The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has announced that its Collateral AppChain platform will integrate the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) and Chainlink’s data standard to enhance collateral management capabilities across financial markets and blockchain networks.
DTCC’s Global Head of Digital Assets, Nadine Chakar, said the initiative is focused on enabling 24/7 collateral management using tokenization and distributed ledger technology.
“The integration of Chainlink’s CRE and data standard will allow us to deliver a unified on-chain environment, bringing on-chain asset prices, valuations and other collateral agreement data to support this transformative industry initiative,” Chakar stated.
The Collateral AppChain is designed as a shared infrastructure platform that modernizes collateral mobility and improves capital efficiency through near real-time collateral management. The interoperable framework is intended to support collateral providers, receivers, managers, custodians, and triparty agents.
By integrating Chainlink CRE, DTCC aims to automate and coordinate critical post-trade processes including collateral eligibility, valuation, margining, optimization, and settlement. The platform will also combine asset prices, valuations, and collateral movement data to improve market risk management.
Chainlink CRE provides an institutional-scale orchestration and data layer that replaces one-off integrations with a reusable framework capable of scaling across multiple asset classes, collateral use cases, and data types.
According to Chainlink Co-Founder Sergey Nazarov, the collaboration with DTCC demonstrates the growing momentum behind blockchain-enabled collateral infrastructure in traditional finance.
“Chainlink’s Runtime Environment will advance DTCC’s collateral management and data capabilities because it can pull together and orchestrate many critical outputs in a secure, private and compliant manner,” Nazarov outlined. “Collateral management is the killer app that traditional finance has been waiting for from our industry, and we look forward to bringing it to the industry.”
DTCC first introduced the Collateral AppChain during its Great Collateral Experiment, with production launch currently targeted for Q4 2026.