Chainlink LINK
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CM Profile: Chainlink
Cryptominium Profile. What we have established, measured and written about LINK, and what we have not.
- Measured
- Selling $100,000 on 2 exchange order books lost between 0.07% and 0.09%, on 8 October 2026.
- Its price, recorded by us every day since 9 August 2026.
- Written, with sources
- Not established
- What an on-chain sale would return on Base, BNB Chain and Ethereum. It trades mostly off-chain there, so we do not measure it on-chain.
- 86 of its chains are not among the 3 we read.
- Whether it can be held without a company. We have no sourced answer yet.
- 3 other questions about what it can do have no written answer. Some may not apply to it.
Read from our own records when this page was made. It describes what we know, and is not a view on whether to hold LINK. How each part is worked out
What changed
Week to 8 October- Price down 12.0% since 1 October.
From our own measurements only, each against the month before. We do not say why a price moves. How this is worked out · Every coin this week
What it actually costs to sell LINK
Selling $100,000 of LINK into each exchange’s resting bids, measured against the mid price:
| Exchange | Lost | Got back | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kraken LINK/USD | 0.07% | $99,930 | 2026-10-08 median of 44 |
| Coinbase LINK/USD | 0.09% | $99,907 | 2026-10-08 |
Exchange figures need an account there (and KYC, a permitted country, the tokens already deposited), are before trading fees, and are never averaged with the on-chain figure. Binance is not included: it refuses requests from the region our servers are in. How this is measured →
Watch this number instead of remembering it. A free account keeps LINK on a list, records where it stood the day you added it, and emails you if selling it on these exchanges gets materially harder — one message, not a series. The measurement itself stays public; the account is for being told when it moves without you looking.
What Chainlink is
Chainlink is an oracle network launched in 2017 that solves a problem blockchains cannot solve alone: smart contracts can only see data already on their own chain, yet most useful contracts need outside information — asset prices, interest rates, event outcomes.
Independent node operators fetch data from multiple sources and submit it on-chain, with results aggregated so no single operator can dictate the answer. Its price feeds became critical infrastructure for lending and derivatives protocols, where a wrong number means immediate, irreversible losses. Chainlink has since expanded into cross-chain messaging.
The honest caveats are two. The set of node operators is smaller and more permissioned than the marketing implies, so trust is reduced rather than eliminated. And the relationship between the network's usefulness and the LINK token's value has been persistently debated — a great deal of the data Chainlink serves is subsidised rather than paid for in LINK at market rates, which makes token demand harder to reason about than protocol demand.
What Chainlink can do
Selling $100,000 on Kraken lost 0.07% against the mid price, before trading fees. Check your own amount →
Our own measurement · measured 8 October 2026
LINK earns a return only when it is staked in Chainlink's own pool. The pool is capped at 45 million LINK and 15,000 LINK per address, and when it is full nobody new can join until someone leaves. Leaving takes 28 days.
Source: Chainlink: staking · checked 2 October 2026
LINK does not run applications. It is a token on Ethereum, used to pay the operators of Chainlink's data services.
Source: Chainlink docs: LINK token · checked 2 October 2026
The total supply of LINK is capped at one billion tokens, issued on Ethereum.
Source: Chainlink: what the LINK token is · checked 2 October 2026
LINK was issued on Ethereum. On other networks it usually exists as a bridged token, a copy that depends on whatever moved it there.
Source: Chainlink docs: LINK token · checked 2 October 2026
What a coin can do is not a reason to buy it or to sell it. Each answer names its source and the day we read it; where we could not source one, the row is left out. How these are written · Every coin we have written up
Where LINK lives
On Solana, a mint authority can create more of the token and a freeze authority can freeze it in a holder's account; both are read from the token itself, every day. On Ethereum, Base and BNB Chain, GoPlus's analysis of each contract is read weekly: whether it has a function to block addresses or pause transfers, and whether an owner holds it. That is GoPlus's reading, not ours. Where a token exists on several chains, one copy's settings say nothing about the original coin.
Always verify a contract address against the project's own site before sending anything. Addresses are shown as published by CoinGecko, not as an endorsement — and identical-looking tokens on other chains are the most common way people lose money here.
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Chainlink data synced 2m ago from CoinGecko. Figures shown in USD. This page is market information, not financial advice — and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell LINK.