In the past week, Chainlink has made significant progress in the blockchain and decentralized finance space. Below is a summary of the key information:

1. Announcement at Sibos 2024:

Corporate Action Initiative: At the Sibos 2024 conference, Chainlink, along with Euroclear, Swift, and six major financial institutions, announced the results of an industry initiative aimed at addressing the challenges of unstructured data in finance. This initiative demonstrated how AI, oracles, and blockchain can work together to improve business data processing. $$$

New Security Toolkit: Chainlink introduced a new security toolkit, including Private Transaction CCIP, Blockchain Security Manager, and DECO Sandbox, to enhance security and privacy for transactions on the blockchain.

2. Partnership with ANZ Institutional: one of the first financial institutions to test the capabilities of Private Transaction CCIP for cross-chain payments of tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) within the framework of the Project Guardian initiative by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).

3. Payment Abstraction: Chainlink has launched a $100,000 audit for Payment Abstraction, a core component of the Chainlink payment system, on the Code4rena platform.

4. New service integrations and partners: executed 19 integrations of 7 services across 9 different blockchains, including Arbitrum, Avalanche, Base, BNB Chain, Botanix Labs, Ethereum, Linea, opBNB, and Optimism. Notable partners and integrations include: Soneium, Botanix Labs, DigiFT, opBNB, SynFutures, Bedrock.

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