Chainlink Launches First EU-regulated On-chain Exchange, 21X, for Tokenized Securities
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Key Takeaways: 21X would be the first on-chain exchange to be regulated by the EU and they would integrate Chainlink to provide real-time market information. The integration will provide real-time verifiable trading information of tokenized securities on the Polygon blockchain. This innovation opens the path towards institutionalization of DeFi, based on safe, regulatory tokenized markets. The digital asset market in Europe has reached a significant milestone. The 21X exchange is a blockchain-based exchange licenced under the EU DLT Pilot Regime, and it officially supports Chainlink to provide real-time market data on tokenised securities, and it is already in production. 21X and Chainlink: The Next Generation of Regulated Tokenized Securities The first distributed ledger technology (DLT) trading venue in the European Union, 21X, is based in Frankfurt and is fully regulated. Through smart contracts, it enables an exchange of atomic trading and settlement of tokenized stocks, bonds, and funds without a counterparty or credit risk. The platform was launched on September 8th, 2025 as part of the EU DLT Pilot Regime, a sandbox that made capital markets infrastructure innovation possible. Having the live Chainlink integration, 21X will be able to provide real-time and verifiable bid/ask spreads, trade volumes, and last traded prices on the Polygon blockchain. The Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) secures this data infrastructure and is already the foundation of the majority of DeFi. Chainlink’s Specials Brought to the Table An Oracle Layer of Regulated Markets Chainlink, which is credited with securing tens of trillions of dollars worth of transactions in DeFi, is not merely a price oracle any longer, but it is shaping up to be the data backbone of institutional crypto. Chainlink should be used to ensure that 21X adopts a standard machine-readable data format for tokenized securities which can be interoperable, and can be used in DeFi…
Filed under: News - @ September 15, 2025 4:33 pm