MILESTONE: Visa, ANZ, ChinaAMC, & Fidelity International complete cross-border settlement solution powered by Chainlink. Under the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s e-HKD program, Chainlink enables secure transfers of regulated assets with automated compliance & atomic settlement🧵

Chainlink is critical to making this cross-border, cross-chain solution possible by enabling the secure movement of regulated digital assets between ANZ's private DASChain and the public Ethereum Sepolia network, while automating compliance, verifying identities, and facilitating atomic settlement—all within the HKMA regulatory framework. In the cutting-edge solution, the Chainlink data, interoperability, and compliance standards are used to solve the biggest problems facing institutional smart contracts: • Chainlink's Digital Transfer Agent (DTA) technical standard automates tokenized fund unit issuance as part of cross-chain transactions while leveraging the Chainlink data standard to fetch onchain NAV data, enabling near-real-time settlement. • Chainlink CCIP powers secure messaging and value transfer of e-HKD across jurisdictions and chains, unlocking Delivery vs. Payment and Payment vs. Payment transactions. • Chainlink's Automated Compliance Engine (ACE) verifies identity credentials across networks in real time, keeping personally identifiable information offchain while embedding compliance directly into each transfer. This solution proves that institutional smart contract transactions require a wide range of capabilities to support global markets, including reliable data from multiple sources, cross-chain interoperability, built-in compliance, privacy, and more. Chainlink is the only platform that solves all of these institutional requirements within a single infrastructure, powering end-to-end, regulated cross-border settlement and accelerating the global financial system’s move onchain. Learn more from the HKMA’s newly released report ⤵️