Chainlink Launches Weekend Pricing for Tokenized Assets, Alongside Aave

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TLDR Chainlink launches Chainlink 24/7, a pricing service covering weekends and holidays for stocks, commodities and other traditional assets. Off-hours prices are based on quotes from perpetual futures venues, not closed exchanges. Aave is the first partner, using the feeds on its institutional Horizon platform. Chainlink says its weekday infrastructure already covers more than $1.6 billion in tokenized stocks. Blockchain markets run around the clock, but the assets many of them track do not. Stock exchanges close at night, on weekends, and on holidays, leaving on-chain applications without a reliable price. Until now, protocols had a few poor options: freeze markets, rely on the last known price, or build their own valuation tools. Chainlink 24/7 aims to remove that problem by supplying one continuous price series per asset. How Chainlink 24/7 Works The service blends two sources. When traditional markets are open, it uses prices from regular and extended sessions. When they shut, it switches to an off-hours reference built from perpetual futures quotes. Chainlink says the system p...