Chainlink Scale Comes to Plasma

Chainlink Scale comes to Plasma: high-performance L1 stablecoin gains access to Chainlink CCIP, Data Streams, and Data Feeds. At the same time, Aave and other DeFi protocols are already running on Plasma, providing initial on-chain liquidity of around $2B and laying the foundation for high-throughput payment scenarios.

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Technically, this combination of tools is potent in terms of complementarity.

• Chainlink Data Streams deliver low-latency, sub-second market data, reducing decision-making time in smart contracts, and are critical for real-time payments and on-chain settlements.
• Data Feeds provide verifiable reference prices necessary for credit markets and collateralization calculations.
• CCIP enables cross-chain messaging and asset transfers, reducing the need for centralized bridges and enabling more direct cross-chain liquidity.

Together, these layers promise to form a stack suitable for composable payment applications and protocols with high speed and security requirements, allowing L1 to be launched not in an "empty network" mode, but with ready-made infrastructure layers for payments.

Johann Eid, Chief Business Officer at Chainlink Labs:

"By adopting the Chainlink standard and joining the Chainlink Scale program, Plasma is demonstrating how new layer 1 networks can launch with enterprise-grade stablecoin infrastructure from day one. With Chainlink services like CCIP, Data Streams, and Data Feeds available natively – and Aave bringing deep stablecoin liquidity to the ecosystem – Plasma is positioned to lead in building the next generation of stablecoin and on-chain payment applications."

Thus, Aave's native liquidity, combined with sub-second price feeds, can significantly reduce execution latency for stablecoin payments and decrease spreads for on-chain swaps, thereby improving the user experience for payment products and enhancing the effectiveness of arbitrage strategies. At the same time, dependence on oracle and cross-chain layers increases the importance of monitoring the quality of data feeds, data stream latency metrics, and DON stability — operational risks become a key metric in assessing the real-world utility of the network.

Stani Kulechov, Founder & CEO, Aave Labs, notes the role of liquidity:

"Stablecoins are foundational to DeFi's growth, and Aave secures over 70% of all stablecoins across DeFi lending. Bringing that deep liquidity to Plasma from day one – alongside Chainlink's leading oracle infrastructure – extends it to a high-throughput network and a new community of builders." 

Demand for Stablecoins Is Growing, and Stablecoin Infrastructure Is Strengthening

It's not the first contribution to stablecoin infrastructure from Chaninlink, and this one promises a lot for the growth of on-chain stablecoin payments and new product implementations. We will closely monitor the development of integration and the likely further rapid growth of stablecoin infrastructure. Stay tuned for the latest updates and opportunities in the new economy, crypto industry, and blockchain developments.