Chainlink
LINKID: 1975Rank #13Updated 10/11/2026, 3:39:00 AM
24h Low
$12.78
24h High
$13.23
Market Cap
$9.67B
24h Volume
$182.55M
Fully Diluted Valuation
$12.92B
Market Dominance
0.35%
7d Volume
$4.02B
Volume / Market Cap
1.89%
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Technical Analysis
Price Performance
1h
-0.65%
24h
+0.93%
7d
-8.04%
30d
+12.48%
60d
+47.96%
90d
+63.61%
1y
-25.58%
YTD
+2.65%
All-Time High
$52.88
All-Time Low
$0.126297
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Wyoming selects Chainlink for near-real-time reserve verification of its state-issued FRNT stable token, strengthening LINK's position in tokenized financial markets. Price hovers at $11.13 with moderate upside momentum.
- âś“Wyoming state government integrates Chainlink for FRNT stable token reserve verification, a landmark real-world adoption of Chainlink's oracle infrastructure.
- ✓24h trading volume of $294.6M indicates healthy market participation, yet the +0.40% price move suggests the news is not fully priced in — creating a potential re-rating window.
- âś“Expanding into tokenized financial markets and state-issued digital currencies reinforces Chainlink's role as the leading standard for verifiable, onchain data across institutional use cases.
Chainlink holds above $11.40 as Charles Schwab adds LINK exposure to its crypto platform, signaling fresh institutional adoption. Technicals remain constructive for a push toward $12.50 resistance.
- âś“Charles Schwab expanding crypto platform to include Chainlink exposure, a major institutional validation and potential demand catalyst.
- âś“Current price holds above $11.40 despite a slight 24h dip, while trading volume near $200M suggests sustained market participation.
- âś“Ranked #14 by market cap, LINK maintains strong liquidity and remains a leading oracle infrastructure play for institutional adoption.
Chainlink slides 3.3% despite Charles Schwab's announcement of upcoming LINK trading support. Institutional access expansion could fuel recovery toward the $12-$13 range.
- âś“Charles Schwab expands crypto trading to include Chainlink, opening the door to a massive retail and institutional client base.
- âś“LINK is down 3.33% in the last 24 hours despite the positive headline, suggesting the market is pricing in a delayed launch.
- âś“Trading volume remains robust at ~$325M, indicating active two-sided flow and strong liquidity near the $11 support zone.
Chainlink (LINK) extends its 22% rally to $12.04 as the launch of its AI engine and a CFTC-focused market defense loop attract heavy volume, positioning the token for a retest of key resistance levels.
- âś“Chainlink officially deployed its new AI engine, aligning LINK with the AI narrative and triggering aggressive market repricing.
- âś“The new "CFTC market defense loop" suggests a strategic angle toward regulatory-grade oracle infrastructure, potentially expanding addressable use cases.
- âś“24-hour trading volume surged to ~$954M with a +13.87% price increase, confirming institutional and retail participation beyond the initial news spike.
A massive $14.5 billion migration from WBTC to LayerZero-integrated solutions, accelerated by a $292 million exploit, positions Chainlink as the critical security backbone for cross-chain value. Short-term price action suggests accumulation near the $8.18 level, with a breakout toward $9.00 likely.
- âś“$14.5B LayerZero-to-Chainlink bridge tally signals structural shift in cross-chain security after Kelp exploit.
- âś“LINK price resilience at $8.18 despite sell pressure, with volume expanding to $204.9M.
- âś“Growing institutional dependence on Chainlink CCIP for wrapped asset integrity and oracle-backed bridging.
On-chain whale activity explodes as audacious $100 long-term price targets resurface. LINK hovers at $8.63, but heavy accumulation patterns and a tightening range suggest a bullish breakout may be imminent.
- âś“Massive spike in whale transactions and accumulation addresses signals smart money positioning for a rally.
- âś“Renewed ultra-bullish long-term narratives ($100 targets) are rebuilding retail and institutional confidence.
- âś“24h trading volume holding above $200M despite a slight daily dip indicates robust liquidity and absorption strength.
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About Chainlink
What Is Chainlink (LINK)?
Founded in 2017, Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and market-leader powering the majority of decentralized finance (DeFi). Chainlink stands to benefit the most from emerging blockchain-industry trends, such as stablecoin adoption, real-world asset tokenization, and institutional adoption of blockchain technology. Chainlink is powered by the LINK token, which is used to pay for platform services and secure the network’s proper functioning. Chainlink leverages a novel fee model where offchain and onchain revenue from enterprise adoption is converted to LINK tokens and stored in a strategic Chainlink Reserve.
Chainlink is at the forefront of financial innovation and the global tokenization trend. Traditional financial institutions and infrastructures, such as Swift, DTCC, Euroclear, J.P. Morgan, Mastercard, Central Bank of Brazil, UBS, SBI, Fidelity International, ANZ, and many others are adopting Chainlink as fundamental infrastructure as they move toward tokenizing trillions onchain. Demand for Chainlink has already generated hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue across a variety of traditional and decentralized use cases.
Who Are the Founders of Chainlink?
Sergey Nazarov is a co-founder and CEO at Chainlink Labs. He graduated with a degree in business administration from New York University, with a focus on philosophy and administration. His professional career began as a teaching fellow at NYU Stern School of Business. In 2009, Nazarov co-founded ExistLocal, a peer-to-peer marketplace for authentic local experiences. Nazarov has worked in the blockchain industry since 2010, giving him one of the longest-running tenures of any technologist in the industry, which began only a year earlier in 2009 with Bitcoin’s creation. Sergey initially built some of the first smart contracts before blockchains like Ethereum were even a concept and went on to invent Decentralized Oracle Networks (DONs) in the Chainlink whitepaper. In 2014, he also co-founded CryptaMail, a completely decentralized, blockchain-based email service.
In 2014, Nazarov teamed up with Steve Ellis and launched SmartContract, a platform that brings smart contracts to life by connecting them to external data and widely accepted bank payments. SmartContract was one of the entrepreneurial ventures that led Sergey Nazarov to the founding of Chainlink.
What Makes Chainlink Unique?
Chainlink is the only all-in-one platform that fulfills the requirements of any institutional blockchain use case. The Chainlink platform enables developers and institutions to access all the critical data, interoperability, compute, compliance, privacy, and legacy-system connectivity required for advanced blockchain applications that link the onchain and offchain worlds. Chainlink solves four fundamental problems for institutions interacting with tokenized assets:
The data problem. Tokenized assets need real-world information to be usable in transactions, such as market pricing, reference data, and proof of reserves data. Chainlink is the market leader in bringing real-world data onchain securely and accurately. The liquidity problem. Financial institutions need tokenized assets that can be securely accessed and moved across blockchain networks in order to maximize liquidity. Chainlink CCIP is the only cross-chain interoperability standard that securely connects any public or private blockchain, opening up global markets for tokenized assets. The synchronization problem. Tokenized assets must remain synchronized with legacy systems once issued across multiple chains. Chainlink is the only platform that offers reliable offchain data, system connectivity, and secure cross-chain interoperability, enabling a Unified Golden Record that stays with assets anywhere. The compliance problem. Regulated institutions require compliance enforcement capabilities such as identity verification (KYC), risk screening (AML), exploit protection, and asset-specific restrictions. The Chainlink Automated Compliance Engine extends existing financial infrastructure for identity and compliance data to blockchains and tokenized assets.
Since launch, the Chainlink standard has securely enabled tens of trillions in transaction value across dozens of blockchains and published tens of billions of verified messages onchain. Chainlink actively secures the large majority of DeFi protocols across different blockchains, with near total dominance on Ethereum. As a chain-agnostic platform with thousands of users across the world’s largest financial institutions and DeFi protocols, Chainlink accelerates the adoption of blockchain ecosystems and is used by tens of thousands of developers, including protocols such as Aave, GMX, Lido, and many more.
Chainlink and Google, Introduction of Staking in 2022, and Introduction of the Chainlink Reserve in 2025.
Chainlink has grown from aggregating and providing cryptocurrency price data to DeFi protocols like Aave, to a lot more. The ecosystem currently access over 1B data points, securing over $95B in value across 1,000 project integrations with 700 oracle networks. Mainstream organizations like Swift, J.P. Morgan, Mastercard, and Euroclear have partnered with Chainlink. Another win Chainlink has secured is onboarding Eric Schmidt, ex-Google chairman and CEO, as a technical advisor to the oracle platform. According to Schmidt, "Chainlink is a secret ingredient to unlocking the potential of smart contract platforms and revolutionizing business and society," and he is interested in helping Chainlink build a world powered by truth. Schmidt joins other notable Chainlink advisors, including former LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner and DocuSign co-founder Tom Gonser.
In 2025, Chainlink launched the Chainlink Reserve is a strategic onchain reserve of LINK designed to support the long-term growth and sustainability of the Chainlink Network by accumulating LINK tokens using offchain revenue from large enterprises that are adopting the Chainlink standard and from onchain service usage.
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