Chainlink to join Rapid Addition in building blockchain adapter for institutions

As a researcher with experience in the blockchain industry, I find this partnership between Chainlink and Rapid Addition to be an exciting development. The collaboration’s potential applications across institutional digital asset trading, renewable energy products, carbon credits, real-world assets, and other use cases could represent an untapped market opportunity.


Chainlink, a prominent blockchain oracle project, is collaborating with Rapid Addition, a FIX connectivity solutions provider, to create a FIX-compatible adapter for institutional digital asset trading.

Announcing today, Chainlink revealed that the new adapter will operate under its Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP), a versatile solution applicable to various scenarios including token swaps, gaming platforms, and Decentralized Finance (DeFi) applications.

Chainlink to join Rapid Addition in building blockchain adapter for institutions

In their announcement, Chainlink revealed that through this partnership, banks and financial institutions will be granted the ability to communicate and interact with a wide range of tokenized assets.

As a crypto investor, I see great potential in this emerging market. It’s not yet been fully explored, offering us an exciting chance to make significant investments. This opportunity could extend beyond the realm of cryptocurrencies, reaching applications in renewable energy products, carbon credits, and real-world assets like real estate, infrastructure, and collectibles.

Vince Turcotte, Chainlink Labs’ business development lead for Asia Pacific, told CryptoMoon banks and financial institutions could do many things with the adapter. Like the company’s work with the interbank messaging system SWIFT, Turcotte said that financial organizations can encode smart contracts with FIX tags and instructions. The executive explained:

“We expect this will be particularly useful for the post-trade environment, as it will allow a single source of truth for trade allocations, which can be shared simultaneously and without duplication between asset managers, brokers, and custodians.”

As an analyst, I would interpret Turcotte’s statement as follows: I can pass this data on to our legacy systems, which should decrease the number of errors and rejected settlements.

“He noted that the linking of Chainlink and FIX facilitates compatibility, allowing current risk management and trading systems to work seamlessly with newly introduced blockchain assets.”

As a researcher studying institutional adoption of blockchain and cryptocurrencies, I anticipate digitally native institutions will likely lead the way in integrating the new adapter. These institutions, having grown up with digital technologies, are already accustomed to leveraging technology to streamline their operations and deliver value to customers. Thus, they may find the benefits of blockchain or crypto integration more compelling than traditional institutions that have yet to fully embrace digital transformation.

“We expect that digitally native institutions will be the early adopters of this integration. These institutions recognize the value of using the FIX protocol to engage with the broader TradFi ecosystem and the value of permanence and truth via blockchain.”

According to the Turcott perspective, both asset managers and their clients can reap cost savings by utilizing the available infrastructure.

“asset managers and their clients can economize by using a unified platform where settlement instructions for trades are accessible to all involved parties in real-time and consistently updated around the clock,” Turcotte proposed.

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2024-05-01 14:11