The U.S. Department of Commerce is now distributing official GDP, inflation, and private-demand data through Chainlink's oracle network, putting six government economic feeds live across 10 public blockchains. The rollout lets smart contracts read Bureau of Economic Analysis figures without developers entering each release by hand.
Six Bureau of Economic Analysis feeds went live across 10 public blockchains, giving onchain applications direct access to GDP, inflation, and spending figures as soon as the government publishes them.
Six feeds cover GDP, inflation and private demand
Three indicators make up the rollout: real gross domestic product, the Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index, and Real Final Sales to Private Domestic Purchasers. Each indicator arrives through two feeds — one for the current level, one for its quarter-over-quarter annualized change, producing six feeds in total.
The Federal Reserve treats the PCE Price Index as its preferred inflation gauge, and the third indicator strips out government spending, exports, and inventory swings to isolate private demand. Chainlink updates the feeds monthly or quarterly, matching the Bureau of Economic Analysis's own publication schedule, so onchain users see no figures ahead of the public.
Ten networks carry the data at launch
Ethereum, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Base, Botanix, Linea, Mantle, Optimism, Sonic, and ZKsync support the feeds initially, and Chainlink said it can add further networks as demand develops. The company first announced the arrangement in August 2025 and drew fresh attention to it with a recent post on X.
Chainlink's feed infrastructure carries ISO 27001 certification and a SOC 2 Type 1 attestation. Those credentials don't remove the smart-contract, market, and data-integration risks that applications built on the feeds still have to manage themselves.
Government data opens the door to onchain products
Chainlink identified inflation-linked digital assets, prediction markets, perpetual futures, and automated trading products as possible uses for the data, though none of those applications has launched through the Commerce Department arrangement yet. A lending protocol, for instance, could fold private-demand changes into its risk model.
This is not the Commerce Department's first blockchain data push. In August 2025, the agency published a cryptographic hash of its second-quarter GDP report, along with the 3.3% annualized growth figure, across nine networks including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, with Coinbase, Gemini, and Kraken distributing the data. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said at the time: "We are making America's economic truth immutable and globally accessible".
Sources: crypto.news, CoinGape
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