Infosys and Chainlink have formed a strategic partnership to expand institutional access to onchain finance. The collaboration combines Infosys’ financial-services technology and consulting capabilities with Chainlink’s blockchain infrastructure, including cross-chain messaging, compliance, data, and reserve-verification tools. Infosys’ Finacle banking platform serves over 1.7 billion accounts, giving the partnership a massive enterprise-technology base. The focus will include tokenized assets, payments, settlement, and interoperable financial-market infrastructure. Following the announcement and other institutional developments, LINK’s price rose 15.7% over four sessions to $13.17, with a market capitalization near $9.86 billion.
Infosys stated the partnership can connect its financial-services reach with Chainlink infrastructure across institutional use cases. The companies plan joint customer engagements, go-to-market initiatives, and client enablement around tokenization and onchain finance.
The partnership will standardize adoption of several Chainlink services, including CCIP, the Chainlink Runtime Environment, Automated Compliance Engine, Proof of Reserve, Data Streams, and Data Feeds. These tools address institutional blockchain infrastructure needs such as cross-chain messaging, data delivery, compliance, and verification.
Chainlink’s partnership page notes the firms will combine Infosys’ consulting, engineering, and systems-integration capabilities with Chainlink’s data, interoperability, compliance, privacy, and orchestration standards. Infosys previously highlighted cross-chain settlement use cases involving Chainlink, including a transaction with Ondo Finance and J.P. Morgan demonstrating cross-chain delivery-versus-payment for tokenized U.S. Treasury funds.
LINK closed at $13.17 on September 21, up from $11.38 on September 17, a 15.7% increase over four sessions. Data shows its market capitalization stood at about $9.86 billion on September 22, with roughly $756.4 million in trading volume. On September 18, Bitwise filed a preliminary prospectus for the Bitwise LINK ETF, which would seek exposure to LINK through a U.S.-listed exchange-traded product, subject to regulatory effectiveness.
