Chainlink collaborates with DTCC on 24/7 collateral management via new AppChain
Chainlink and DTCC are planning a collateral appchain for 24/7 operations, with a launch expected in the fourth quarter of 2026. The platform is set to coordinate collateral eligibility, valuation, margining, optimization, and settlement across market participants.
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Market participants that handle collateral would be the ones most likely to notice this in daily operations, because the planned platform is built around 24/7 collateral management. That includes coordination across eligibility, valuation, margining, optimization, and settlement, so the change is framed around the workflow rather than a single product feature.
In practice, the described change is that these collateral functions would sit on an appchain instead of being handled only through the current coordination model. What stays fixed in the description is that the platform is still intended to manage the same core steps: eligibility, valuation, margining, optimization, and settlement.
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