Chainlink Price Feeds Are Now Available to Support the Adoption of Backed’s Tokenized Real-World Assets

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We’re excited to announce that Chainlink Price Feeds are now available for these underlying assets for our bTokens:

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• IBO1—the iShares $ Treasury Bond 0-1YR UCITS ETF, IBO1 is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) traded on the London Stock Exchange that provides exposure to US Dollar-denominated short-term government bonds issued by the US Treasury. The ETF specifically targets US government bonds with remaining maturities between zero and one year.
• IBTA—the iShares $ Treasury Bond 1-3YR UCITS ETF, IBTA is a fixed-income ETF traded on the London Stock Exchange that provides exposure to short-term US treasuries with direct investment in government bonds, specifically those with remaining maturities between one and three years. 
• CSPX—the iShares Core S&P 500 UCITS ETF, CSPX is an ETF traded on the London Stock Exchange that tracks the performance of the S&P 500 Index, which is composed of a basket of the 500 largest U.S. companies by market capitalization. 

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These Chainlink Price Feeds mark a breakthrough moment for the adoption of tokenized real-world assets (RWAs). By helping provide secure and reliable price data for these real-world assets, Chainlink Price Feeds help unlock the ability of the DeFi ecosystem to securely integrate bIB01, bIBTA, and bCSPX (Backed Finance’s tokenized representative of the above assets) within their protocols.

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Understanding the Role of Chainlink Price Feeds for Tokenized RWA Adoption

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As a leading pioneer in tokenized RWAs, Backed Finance issues freely transferable backed Tokens (bTokens) on the blockchain that track the prices of publicly traded assets.

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However, growing the adoption of these assets within the larger DeFi ecosystem requires robust and independent pricing data, which unlocks the ability to securely leverage these assets within advanced decentralized protocols.

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As the industry-standard price oracle solution for the Web3 ecosystem, Chainlink Price Feeds have a proven history of reliability, security, decentralization, and widespread adoption within the DeFi ecosystem. It was mission-critical that the price data for IBO1, IBTA, and CSPX was made available on-chain by Chainlink Price Feeds specifically. 

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Some standout features of Chainlink Price Feeds for DeFi applications interested in integrating bIBO1, bIBTA, and bCSPX include: 

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• Secure Node Operators—Chainlink Price Feeds are secured by independent, security-reviewed, and Sybil-resistant oracle nodes run by leading blockchain DevOps teams, data providers, and traditional enterprises with a strong track record for reliability, even during high gas prices and extreme network congestion. 
• Decentralized Network—Chainlink Price Feeds are decentralized at the data source, oracle node, and oracle network levels, generating strong protections against downtime and tampering by either the data provider or the oracle network.
• Transparency—Robust, publicly available reputation frameworks and on-chain monitoring tools allow users to independently verify the historical performance of node operators and oracle networks, as well as check the real-time prices being offered.

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In the near future, we plan to integrate Chainlink Proof of Reserve—the leading asset collateral monitoring service in Web3—to enhance the transparency of Backed’s products and help provide a publicly accessible, real-time collateralization information for Backed products. 

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“The adoption of tokenized real-world assets requires a robust source of standardized pricing data, and that’s exactly what Chainlink Price Feeds provide. We’re excited to see the growing adoption of bTokens within DeFi protocols now that industry-leading price data is available through Chainlink.”—Adam Levi, Co-founder of Backed. 

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About Chainlink

Chainlink is the industry-standard Web3 services platform. It has enabled trillions of dollars in transaction volume across DeFi, on-chain finance, gaming, NFTs, and other major industries. As the leading decentralized oracle network, Chainlink empowers developers to build feature-rich Web3 applications with seamless access to real-world data and off-chain computation across any blockchain and provides global enterprises with a universal gateway to all blockchains.

Learn more about Chainlink by visiting chain.link or reading the developer documentation at docs.chain.link. To discuss an integration, reach out to an expert. 

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About Backed Finance

Backed is a Swiss start-up bridging real-world assets on-chain. Backed issues on-chain tokens that track the value of real-world assets, such as stocks or ETFs. Tokens are freely transferable across wallets, are fully collateralized by the underlying asset, and are issued in compliance with the Swiss DLT act.

Backed’s tokens are not offered, sold or delivered within the United States, or for the account or benefit of U.S. Persons.

Backed is not affiliated with or licensed by iShares, BlackRock Inc., BlackRock Fund Advisors and any of its affiliates and bIB01, bIBTA and bCSPX are not iShares products.

Learn more about Backed at backed.fi and by following us on LinkedIn and Twitter.