OpenAssets Selects Chainlink as Oracle Partner for Institutional Tokenized Asset Infrastructure
OpenAssets, a full-stack digital asset infrastructure provider, has selected Chainlink as its oracle platform of record to support the issuance and distribution of institutional tokenized assets across onchain finance. The partnership joins two operators with established institutional footprints: OpenAssets counts ICE, Tether, Fanatics, Mysten Labs, and KraneShares among its network participants, while Chainlink has been integrated by Swift, Euroclear, and Mastercard.
The arrangement gives financial institutions access to OpenAssets’ modular, protocol-agnostic and asset-agnostic white-label tokenization platform alongside Chainlink’s data and interoperability stack. On the Chainlink side, the integration spans the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) for orchestration and legacy system connectivity, the Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) for multi-chain settlement, the Digital Transfer Agent (DTA) technical standard, NAVLink for net asset value data feeds, and Price Feeds for market data. The combined offering is positioned as a turnkey infrastructure layer for institutions seeking to launch proprietary tokenization platforms and stablecoin engines without building foundational components from scratch.
The commercial logic is straightforward. Gabor Gurbacs, CEO of OpenAssets, cited industry projections of $68 trillion in assets moving onchain within the coming years, and framed secure oracle data, cross-chain coordination, and legacy system integration as non-negotiable components of any credible institutional tokenization stack. Johann Eid, Chief Business Officer at Chainlink Labs, pointed to built-in compliance, privacy features, and seamless integration with existing financial systems as the differentiating requirements for production-grade deployments.
The partnership arrives as traditional financial institutions accelerate their engagement with tokenized instruments, driven in part by an impending generational wealth transfer that analysts expect to reshape asset allocation behavior across global markets. For both firms, the deal consolidates their positioning at the infrastructure layer of that transition — the tier where custody, data integrity, and cross-chain movement are resolved before any application-level product reaches an end investor.