Coinbase teams with Chainlink to bring exchange data onchain for first time

Coinbase has partnered with Chainlink to bring its exchange market data onchain via DataLink, the companies announced Wednesday.

DataLink is a data publishing platform that enables financial institutions to publish trusted datasets directly to blockchains in a simple, scalable, and secure way. According to Chainlink, it offers builders faster time-to-market, simplified integration, and access to institutional-grade datasets.

The integration is the debut of Coinbase publishing its internal market data on public blockchain networks.

“The Chainlink data standard is battle-tested, institutional-grade infrastructure, making it the clear choice for bringing Coinbase’s market data into onchain markets,” Liz Martin, Coinbase Markets’ Vice President, stated. “Our benchmarks enable DeFi and TradFi developers to build more robust onchain apps across derivatives, tokenized assets, and more.”

What data is going onchain?

DeFi platforms can now tap into spot pricing from Coinbase’s retail and institutional venues, perpetual futures feeds from Coinbase International Exchange, e-mini futures data, and datasets covering metals, energy, and equity futures offered through Coinbase Derivatives Exchange.

Publishing it through Chainlink’s decentralized oracle network means any smart contract can consume it natively, without trusting a single intermediary to relay the numbers.

The development strengthens the DeFi infrastructure by making high-volume institutional trading data available onchain, said Johann Eid, Chief Business Officer at Chainlink Labs.

“We are proving that the future of finance requires a foundation of uncompromising security. We aren’t just moving data; we are building the programmable market infrastructure defining the next era of tokenization and accelerating the convergence of institutional finance and DeFi,” Eid emphasized.

Building on earlier integrations

The partnership extends a series of integrations between the two companies that have accelerated through late 2025 and into 2026.

Coinbase selected Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol as the exclusive infrastructure layer for all of its wrapped assets, a portfolio valued at roughly $7 billion at the time of that decision in December 2025.

Separately, the Base-Solana bridge went live, secured by the same CCIP technology.