Independent, institutional-grade infrastructure for the next generation of financial products.

Chosen by Chainlink since 2021 to help secure the networks behind its capital-markets push.

Flagship products

CCIP and CRE

Both run on bare-metal infrastructure LinkRiver operates across two continents, in-house RPC connectivity included.

CCIP

Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol

Chainlink's standard for secure cross-chain messaging and value transfer, and the connective tissue of its institutional interoperability. SWIFT and DTCC have both trialled it; LinkRiver has run it since its 2023 mainnet launch, across a continuously growing set of chains.

CRE

Chainlink Runtime Environment

Chainlink's newest institutional layer, the orchestration environment for compliant, cross-chain smart contracts. It already powers UBS's tokenized money-market fund, the first such workflow to run in production. LinkRiver has run it since its 2025 mainnet launch.

Track record

Running the institutional backbone of the Chainlink network

LinkRiver has operated Chainlink infrastructure since 2021 and been selected across a broad and growing range of its product lines, from the earliest data feeds through CCIP, NAVLink, DataLink, and CRE. Each entry below marks the year we began running it.

  1. Direct Request 2021

    Chainlink's original request-and-receive oracle model: a contract requests, a node fulfils on-chain.

  2. Flux Monitor Data Feeds 2021

    Deviation-triggered feeds aggregated on-chain, each node submitting when prices move past a threshold.

  3. Proof of Reserve 2021

    Verifiable on-chain confirmation that tokenized assets remain fully backed by their off-chain reserves.

  4. OCR Market and Data Feeds 2021

    Off-chain reporting: nodes reach consensus off-chain and settle one signed report on-chain.

  5. Automation 2021

    Decentralized condition-monitoring that reliably triggers on-chain contract execution; originally launched as Keepers.

  6. Functions 2023

    Custom off-chain computation and any-API connectivity, executed across Chainlink's decentralized oracle network.

  7. CCIP 2023

    Secure cross-chain messaging and value transfer — Chainlink's institutional interoperability standard.

  8. Data Streams 2023

    Low-latency, pull-based market data, retrieved on demand and verified atomically on-chain.

  9. NAVLink 2024

    Real-time net asset value data for tokenized funds, published on-chain for institutions.

  10. DataLink 2025

    Regulated exchange and benchmark data published on-chain for institutions, launched with Deutsche Börse and now carrying SIX's Swiss and Spanish equity data.

  11. SmartAUM 2025

    Assets-under-management data for tokenized funds and issuers, published on-chain for institutions, including the on-chain S&P Digital Markets 50 Index.

  12. Smart Value Recapture (SVR) 2025

    Returns oracle-extractable value from liquidations to DeFi protocols such as Aave, layered on Chainlink Price Feeds.

  13. CRE 2025

    Orchestration runtime for compliant, cross-chain smart contracts — Chainlink's capital-markets layer.

By the numbers

13 Chainlink products operated

A core operator of the Chainlink network's institutional backbone since 2021.

4 Time zones on call

Human on-call engineers across four time zones instead of a single AI agent.

2 Continents

Data centers on two separate continents, not two regions of one country.

Infrastructure & operations

Operated in-house, on dedicated hardware

The standing differentiator behind every product LinkRiver runs: institutional-grade infrastructure operated by people, not rented cloud capacity watched by an agent.

Infrastructure

LinkRiver runs on dedicated bare-metal servers it operates across two continents, not shared or virtualised cloud capacity. The footprint is redundant by design, with in-house RPC connectivity to the 70+ networks we serve for full data integrity.

Operations

That infrastructure is monitored continuously by engineers, not just an AI agent. Coverage spans four time zones, so a network event meets a human response at any hour, on any day of the year. We use AI to support our engineers, not the other way around.

Security & compliance

Certifications

ISO 27001:2022

In certification

Perry Johnson Registrars (PJR)

July 2026

SOC 2 Type I

Planned

Independent CPA firm (to be appointed)

Targeting Q4 2026

Team

Where public-sector discipline meets crypto-native operations

In Chainlink infrastructure, what earns trust is an operating record, uptime, responsiveness, and repeated selection, not the names attached to it. We let that record speak and keep the focus on the networks we secure.

The team has operated Chainlink infrastructure since 2021 and deliberately blends two kinds of experience. On one side, crypto-native members who have been active investors in the ecosystem for more than a decade, alongside engineers who run distributed systems to financial-grade reliability. On the other, operators who have held senior roles in national government and at international corporations, across economic policy, finance, and technology.

Counterparties who need to know more can reach us directly. We are glad to share verifiable, on-chain operating history and references under the appropriate diligence process.

Corporate

Operating name
LinkRiver®
Incorporated
Cayman Islands
Ownership
Privately held

Insights

Selected writing

A few pieces on how we think about infrastructure, monitoring, and our place in the Chainlink ecosystem.

Contact

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