Rank 14 by market cap
A smart contract cannot fetch an exchange rate or a match result on its own: it sees only what is written on chain. Chainlink closes that gap — a network of independent operators collects data from outside sources, reconciles the readings against each other and publishes an agreed value on chain.
Market mood: 55 · Greed, as of 2026-10-10; calculated from part of the components
The price of Chainlink (LINK) is 12.94 USD as of October 10, 2026, +0.40% in 24 hours. Price change: -6.83% over 7 days, +10.06% over 30 days. Market capitalization is 9.92 billion USD, ranked 15. The price is 75.71% below its all-time high of 52.27 USD. Its link to Bitcoin over 90 days is moderate and positive (correlation 0.66).
A smart contract cannot fetch an exchange rate or a match result on its own: it sees only what is written on chain. Chainlink closes that gap — a network of independent operators collects data from outside sources, reconciles the readings against each other and publishes an agreed value on chain.
The maximum supply is capped at 1.00 B LINK.
Chainlink is grouped under: Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Real World Assets (RWA), Privacy, Infrastructure, Privacy Infrastructure, Chain Abstraction, RWA Protocol, Cross-chain Communication.
We track 10 trading pairs for LINK; the full list with venues is on the coin's "Exchanges" tab.
| Metric | Latest | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Active addresses per day | 4,952 | +84.2 % |
| Transactions per day | 9,457 | +101.9 % |
| Daily issuance, coins | 0 | — |
| Circulating supply, coins | 1,000,000,000 | 0.0 % |
Data as of 8 Oct 2026
This section is informational. Data comes from public sources and is not investment advice. Digital assets are volatile and may lose value.
Our database holds 2,824 days of daily price history for LINK.
Chainlink is ranked #14 by market capitalisation, at 9.99B $. Market capitalisation is price multiplied by circulating supply, so it moves with both — a coin can climb the ranking without its price rising, simply by issuing more.
766.8 M LINK are in circulation, which is 76.7 % of the declared maximum. The remainder enters the market on the schedule written into the protocol, and until it does, the circulating figure is what market capitalisation is computed from — not the cap.
Over the last twelve months the price of LINK fell by 43.9 %. That is the change of the quote itself and says nothing about what comes next: crypto drawdowns of tens of percent within a year are ordinary, not exceptional.
Chainlink is a token issued on the Ethereum network rather than a coin of its own blockchain. Practically that means transfers are paid for in the network's own currency, and the token's fate is tied to that network as well as to its own project.
A price feed is assembled from many nodes and many sources, and it refreshes not on a clock but whenever the price drifts past a set threshold or a heartbeat interval elapses. Such feeds became infrastructure for lending protocols and derivatives: collateral is valued and liquidations are triggered off them, so the oracle's reliability directly determines the solvency of the applications reading it. Beyond prices the network relays messages between blockchains, attests to issuers' reserves and supplies verifiable randomness.
The LINK token pays operators for their work and serves as the collateral they stand to lose for dishonest reporting.
An oracle is a single point of failure for everything downstream of it: a wrong published price triggers liquidations the market never justified.
A reference description of the project, not investment advice.
Turnover is what the venue itself reports; we do not verify it, so the order in the table is not a reliability ranking.
| Venue | 24h turnover | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Binance | 14.3 M $ | 47.6 % |
| Bybit | 6.93 M $ | 23.1 % |
| OKX | 4.94 M $ | 16.5 % |
| Binance | 2.37 M $ | 7.9 % |
| OKX | 490.8 K $ | 1.6 % |
Periods from a week are calendar-based, from midnight UTC. The 24-hour figure is a rolling window from the current price — different bases, not a discrepancy.
| Period | LINK | BTC | ETH |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 hoursrolling | +1.68 % | +0.50 % | +0.76 % |
| 7 days | −11.32 % | −3.70 % | −8.57 % |
| 30 days | +1.41 % | +3.93 % | −0.63 % |
| 90 days | +59.27 % | +27.42 % | +37.81 % |
| year to date | +3.96 % | −6.73 % | −16.67 % |
| 1 year | −43.91 % | −33.70 % | −45.28 % |
We compute market cap from circulating supply, so its date matters as much as the price.
Computed by us from our own history. This section shows no buy/sell ratings — these are values, not verdicts.
At the price as of 23:16 UTC — a moment's rate, not a live tick.
1 LINK = 13.03 $
Same sector (Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Real World Assets (RWA), Privacy, Infrastructure, Privacy Infrastructure, Chain Abstraction, RWA Protocol, Cross-chain Communication) and a similar market cap
Coin sectors: Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Real World Assets (RWA), Privacy, Infrastructure, Privacy Infrastructure, Chain Abstraction, RWA Protocol, Cross-chain Communication