DTCC Partners with Chainlink to Power Near Real-Time Collateral Management Platform | LeapRate

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation has announced a collaboration with blockchain infrastructure provider Chainlink to support the development of its Collateral AppChain platform, which aims to modernise collateral mobility across global financial markets.

DTCC’s Collateral AppChain is designed as shared infrastructure for collateral providers, receivers, managers, triparty agents, and custodians, providing a common, interoperable foundation across market participants. 

The platform will leverage Chainlink’s Runtime Environment and data standard to enable key orchestration, data, and automation capabilities, including eligibility assessment, valuation, margining, collateral optimisation, and settlement.

Chainlink’s Runtime Environment is designed to operate at institutional scale, providing a reusable framework that can expand across new data types, asset classes, and collateral use cases without requiring one-off integrations. 

DTCC says the collaboration will enable seamless pairing of asset prices, valuations, and movement data to overhaul how market risk is managed globally.

The platform was publicly unveiled during DTCC’s Great Collateral Experiment and is expected to go live in the fourth quarter of 2026.

Nadine Chakar, DTCC’s Managing Director and Global Head of Digital Assets, believes the integration of Chainlink’s tools would deliver a unified on-chain environment bringing asset prices, valuations, and collateral agreement data together to support 24/7, near real-time collateral management.

Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov described collateral management as the killer application that traditional finance has been awaiting from the blockchain industry, expressing enthusiasm for the platform’s progress towards production.