- Chainlink and ICE’s partnership boosts on-chain data accuracy, enabling DeFi and financial institutions to meet institutional-grade requirements.
- ICE’s market feed adds trust and reliability to blockchain-based FX and precious metals pricing.
- RWA tokenization growth signals rising institutional interest in secure blockchain market infrastructure.
Chainlink has linked with the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, to develop quality foreign exchange and precious metal data for blockchain systems. It will be brought on board using the ICE Consolidated Feed, which captures the market data of more than 300 international exchanges and markets, to operate Chainlink Data Streams.
We’re excited to announce that Intercontinental Exchange (@ICE_Markets) and Chainlink are collaborating to allow Chainlink to now bring high-quality derived forex and precious metals data onchain.https://t.co/hchILh0073
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— Chainlink (@chainlink) August 11, 2025
The partnership will support delivering low-latency, tamper-resistant data to over 2,000 decentralized applications (DApps), financial institutions, and infrastructure partners within the Chainlink ecosystem. Combining the ICE pricing data with decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms provides such platforms with more precise and credible rates for automatic rate settlement and larger-scale transaction settlement.
ICE’s Data to Strengthen Blockchain Accuracy
ICE is a Fortune 500 business that runs international exchanges, a clearing house, and financial data. Its most popular feature is associated with the ownership and operation of the NYSE and the specified market infrastructure (in different asset classes).
After integrating the sources, data provided by ICE will be among the many sources that comprise Chainlink-derived market rates. This aims to increase the accuracy of on-chain market data to meet the standards required by traditional finance. New types of tokenized assets and financial products (issued on blockchain) are another product whose way has been opened by this move.
Maurisa Baumann, ICE Vice President of Global Data Delivery Platforms, has asserted that both banks and asset managers need reliable and structured multi-asset data. She made specific reference to the move to taking this data on-chain as a massive milestone in the growth of the global blockchain economy.
Partnership Signals Institutional Blockchain Adoption
A blockchain analytics firm in data realized that the partnership was a milestone towards the creation of an integrated and accessible on-chain financial framework. He also noted that it will take reliable, institutional-quality infrastructure to tokenize assets valued in the hundreds of trillions of dollars.
Due to the projected market value of real-world assets (RWA) tokenization, which will be over $30 trillion by 2034, there is a booming market need for securing market data. According to RWA.xyz, the magnitude of tokenized assets nowadays stands at approximately two, five, and seven billion dollars, whereas stablecoins make up over 260 billion.
Chainlink Integration Set to Drive DeFi Growth
After increasing by almost 14% within the last month, the total number of RWA holders is now close to 347,000. The stable market growth means that the number of people holding stablecoins is over 188 million.
With the ability to give inaccurate pricing on FX and precious metals, the ICE and Chainlink integration will enhance innovation in the DeFi world and spur faster institutional adoption of blockchain. The move not only fills the gap between the traditional and digital markets but also implements the trust required to implement high-value and automated transactions.
