Key Takeaways:

• Chainlink 24/5 U.S. Equities Streams provide fast and secure market data across all major U.S. equities and ETFs—24 hours per day, 5 days per week.
• For the first time, DeFi has secure access to U.S. equity market data that also includes after-hours and overnight sessions, unlocking the ~$80T U.S. stock market onchain.
• For traders: Chainlink enables your favorite stocks and ETFs to now be used onchain 24/5, unlocking a wide range of onchain use cases, including trading, lending, and more.
• For builders: 24/5 U.S. Equities Streams go beyond just delivering a mid-price by also delivering bid-ask data, last trade prices, volumes, market-status flags, and staleness indicators, giving builders the market context needed for advanced logic, robust risk controls, and safer execution.
• Top exchanges, such as Lighter (the 2nd largest perp dex by volume) and BitMEX (the inventor of crypto perps), as well as ApeX, HelloTrade, Decibel, Monaco, Opinion Labs, and Orderly Network, are leveraging the solution to power their continuous RWA markets.

We’re excited to announce the launch of Chainlink 24/5 U.S. Equities Streams, an expansion of Chainlink Data Streams that delivers fast and secure market data for U.S. equities and ETFs across all trading sessions.

Live across 40+ blockchains, Data Streams enable protocols to build onchain equity markets, including equity perps, prediction markets, and more, that operate beyond standard U.S. trading hours. This marks a major step toward unlocking always-on, institutional-grade equity markets onchain.

The Problem Holding Back Onchain RWA Markets

Real-world assets (RWAs) are gaining rapid onchain adoption (estimated to reach $30T by 2030) due to their ability to provide global access, seamless composability, and increased capital efficiency. However, U.S. equities, one of the world’s largest and most liquid asset classes, remain significantly underrepresented onchain.

A core reason for this is structural: blockchain-enabled trading operates continuously 24/7/365, while U.S. equity markets trade across fragmented sessions during dedicated market hours. Furthermore, most onchain data solutions only provide a single price point for equities during standard trading hours (weekdays 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM ET), creating a gap where onchain markets are unable to reliably replicate market conditions all 24 hours of the day. These limitations create pricing blind spots, increase risk during off-hours, and make it difficult to build secure, scalable equity-based financial products onchain.

As onchain markets mature and global participation grows, such as via equity perps, there is increasing demand for continuous, high-fidelity equity data that reflects real-world market dynamics at all times, beyond just standard trading hours.

How 24/5 Data Unlocks Continuous Trading For Equity Perps and New RWA Markets

Chainlink 24/5 U.S. Equities Streams were built specifically to solve these challenges by transforming fragmented U.S. equity market data into continuous, cryptographically signed Data Streams. As a result, onchain equity markets gain access to more reliable pricing, safer liquidations, stronger risk management, and consistent user experiences beyond standard trading hours.

Quote from Johann Eid, Chief Business Officer, Chainlink Labs

“We’re excited that Chainlink’s 24/5 U.S. Equities Streams are now live, bringing the $80 trillion U.S. equities market onchain. Now builders and institutions can access continuous equities and ETF data across all trading sessions. This is a major step toward always-on, cross-border capital markets, and a foundational upgrade to how global equity markets operate.”

Source: Chainlink