Chainlink Secures Major Deal With SBI Digital Markets Amid LINK Supply Drop

SBI Digital Markets (SBIDM), the digital asset arm of Japan's SBI Group, has selected Chainlink as its exclusive infrastructure provider. This partnership involves SBIDM integrating Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) to enable compliant and interoperable tokenized real-world assets to move across public and private blockchains, utilizing CCIP Private Transactions for data privacy. SBIDM is also exploring Chainlink's Automated Compliance Engine (ACE) as part of its plan to build a full digital asset ecosystem.

This strategic alliance coincides with Chainlink launching its Runtime Environment (CRE) and introducing Confidential Compute (CC), which will enhance privacy for enterprise use cases like tokenized funds. Concurrently, the LINK token is experiencing a significant supply drop on exchanges, hitting multi-year lows, with over 80 million LINK withdrawn in 2025. Despite a recent price decline, this on-chain scarcity, coupled with major institutional adoption (including past work with SWIFT, Mastercard, and UBS), is fostering optimism among analysts regarding LINK's future upside potential.

(Source：BeInCrypto)