Chainlink launches 24/5 US stock data stream, bringing approximately $8 trillion of US stock market data onto the chain BlockBeats News: On January 20th, Chainlink announced the launch of 24/5 America. Equities Streams, providing DeFi with pre -, post -, and overnight coverage of the US stock market data for the first time, allowing the approximately $8 trillion US stock market to continue operating on the chain. This data stream supports providing high-frequency, encrypted signed market data 24 hours a day, 5 days a week. It not only includes middle prices, but also buying and selling order prices and trading volumes, the latest trading prices, market status indicators, and data freshness indicators, providing a complete market context for on chain trading, clearing, and risk control. Chainlink stated that the solution has been launched on over 40 blockchains and can support various RWA application scenarios such as perpetual contracts in the US stock market, market forecasting, synthetic stocks, lending, and structured products. Several trading platforms, including Lighter, BitMEX, Apex, Orderly Network, etc., have adopted this data stream to promote the development of on chain continuous US stock markets. Chainlink points out that the 24/5 data stream solves the structural mismatch problem between traditional US stock trading hours and the 7x24 operation of blockchain, and is a key step in promoting the large-scale on chain deployment of institutional level US stock assets.