Points of Focus

• Chainlink landed 5 institutional deals in 72 hours, including the Bank of England and Robinhood.
• It added 12 integrations across 5 blockchains, as LINK futures launched on CME.
• Oracles are emerging as core infrastructure for tokenized and hybrid finance.

Between February 10 and 14, 2026, Chainlink secured five institutional integrations within 72 hours, spanning a G7 central bank, a retail brokerage, a CFTC advisory appointment, a tokenized equities platform, and a high-frequency prediction market, signaling a structural shift in how regulated finance is adopting decentralized data infrastructure.

The sequence began on February 10, when the Bank of England named Chainlink as one of 18 firms selected for its Synchronisation Lab, under the RT2 upgrade to the UK’s RTGS system. The lab, set to start in spring 2026 and run for approximately six months, will test synchronizing central bank money with tokenized securities on distributed ledgers.

3 days. 5 headlines.

• Bank of England selects Chainlink for Synchronisation Lab

• Robinhood adopts Chainlink as its oracle platform

• CFTC appoints Sergey to IAC

• Ondo adopts Chainlink for its tokenized stocks/ETFs

• Polymarket launches new Chainlink-powered markets pic.twitter.com/HAFkgQOEtk

— Chainlink (@chainlink) February 13, 2026

Chainlink will design decentralized delivery-versus-payment (DvP) and payment-versus-payment (PvP) settlement workflows in a fully simulated environment with no live funds; results will inform a potential future live synchronization capability. 

Twenty-four hours after the announcement, Robinhood launched the public testnet of Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum layer-2 built on Arbitrum, naming Chainlink as its oracle infrastructure provider. The chain targets tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) and DeFi applications, with Chainlink supplying price feeds, cross-chain interoperability tools, and compliance infrastructure.

JUST IN: @RobinhoodApp launches public testnet and partners with Chainlink as the oracle platform for Robinhood Chain.

Builders can leverage Chainlink’s data, interoperability, and compliance standards to power advanced tokenization use cases.

Robinhood 🤝 Chainlink https://t.co/5vOF4NRyK3 pic.twitter.com/Q182wv7EkM

— Chainlink (@chainlink) February 11, 2026

Johann Kerbrat, Robinhood’s SVP and General Manager of Crypto, said the testnet lays the foundation for an ecosystem centered on tokenized real-world assets and on-chain liquidity. Mainnet is planned for late 2026.

When TradFi converges on an oracle standard

A central bank and a major retail brokerage selecting the same oracle infrastructure within 24 hours reflects structural intent. For the Bank of England, decentralized data coordination addresses timing and verification gaps that legacy systems struggle to resolve at tokenized-asset speeds. For Robinhood Chain, embedding oracle infrastructure at the protocol layer, rather than as an add-on, signals institutional-grade design from inception.

The oracle layer is increasingly becoming the connective infrastructure of tokenized finance.

Regulation, collateral expansion, and 12 integrations

On February 11, 2026, Ondo Finance activated Chainlink price feeds on Ethereum for three tokenized equity products: SPYon (tracking the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust), QQQon (tracking the Invesco QQQ Trust), and TSLAon (tracking Tesla shares). The feeds incorporate dividend and corporate action data, allowing these tokenized stocks to be used as DeFi collateral for the first time, with Euler Finance already supporting them for stablecoin borrowing.

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) appointed Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov to its Innovation Advisory Committee (IAC) on February 12, 2026, placing a decentralized infrastructure architect inside the federal body shaping derivatives oversight. That same day, Polymarket deployed Chainlink Data Streams to power five-minute BTC/USD prediction markets, where sub-second price accuracy is critical to prevent manipulation during rapid settlement cycles.

Chainlink’s February 15 weekly adoption update logged 12 integrations across seven services and five chains: BNB Chain, Ethereum, Polygon, Robinhood Chain, and Solana. New entrants included Asseto Finance and Tessera, which adopted Chainlink Proof of Reserve on Solana to verify off-chain assets backing its tokenized private equity products.

⬡ Chainlink Adoption Update ⬡

This week, there were 12 integrations of the Chainlink standard across 7 services and 5 different chains: BNB Chain, Ethereum, Polygon, Robinhood Chain, and Solana.

New integrations include @AssetoFinance, @OndoFinance, @pokemonbnb36904,… pic.twitter.com/p4PZTYf85M

— Chainlink (@chainlink) February 15, 2026

During the week, CME Group also launched LINK futures, expanding regulated derivatives access to the token. Overall, the surge reinforces oracles as core infrastructure for hybrid finance models, where atomic settlement reduces counterparty risk and real-time data streams support high-frequency DeFi applications.