/7, near real-time collateral management across global markets and blockchains,” explains Nadine Chakar, DTCC’s 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.”

Sergey Nazarov, co-founder of Chainlink, adds, “Collateral management is the killer app that traditional finance has been waiting for from our industry.”