Chainlink, the blockchain technology company, has launched 24/5 U.S. Equities Streams, a new market-data service designed to support continuous, onchain trading of U.S. stocks and ETFs beyond standard market hours.
The service provides sub-second equity pricing across regular, pre-market, post-market and overnight sessions, addressing a longstanding structural mismatch between always-on blockchain-based markets and time-bound U.S. equity trading hours. According to Chainlink, the launch is intended to unlock onchain access to the approximately $80 trillion U.S. stock market by enabling more robust pricing, risk management and execution logic during off-hours trading.
While real-world assets (RWAs) are increasingly being represented onchain, U.S. equities have remained relatively underrepresented. One of the key constraints has been the lack of reliable, high-fidelity equity data outside core trading hours, with many onchain applications relying on single reference prices during the regular session.
Chainlink’s 24/5 U.S. Equities Streams are designed to address this limitation by transforming fragmented equity market data into continuous, cryptographically signed data streams. These streams are live across more than 40 blockchains and are intended to support a range of onchain equity use cases, including perpetual derivatives, prediction markets, synthetic equities and collateralised lending.
Unlike many existing oracle-based equity feeds, the new streams deliver a broader market-data schema rather than a single mid-price. In addition to price information, the data includes bid and ask prices and volumes, last traded price, market-status flags indicating the current trading session, and staleness indicators.
Chainlink argues that this additional context is critical for advanced execution logic and risk controls, particularly for derivatives and leveraged products operating outside traditional equity market hours. The data is delivered using Chainlink’s existing Data Streams infrastructure, which the company says has already supported over $27 trillion in transaction value onchain.
A number of derivatives-focused venues are already using the new service to support continuous equity markets, including BitMEX and Lighter, alongside ApeX, HelloTrade, Decibel, Monaco, Opinion Labs and Orderly Network.
Vladimir Novakovski, Founder and CEO of Lighter, said the integration allows the platform to extend low-latency perpetual execution beyond regular market hours without compromising data integrity. BitMEX CEO Stephan Lutz described the streams as a critical component of professional-grade, always-on equity derivatives infrastructure.
Johann Eid, Chief Business Officer at Chainlink Labs, commented: “We’re excited that Chainlink’s 24/5 U.S. Equities Streams are now live, bringing the $80 trillion U.S. equities market onchain. Now builders and institutions can access continuous equities and ETF data across all trading sessions. This is a major step toward always-on, cross-border capital markets, and a foundational upgrade to how global equity markets operate.”
The launch reflects growing interest in bringing institutional-grade market data into onchain environments as equity-linked products proliferate across decentralised finance. By extending reliable pricing and market context into overnight and after-hours sessions, Chainlink is positioning its data infrastructure as a foundation for equity markets that operate continuously rather than around fixed trading windows.
The 24/5 U.S. Equities Streams are available immediately, with broader asset-class and geographic expansion planned as part of its longer-term roadmap for onchain real-world asset data.
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