what's chainlink?
Chainlink is a decentralized oracle network that connects smart contracts with real-world data, enabling secure and reliable interactions between blockchains and external systems. Its primary purpose is to provide tamper-proof data feeds, cross-chain interoperability, and off-chain computation to power decentralized finance (DeFi), tokenization, and enterprise blockchain applications. Key features include the Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) for seamless asset transfers across blockchains, Data Streams for low-latency market data, and the Scale Program to support emerging ecosystems like Plasma and Hyperliquid. Chainlink also facilitates onchain finance through integrations for compliance, privacy, and legacy system connectivity, as highlighted in recent expansions to networks like Solana, Aptos, and HyperEVM. The network's native token, LINK, is used to incentivize node operators and secure the oracle services.
Chainlink generated $7.38M SVR revenue, integrated by Morph for $2.1B+ BGB, and on Hedera council.
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Provides oracles for USD1 stablecoin's $5B real-time proof of reserves system, pulling BitGo reserve data onchain every second.
Representative speaking at FO256 digital asset summit for family offices on March 30th in West Palm Beach.
Generated $12.8M in revenue during January-February 2026, ranking second among RWA-related projects by actual revenue.
Chainlink Labs is a member of the Hedera Council, which governs the Hedera L1 blockchain alongside 38 other global enterprises and organizations including Google, IBM, LG, and Dell.
Achieved $7.77 billion in annual CCIP transfer volume, setting a record.
Ranked among the top Real World Asset (RWA) crypto projects by development activity according to Santiment data.
Grayscale Chainlink Trust ETF (ticker: GLNK) is now available with 0% fees.
Accumulated 129,095.37 LINK ($1.19M) into the Chainlink Reserve on 2026-02-26, bringing total reserve holdings to 2,301,357.23 LINK.
Charges $12M over 3 years ($4M per year) for chain integration services.
Launched Season 1 rewards claims for LINK stakers, distributing DOLO tokens to eligible participants.
Integrated with CC project.
Integrated with Canton Network, which processes $350 billion in daily transaction volume. BitSafe Finance powers CBTC using Data Streams and Proof of Reserve.
Sergey Nazarov gave public remarks at the White House Digital Asset Summit
Joined the Blockchain Association and Digital Chamber lobbying groups
Featured in the White House digital asset report
CME launched LINK futures
Bitwise launched a CLNK ETF
SEC issued interpretive guidance based on meetings with Chainlink
Integrated as the price oracle for Streamex's tokenized gold product with 3.5% yield bearing mechanism, a NASDAQ-listed company releasing the product to accredited investors.
CCIP has generated $2.3 million in cumulative fees since launching in 2023.
Powers RWA scaling on Kamino protocol through integration.
Positioned as an oracle and messaging layer that institutions rely on for pricing, proof-of-reserves, NAV feeds, and cross-chain settlement infrastructure.
Formed RealFi Alliance with Centrifuge and LayerZero
Taylor Lindman, former Chainlink Labs deputy general counsel, joined the SEC's Crypto Task Force as Chief Counsel on February 24, 2026.
Ranked 2nd among Ethereum-based ecosystem projects by development activity in Santiment's monthly ranking, moving up from the previous month's position.
Recaptured $18M USD via SVR (Sustainable Value Recapture) mechanism from malicious liquidation MEV.
Ranked first among crypto AI & Big Data projects by development activity, according to Santiment's GitHub activity methodology.
Integrated with Inter through the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) to enable onchain finance for Inter's 40M+ customers.
Partners with HSBC for institutional integration.
Standardized tokenization infrastructure with J.P. Morgan, UBS, Swift, Mastercard, and Coinbase as institutional partners, completing live transactions.
Integrated with CME Group.
Partners with Mastercard for institutional integration.
Partners with Deutsche Telekom for institutional integration.
Partners with Google Cloud for institutional integration.
Partners with Bosch for institutional integration.
Partners with BIS for institutional integration.
Partners with Barclays for institutional integration.
Partners with Deloitte for institutional integration.
Partners with Euroclear for institutional integration.
Partners with BNP Paribas for institutional integration.
Ranked #1 in Santiment's top 10 privacy coin projects by development activity.
Accumulated 136,898.30 LINK in the Chainlink Reserve on 2026-02-19, bringing total holdings to 2,172,261.86 LINK.
Powers Beezie's onchain claw machine collectibles game through VRF (Verifiable Random Function) integration on Base.
Ranked #1 among top 10 DeFi projects by development activity according to Santiment's methodology covering over 4,000 projects, maintaining the same position from the previous month.
Integrated with Compound V3 through SVR (Smart Value Recapture) deployment, with Compound V4 integration planned.
Integrated with MYX V2 to provide oracle anchored pricing for their modular derivative settlement engine
Chainlink OEV wrapper was enabled on Moonwell protocol through governance proposal MIP-X43.
Partnered with DTCC to bridge DTCC App Chain to public and private blockchain ecosystems via CCIP for institutional integration.
Integrated CCIP into Enso Finance's production infrastructure as a cross-chain execution layer, enabling institutional-grade cross-chain rails for DeFi operations.
Price verification for tokenized assets depends on Chainlink oracles to confirm real-world asset values, creating systemic risk if Chainlink gets hacked or fails.
Integrated with Seasoned Assets on DualMintRWA for performance-based pricing of tokenized real-world businesses, providing verifiable machine revenue data.
Publishes Truflation indexes to Ethereum through Chainlink; partnered with HyveXYZ through BUILD, enabling BUILD protocols (Dolomite, Wisdomise, Lendr, Instruxi, Truflation) to publish data on Hyve with storage and egress fees for LINK stakers and node operators.
Integrated as one of three oracle providers (alongside Pyth and RedStone) for Jupiter Lend, providing price feed redundancy for the lending protocol.
Integrated tokenized gold on Arbitrum with Arowana and Pleasing Golden, enabling real-time LBMA gold trading and redemption via Chainlink Data Streams.
Enabled over $28 trillion in onchain transaction value
Integrates with HyveXYZ to enable apps and chains to use LINK as economic guarantees for offchain data storage.
Integrates with Polymarket for 5-minute crypto prediction markets, including 5-minute Bitcoin up/down markets accounting for 25% of Polymarket's daily trading volume, launched February 13, 2026.
Participated in CFTC meeting focused on bringing crypto into regulated markets as foundational infrastructure, alongside Uniswap, Coinbase, Kraken, Solana, CME, Nasdaq, ICE, Cboe, and DTCC.
Sergey Nazarov joins CFTC's Innovation Advisory Committee (IAC) to advise on digital asset oversight, market structure, crypto, and prediction market regulation.
Automation is used in the Pool Party #5 art project on Art Blocks Studio to perform 12 automated price check-ins that inject real-time price movements on-chain as PostParams, shaping the generative artwork.
Accumulated 135,693.16 LINK on 2026-02-12, bringing total Chainlink Reserve holdings to 2,035,363.55 LINK ($17M).
Secures cross-chain bridging for w0G token via CCIP integration with XSwap, enabling transfers between Solana and Monad.
Integrated with Tessera_PE, using Proof of Reserve to verify tokenized private equity assets on Solana in real time.
Powers Ondo Finance's tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs (SPYon, QQQon, TSLAon) on Ethereum for DeFi collateral with Euler Finance.
Integrated Chainlink Scale oracles on day one of mainnet launch, enabling access to Aave, GMX, and Lido wstETH price feeds.
Grayscale launched GLNK ETF, recorded $984,360 net inflows on February 10, 2026, while Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs experienced outflows.
Integrated with Robinhood for its L2 testnet, launched February 10, 2026, alongside Arbitrum, enabling equity tokenization, data connectivity, AML, and security infrastructure for 25.5M customers and $204B+ assets.
Used by Vault777 for verification in their prediction market platform operating on Arbitrum.
Serves as a Super Validator on Canton Network, adopting data and interoperability standards including Data Streams (24/5 equities), SmartData (NAV and AUM), Proof of Reserve, and CCIP for institutional tokenization.
Launches upgrade on February 20, 2026, enabling tokenized assets to move between blockchains, providing oracles and CCIP for external data and cross-chain messaging.
Partnered with Swift for institutional integration and Bank of England to test atomic settlement with tokenized assets, selected for Synchronisation Lab.
Integrated with DTCC, J.P. Morgan, State Street, BNY Mellon for NAV data onchain, and with 12 services across 7 platforms including BNB Chain, Ethereum, Polygon, Robinhood Chain, Solana, supporting real-time NAV data and cross-chain transfers of the CASH+ tokenized fund.
Launched data integrations with institutional data providers S&P and ICE for RWA applications.
Available via CME futures contracts and Bitwise Chainlink ETF (CLNK). LINK futures available 24/7 on world's largest derivatives exchange.
Ranked 4th in overall development activity over the past 30 days by Santiment, rising from a lower rank compared to the previous month.
Co-hosted event with Fluid, GMX, Dune in Hong Kong on 2026-02-12. Participated in panel "The Unseen Playbook: What the West is Missing About Asia Going On-Chain" at Consensus HK with Base and Aptos Labs.
Integrated across 20 integrations spanning 8 services and 12 chains (ApeChain, Arc, Ethereum, HyperEVM, Ink, Jovay, Linea, Morph Network, Pharos, Plasma, World Chain, ZKsync) in the week ending February 8, 2026. Expanded CCIP services to Arc testnet, DogeOS Chikyu testnet, and MegaETH mainnet.
Mentioned in LunarCrush analysis as a "dark horse" with oracle dominance expanding, positioned alongside other recovery performers in February 2026 market analysis.
Generated $7.38M in Smart Value Recapture (SVR) revenue in the week ending February 6, 2026, distributing $4.73M to integrated DeFi applications and $2.64M to the Network; all-time recaptured value sits over $17.8M, holding over 99% market share for OEV oracles.
Participates as a Hedera council member, running nodes and voting on governance alongside Google, IBM, Dell, Repsol, BitGo, and LG, with the council composed of up to 39 organizations.
Morph exclusively integrated Chainlink CCIP to power cross-chain transfers of $2.1B+ Bitget Token (BGB), with Morph Foundation moving 50% of the total BGB supply to Morph Network using CCIP.
Provides 24/5 U.S. equities data for Ondo Finance tokenized U.S. stocks across 40+ chains.
Data Streams adoption is growing across RWA and perpetuals markets.
Hosts Convergence hackathon on February 6, 2026, with prizes sponsored by Worldcoin, Tenderly, and Thirdweb, providing access to the Chainlink privacy standard for private smart contract use cases. Launched privacy features on February 16, 2026.
Powers Chainflip's native BTC lending through oracle feeds that provide pricing for overcollateralized loans, with fallback feeds deployed on Ethereum and Arbitrum.
Powers Maple Finance's multichain bridge infrastructure, which has processed over $4B in total bridge volume.
CRE (Chainlink Runtime Environment) is live with the CRE SDK available for building institutional-grade smart contracts.
Integrated with X Layer, OKX's L2, to provide secure infrastructure services.
A wallet (0x8c6) deposited 139,000 LINK (~$1.67M) into Binance on 2026-01-28.
Entered a strategic partnership with Turtle to bring institutional liquidity onchain, with Turtle exclusively using CCIP and Data Feeds to power its liquidity infrastructure and support major institutions moving onchain.
Recaptured over $10 million in MEV through liquidation mechanisms.
Integrated 12 Proof of Reserve solutions on Arbitrum, including OpenEden's USDO stablecoin, VirtuneAB, kernel_dao, re, blupryntco, CryptoFinanceAG, AlloyX_exchange, ethena_labs, OpenEden_X, DinariGlobal, SolvProtocol, Pumpbtcxyz, and ignitionxyz.
Holds 70%+ oracle market share across leading blockchains, with 80%+ on Ethereum and 90%+ on L2s.
Acquired the Atlas transaction-ordering solution to accelerate deployment of non-toxic MEV tools across DeFi.
Powers 15-minute markets on Polymarket.
Serves as one of three price sources in a MostRecentOf (Resilient) oracle configuration for BTC/USD alongside Pyth Pull and Pyth Lazer, with 8% deviation tolerance and 2-hour staleness threshold.
USDD stablecoin ($1.1B+ market cap) adopted Chainlink as its exclusive data standard, now using Chainlink Price Feeds for pricing data across BNB Chain, Ethereum, and Tron.
Launched official presence on TikTok social media platform.
The Chainlink Reserve accumulated 82,057.64 LINK on January 15, 2026, bringing its total holdings to 1,586,266.80 LINK.
Launched LINK futures and micro futures on CME Group on February 9, 2026, as CFTC-regulated and cash-settled.