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Chainlink announced the rollout of 24/5 U.S. Equities Streams on January 20, 2026, delivering fast, secure, sub-second price data for major U.S. stocks and ETFs across more than 40 blockchains, covering regular, pre-market, post-market, and overnight sessions five days per week.
JUST SHIPPED: Chainlink 24/5 U.S. Equities Streams brings the ~$80T U.S. equities market onchain.
Fast, secure stock & ETF data is now live across 40+ chains—24 hours a day, 5 days a week.
Trusted by @lighter_xyz, @BitMEX, @OfficialApeXdex, & more.
— Chainlink (@chainlink) January 20, 2026
The expansion addresses a structural mismatch, blockchains run 24/7/365, but U.S. equity markets operate in fragmented sessions, leaving on-chain products with pricing blind spots outside 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM ET. Chainlink’s 24/5 Streams transform fragmented data into continuous, cryptographically signed feeds, enabling reliable pricing, safer liquidations, stronger risk management, and consistent experiences for on-chain equity markets.
Beyond mid-price, the streams include bid/ask prices and volumes, last trade price, market status flags (regular, pre/post, overnight, closed), and staleness indicators giving builders complete context for advanced logic and execution. The solution is live on 40+ chains and already adopted by leading protocols: Lighter, BitMEX, ApeX, HelloTrade, Decibel, Monaco, Opinion Labs, and Orderly Network, powering continuous RWA futures and derivatives.
It's official, the $80 trillion U.S. stock market is coming onchain and it's powered by Chainlink 🔥
24/5 U.S. Equities Streams is now live across 40+ blockchains—providing fast and secure market data across all major U.S. equities and ETFs
This data stitches together regular… https://t.co/2VBaqvj2Gj pic.twitter.com/DUCgcg0Lwd
— Zach Rynes | CLG (@ChainLinkGod) January 20, 2026
Lighter CEO Vladimir Novakovski said: “We’re excited to expand our partnership with Chainlink… This enables us to extend our fair, low-latency perp execution beyond regular market hours without compromising data integrity.” BitMEX CEO Stephan Lutz added: “Chainlink’s 24/5 U.S. Equities Streams are a critical component of our professional-grade 24/7 equity derivatives infrastructure, providing the verifiable pricing context needed to operate beyond standard market hours.”
The launch unlocks key use cases. 24/5 equity perps, synthetic stocks/ETFs trading outside market hours, prediction markets with accurate resolution, lending with dynamic margins, and structured products/vaults tied to U.S. equities. Built on Chainlink’s battle-tested Data Streams standard (securing around 70% of oracle-related DeFi and over $27T in transaction value), it reflects growing institutional demand for always-on, high-fidelity RWA data.
For users, Chainlink’s 24/5 U.S. Equities Streams fill a critical gap. Firstly, blockchains never sleep, but traditional markets do, leaving on-chain products blind to after-hours moves and exposed to stale pricing risks. The addition of bid/ask, volume, and status flags gives builders institutional-grade context, enabling safer perps, synthetics, lending, and structured products.
$LINK will tokenize $80 TRILLION US Equities Market pic.twitter.com/z0zkkAPdOO
— Quinten | 048.eth (@QuintenFrancois) January 21, 2026
Early adoption by Lighter and BitMEX shows there’s a demand for always-on RWA trading, but success will heavily depend on regulatory alignment and chain interoperability. If 24/5 coverage scales reliably, it could accelerate tokenized equity adoption by narrowing the TradFi-DeFi divide. For now, it’s a technical milestone that makes on-chain equities more viable. It’ll be interesting to watch how quickly protocols build on it and whether 24/7 coverage follows.
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