Chainlink adds weekend pricing for tokenized stocks, with Aave as launch partner

Chainlink 24/7 blends extended-hours data with perpetual futures quotes so tokenized assets keep a live price when Wall Street goes home Wall Street takes weekends off. Blockchains do not, and that mismatch has been an awkward problem for anyone putting stocks onchain. Oracle provider Chainlink is now trying to fix it. The company is rolling out Chainlink 24/7, a service that keeps pricing stocks, commodities and other traditional assets through weekends and holidays. Decentralized lender Aave is signed on as the launch partner. How Chainlink 24/7 fills the weekend gap Start with what an oracle does. Blockchains cannot see the outside world, so oracles act as couriers that deliver outside data, like a share price, to smart contracts. Chainlink’s answer is to stitch together several sources into one continuous price. During the week, the service uses data from regular trading hours plus extended sessions. Chainlink’s existing 24/5 coverage already includes pre-market, post-market and overnight trading. When traditional markets shut down entirely, the service switches to aggregated quotes from perpetual futures venues. Perpetual futures are derivatives with no expiry date, and they t...