Chainlink launched APAC Equities Streams on Monday, putting live pricing for large-cap Asian companies on-chain to power equity perps, prediction markets and structured products in Asian time zones.
Chainlink launched APAC Equities Streams on Monday, an oracle feed that brings pricing for large Asia-Pacific companies on-chain. It starts with Japan and Korea, with more regional markets slated to follow.
The streams went live Monday afternoon, Chainlink said on its official X account. They cover the region’s largest listed names, including Samsung, SK Hynix, Toyota, Sony and SoftBank. Developers can use the feeds to build on-chain markets around those equities, the company said, with fast pricing data positioned as the foundation for moving global stock markets on-chain.
Asian Trading Hours
The feeds target a set of on-chain products that have been expanding through 2026. Chainlink listed equity perps, spot markets, prediction markets, structured products and risk-management strategies as the markets the new streams can support.
The pitch is timezone coverage. Tokenized-equity activity has clustered around U.S. names, leaving Asian large-caps thinly served during their own trading hours. Pricing Samsung or Toyota on-chain lets builders run derivatives and prediction markets keyed to Asian companies without waiting for U.S. market data to act as a proxy. Secure, fast pricing data is “fundamental to bringing global equity markets onchain,” Chainlink said in the same thread.
China Still Pending
The launch is live in two markets, not the full region. Chainlink said support for Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan is “coming soon,” leaving Japan and Korea as the only confirmed coverage at launch.
The release puts no volume, asset count or revenue figure on the new feeds. Chainlink framed Monday’s launch as “only the beginning,” with the APAC streams sitting alongside its broader push to supply data rails for tokenized real-world assets.
Oracle Rail Build-Out
The move extends a run of Chainlink infrastructure deals aimed at institutional and tokenized markets. The DTCC, the post-trade utility that clears U.S. securities, picked Chainlink as the data layer for a round-the-clock tokenized-collateral platform.
Demand for on-chain equity exposure has been building on the asset side too. Tokenized stocks have become one of the fastest-growing asset classes on Ethereum, and NYSE parent ICE formed a joint venture with OKX to tokenize listed equities. Most of that supply tracks U.S. listings, and the venues building equity perps and prediction markets have leaned on the same handful of American tickers.
APAC Equities Streams aims to supply the pricing layer those markets need to reach beyond U.S. names. Whether builders pick up the Japan and Korea feeds, and how quickly Chainlink adds the larger China and Hong Kong markets, will determine how much of Asia’s equity volume migrates on-chain.
