Chainlink Labs has officially joined the Global Alliance for KRW Stablecoin (GAKS), a WEMADE-led consortium dedicated to establishing trusted standards and scaling real-world adoption of Korean won-backed stablecoins. This collaboration significantly expands the alliance’s technical and institutional expertise as it advances toward global compliance and robust infrastructure.
Launched in November 2025, GAKS was formed to promote regulated KRW stablecoin usage in both domestic and international markets, while aligning with Korean financial standards. With Chainlink Labs’ involvement, the alliance now benefits from one of the most widely adopted oracle and data infrastructure platforms in the digital asset industry.
Through this partnership, Chainlink Labs will provide strategic support in technical standardization, infrastructure design, and enterprise-grade tokenized asset use cases. Alliance members will have the opportunity to integrate Chainlink’s platform into their own stablecoin and digital asset initiatives, enhancing data integrity, reliability, and transparency throughout the ecosystem.
The addition of Chainlink Labs follows recent GAKS partnerships with Chainalysis, CertiK, and SentBe—collectively spanning compliance analytics, security auditing, fintech services, and now, oracle and data infrastructure. Together, these partners form a comprehensive institutional stack built to meet regulatory and operational demands for KRW-backed digital assets.
Chainlink’s involvement brings global credibility to the alliance. Its infrastructure is already trusted by leading financial institutions and market operators worldwide—including Swift, UBS, Euroclear, Mastercard, and Fidelity International—as well as public-sector data providers. This experience positions Chainlink as a key contributor in bridging traditional finance with on-chain systems, a core objective of GAKS.
WEMADE considers the partnership a step toward accelerating global competitiveness for KRW stablecoins. Kim SukWhan, Vice President of WEMADE, described Chainlink’s involvement as a milestone in achieving technical excellence and international trust, emphasizing that close collaboration is essential for building a credible stablecoin ecosystem.
For Chainlink Labs, the alliance represents an opportunity to support the next phase of digital asset infrastructure in Korea and across the Asia-Pacific region. Johann Eid, Chief Business Officer at Chainlink Labs, emphasized that the collaboration allows GAKS members to leverage Chainlink’s platform as they develop stablecoin and tokenized asset initiatives aligned with institutional requirements.
With Chainlink Labs now onboard, GAKS has formed a multidisciplinary alliance spanning compliance, security, fintech, and data infrastructure. This move reinforces the group’s ambition to establish KRW stablecoins as a trusted, globally interoperable digital asset class, built on robust technical and regulatory foundations.
