Chainlink Facilitates Simultaneous Multi-Chain Pilot Distribution of Moody's Ratings Credit Insights

The pilot demonstrates how credit ratings could be distributed across blockchain networks as institutional market infrastructure continues to evolve.

NEW YORK, Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Moody's Ratings, a global leader in credit ratings and research with 125+ years of experience, and Chainlink, the industry-standard oracle platform, today announced the successful completion of a pilot exploring the cross-chain distribution of credit ratings powered by Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP). The pilot demonstrated how the Moody's Ratings Token Integration Engine™ (TIE) could support the simultaneous distribution of credit ratings across multiple blockchain networks as tokenized market infrastructure continues to evolve.

As more financial assets are issued and distributed through blockchain-based infrastructure, market participants will increasingly need access to trusted credit assessment information within those environments.

Moody's Ratings brings extensive experience assessing credit risk in digital assets and tokenized financial instruments. Between January 2017 and October 2026, Moody's Ratings rated or assessed more than 70 digital issuances, including digital bonds and tokenized funds.

TIE is designed to support the dissemination of credit ratings and related data in connection with tokenized assets and in blockchain-based environments. Using Chainlink CCIP, the pilot successfully demonstrated how TIE could simultaneously distribute credit ratings across permissioned and permissionless blockchain networks through Chainlink's interoperable cross-chain infrastructure while preserving existing publication and governance processes.

"Credit ratings help institutions decide where to allocate capital and how they price risk. As more financial assets move onchain, credit intelligence has to move with them, across chains and through every rating change," said Johann Eid, Chief Business Officer at Chainlink Labs. "Moody's Ratings successful pilot of Chainlink CCIP establishes a critical part of the foundation institutional capital needs to adopt tokenization at scale."

"The future of tokenized finance is unlikely to reside on a single blockchain, platform, or market infrastructure," said Fabian Astic, Global Head of Digital Economy at Moody's Ratings. "As digital markets continue to evolve, investors will increasingly expect access to credit ratings and associated information regardless of the underlying technology supporting an asset. This pilot explored how interoperable infrastructure can help make credit ratings available across multiple blockchain networks while preserving the governance and publication processes that support confidence in our analytical opinions."

The implementation was completed in a testnet environment, with CCIP delivering credit ratings to multiple blockchain networks. No actual rating actions were published onchain as part of the pilot, and no live rating dissemination processes were involved. The pilot used representative test data to evaluate technical interoperability and distribution capabilities in a controlled environment. The broader delivery model is designed to accommodate future updates including rating actions, while maintaining appropriate governance and lifecycle controls. A future production workflow would maintain Moody's Ratings' established publication processes.

About Chainlink

Chainlink is the standard for onchain finance, enabling high-quality data, secure cross-chain interoperability, and compliant connectivity across global markets. Chainlink powers leading tokenized assets, financial institutions, market infrastructures, and decentralized applications by providing secure access to real-world data, cross-chain messaging, and blockchain connectivity across any network. The Chainlink standard has enabled tens of trillions of dollars in transaction value and is helping unify global markets onchain.

Many of the world's largest financial services institutions have also adopted Chainlink's standards and infrastructure, including Swift, Euroclear, Mastercard, Fidelity International, UBS, S&P Dow Jones Indices, FTSE Russell, WisdomTree, ANZ, and top protocols such as Aave, Polymarket, Lido, Lighter, and many others. Chainlink leverages a novel fee model where offchain and onchain revenue from enterprise adoption is converted to LINK tokens and stored in a strategic Chainlink Reserve. Learn more at chain.link.

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