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Chainlink joined Project Pangea, a consortium of more than 50 banks holding over 10 trillion dollars in assets, to test same-day T+0 cross-border settlement, announced June 24.
The project uses compliant euro and South Korean won stablecoins for payment-versus-payment trades that settle at the same instant or not at all, cutting settlement risk.
Pangea runs on existing Swift messaging and ISO 20022 standards, so banks plug in without replacing their core systems.
Chainlink has joined Project Pangea, a bank-backed effort to settle cross-border currency trades the same day instead of two business days later. The group announced the project on June 24, describing itself as more than 50 banks with over 10 trillion dollars in assets under management, according to Chainlink's announcement carried by crypto.news.
The consortium brings together Chainlink, FairSquareLab, the European bank network Qivalis, and the Korean bank group UniKA. Qivalis is backed by 37 European banks, and UniKA represents more than 10 Korean commercial banks. Together they want to replace the standard T+2 settlement cycle, where a currency trade can sit unsettled for two business days, with atomic trades that clear in real time.
The mechanics matter. Under the model Pangea will test, both sides of a foreign exchange trade settle at the same moment using compliant euro and South Korean won stablecoins, or neither side settles at all. That design removes the window where one bank has paid and the other has not, the gap that carries settlement risk. Chainlink would supply the data and interoperability layer, while FairSquareLab provides the onchain settlement technology and the Pangea network.
The project does not ask banks to buy crypto or abandon familiar systems. Instructions still move through Swift using ISO 20022 messaging, and Chainlink infrastructure translates them into onchain settlement. Settlement would run on public chains including Ethereum and Polygon.
The launch lands the same week Anchorage Digital opened tokenized-deposit rails that let banks settle around the clock onchain, and as regulators move stablecoin issuers toward bank-style oversight under the GENIUS Act. The pattern here is hard to ignore. The same institutions that once treated crypto as a threat are now wiring their own money onto public blockchains to make settlement faster and safer. Worth watching whether Pangea moves from test to live rails.
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What is Project Pangea?
Project Pangea is a bank-backed consortium, joined by Chainlink, that is testing same-day T+0 cross-border currency settlement using stablecoins on existing Swift and ISO 20022 rails. It includes more than 50 banks with over 10 trillion dollars in assets.
How does Chainlink fit into Project Pangea?
Chainlink provides the data, interoperability, and orchestration layer that translates standard Swift payment instructions into onchain settlement actions, while FairSquareLab supplies the settlement technology.
What is T+0 settlement and why does it matter?
T+0 settlement means a trade clears the same day instead of the usual two business days. It cuts the settlement risk that builds up when one side has paid and the other has not yet been paid.
Which stablecoins will Project Pangea use?
The project plans to test compliant euro and South Korean won stablecoins in payment-versus-payment foreign exchange trades, where both legs settle at the same instant or not at all.
Sources: Chainlink via PR Newswire, crypto.news.