Chainlink Launches First EU-regulated On-chain Exchange, 21X, for Tokenized Securities

15/09/2025 admin

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 protocols, custodians, and financial applications.

This shift is critical. Resistant institutions require credible, clear, and submissive data to associate with digital resources. Chainlink offers that with tamper-proof, automated data feeds, which are directly connected with the source of truth in the market.

“Chainlink standard will make 21X able to bring real-time and verifiable market data of tokenized securities safely and reliably onchain”, said Max Heinzle, the CEO of 21X.

Matters of Bridging Traditional Finance and DeFi

This assimilation is an earthquake. The conventional firms in the finance sector have been investigating blockchain, though have remained mostly on the periphery owing to regulation and infrastructure disparities.

Through regulatory facilitation with the DLT Pilot Regime by the EU and data infrastructure provision by Chainlink, the way is open to:

Banks to tokenize and trade real-world assets (RWAs) under EU law.
Asset managers to access DeFi and be highly governable.
Trades and market data auditing by regulators in real time through blockchain.

“The introduction of tokenized securities issued by 21X into the EU-regulated on-chain environment will enable all institutional capital to enter the on-chain economy”, said Fernando Vazquez, President of Banking and Capital Markets at Chainlink Labs.

Onchain Capital Markets Scaling

Chainlink does not stop at being integrated with 21X. It is already planning to add pre-trade data, additional asset classes, and sophisticated analytics, which can be accessed via on-chain endpoints or the 21X user interface.

This is part of a larger industry trend: to turn capital markets into composable, transparent, programmable systems, which the last generation of systems is not capable of providing at scale.

Swift, Mastercard, Euroclear, and UBS, the financial powerhouses in the world, are already using the standards of Chainlink to be ready to see a time when assets are tokenized and take over the financial sphere.

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