🚨CHAINLINK JUST ANNOUNCED: UK FINANCE GOES ONCHAIN 🇬🇧⛓️
🔗 Chainlink has been selected to join the Bank of England’s Synchronisation Lab — a major experiment testing how blockchain-based assets can settle side by side with central bank money.
💡 What’s happening?
🏦 Coordinated settlement between sterling at the central bank and onchain securities
⏳ Lab kicks off Spring 2026, running ~6 months
🧪 No real funds, no regulatory approval — pure infrastructure testing
🔍 Chainlink’s role
⚙️ Build a decentralized settlement mechanism
🔄 Link central bank money ↔ digitally issued securities
📈 Prove onchain finance can work at systemic scale
🤝 Who else is involved?
🌐 Swift
🏛️ LSEG
💳 Partior
🧠 UAC Labs AG
🏗️ Why this matters?
🚀 Part of the BoE’s RT2 upgrade (next-gen RTGS)
🧩 APIs + simulated central bank environment
📦 Foundation for tokenized bonds, FX, collateral, and beyond
📜 Big picture
🇬🇧 Lands alongside UK work on systemic stablecoin rules — signaling convergence of central bank money, tokenized assets, and onchain infrastructure.
⚡ This is how a major financial system quietly moves onchain 👀 #RWA
