Chainlink has been named the winner of the Swift Hackathon 2025 Business Challenge for its innovative solution enabling fast, compliance-focused, and privacy-preserving digital asset settlement across borders and blockchains.
This year’s hackathon marked a record-breaking milestone with 104 entrants, making it Swift’s largest to date. Among the finalists were leading financial institutions including Credit Agricole CIB, Deutsche Bank, and Standard Chartered.
Chainlink Wins Swift Hackathon 2025 Business Challenge
Chainlink’s winning solution unlocks fast, compliance-focused, and privacy-preserving digital asset settlement across borders and blockchains. The team successfully demonstrated how Chainlink’s Automated Compliance Engine (ACE) and the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE), in conjunction with GLEIF’s vLEI and Swift messages, enable a new cross-chain, cross-border model for the trading and settlement of regulated digital assets.
This same approach can be extended to support regulatory-compliant stablecoins, tokenized deposits, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), digital securities, and other tokenized financial instruments.
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In this blog, we summarize the Swift Hackathon 2025 Business Challenge, Chainlink’s winning solution, and how it is set to transform global finance.
