Chainlink launched its 24/7 pricing service at Link:NYC on Oct. 29, extending price updates for tokenized equities, commodities and other real-world assets through weekends and market holidays.
The oracle provider named Aave its launch partner, targeting tokenized collateral on its institutional lending platform Horizon, starting with high-volume U.S. equities. Aave described the service as “coming soon to stock-backed loans on Aave.”
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Horizon, which launched in August 2025, lets institutions borrow stablecoins against tokenized assets. It is a separate instance of the Aave protocol, with RWA collateral restricted to qualified users approved by asset issuers.
For lenders, the change is the ability to reassess collateral while traditional markets are shut. Aave’s liquidation rules link loan safety to collateral value relative to debt: a falling collateral price can make a loan eligible for liquidation. Holding the last available price fixed can delay that signal. Continuous updates would let an adopting market respond to off-hours price changes rather than wait for traditional trading to resume.
Weekend Prices Come From Derivatives
Chainlink’s earlier 24/5 service already covered regular, pre-market, post-market and overnight equity sessions. But a gap remained from 8 p.m. ET Friday to 8 p.m. ET Sunday, as well as on holidays, according to Chainlink. Its 24/5 developer guide says all three session feeds carry stale values during closures, leaving applications to pause activity, restrict trading or use an alternative price source.
The new service combines those trading-session prices with quotes from multiple perpetual-futures venues when traditional markets close. Those off-hours prices reflect trading in derivatives linked to the asset—not live quotes from a closed stock exchange.
Chainlink says it handles the transition between sources to produce one continuous reference per supported asset, removing the need for developers to build their own switching logic. Lending protocols can read prices published onchain through Data Feeds; trading applications can retrieve low-latency reports through Data Streams.
The off-hours reference filters stale inputs and limits the influence of outlier prices, according to Chainlink. Assets must meet its requirements for market coverage, liquidity and pricing consistency. The company says the transition mechanism preserves immediate price discovery when the regular trading session opens.