The U.S. Commerce Dept has partnered with Chainlink to publish key economic data—GDP, PCE, and more—onchain across 10 blockchains. It’s the first time official U.S. data is verifiably onchain, enabling new DeFi use cases from trading to prediction markets.

The U.S. Department of Commerce has begun publishing official macroeconomic statistics from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) on public blockchains using Chainlink’s oracle infrastructure. Six data points are initially available, including Real GDP, the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) Price Index, and Real Final Sales to Private Domestic Purchasers, with both raw values and quarter‑over‑quarter annualized percentage changes provided. The data is updated on the same monthly or quarterly schedule as BEA releases and is being pushed onchain across ten networks: Arbitrum, Avalanche, Base, Botanix, Ethereum, Linea, Mantle, Optimism, Sonic, and ZKsync. This is the first time official U.S. macroeconomic data is being made verifiably available onchain through decentralized oracle networks, in a collaboration that also involves Pyth Network alongside Chainlink. The Commerce Department’s stated aim is to make U.S. economic statistics more globally accessible and immutable, while demonstrating practical government use of blockchain infrastructure. For crypto and DeFi markets, these feeds enable new onchain products and mechanisms tied directly to trusted macro data, such as automated trading strategies, inflation‑linked instruments, tokenized assets referencing GDP or PCE, real‑time prediction markets, and DeFi risk models that respond programmatically to changes in U.S. economic conditions.

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