HashKey Chain announced a strategic partnership with Chainlink, selecting Chainlink CCIP as its standard cross-chain infrastructure and setting Chainlink Data Streams as its official data solution. This is a major technological upgrade for HashKey Chain in the Layer 2 track, and also marks a decisive step forward in the field of institutional-level DeFi. Through this cooperation, HashKey Chain has demonstrated to the outside world its determination to build a secure and compliant blockchain ecosystem and further strengthen its connection with the traditional financial system.
As a representative of Layer 2 solutions under the Asian compliance framework, HashKey Chain has gained certain advantages in the regulatory environment of financial centers such as Hong Kong and Singapore, and is committed to providing strong support for institutional investors, real-world assets, and compliant DeFi applications. Chainlink, as the world's leading decentralized oracle network, has consolidated its position as an industry standard in the traditional financial field with its practical experience in $19 trillion in on-chain transactions. Chainlink's core products, especially CCIP and Data Streams, are not only widely used in the DeFi ecosystem, but also have reached in-depth cooperation with top global financial institutions such as Swift, Fidelity, and UBS, further expanding its influence in the traditional financial field.
Through cooperation with Chainlink, HashKey Chain not only obtains strong technical support, but also takes a leading position in the construction of future blockchain infrastructure. This cooperation has built a bridge between traditional finance and Web3 for HashKey Chain, allowing it to meet the needs of compliance and technological innovation at the same time, and promote the seamless connection between the two.
HashKey Chain’s Strategic Considerations for Choosing Chainlink
Technical security and stability: Chainlink’s core advantage
In the blockchain ecosystem, cross-chain interoperability and data reliability have always been two major challenges in technological development. HashKey Chain chose Chainlink because of the security and reliability of its oracle network. As the blockchain ecosystem continues to expand, the demand for cross-chain communication and data verification has become more urgent. Chainlink has successfully provided cross-chain interoperability solutions for public chains such as Avalanche, Polygon, and Optimism, protecting more than $75 billion in DeFi TVL and facilitating $19 trillion in on-chain transactions. This practical experience has given Chainlink an unrivaled leadership position in Web3 Infra.
For HashKey Chain, the security of cross-chain asset transfer, token transmission, and data exchange is a fundamental requirement for building institutional-level financial applications. The CCIP provided by Chainlink has a decentralized verification mechanism that can effectively avoid common cross-chain security issues such as double-spending attacks and cross-chain reentry attacks, ensuring the reliability and security of HashKey Chain in a high-value, low-risk financial environment. In this way, HashKey Chain can provide institutional clients with guaranteed cross-chain services, reduce potential technical risks, and enhance its market competitiveness as a compliance-friendly platform.
In addition, Chainlink's Data Streams, as its on-chain data service, provides HashKey Chain with low-latency, real-time, and tamper-proof market data, which is particularly important in areas such as high-frequency trading and derivatives trading. The financial market has an urgent need for real-time and transparent trading data, especially in the context of increasing compliance requirements. By working with Chainlink, HashKey Chain can ensure that the data on its platform is verifiable, transparent, and compliant, providing institutional investors with secure and reliable market information, thereby further consolidating its leadership in compliant DeFi and institutional finance.
The connection between traditional finance and Web3: Chainlink’s influence on Web2
As blockchain technology is gradually integrated into the traditional financial system, the boundaries between Web2 and Web3 are being broken. HashKey Chain is looking for more efficient ways to connect in this wave of change, and Chainlink, as the industry's leading decentralized oracle network, has made breakthrough progress in this field. Compared with many infrastructures that only focus on the DeFi field, Chainlink not only occupies a dominant position in on-chain finance, but also establishes a solid industry standard in the traditional financial market, becoming a key bridge connecting the two worlds.
Currently, Chainlink has carried out in-depth cooperation with top global financial institutions such as Swift, Euroclear, and UBS to promote the implementation of applications such as asset tokenization, cross-border payments, and financial data on-chain. For example, Swift successfully connected more than 11,500 banks to the blockchain network through Chainlink CCIP, solving the compatibility problem between traditional payment systems and on-chain assets, allowing legal currency and digital assets to flow more seamlessly. In addition, Chainlink has cooperated with financial giants such as UBS, SBI, and Fidelity International to put core financial data such as fund net value, asset settlement, and cross-border payments on the chain, greatly improving data transparency and market liquidity. These collaborations not only demonstrate Chainlink's technical capabilities in the interconnection of Web2 and Web3, but also prove that it is widely recognized in the global financial market.
For HashKey Chain, with the help of Chainlink, a bridge infrastructure, HashKey Chain's asset management and payment settlement system can be seamlessly connected to the global financial system, enabling instant interaction with more than 11,500 financial institutions. This level of connection means that HashKey Chain can not only simplify cross-border transaction processes and reduce settlement friction, but also further enhance its own compliance framework and institutional credibility, laying the foundation for the entry of large-scale institutional funds.
More importantly, this cooperation is not only an upgrade of HashKey Chain in terms of technology, but also a leap forward in its market positioning. Through Chainlink, HashKey Chain can quickly increase its recognition in the global financial industry, build a strong competitive advantage in RWA, DeFi, institutional asset management, and cross-chain finance, and truly realize the vision of Web3 empowering traditional finance.
Ecosystem expansion and developer support: lowering barriers and increasing vitality
Chainlink's technical support has greatly lowered the threshold for Web3 developers to enter the cross-chain ecosystem and provided a more complete infrastructure for the HashKey Chain ecosystem. Through CCIP and Data Streams, HashKey Chain can strengthen cross-chain asset circulation and real-time data transmission capabilities, and build a complete set of efficient and seamless development tools and APIs, allowing developers to easily integrate high-level Web3 applications and reduce construction costs and technical barriers.
This technological upgrade has shown great value in RWA tokenization and smart contract automation. Developers can build more complex DeFi applications and financial products based on the highly reliable data streams and decentralized cross-chain operations provided by Chainlink, such as:
l Cross-chain fund management: Use CCIP to seamlessly transfer tokenized fund assets between HashKey Chain and other public chains to achieve portfolio management on different blockchains;
lAutomated hedging transactions: With the real-time market data provided by Data Streams, smart contracts can execute low-latency, high-precision automated hedging strategies to reduce the risk of market volatility;
Compliance DeFi solutions: Combined with the identity verification oracle provided by Chainlink, HashKey Chain can provide institutional investors with compliance-friendly lending, yield management, and settlement tools.
This technical collaboration not only enhances the attractiveness of HashKey Chain in the developer ecosystem, but also provides more abundant support for innovative applications in the Web3 field, boosting the development of emerging tracks such as institutional-level DeFi and cross-chain finance. With the continuous influx of developers, the HashKey Chain ecosystem will further expand, promote the large-scale implementation of Web3 applications, and accelerate its penetration in the global blockchain market.
The profound impact on both sides
HashKey Chain: Double Leap in Technology and Ecology
For HashKey Chain, this cooperation is not only a key step in technological upgrading, but also a leap in ecosystem and market competitiveness. On the technical level, with the help of Chainlink CCIP and Data Streams, HashKey Chain can achieve significant improvements in cross-chain interoperability, data transmission, and institutional-level financial services. CCIP gives it secure and scalable cross-chain capabilities, making asset flows and smart contract interactions more efficient, while the low-latency, tamper-proof data provided by Data Streams greatly enhances HashKey Chain's application capabilities in high-frequency trading, lending, RWA asset management and other fields. This not only reduces the risk of developers in the HashKey Chain ecosystem relying on off-chain data, but also provides a more solid foundation for its DeFi, derivatives markets and stablecoin applications.
On the market level, Chainlink, as the world's top Web3 oracle service provider, has brought HashKey Chain stronger credibility with its brand influence and extensive institutional cooperation network. Compared with other Layer 2 solutions, HashKey Chain already has compliance advantages, and this cooperation further consolidates its competitiveness in the Asian market, making it more attractive to institutional investors and high-end developers. Especially in terms of RWA, institutional-level DeFi and on-chain financial services, the technical endorsement provided by Chainlink makes it easier for HashKey Chain to be recognized by banks, asset management companies, and cross-border payment companies, thereby promoting larger-scale capital inflows and expanding potential user groups.
In terms of ecological development, HashKey Chain has built a more attractive development environment through the technical support of Chainlink, allowing more projects in the fields of DeFi, PayFi, NFT, etc. to be easily deployed on its chain. Powerful cross-chain capabilities and real-time data services provide developers with a more flexible technical framework, reduce migration and integration costs, and make HashKey Chain one of the infrastructures favored by developers. With the improvement of ecological richness, its TVL and user activity are expected to grow significantly, and HashKey Chain will also occupy a more important market share in the Layer 2 track.
Chainlink: Accelerating strategic deployment in the Asian market
Through cooperation with HashKey Chain, Chainlink is accelerating its strategic layout in the Asian market, especially in Asian regulatory-friendly financial centers such as Hong Kong and Singapore. While helping Chainlink deepen its influence in the compliant Web3 ecosystem, it also lays the foundation for its further penetration into the institutional-level DeFi and RWA tracks.
As traditional financial institutions gradually embrace blockchain, Chainlink has become the preferred decentralized oracle solution for banks, asset management companies, payment clearing networks and other institutions. For example, its cooperation with global financial giants such as Swift, Euroclear, and UBS has proven the wide applicability of CCIP in cross-border payments, asset tokenization, fund management and other fields. Through this cooperation, Chainlink has further entered the Asian compliant blockchain ecosystem and can deeply integrate with licensed financial institutions such as HashKey Group to expand its landing scenarios in compliant stablecoins, cross-border payments, DeFi lending and other applications.
In addition, HashKey Chain's strategy of driving ecological growth with compliance is highly consistent with Chainlink's positioning in the institutional market. As the world's leading cross-chain interoperability and data solution provider, Chainlink's technology has long been mature in the DeFi field, but its in-depth application in the compliant financial system is still in its early stages. With the compliance advantages of HashKey Chain in Hong Kong, Singapore and other regions, Chainlink can more smoothly enter the traditional financial system in Asia and attract more regulatory-friendly Web3 projects to adopt its solutions. This not only consolidates Chainlink's leading position in the global Web3 infrastructure, but also opens up a new market growth space for it, enabling it to occupy a favorable position in the wave of institutional-level DeFi development in Asia.
Industry significance: The integration trend of blockchain and traditional finance
The cooperation between HashKey Chain and Chainlink is not only a business breakthrough in the integration of blockchain technology and traditional finance, but also an important signal that the global financial system has entered an era of decentralized financial institutions and compliance. Against the backdrop of gradually clear global regulation, the traditional financial market has become more and more receptive to blockchain, but it still faces key challenges such as compliance, security, transparency and efficiency. The cooperation between HashKey Chain and Chainlink has shown us a new solution - improving the operating efficiency of the financial system through decentralized technology, eliminating intermediaries, and improving capital liquidity, while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, providing a feasible path for the seamless connection between Web3 and traditional finance.
From a macro market perspective, this cooperation reflects the acceleration of the global financial digital transformation. Since 2024, with the large-scale promotion of RWA tokenization, major global financial institutions such as UBS, Fidelity International, and JP Morgan have been actively deploying blockchain infrastructure. As one of the most compliant Layer 2s in Asia, HashKey Chain is building a new standard for institutional DeFi, incorporating on-chain asset management, cross-border payments, stablecoin issuance, and compliant lending into its ecological landscape. As the world's most mature cross-chain interoperability solution, Chainlink has been widely used in the European and American financial systems, and this cooperation marks its in-depth penetration into the Asian market, providing core technical support for the blockchain ecology of financial centers such as Hong Kong and Singapore.
In addition, this cooperation is not only an upgrade of HashKey Chain at the technical level, but also means an improvement in its position in the global financial market. In the future, with the development of institutional-level DeFi, traditional financial institutions will continue to grow in demand for transparent, secure, and efficient blockchain infrastructure. Relying on the cross-chain interoperability, on-chain data verification, and compliance oracles provided by Chainlink, HashKey Chain will more easily attract traditional financial institutions to enter the DeFi field and promote Web3 infrastructure to truly serve the global financial market. This trend will not only lead to a substantial increase in HashKey Chain TVL, but will also promote blockchain applications in global capital markets, trade finance, asset management, and other fields, becoming an important participant in the global multi-chain financial ecosystem.
From a longer-term perspective, the cooperation between HashKey Chain and Chainlink will help the Asian market become a key growth point for global blockchain financial innovation. Although financial institutions in the European and American markets have tried their hand in the DeFi field, the infrastructure of compliance chains is still in its early stages in Asia, especially in financial centers such as Hong Kong, Singapore, and the UAE. As Layer 2 under the Hong Kong licensed institution HashKey Group, HashKey Chain has built a bridge for global compliant Web3 finance through this cooperation, and is expected to become the preferred DeFi ecological base in the Asian market in the future, promoting the large-scale implementation of innovative applications such as RWA, stablecoins, on-chain payments, and institutional lending.
Ultimately, this cooperation will become an important milestone in the development of global DeFi from fragmentation and speculation to institutionalization, compliance, and stability. With the continuous growth of the HashKey Chain ecosystem and the continued expansion of Chainlink around the world, we are witnessing the birth of a more transparent, efficient, and seamless global blockchain financial system.
