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Hot: new software release, etf or institutionFull record
#17of all coins by sizeworth $8.5B today25%of the supply still to come251.9M coins can still reach the market648.37Kpeople keep it on a watchliston CoinGecko, a measure of attention1rival within reachthe only other chain abstraction network within reach is NEAR

Chainlink is a service that supplies outside data and connections between different blockchains for other blockchain-based applications to use. Its pages make no dated promises we could check. It trades at $11.37, #17 of all coins by size, 78% below its highest ever price.

This week in the news: ETF or institution, new software release.

A real job, real backing. No dated promises on its pages. Nothing dated ahead. The only other chain abstraction network within reach is NEAR. Nothing to be careful of on the record.

Is it real?

2 of 4tests passeda real job, real backing, something ahead, room to grow
1named backersGMCI 30 Index
9 yearson the marketsince 16 September 2017
648.37Kpeople watch iton CoinGecko lists
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2 of 4

  • ✓A real-world jobReal-world purpose: connecting chains
  • ✓Real backingBacking: in the GMCI 30 Index; trades on Coinbase, Crypto.com, Kraken; worth $8.5B
  • –Something aheadA dated step, deliveries on record, or demand showing up in the news.
  • –Room to growWorth at least four times less than the biggest coin doing the same job, so the gap is real, not a guess.

In the GMCI 30 Index

  • Origin16 September 2017about about 9 yearsTagged Made in USA on CoinGeckochain.link, GitHub, Whitepaper, Wikipedia
  • DevelopersSergey NazarovFounders per WikidataCode activity not checked
  • BackingIn the GMCI 30 IndexListed on Coinbase, Crypto.com, Kraken, Bitstamp
  • Standing on the recordNo recordNo dated promise to judge yet107 headlines last month, 5 about government648,366 people keep it on a CoinGecko watchlistNo corrections needed so far

Four tests, printed. Passing all four means a real job, real backing, something ahead, and a price far below the leader of its group. A filter on facts, never a verdict.

Every line has a source: the coin's own listing, CoinGecko's tags, the record, or the news feed. Reputation here is a count, never an opinion.

Does it deliver?

No dated promise has been found on the pages this project publishes. Its pages are saved every night, so anything it commits to from now on appears here.

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Every line is quoted from the project's own pages, with the copy we stored and, where one exists, the article that reported it

What is next, and when?

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How big is it next to its rivals?

1rival within reachthe only other chain abstraction network within reach is NEAR
$8.5Bworth todayprice × coins out
$3.08Bthe typical rival is worthChain Abstraction
$3.08Bthe leader is worthNEAR Protocol
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Only coins within a hundred times its worth; a coin a thousand times bigger is another world

Connecting chains

9 coins we checked say they are for connecting chains, worth $11.64B together. #1 of 9 by worth.

Chain Abstraction: this coin against its direct competitors

  • CoinWorth, as a barWorthAgainst this coinToday, and the gapSupplyPromises
  • Chainlink$8.5Bthis coin−0.4%75% outnone dated
  • NEAR Protocol$3.08B2.8× smaller, −$5.42B−2.5%, gap −2.1no maxnone dated
Same job, different how

Chain Abstraction: this coin next to NEAR Protocol, the biggest rival within reach. People go to the bigger coin unless the smaller one does something it does not.

Chainlink says
Chainlink is a service that supplies outside data and connections between different blockchains for other blockchain-based applications to use.
NEAR Protocol says
NEAR is a blockchain platform that says it is built to support AI agents and to let people move assets across many different blockchains from one account.

Two claims, side by side, in their own words. Whether the difference is real is for the record to show over time, and for you to judge.

What it is

Chainlink is a service that supplies outside data and connections between different blockchains for other blockchain-based applications to use.

Its listing puts it this way: Chainlink is the industry-standard decentralized oracle network that solves the "oracle problem" by connecting smart contracts with real-world data.

Problem it says it solves: connecting chains. 25 coins we have checked say the same; together they are worth $24,850,209,563.

Where it trades: Coinbase, Crypto.com, Kraken, Bitstamp, Binance

Each bar is a coin's worth today (price × coins out), longest first. The lit bar is this coin; grey bars are the others doing the same job.

Bars are market cap. Order is size, nothing else. Differences are measured from the coin you are looking at.

What should make me careful?

Nothing printed today

None of the six tests fails. A missed promise counts only on a record a person has checked.

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The tests: nothing to hold it for, more missed than delivered, priced ahead of its record, half the supply still to come, rivals ship while it does not, a big release of coins soon.

The homework: the coin itself, the news, the record

The coin itself

$11.37price of one−0.4% today
78%below its highest ever$53 on 9 May 2021
75%of the supply is out748.1M coins
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The last 7 days

7 days ago: $12.67now: $11.37 (−10.2%)

Where today sits against its highest ever price

$11.37

Highest ever: $52.70 on 9 May 2021. Today is 22% of that.

75%

of all LINK that will ever exist is already out in public hands: 748.1M coins.

25% (251.9M coins) is already created but not in public hands, held by the project or locked in escrow. That is a large share, though not a majority. Those coins can be sold later, which can push the price down.

out held back. Each dot is 1%.

Its pages do not say what holding it gets you

That is worth knowing before buying. A coin nobody needs is priced on hope.

  • Nothing the project's own pages spell out.
$11.37price of one
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748.1Mcoins out
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$8.5Bworth today, #17 of all coins

That is all a market cap is: today's price times the coins in public hands. It moves every time the price does. It says what buyers are paying, not what the coin is worth.

Basics
  • 75%of the maximum supply is in circulation: 748.1M of 1B.
  • 251.9Mcoins still to be released, 25% of the maximum. Releases can add selling pressure.
  • 1.3×fully diluted value versus today's market cap. The gap is coins not yet released.
  • 22%of its all-time high of $52.70 on 9 May 2021. That is −78.4% from the top.
  • #17by market cap, $8,498,898,207.
  • 16 September 2017first block, as listed by CoinGecko.
  • Not checkedwho holds the most coins, and how much has been burned. Those need on-chain data this site does not read yet.

Supply and value figures from CoinGecko, refreshed hourly. Not part of the record.

Real use, in dollars
  • $1.75B is locked in it right now

From DefiLlama, refreshed nightly. Fees are what people paid to use the thing; value locked is what they trust it to hold. Facts, not a score.

What the news says

107headlines, last monththat name this coin
5about governmentregulation, courts, central banks
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Headlines per day, last 30 days

107 headlines named this coin in the last month.

What they were about

  • Price24
  • Partnership8
  • Banks5
  • Tokenization5
  • Whales4
  • AI4
  • Hack3
  • Treasury3
In the news
What people are talking about, last month:

107 headlines in the last month.

Headlines are the publishers' own. News is never placed next to price.

The record itself

Promises0from its own pages
Page copies5210 pages watched
Confirmed0by outside news
Checkedmachinedraft until checked
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Six facts, the project's own replies, its peers, contract facts, references and every stored copy

What it says it is

Chainlink is a service that supplies outside data and connections between different blockchains for other blockchain-based applications to use.

“Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and the market leader powering the majority of decentralized finance (DeFi).”
source · snapshot · captured 2026-09-10
Stage and age

Live. The record does not yet cite when this stage began.

Promises

No dated or committed promises have been recorded yet.

Others in interoperability networks: Internet Computer 20 of 23, Artificial Superintelligence Alliance 7 of 43, Algorand 2 of 7, Zilliqa 2 of 26, and 10 more.
Last activity

No public code repository is listed in this record.
The project's blog-1 page last changed on 14 September 2026.

Open flags

Nothing further to flag from the record as it stands.

Checked?

This record was drafted by a machine from captured pages and has not yet been checked by a person. Treat every line as unverified until that note changes.