Stellar launches Chainlink services on network supporting more than $4 billion in tokenized assets
Key Facts
The Stellar Development Foundation said on October 14, 2026, that Chainlink’s Data Feeds and Data Streams services had become available on the Stellar network, giving developers market data for decentralized finance applications. The launch comes as the foundation says the network supports more than $4 billion in tokenized real-world assets, without specifying when that figure was measured in its announcement. The foundation says the new infrastructure is intended to connect tokenized assets with financial applications that rely on price data. Potential uses include lending markets, prediction markets and perpetual futures. It also said leading applications in the Stellar ecosystem had begun adopting the infrastructure at launch, but did not name them. The foundation said, "Chainlink’s Data Feeds and Data Streams services are now available on Stellar," in an announcement focused on expanding the data tools available to developers.
The two services perform different functions in delivering price data to applications. Data Feeds provide onchain reference prices, updated when specified deviation thresholds are exceeded or scheduled intervals are reached. Data Streams allow applications to retrieve signed price reports offchain and submit them for onchain verification when needed. This approach is designed for applications that require a current price at the moment a transaction is executed. The system thus combines regular reference updates with data that can be requested for verification at execution time. The Stellar Development Foundation explains the difference in its technical guide for developers.
Initial Data Feeds coverage on the mainnet included 9 dollar-denominated assets, according to the foundation’s guide: XLM, BTC, ETH, LINK, USDC, USDT, EURC, XAUM and FLHY. The guide described coverage as it stood when it was prepared, so it does not necessarily represent an updated list. The service is available on Stellar’s testnet and mainnet, according to Chainlink documentation. On Stellar, developers use a single proxy contract to select the required price feed. Selection is made through a 32-byte data identifier, rather than a separate contract address for each feed. This architecture defines how price data is accessed on the network.
The launch builds on an earlier plan announced by the foundation to join the Chainlink Scale program and integrate Data Feeds, Data Streams and the CCIP protocol. But the October 14 announcement confirmed that only Data Feeds and Data Streams were live, and did not announce that CCIP had gone live on Stellar. Chainlink documentation also said Data Feeds became available on the network on September 29, 2026, ahead of the foundation’s official announcement. This sequence places the documented technical launch before the announcement outlining the services’ scope and intended applications. The foundation’s announcement did not give a timeline for CCIP to go live.
The foundation’s figures show that the tokenized-asset ecosystem expanded during 2026. In its second-quarter report, it said real-world assets on Stellar reached $1 billion in January, then $2 billion in April and $3 billion in June. It said the broader tokenization market grew about 50% over the same period, while Stellar activity grew four times faster. In the third quarter, the network recorded $4.3 billion in tokenized real-world assets and 23.5 billion total operations, according to the foundation’s summary. The foundation’s tokenized-assets page says the $4 billion figure dates to September 1, and that the network has 67 tokenized products and 10 regulated issuers. The page also says Franklin Templeton’s BENJI share on the network reached $605 million on October 6. These indicators place the launch in the context of a growing base of assets and applications, without by themselves showing that the assets have become widely accepted as collateral or that lending and trading uses have already materialized.
The foundation also reported $11.4 billion in stablecoin transfer volume in the second quarter, up 72% quarter on quarter, with stablecoin velocity at about 33 times. It said active accounts on the network exceeded 10.7 million in the same quarter. On the institutional front, it said DTCC had selected Stellar as one of the first public blockchains for tokenization, noting that the institution oversees more than $114 trillion across U.S. capital markets. Price data provides tools that could support loan-to-value calculations, collateral processing, automated liquidation and stablecoin reference rates, according to the foundation. These remain intended uses for the infrastructure; the announcement of the data services’ launch does not mean every tokenized asset qualifies as collateral or that these functions are already operating at scale.