Chainlink Launches 24/7 Price Feeds for Tokenized Assets, With Aave First

Chainlink launched a service on October 29, 2026 that keeps pricing tokenized stocks, commodities and other traditional assets through weekends and market holidays, with decentralized lending protocol Aave signed on as its launch partner.

The service, called Chainlink 24/7, was announced at the company's Link:NYC event and detailed in a Chainlink blog post. It "delivers continuous market data for equities, commodities, and other real-world assets across trading sessions, weekends, and market holidays," the post says.

How does the service price assets after markets close?

Two mechanisms, split by the clock. During the week, Chainlink 24/7 combines prices from regular and extended trading sessions. When traditional exchanges shut, it switches to aggregated quotes from perpetual futures venues — the round-the-clock derivatives markets on crypto exchanges. Chainlink says the off-hours aggregation filters stale inputs and limits the influence of outliers across venues.

The gap it fills is structural. Blockchains run continuously while exchanges do not, so a lending protocol holding tokenized stock as collateral had no reliable price on a Saturday. Until now, applications tracking traditional assets had to pause markets, fall back on the last available price, or build their own systems whenever exchanges closed, Chainlink said.

The push started in January 2026, when Chainlink introduced 24/5 US stock and ETF pricing covering pre-market, regular, post-market and overnight sessions.

Where does Aave fit in?

Aave plans to run Chainlink 24/7 Data Feeds on Horizon, its institutional lending platform that lets qualified investors borrow against tokenized assets. The goal is continuous valuation of tokenized real-world asset collateral, starting with high-volume US equities. Aave had already adopted parts of Chainlink's infrastructure, including its 24/5 streams.

Data arrives through two channels:

• Data Feeds publish prices directly on blockchains, suited to lending protocols.
• Data Streams push faster updates and identify the current market session, so trading platforms and prediction markets can adjust their risk settings.

What doesn't the feed promise?

A caveat sits in how the off-hours price is built. It's a reference derived from derivatives trading, not a cash-market transaction, so a weekend figure can diverge from the next opening auction when trading resumes. Chainlink says its aggregation controls limit that risk, but an oracle feed does not guarantee a redeemable cash-market price.

Chainlink said its weekday pricing infrastructure now covers more than $1.6 billion in tokenized stocks across six blockchain networks — a company-claimed figure. Ondo, xStocks, Robinhood and Coinbase are among the firms working with Chainlink on tokenized stock pricing, part of a broader shift that recently put DeFi tokens on traditional venues, including UNI's listing on CME futures.

No launch date for live service beyond the announcement has been disclosed. For protocols holding tokenized equities as collateral, the practical test arrives at the first weekend gap between a perps-derived reference price and a Monday open.