Robinhood oficiálně nasadil Chainlink jako datovou a cross-chain oracle infrastrukturu pro Robinhood Chain. CCIP, Data Streams i Data Feeds jsou na mainnetu od prvního dne.
Robinhood Taps Chainlink for Official Oracle InfrastructureRobinhood has formally adopted Chainlink as the official data and cross-chain oracle infrastructure for Robinhood Chain, its newly launched Ethereum Layer 2 network. The integration covers Robinhood Chain and all Robinhood-issued assets, including Stock Tokens like NVDA, GOOG, and AAPL. The announcement came alongside the public mainnet launch of Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum Layer 2 network built using Arbitrum's technology stack.
Robinhood Chain is an Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain built on Arbitrum technology, designed to support tokenized real-world assets and onchain financial services. The company described Robinhood Chain as permissionless, AI-native, and purpose-built for real-world assets, with day-one partners including Uniswap, Pleiades, Alchemy, BitGo, and Chainlink.
What Chainlink Brings to the NetworkChainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP), Data Streams, and Data Feeds are now live on Robinhood Chain mainnet from day one, delivering verifiable data for tokenized real-world assets and unlocking secure interoperability across the multi-chain ecosystem. Chainlink provides data feeds, interoperability tools, and compliance standards needed for advanced tokenization use cases. Oracles connect smart contracts to external data sources, which is essential for applications like tokenized stocks that require real-time pricing data from traditional markets.
Robinhood also launched new Stock Tokens, enabling eligible users to trade 24/7 directly on Robinhood Chain, as well as deploy those assets into lending pools and use them as trading collateral across the broader DeFi ecosystem. With the mainnet now live, Robinhood Wallet users in more than 120 countries can trade Stock Tokens, though availability varies depending on local regulations.
Gaetan Thabot, Director of Product at Robinhood Crypto, said the company chose Chainlink because its institutional-grade security and reliability are already trusted by the world's largest financial institutions to scale onchain ecosystems.
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PR Newswire: Robinhood Chain Launches and Adopts Chainlink
The Block: Robinhood Chain Goes Live on Mainnet
FinanceFeeds: Robinhood Opens 24/7 Stock Token Trading on Its New Layer 2 Chain
Chainlink se stává klíčovou infrastrukturou pro prediction markets a jeho Data Streams už pohánějí trhy na Polymarketu i Jupiter Exchange. ADI Predictstreet navíc zvolil Chainlink jako exkluzivní oracle pro oficiální trh pro FIFA World Cup 2026.
From crypto markets to the World Cup@chainlink is building a quiet but significant lead as the infrastructure layer beneath one of crypto's fastest-growing product categories. A string of integrations announced in recent months points to a single direction: automated, tamper-resistant settlement is replacing manual resolution across prediction markets, and Chainlink is the common thread.
@Polymarket's 5-minute and 15-minute $BTC markets both run on Chainlink Data Streams. Both markets use Chainlink Data Streams to provide price updates from major trading venues. The combined volume across those short-duration markets has already cleared over $3 billion. The broader picture for Polymarket is equally striking: the platform has cleared $4.9 billion in cumulative volume so far in 2026, after receiving full CFTC approval in the US.
@JupiterExchange, Solana's largest DEX aggregator, has plugged in the same infrastructure for its own 5-minute and 15-minute markets on $BTC, $ETH, and $SOL. Then there is @world_xyz, a Solana project that spent months as little more than a glowing globe with no public details. It revealed itself this week inside Phantom, reaching 20 million users and relying on Chainlink for automated market resolutions.
The FIFA deal cements the patternThe clearest signal yet came on June 9, 2026. ADI Predictstreet, the official prediction market partner of the FIFA World Cup 2026, announced it has adopted Chainlink as its exclusive oracle infrastructure to power accurate market resolutions and unlock instant payouts. To meet the scale of the tournament, ADI Predictstreet adopted the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) to automate market creation, resolution, and settlement using high-quality FIFA data.
The deal placed Chainlink at the center of the official prediction markets for the biggest sporting event in history, a tournament spanning 48 teams, 104 matches, 16 host cities across three countries, and an estimated six billion fans.
While legacy prediction markets suffer from slow manual resolution and market outcome disputes, Chainlink's oracle infrastructure provides a robust source of truth for prediction markets on the world's largest sporting event. That structural shift, away from social-consensus or committee-based resolution and toward cryptographically verified, automated settlement, is what ties all of these integrations together.
The throughline across @Polymarket, @JupiterExchange, @world_xyz, and the official @FIFAWorldCup prediction market is the same: when platforms need fast, reliable, and dispute-free resolution at scale, they are reaching for the same oracle layer.
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ADI Predictstreet official press release via PR Newswire
Chainlink Powers Faster Crypto Prediction Markets on Polymarket, Bitget News
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Circle-backed Arc se připojil k programu Chainlink Scale, čímž vývojáři získají přístup k CCIP, Data Streams, Data Feeds a Proof of Reserve. Arc je nyní ve veřejném testnetu před spuštěním mainnetu.
Arc Plugs Into Chainlink's Enterprise Oracle StackArc, the Layer-1 blockchain backed by Circle, has joined the Chainlink Scale program, opening up a suite of enterprise-grade oracle and interoperability services to developers building on the network.
Through the partnership, builders on Arc can now tap CCIP (Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol), Data Streams, Data Feeds, and Proof of Reserve. Chainlink CCIP is a blockchain interoperability protocol that enables developers to build secure applications that can transfer tokens, messages, or both across chains. Data Streams, meanwhile, provides pull-based oracles with sub-second latency, enabling DeFi applications to access high-quality financial market data.
The Scale program, which stands for Sustainable Chainlink Access for Layer 1 and 2 Enablement, is centered around accelerating the growth of blockchain and layer-2 ecosystems. It allows blockchains and layer-2 networks to fast-track smart contract innovation by covering the operating costs of Chainlink oracle networks for a period of time. In doing so, developers get access to a variety of important oracle services, including configurations specific to their ecosystem needs, such as Data Feeds with higher update frequencies to enable more advanced and low-latency smart contract applications.
What Arc Brings to the Table Arc features predictable dollar-based fees using stablecoins as gas, opt-in configurable privacy that supports compliance obligations, and direct integration with Circle's full-stack platform, making it uniquely suited for use cases like lending, capital markets, FX, and payments.
Chainlink has been selected as a core ecosystem partner of Arc, the newly launched layer-1 blockchain by Circle. The Chainlink Scale membership now formalises and expands that relationship, putting the full oracle toolkit directly in the hands of Arc's developer community.
Arc is currently in public testnet, with strong developer adoption and sustained network activity ahead of mainnet launch. Launch partners include BlackRock, Visa, Goldman Sachs, Mastercard, Standard Chartered, Amazon Web Services, and Coinbase, representing diverse segments of the financial ecosystem from asset managers to payment processors to infrastructure providers. The addition of Chainlink Scale infrastructure is likely to deepen that institutional appeal as Arc prepares for its mainnet debut.
Arc official website | Chainlink Scale program overview, Chainlink Blog | Arc on Chainlink Ecosystem
World je nyní spuštěn jako plně on-chain predikční trh na Solaně přímo v peněžence Phantom i na world.xyz. Uživatelé mohou obchodovat kontrakty na ceny krypta a MS ve fotbale 2026 s vypořádáním v CASH stablecoinu.
World is a new onchain prediction market on Solana that allows users to trade event contracts like crypto prices and the 2026 FIFA World Cup.The platform is now live within the Phantom wallet and at world.xyz, utilizing Chainlink as its primary oracle infrastructure for market data.World enables users to trade directly from their Solana wallets, with positions, settlement, and redemptions occurring fully onchain using CASH stablecoin.World, the mysterious Solana project that garnered millions of views on X with little more than a glowing globe, cryptic posts and the tagline “Trade Everything,” is now live as a fully onchain prediction market inside Phantom.
The platform is online at world.xyz and in the Phantom wallet on iOS, Android and desktop, with Chainlink serving as its primary oracle infrastructure for its data.
Users can trade event contracts tied to crypto prices and the 2026 FIFA World Cup, with additional markets on sports, geopolitics, and macroeconomics planned for the near future, according to an announcement shared with CoinDesk.
World’s world_xyz account has built attention throughsocial media posts offering scant product details, fueling speculation that the project could be a meme coin, trading app or broader Solana infrastructure play. Copycat WORLD-themed tokens have appeared on token launchpads, though those tokens are not official World assets.
The platform's identity stayed hidden until late June, when a legal disclosure on Phantom's site surfaced on X.
World is instead a non-custodial prediction market, with users being able to trade directly from their Solana wallets and funds moving only when they enter a market. Positions, settlement and redemptions happen onchain.
World uses Phantom’s CASH stablecoin as its settlement asset, allowing winning positions to be redeemed automatically inside the wallet. Phantom gives World immediate distribution through one of Solana’s largest consumer apps and follows Phantom’s broader push into in-app markets, including Kalshi prediction markets and regulated derivatives.
“Prediction markets are one of the most powerful applications you can build on a high-performance blockchain,” Pedro Miranda, head of consumer at the Solana Foundation, in Wednesday's announcement. “World is designed to show what Solana makes possible: real-time markets, onchain settlement, and a user experience that meets people where they are.”
Chainlink will provide World with market data and resolution infrastructure through Chainlink Data Streams and the Chainlink Runtime Environment.
The setup is meant to reduce reliance on human-led resolution, a longstanding friction point in prediction markets. Other event-contract platforms have also moved toward oracle-based settlement, including Polymarket for some price-based markets.
World is not the only Solana-native prediction market. Jupiter unveiled its Forecast beta on June 29, offering 15-minute bitcoin price markets.
The Phantom debut is the first of several frontend distribution partnerships World plans to activate across traditional fintech and crypto platforms in July.
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Building the Zcash Machine: Tachyon and Quantum Readiness
Building the Zcash Machine: Tachyon and Quantum Readiness
Zcash’s Tachyon upgrade aims to scale shielded payments, improve quantum readiness, and test whether its funding, security, and governance can hold.
Jun 30, 2026
Zcash’s Tachyon upgrade aims to scale shielded payments, improve quantum readiness, and test whether its funding, security, and governance can hold.
Why it matters:
Zcash’s Tachyon upgrade aims to scale shielded payments, improve quantum readiness, and test whether its funding, security, and governance can hold.
World XYZ nasadila Chainlink jako hlavní oracle infrastrukturu pro rychlejší a přesnější vypořádání na Solaně. Integrace má zlepšit spolehlivost dat i okamžité výplaty.
World XYZ, a prominent prediction market on the Solana blockchain, has announced its adoption of Chainlink as its primary oracle infrastructure. This integration aims to enhance the speed and accuracy of market resolutions, particularly in categories such as cryptocurrency, sports, elections, and macroeconomic events. Chainlink serves as a critical link, connecting Solana’s smart contracts to real-world data through verified data aggregation from independent node operators. This move is expected to provide immediate resolution and payout capabilities, bypassing traditional banking delays through stablecoin rails.
The integration of Chainlink is seen as a significant enhancement for World XYZ, addressing the “oracle problem” by ensuring data accuracy and reliability. With Chainlink’s established network, which has facilitated over $6.9 trillion in transaction value since 2022, the partnership is anticipated to bolster confidence in prediction markets on Solana. Market participants may interpret this development as supportive of higher trust and efficiency, potentially influencing market dynamics across various sectors.
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Market reactions have been observed in related prediction markets, specifically in the pricing of Bitcoin. Current data suggests a notable increase in confidence for Bitcoin to reach certain price ranges by July 1, with an 84% likelihood of Bitcoin being priced between $58,000 and $60,000, up from 38% just 24 hours ago. This shift appears consistent with enhanced market confidence stemming from World XYZ’s integration of Chainlink.
Key Takeaways World XYZ’s integration of Chainlink appears consistent with efforts to enhance prediction market efficiency and reliability. Market pricing suggests increased confidence in Bitcoin price predictions, with significant movements in sub-market odds. Chainlink’s established infrastructure is expected to provide immediate payout capabilities, enhancing user experience on World XYZ. What to Watch Market participants may look for further developments in World XYZ’s performance metrics following the integration. Any additional partnerships or technological advancements could further influence market dynamics. The impact on Bitcoin’s market pricing will be crucial to observe, especially as additional data from Chainlink is utilized. Watch for statements from key financial regulators or announcements from World XYZ that could further shape market perceptions.
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Theo investovalo 20 milionů USD do FILQ, tokenizovaného dolarového likviditního fondu Fidelity International, a stalo se první krypto-native platformou s alokací do tohoto fondu. Chainlink zároveň zajišťuje on-chain NAV a distribuční data v téměř reálném čase.
@Theo_network has executed a $20 million investment into $FILQ, Fidelity International's USD Digital Liquidity Fund, through the @Sygnumofficial institutional gateway. The move makes Theo the first crypto-native platform to allocate capital to Fidelity International's tokenized fund.
A First for Crypto-Native Platforms Executed through Sygnum, a Swiss digital asset bank that provides regulated banking, custody, and tokenization services for institutional clients, the allocation adds FILQ to Theo's institutional tokenized Treasury product, thBILL.
FILQ is a Moody's Aaa-mf-rated tokenized US dollar liquidity fund built on Sygnum's Desygnate platform that invests in diversified short-term money market instruments designed to preserve capital and liquidity. That rating places it among the most creditworthy classifications available for money market-style products, signaling confidence in the fund's liquidity quality and credit profile, and suggesting these products are starting to meet the standards traditional investors expect before allocating serious capital.
Chainlink Powers the Data Layer @Chainlink provides on-chain net asset value and distribution data for the fund through its Runtime Environment, while @jpmorgan receives and approves the daily NAV data. Rather than relying on delayed reporting cycles common in traditional finance, Chainlink's oracle network pushes fund NAV and distribution data directly on-chain in near real time, allowing investors to interact with the product continuously rather than waiting for standard market-hour settlement windows.
Fidelity, Sygnum, and Chainlink had already worked together in 2024 to bring NAV data for a $6.9 billion Institutional Liquidity Fund on-chain, and FILQ now turns that earlier collaboration into a fully live tokenized fund.
The launch arrives as treasury-focused tokenized money market funds near $15 billion in assets under management, attracting participation from the world's largest asset managers, digital asset exchanges, stablecoin issuers, and DeFi protocols. Fidelity's move comes as institutional demand for blockchain-based financial products continues to grow, with BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, and JPMorgan expanding their tokenized treasury and money market offerings.
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Theo becomes first crypto-native investor in Fidelity tokenized fund – CoinTelegraph via TradingView
Fidelity International launches first tokenized USD liquidity fund powered by Chainlink – FXStreet
FILQ – Sygnum Bank
Key Highlights Over 6,100 fresh wallet addresses joined Chainlink’s network within a 48-hour window, representing the most significant expansion spike of 2026. Analytics from Santiment reveal LINK has surpassed 892,800 active wallets on Ethereum, with more than 8,000 new addresses appearing in just five days. This rapid user base expansion occurs while LINK’s market value hovers near recent bottom levels, trading around $7.30. Chainlink’s technology plays a central role in the real-world asset tokenization sector, which has expanded by over 100% since the beginning of 2025. Major financial players including the DTCC, UBS, and Mastercard are actively collaborating with Chainlink to develop tokenized asset systems. Chainlink’s ecosystem is experiencing a remarkable surge in user adoption despite its token continuing to struggle with price performance. Recent analytics indicate the network onboarded 6,100 new unique wallet addresses within a mere two-day period. This represents the most aggressive user acquisition rate the protocol has registered throughout 2026.
Chainlink (LINK) Price Address growth serves as a fundamental metric for gauging network adoption and genuine usage, distinct from speculative price movements. It’s entirely possible for a digital asset to experience downward price pressure while simultaneously expanding its active user community. This divergence appears to be exactly what Chainlink is demonstrating at present.
Santiment Intelligence, a respected blockchain data analytics platform, published findings highlighting this unusual pattern. The firm’s official account noted that Chainlink’s address count has entered a “parabolic” growth phase. Their data indicates LINK on the Ethereum network has reached 892,800 wallets containing balances, representing an influx of over 8,000 new holders within a five-day timeframe.
✍️ TL;DR: Chainlink’s holder count has gone parabolic
📊 Metrics used: Total Holders
🔗 Link to chart: https://t.co/dtIQSALghS
📈 Chainlink’s holder growth is suddenly accelerating in a big way. $LINK on Ethereum is now up to 892.8K non-empty wallets, adding more than 8K holders… pic.twitter.com/rr4POGHn9a
— Santiment Intelligence (@SantimentData) June 29, 2026
Breaking Down The User Growth Metrics Analysts at Santiment observed that maintaining the current velocity, Chainlink could breach the 900,000 holder threshold before the current week concludes. Their projections further suggest that if this momentum sustains, the network might achieve the 1 million holder milestone by the conclusion of the summer season.
The Santiment analysis also drew connections between this adoption wave and recent institutional developments. The report referenced Project Pangea, ongoing DTCC collateral initiatives, the expansion of tokenized financial products, and around-the-clock equity data delivery systems as catalysts driving renewed interest. The analysts suggested that this pattern of accumulation during price weakness often precedes broader market recognition and momentum shifts.
LINK has experienced approximately 20% depreciation over the trailing three-month period. Current market data shows the token exchanging hands at $7.30, a significant decline from its 52-week peak of $27.70.
$LINK is back in the same monthly accumulation zone that preceded its previous explosive rallies.
If history repeats, a breakout from this base could open the path toward the $30+ region. 🚀 pic.twitter.com/bsQxpzsw9j
— FOUR | Crypto Spaces (@X_Four_iv) June 29, 2026
Despite facing downward price pressure, Chainlink continues advancing its position within the real-world asset tokenization ecosystem. This emerging sector involves representing traditional asset ownership—including equities, fixed income instruments, and property—on distributed ledger technology. The tokenized asset market has experienced explosive growth, expanding from $15.2 billion in early 2025 to $32.2 billion currently.
Both the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq are actively developing platforms for tokenized equity offerings. The DTCC, the critical infrastructure provider for securities clearing and settlement operations, has established a strategic partnership with Chainlink to construct the technical foundation for continuous trading capabilities.
Understanding Chainlink’s Infrastructure Position Chainlink provides oracle services and connectivity solutions that bridge blockchain networks with external data sources and traditional systems. Its technology operates across both permissionless public blockchains like Ethereum and permissioned private networks deployed by financial institutions.
🐋 WHALE WATCH: RWA IS THE UNDISPUTED WINNING NARRATIVE OF 2026!
The market is entirely distracted. $LINK is somehow down -35% YTD despite locking in 15 massive institutional partners this year.
The TradFi partnerships prove the adoption is real: $ONDO: Broadridge J.P.… pic.twitter.com/TYKRL9WWEU
— Whale Factor (@WhaleFactor) June 28, 2026
This interoperability proves crucial as traditional financial institutions explore both public and private blockchain architectures. Chainlink’s technology stack accommodates both paradigms, positioning the protocol to capture value regardless of which model achieves dominance.
The protocol’s institutional partnership roster features prominent names including UBS, Mastercard, and various U.S. government entities. Chainlink also claims its infrastructure underpins over 70% of decentralized finance applications currently operational.
Market strategists specializing in blockchain metrics caution that wallet proliferation in isolation doesn’t guarantee imminent price appreciation. They emphasize that on-chain transaction volumes, accumulation behaviors, and technical price structure must all align to validate a sustainable trend reversal.
Currently, Chainlink’s wallet metrics continue their upward trajectory while the token’s market price remains anchored near multi-month support levels. The immediate data point market participants are monitoring is whether the network successfully crosses the 900,000 holder mark by week’s end, as current growth rates indicate is probable.
Aave a Chainlink od spuštění Chainlink SVR v roce 2025 získaly zpět přes 21 milionů USD v kombinovaných výnosech. Z toho asi 14 milionů USD připadlo Aave a 7 milionů USD Chainlink.
Over $21 Million Recaptured Since LaunchAave and Chainlink have recaptured more than $21 million in combined revenue since the launch of Chainlink Smart Value Recapture (SVR) in 2025, according to Token Logic data shared by Josef Abregab (jfab.eth). Around $14 million has flowed to Aave and $7 million to Chainlink. SVR fees on Aave also recorded their third highest month on record in the latest period, per the same data.
In March 2025, Aave integrated Chainlink SVR into its Core Ethereum market, enabling the protocol to recapture value from liquidation-related MEV that had historically leaked to network validators, external searchers, and block builders. The milestone adds a meaningful new revenue line for both DAOs and reflects a broader shift in how DeFi protocols think about value that was once simply left on the table.
How SVR WorksChainlink SVR Feeds introduce a way to recapture Oracle Extractable Value (OEV), a subset of non-toxic Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) associated with oracle updates that is most commonly observed during the liquidation process of lending protocols. Historically, tens of millions of dollars worth of liquidation OEV has been leaked and captured by participants of the block building process, with none of the value returning to the DeFi protocols or oracle infrastructure that generated it.
Built in collaboration with BGD Labs, Flashbots, and other Aave DAO contributors, Chainlink SVR recaptures oracle-related MEV using a combination of Chainlink oracle networks and Flashbots' MEV-Share service. By sending oracle updates through a dual aggregator architecture, SVR enables an auction for the opportunity to backrun liquidations, allowing the DeFi protocol and the Chainlink Network to share in the payment offered by searchers instead of letting it leak entirely to third parties.
Recaptured OEV revenue is split between the Aave and Chainlink communities, with an initial discounted rate of 65% to the Aave ecosystem and 35% to the Chainlink ecosystem, as confirmed in an Aave DAO vote. The value recaptured by SVR provides DeFi protocols with an additional revenue stream while also supporting the economic sustainability of Chainlink oracles.
The cumulative $21 million figure in the Token Logic data is ahead of an earlier milestone reported by Aave's own blog, which put total recaptured revenue at roughly $16 million across approximately 3,900 liquidation events in the first nine months through early February 2026, representing an average recapture rate of 73% of total non-toxic MEV from liquidations. The gap between the two figures reflects continued growth in SVR activity through mid-2026.
A future upgrade to Chainlink SVR is planned featuring increased decentralization, enhanced gas efficiency, and cross-chain capabilities.
Sources:
PR Newswire: Aave Integrates Chainlink SVR on Ethereum Mainnet
Chainlink Docs: Smart Value Recapture (SVR) Feeds
US spot Chainlink ($LINK) ETFs have recorded their first week of net outflows since the products launched, snapping a streak that lasted more than 200 consecutive trading days. The figure, roughly $220,000 in negative weekly flows, is modest in absolute terms, but the symbolic significance is hard to dismiss.
A Historic Streak Comes to an End Grayscale launched the first US spot Chainlink ETF, GLNK, on NYSE Arca on December 2, 2025. The ETF attracted $37 million in first-day inflows, and LINK rebounded more than 7% as investors responded to renewed institutional attention. From that point forward, the LINK spot ETF complex went on an almost unbroken run of positive flows.
Analyst data shows the outflow ended 203 days without a negative daily reading. The turning point came on June 22, when data shared by Arca showed the LINK spot ETF complex posting a daily net outflow of approximately $490,920. That reduced cumulative net inflows from about $123.82 million to $123.33 million, while total net assets fell to roughly $100.88 million, compared with more than $107 million one week earlier.
Institutional interest appears to be wavering, as evidenced by the first net capital outflow from LINK spot ETFs after a record-breaking streak of entries that lasted over half a year. LINK ETFs had been among the best-performing altcoin ETFs, though only Avalanche (AVAX) spot ETFs are yet to see outflows since their own debut.
Blip or Broader Shift? There are early signs the outflow may be temporary. According to SoSoValue data, Chainlink spot ETFs recorded net inflows of approximately $137,710 on the Tuesday following the outflow session. Although the inflow remains relatively small, it could signal improving investor sentiment if the trend continues over the coming days.
The broader price picture for $LINK remains under pressure. The asset has logged a year-to-date loss of nearly 45%, with price testing levels not seen with this much downside pressure in quite some time. LINK is currently trading below all its major moving averages, including the critical 200-day SMA near the $10.15 mark.
On the fundamental side, @Chainlink continues to expand its real-world footprint. The protocol announced the formation of a new working group involving multinational organizations across Europe and South Korea, collectively representing more than $10 trillion in assets under management, focused on modernizing foreign exchange infrastructure and evaluating a shift from traditional T+2 settlement to real-time T+0 settlement. Whether that kind of adoption news is enough to restore positive ETF flow momentum remains the key question heading into July.
Sources:
Brave New Coin: Chainlink Price Analysis, LINK Spot ETF Ends 203-Day Inflow Streak
Invezz: Can LINK Price Reclaim $8 as Chainlink Targets Real-Time FX Settlement?
FXStreet: Chainlink Price Forecast, FX Partnership Fails to Lift Sentiment
Chainlink zaznamenal v roce 2026 dva nejsilnější dny růstu sítě, kdy vzniklo více než 3 000 nových peněženek denně. Počet adres s alespoň 1 LINK vzrostl na zhruba 535 000.
Chainlink just had its two busiest days of the year for new wallet creation, with each day crossing the 3,000 threshold. The data, tracked by Santiment, points to a network that’s quietly building momentum even as the broader crypto market remains indecisive.
The numbers behind the surge The two record days each saw more than 3,000 new Chainlink wallets created, making them the highest on-chain growth days LINK has posted in all of 2026.
Non-micro wallets, defined as addresses holding at least 1 LINK, have climbed to approximately 535,000. That figure hasn’t been reached since December 2022, roughly three and a half years ago.
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The mid-tier holder cohort is growing too. Wallets containing 1,000 or more LINK hit 25,420 in 2026, a new yearly high.
Addresses holding over 100,000 LINK reached an all-time high of 805 in May 2026, representing an 8.2% increase over the previous seven weeks.
Token unlocks didn’t kill the momentum In June 2026, Chainlink executed a quarterly token unlock of roughly 21 million LINK, worth approximately $166 million at current market prices. The wallet growth continued right through the unlock period without any visible disruption.
Why traditional finance keeps showing up On June 22, 2026, Chainlink launched its APAC Equities Streams, a product designed to bring equity market data on-chain for the Asia-Pacific region.
What this means for investors The whale accumulation trend is particularly telling. An 8.2% increase in wallets holding over 100,000 LINK over just seven weeks suggests that large holders are building positions with intent.
Quarterly token unlocks will continue to introduce new supply, and at $166 million per quarter, that’s a persistent headwind that requires consistent demand to offset.
Investors should also watch whether the non-micro wallet count continues climbing toward its previous peaks or plateaus near the 535,000 level. A sustained push above December 2022 levels would confirm that this cycle’s adoption is genuinely surpassing the previous one.
Disclosure: This article was edited by Editorial Team. For more information on how we create and review content, see our Editorial Policy.
CRE společnosti Chainlink byl vybrán DTCC pro Collateral AppChain a má podporovat správu kolaterálu pro tokenizovaná aktiva. Zároveň Chainlink oznámil roli klíčové infrastruktury pro Project Pangea, konsorcium více než 50 bank a bankovních skupin s více než 10 biliony dolarů v aktivech, s cílem zajistit T+0 vypořádání FX transakcí.
Chainlink just landed two of the most consequential institutional partnerships in its history, and both happened within weeks of each other.
On May 12, 2026, the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation selected Chainlink’s Runtime Environment, known as CRE, to power its Collateral AppChain. Then on June 23, 2026, Chainlink announced it would serve as core infrastructure for Project Pangea, a consortium of over 50 banks and banking groups managing more than $10 trillion in assets.
What DTCC actually does, and why this matters DTCC processed over $4.7 quadrillion in securities transactions in 2025 alone. To put that in perspective, global GDP is roughly $100 trillion. DTCC handles nearly 50 times that figure annually.
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The organization is now building a Collateral AppChain, scheduled to launch in Q4 2026, that will manage real-time collateral operations including pricing, valuation, margining, and settlement for tokenized assets across multiple blockchains. Chainlink’s CRE is the selected runtime environment for that system.
Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov described the CRE as capable of “securely orchestrating critical outputs” for DTCC’s operations.
Project Pangea and the T+0 settlement ambition Project Pangea is targeting T+0 foreign exchange settlement, meaning trades would clear and settle on the same day, instantaneously, rather than the current T+2 standard where settlement takes two business days after a trade is executed.
The mechanism is atomic Payment-versus-Payment swaps, or PvP. In a traditional FX trade, one party sends currency first and hopes the counterparty delivers theirs shortly after. In an atomic PvP swap, both legs of the transaction settle simultaneously, or neither does. There is no trust required between counterparties because the settlement is enforced by the protocol itself.
Chainlink’s technology will facilitate this process using regulated EUR and KRW stablecoins. The consortium includes over 50 banks and banking groups with a combined $10 trillion in assets.
What investors should watch The risks are real. DTCC’s AppChain is not live until Q4 2026, and large-scale institutional deployments have a history of running over schedule and under-delivering on initial specifications. Project Pangea is even earlier in its development arc. Regulatory approvals for stablecoin-based settlement at this scale involve multiple jurisdictions and no clear timeline.
Disclosure: This article was edited by Editorial Team. For more information on how we create and review content, see our Editorial Policy.
Velcí držitelé přesunuli na Binance přes 10,2 milionu LINK před oznámením Project Pangea. Binance tím zvedla rezervy LINK z 84,1 milionu na 94,3 milionu tokenů.
Large LINK holders moved millions of tokens to Binance before Project Pangea.
There has been a sharp increase in Chainlink tokens moving to exchanges just days before the project announced a major banking initiative.
According to on-chain data from the Ethereum network, Binance recorded a net inflow of more than 10.2 million LINK on June 19. This pushed the exchange’s LINK reserves from 84.1 million to 94.3 million tokens in a single day.
LINK Exchange Supply CryptoQuant said the sudden movement also caused the seven-day average netflow to surge by 20,677% compared with its three-month average, as it highlighted an unusual change in exchange activity. The large transfer took place only a few days before Chainlink unveiled Project Pangea on June 23.
The initiative focuses on T+0 foreign exchange settlement, involves more than 80 banks from Europe and South Korea, and represents over $10 trillion in assets under management. Historically, inflows of this size have increased the amount of tokens available for selling on exchanges and have often been linked to higher market volatility. However, LINK’s price reaction remained relatively limited as it fell from around $8 to approximately $7.3 during the period.
The transfers were also found to be highly concentrated among a small group of large holders. The “inflow_top10” metric was nearly equal to the total inflow volume, which suggests that most of the tokens came from a handful of wallets rather than broader retail participation. CryptoQuant added,
“Although Project Pangea represents a potentially meaningful long-term development for the Chainlink ecosystem, the near-term on-chain picture points to increased exchange supply.”
Despite this increased inflow, more users are holding the token during uncertain market conditions. Santiment reported earlier this month that the number of wallets holding at least 1 LINK has climbed above 535,000, which is the highest level seen since December 2022. The increase came even though LINK remains far below its previous cycle highs.
ETF Flows On the institutional side of things, spot LINK ETF flows turned positive again on June 23 after experiencing their first day of net outflows on June 22. The funds recorded $491,000 in net outflows that day. However, sentiment improved quickly as inflows of about $138,000 returned on June 23. Activity then stalled on June 24, with no net flows recorded.
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Chainlink mění Build program: místo tokenů projektů bude uzavírat přímé obchodní smlouvy placené v ETH nebo v aktivech převedených do $LINK. Výnosy poputují do Chainlink Reserve.
@chainlink is restructuring how its Build program operates. Rather than collecting native tokens from supported projects, Chainlink Labs will now enter direct commercial agreements paid in ETH or in liquid assets converted into $LINK. The proceeds flow into the Chainlink Reserve.
From Token Allocations to Commercial Deals Since its launch in September 2022, the Build program has aimed to accelerate the growth of early-stage and established projects within the Chainlink ecosystem by providing enhanced access to Chainlink services and technical support. Under the original structure, projects committed a percentage of their total token supply to the Chainlink ecosystem in exchange for those benefits, including incentives to LINK stakers.
That model is now changing. Going forward, Chainlink Labs will strike direct commercial deals with participating projects, with payments denominated in ETH or converted into $LINK before entering the Reserve. The company frames the shift as building sustainable network economics, concentrating value in $LINK rather than distributing a basket of third-party tokens to stakers.
The Chainlink Reserve is a strategic onchain reserve of $LINK designed to support the long-term growth and sustainability of the Chainlink Network. It accumulates LINK tokens using offchain revenue from large enterprises adopting the Chainlink standard and from onchain service usage. The Reserve is built up via Payment Abstraction, onchain infrastructure that lets users pay for Chainlink services in their preferred asset, with payments then programmatically converted to LINK through a decentralized exchange. As of Q1 2026, the Reserve held 3.06 million LINK, with a value of roughly $27.5 million.
Staker Rewards Wind Down as Claims Deadline Approaches The restructuring also marks the end of Chainlink Rewards in its current form. Chainlink Rewards is a community engagement program that enables Build projects to make their native tokens claimable by ecosystem participants, including eligible LINK stakers. The program distributed roughly $20 million worth of project tokens over its run across two seasons.
Season Genesis launched in collaboration with Space and Time, which made 100 million SXT tokens available to eligible LINK stakers. Season 1 followed with nine Build projects, including Dolomite, XSwap, Brickken, Folks Finance, Mind Network, Suku, Truflation, and bitsCrunch, and introduced a more advanced engagement and claiming mechanism. Season 1 is now the last under the current format. Token claims end on July 7, 2026, and any tokens not claimed by that date will be forfeited and no longer available.
The overhaul reflects a broader effort by Chainlink Labs to draw a tighter connection between network revenue and $LINK token value, moving away from indirect incentives through third-party project distributions.
Sources:
Chainlink Blog: Build Program Evolution
Chainlink Blog: Introducing Chainlink Rewards Season 1
Chainlink Blog: Introducing the Chainlink Reserve
@chainlink's strategic reserve is growing at a pace that would have seemed unlikely at the start of the year. The protocol added 593,088 $LINK in June alone, worth more than $4.6 million, bringing total holdings to 4,504,167 LINK. Since January, the reserve has more than tripled.
How the Reserve Works The Chainlink Reserve is designed to support the long-term growth and sustainability of the Chainlink Network by accumulating LINK tokens using offchain revenue from large enterprises adopting the Chainlink standard and from onchain service usage. The mechanism sits at the heart of what Chainlink calls Economics 2.0.
The reserve is built up by using Payment Abstraction, onchain infrastructure that reduces payment friction by enabling users to pay for Chainlink services in their preferred form of payment, such as gas tokens and stablecoins. Those payments are then programmatically converted to LINK using a combination of Chainlink services and decentralized exchange infrastructure.
Additionally, 50% of fees from staking-secured SVR services is now planned to be used to help fund the Chainlink Reserve via Payment Abstraction.
The contract includes a multi-day timelock for withdrawals, and no withdrawals are expected for multiple years, which reduces the circulating supply by locking accumulated $LINK.
A Fast-Growing Institutional Footprint The pace of accumulation reflects a broader expansion in Chainlink's enterprise business. Demand for Chainlink has already created hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, substantially from large enterprises that have paid offchain for access to the Chainlink Platform.
Chainlink's oracle network secures $33.124 billion in total value across 505 protocols, holding roughly 59% of the tracked oracle market by total value secured. CCIP transfer volume grew 319% year-over-year in Q1 2026, processing over $18 billion for the quarter.
Chainlink has also formed a working group alongside several multinational groups, across Europe and South Korea, collectively representing over $10 trillion in assets under management, with a focus on evaluating the transition from traditional T+2 settlement cycles toward real-time T+0 settlement models.
The reserve's trajectory underscores a broader shift in how the protocol ties real commercial activity back to $LINK. Each enterprise deal and each protocol interaction feeds into the same accumulation engine, compounding over time with no near-term release valve.
Chainlink navázal spolupráci se SWIFT, JPMorgan, UBS a DTCC, ale LINK stále obchoduje kolem 7 USD, asi 86 % pod maximem z roku 2021. Trh zatím nevidí, jak se adopce infrastruktury promění v poptávku po tokenu.
Chainlink has wired itself into the plumbing of global finance, with SWIFT, JPMorgan, UBS, and DTCC building on its infrastructure. Its token trades around $7, roughly 86% below its all-time high. The gap between the adoption and the price is the whole story, and it is the same story as XRP.
Summary
Chainlink has embedded itself in traditional finance, with SWIFT, JPMorgan, UBS, DTCC, and others building on its cross-chain infrastructure, yet LINK trades near $7, about 86% below its 2021 high. The disconnect mirrors XRP almost exactly: the network’s adoption is real and growing, but the token captures the value only indirectly and slowly. Chainlink secures more value than any other oracle network and its cross-chain protocol processes billions of dollars a month, but the fees actually reaching LINK holders are tiny next to the headline adoption. A new strategic reserve converts protocol revenue into LINK and staking locks up supply, but neither yet offsets weak token-level demand and a soft market for high-risk altcoins. The gap closes only if bank usage scales into real, recurring fee demand for LINK, and the clearest test is whether SWIFT’s integration moves from pre-production into live settlement volume. Chainlink may be the most widely adopted piece of infrastructure in all of crypto, and its token trades like an afterthought.
Over the past two years the network has wired itself into the core of traditional finance, with SWIFT, the messaging backbone that connects roughly 11,000 banks and moves on the order of $150 trillion a year, moving from pilot to pre-production on Chainlink’s cross-chain technology.
JPMorgan, UBS, ANZ, Fidelity International, SBI, DTCC, Euroclear, and Mastercard have also built around its infrastructure, while the value secured across its oracle network has climbed past $90 billion, many times that of any competitor.
By the measure of institutional adoption that crypto has chased for a decade, Chainlink has arguably won. And yet LINK, its token, trades around $7, roughly 86% below the all-time high near $53 it reached back in 2021.
The fundamentals keep setting records and the price keeps disappointing. That gap, between a network embedding itself in global finance and a token that acts like none of it is happening, is the entire story.
Anyone who followed XRP through 2026 will recognize it immediately, because it is the same adoption-versus-token gap.
This piece works through why Chainlink’s extraordinary adoption has not lifted its token. It covers what Chainlink actually does and why banks cannot easily avoid it, what SWIFT and the institutions signed up for, the central problem of how value is supposed to reach the token at all, the mechanisms Chainlink has built to try to close that gap, why the market still refuses to pay up, and what would finally have to change for the price to follow the adoption.
The aim is not to talk LINK up or down, but to explain one of the most striking disconnects in the market: how a project can win the institutional race it set out to win and watch its token languish anyway.
The most important company in crypto you do not trade Start with what Chainlink does, because its importance is easy to miss precisely because it is infrastructure.
Blockchains have a built-in blindness: they cannot, on their own, see anything that happens outside their own network. A smart contract on a blockchain has no native way to know the price of a stock, the result of a shipment, the value of a currency, or whether a payment cleared in a bank account.
This is called the oracle problem, and it is a hard limit on what blockchains can do, because a contract that cannot react to real-world information is a contract that can only move tokens around inside its own walls.
Chainlink exists to solve exactly this. It is a decentralized network that feeds outside data onto blockchains and connects them to one another and to traditional systems, acting as the secure bridge between the on-chain world and everything else.
Without something like Chainlink, the entire edifice of decentralized finance, and the much larger project of tokenizing real-world assets, simply does not function.
That is why what oracles feed data to matters. Smart contracts are only as useful as the data and systems they can reliably touch.
Because that role is foundational, Chainlink has become close to unavoidable for anyone serious about putting financial activity on a blockchain.
Its price feeds underpin major lending and trading protocols across decentralized finance. Its cross-chain protocol has been adopted by large exchanges and protocols as a bridging standard.
Critically, its institutional push has landed the names that matter most. The roster of traditional-finance firms building on Chainlink reads like a directory of the global banking system, and the total value its oracle network secures runs into the tens of billions, many times that of the nearest competitor.
By the standard crypto has always used to define success, real institutions using the technology for real financial activity, Chainlink is at or near the top of the entire industry.
It is, in a sense, the most important company in crypto that most people never think to trade, because its product is the invisible plumbing rather than the visible coin.
And a token that trades like the adoption is not happening Now place that adoption next to the chart, and the contrast is jarring.
LINK trades around $7, down roughly 86% from its 2021 peak near $53, and it spent the most recent stretch sliding rather than rising, sitting below the technical levels that traders watch for signs of strength.
The pattern across the last couple of years has been almost comically consistent: record after record on the fundamentals, the cross-chain protocol moving billions a month, the value secured hitting new highs, the bank partnerships piling up, while the token closed well below where it traded years earlier.
Analysts who follow Chainlink closely have taken to describing its recent history in exactly those terms, as a period of record fundamental milestones paired with significant price disappointment.
The ETF channel has not solved the problem either. Chainlink spot ETFs recently saw a net outflow, ending a six-month inflow streak and showing that even new institutional access does not automatically create uninterrupted demand.
This is what makes Chainlink such a clean case study, and such a frustrating holding for its believers.
It is not a story of a failing project ignored for good reason; the project is, by adoption metrics, thriving. It is a story of a thriving network whose token has decoupled from its success.
That forces an uncomfortable question that applies to a whole category of crypto assets: what is the actual link between a network being used and its token rising in value?
For Bitcoin the answer is relatively direct, since the asset itself is the product. For an infrastructure token like LINK, the answer is far murkier, and the murkiness is precisely what the price reflects.
The market is not saying Chainlink has failed. It is saying it does not yet see how all that institutional adoption turns into sustained demand for the token.
Until it does, the chart and the deal sheet point in opposite directions.
The oracle problem, and why it made Chainlink unavoidable To understand both the strength of Chainlink’s position and the weakness of its token, it helps to sit with the oracle problem a moment longer, because it explains the moat.
A blockchain is a deterministic system: it is brilliant at agreeing on its own internal state, who holds what, but it is mathematically incapable of knowing anything about the outside world on its own.
If a smart contract needs to know the price of an asset to liquidate a loan, or whether a real-world bond has matured, it has to get that information from somewhere. If it gets it from a single source, it inherits that source’s vulnerability to error or manipulation.
That would undermine the security that makes blockchains worth using in the first place.
Chainlink’s design answers this by gathering data through a decentralized network of independent node operators, aggregating their inputs, and delivering a result that no single party can easily corrupt.
That decentralized, tamper-resistant design is why Chainlink became the default rather than one option among many.
Once a network of high-quality node operators is securing tens of billions of dollars across hundreds of applications, that track record itself becomes a moat. A bank deciding whose data and cross-chain infrastructure to trust with real money is going to choose the one with the longest, most battle-tested history.
This is the foundation of the institutional strategy.
Chainlink’s cross-chain protocol added a risk-management layer, an independent set of nodes that watches for anomalies and can halt transfers if something looks wrong. That is the kind of dual-layer safeguard large institutions demand before moving significant capital on-chain.
The result is that Chainlink occupies a position closer to critical utility than to speculative token: the oracle and interoperability standard that the tokenized-finance future is being built on.
The strength of that position is not in doubt. What is in doubt is whether holding the token captures any of it.
What SWIFT and the banks actually signed up for The institutional adoption is concrete and worth spelling out, because it is genuinely impressive and it is also, on close inspection, the source of the token’s problem.
Chainlink built a suite of products aimed squarely at banks and asset managers: a cross-chain protocol for moving assets and messages between blockchains and legacy systems, a runtime environment that lets institutions build and manage tokenized-asset workflows, a compliance engine that embeds rules like identity checks directly into tokenized assets, a confidential-compute layer that lets sensitive institutional data be processed without exposing it on a public chain, and data services that bring benchmark and index information on-chain.
This is not a retail product suite. It is enterprise financial infrastructure, designed to slot into how large institutions already operate.
The marquee relationship is with SWIFT, and it captures both the scale and the nature of the adoption.
SWIFT connects roughly 11,000 banks and carries the messaging behind an enormous share of global settlement, and Swift and Chainlink’s ongoing work moved from early pilot toward pre-production.
The goal is to let banks send traditional SWIFT messages that trigger smart-contract actions across blockchains, without those banks having to rip out and rewrite their legacy systems.
That is a profound integration: it means the existing banking messaging layer could reach into the on-chain world through Chainlink as the connective tissue.
More recently, Chainlink also partnered with more than 50 banks on Project Pangea for T+0 foreign-exchange settlement, another sign that traditional finance is testing Chainlink as an institutional bridge rather than a crypto side experiment.
But notice the shape of it. What the banks signed up for is infrastructure, a way to connect their systems to blockchains using Chainlink’s technology.
They signed up to use the network. Nothing in a SWIFT pre-production integration, a JPMorgan tokenization pilot, or a bank FX settlement project necessarily requires anyone to buy, hold, or even think about the LINK token.
The adoption is real, and it is adoption of Chainlink the infrastructure. That is different from demand for LINK the asset.
That distinction is the hinge on which the entire price puzzle turns.
The value-accrual problem: adoption is not token demand Here is the core issue, the one that explains the chart.
For a token to rise because its network is being used, there has to be a mechanism that converts that usage into demand for the token. For infrastructure tokens, that mechanism is often weak, indirect, or still being built.
When a bank uses Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol, it pays fees, and those fees are part of how value is meant to flow to the network.
But the fees generated even by substantial institutional usage are, so far, small relative to the headline numbers that make the adoption sound overwhelming.
The value secured across the network may be measured in tens of billions, but the value secured is not revenue. Revenue is not automatically token demand either.
A pilot or a pre-production integration generates little in the way of recurring fees, and even meaningful live usage produces fee flows that are modest next to LINK’s multi-billion-dollar market value.
This is the value-accrual problem, and it is the single best explanation for why LINK trades where it does.
The market is making a distinction that the celebratory headlines blur: between adoption of the infrastructure, which benefits the network and its users, and demand for the token, which is what actually moves the price.
It is the identical distinction that explains why XRP failed to rally on Ripple’s bank deals, because those deals ran through the company and its stablecoin while the token captured only a sliver.
For Chainlink, the question every prospective LINK buyer faces is simple and unforgiving: if SWIFT and JPMorgan can use the network without the token being central to the economics, then what exactly am I buying when I buy LINK?
The project has answers to that question, and they are improving. But the market has not yet been convinced that the answers are large enough to matter.
That is why the adoption keeps growing and the token keeps waiting.
The strategic reserve and staking: Chainlink’s answer Chainlink is acutely aware of the value-accrual problem, and it has been building mechanisms specifically designed to tie network usage to token value.
That is the strongest part of the bull case.
The first is a fee model that converts revenue generated across the network, including from institutional and off-chain use, into LINK, accumulating it in the Chainlink Reserve.
The logic is that as adoption grows and generates more revenue, more of that revenue is converted into LINK and held, creating a structural source of buying tied directly to usage.
This is meant to be the bridge between adoption and token demand that infrastructure tokens so often lack.
It is a way to make sure that when the network earns, the token benefits. The reserve has been growing, adding millions of LINK, which is a tangible sign of the mechanism working, even if the amounts remain small relative to the total supply.
The second mechanism is staking.
Chainlink lets LINK holders stake their tokens to help secure the network’s data feeds and services, locking up supply and giving the token a direct role in the system’s security and economics.
As more high-value feeds and services come to rely on staked LINK as a security backstop, demand to stake, and therefore to acquire and lock the token, is meant to rise.
That makes Chainlink part of a broader move toward security-backed crypto networks. For context, another staking-secured network shows how tokens can accrue value when they are required to secure services rather than simply sit beside them.
Together, the reserve and staking are Chainlink’s answer to the question of why anyone should own LINK instead of simply admire the network.
The reserve ties revenue to token accumulation. Staking ties the token to the network’s security and to a yield.
These are real, well-designed mechanisms, and they are the reason the bull case is not empty.
The honest caveat is that they are still early and still modest in scale relative to a multi-billion-dollar market cap. They point in the right direction, but they have not yet generated token demand large enough to overcome the broader forces pushing the price down.
Why the chart still says no Even granting the reserve and staking, several forces keep weighing on LINK, and naming them explains why the token has not responded to the adoption.
The first is the simple gravity of the broader market. LINK is a high-beta altcoin, meaning it tends to move more violently than the market as a whole, rising faster in booms and falling harder in downturns.
Through a stretch of macro pressure and a weak environment for risk assets, infrastructure tokens like LINK have been sold off regardless of their individual progress.
When capital flees risk, the quality of a project’s bank partnerships offers little protection, because the selling is driven by macro flows, not fundamentals.
The second force is competition. Chainlink leads the oracle space by a wide margin, but rivals are chasing the same market with different technical models, faster delivery in certain niches, or lower costs.
The existence of credible competitors caps the pricing power and the perceived inevitability that would justify a higher token valuation.
The third and deepest force is the value-accrual skepticism already described.
The market keeps treating Chainlink’s institutional milestones as proofs of concept instead of as recurring revenue, pricing a SWIFT pre-production integration as a promising experiment instead of as a stream of token demand, because that is what it currently is.
Until the pilots become production volume large enough to drive real fees into the reserve and real demand into staking, the market is, not unreasonably, declining to pay in advance.
This is the same discipline that kept XRP pinned through its own parade of bank wins. The chart is not ignoring the adoption; it is refusing to pay for token demand that has been promised but not yet delivered at scale.
What would finally make LINK follow the adoption If you want to know when LINK might finally track its fundamentals, the analysis points to a specific set of conditions, and none of them is simply another partnership announcement.
The first and most important is the transition from pilots to production volume.
A SWIFT integration in pre-production is a promise; SWIFT-connected banks routing real, recurring settlement volume through Chainlink’s protocol would be a structural source of fee demand unlike anything in the token’s history.
Even a small fraction of the volume that flows through global bank messaging would dwarf current usage.
The clearest single catalyst to watch is whether that integration goes fully live and starts carrying real traffic, because that is the moment infrastructure adoption could begin converting into the recurring revenue that feeds the reserve.
The policy backdrop also matters. Chainlink executives have warned that delays in U.S. crypto rules benefit overseas competitors, because institutions need clarity before they can scale production deployments.
The second condition is the maturation of the token mechanisms themselves: the strategic reserve growing large enough that its accumulation of LINK becomes a meaningful, visible source of demand, and staking scaling to the point where locking the token to secure high-value services pulls significant supply off the market.
The third is the broader environment, since even strong fundamentals struggle against a hostile macro tape, and a friendlier market for risk assets would let Chainlink’s progress show up in the price.
The new exchange-traded products tracking LINK add another potential channel for demand if they gather assets. But as the recent outflow showed, the ETF channel must become a sustained buyer, not just another headline.
The honest synthesis is that Chainlink has done the hard part, winning the institutional adoption that the rest of crypto only talks about.
The remaining question is purely about conversion: whether all that adoption can be turned into durable, measurable demand for the token through fees, the reserve, and staking, at a scale large enough to matter.
Until it is, LINK will keep trading like the adoption is not happening, not because the market is blind to Chainlink’s success, but because it is watching the one number that has not yet moved. That number is demand for the token itself.
Frequently asked questions Why does Chainlink have so much adoption but a low token price? Because adoption of the infrastructure is not the same as demand for the token. Banks and protocols use Chainlink’s data feeds and cross-chain protocol, generating fees, but those fees are still small relative to LINK’s multi-billion-dollar market value, and nothing about a SWIFT or JPMorgan integration requires anyone to buy or hold LINK. The market distinguishes between the network being used, which benefits the infrastructure, and token demand, which moves the price. So far, the adoption has not converted into token demand large enough to lift the price, which is why LINK trades around $7 despite record fundamentals.
What does Chainlink actually do? Chainlink solves the oracle problem. Blockchains cannot natively access information outside their own network, so a smart contract has no built-in way to know a price, a payment status, or a real-world event. Chainlink is a decentralized network that feeds outside data onto blockchains and connects them to one another and to traditional systems, using many independent node operators so no single party can easily corrupt the data. This makes it foundational infrastructure for decentralized finance and for tokenizing real-world assets.
What did SWIFT and the banks sign up for with Chainlink? They signed up to use Chainlink’s infrastructure, chiefly its cross-chain protocol, which lets banks send traditional SWIFT messages that trigger smart-contract actions across blockchains without rewriting their legacy systems. JPMorgan, UBS, DTCC, Euroclear, and others are building on Chainlink’s suite of institutional products for tokenized assets, compliance, and data. Crucially, this is adoption of the infrastructure, not a commitment to buy or hold the LINK token, which is exactly why the impressive partnerships have not directly lifted the price.
How is Chainlink trying to connect adoption to the token? Through two main mechanisms. A fee model converts revenue generated across the network, including from institutional use, into LINK and accumulates it in a strategic reserve, creating buying tied to usage. Staking lets holders lock LINK to help secure the network’s data feeds and services, taking supply off the market and giving the token a direct economic role. Both are well-designed attempts to bridge the gap between adoption and token demand, and the reserve has been growing, but they remain modest relative to LINK’s market value and have not yet offset the forces pushing the price down.
Will LINK go up if SWIFT fully adopts Chainlink? It could, but the key is volume, not the integration itself. A pre-production SWIFT integration is a promise; SWIFT-connected banks routing real, recurring settlement volume through Chainlink would generate fee demand on a scale unlike anything in the token’s history, because even a fraction of global bank messaging volume would dwarf current usage. That fee flow could feed the strategic reserve and drive real token demand. So the catalyst to watch is whether the integration goes live and carries actual traffic, turning infrastructure adoption into recurring revenue, instead of the announcement of the integration alone.
Is Chainlink’s situation similar to XRP’s? Very. Both are cases where a network or company achieved real institutional adoption while the token failed to follow, because the value flows first to the infrastructure and only indirectly to the token. Ripple’s bank deals ran through its stablecoin and ledger while XRP captured a sliver; Chainlink’s bank integrations run through its infrastructure while LINK captures fees that are still small relative to its valuation. In both cases the market prices the adoption as promising proof of concept instead of as token demand, and in both cases the token waits for pilots to become production-scale volume.
This article is information, not investment advice. Cryptocurrency is volatile, and figures for Chainlink and LINK reflect reporting available as of June 26, 2026, which can change quickly. Do your own research and verify current data from primary sources before making any decision.
Aave zvažuje rozšíření sGHO napříč blockchainy pomocí Chainlink CCIP, přičemž hlavní účetnictví zůstane na Ethereum mainnetu. Cílem je zpřístupnit výnosový stablecoin i na sítích Layer 2.
Aave governance is weighing a proposal to bring savings GHO, or sGHO, across chains, a move that could make the protocol’s yield-bearing stablecoin product easier to access beyond Ethereum mainnet.
TL;DR Aave governance is considering an ARFC proposal to launch sGHO cross-chain. The proposal uses Chainlink CCIP while keeping Ethereum mainnet as the main source of truth. The move could expand access to GHO savings yields across Layer-2 networks. A Cross-Chain Stablecoin Push The proposal would extend sGHO, the savings version of Aave’s GHO stablecoin, to additional networks. The idea is to let users access yield-bearing GHO exposure from Layer-2 environments without fragmenting the core accounting model. According to the proposal, Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol would be used to support messaging between chains.
That structure matters because stablecoin liquidity can become messy when each chain develops its own version of an asset. Aave’s approach appears designed to expand access while keeping the main vault logic anchored to Ethereum. In theory, that gives users lower-cost access on L2s while preserving a clearer system for tracking deposits and yield.
Why sGHO Matters For Aave GHO has become an important strategic product for Aave because it gives the lending protocol a native stablecoin around which it can build revenue, incentives, and liquidity. sGHO adds another layer by giving users a savings-style version of that stablecoin, turning idle stablecoin exposure into a yield-bearing position.
Cross-chain deployment could help GHO compete with other stablecoins and yield products that already have broad multi-chain footprints. For Aave, the goal is not just to issue a stablecoin; it is to create a deeper ecosystem where borrowing, lending, liquidity, and savings products reinforce each other.
Governance Still Has To Decide As with any Aave governance process, the proposal still needs community scrutiny. Tokenholders will need to assess bridge risk, CCIP assumptions, liquidity incentives, operational complexity, and whether the rollout creates enough user demand to justify the added architecture.
If approved, the move would fit a wider DeFi trend: major protocols are trying to make their core products available across multiple networks while avoiding the liquidity fragmentation that hurt earlier cross-chain expansions.
Market Context The proposal also arrives as DeFi protocols are searching for more durable revenue lines. A successful GHO and sGHO ecosystem could give Aave a native stablecoin flywheel, where borrowers, savers, and liquidity providers all interact around the same asset rather than relying only on third-party stablecoins.
Execution risk remains real, though. Cross-chain systems introduce dependencies that users may not notice until something breaks, which is why governance will likely focus heavily on bridge assumptions, risk limits, and how quickly the rollout should expand.
That leaves the story as more than a single-day headline. The practical test is whether the development changes user access, liquidity, regulatory confidence, or trader positioning over the next few sessions rather than simply adding another announcement to the crypto news cycle.
This coverage is based on information from Aave governance forum.
This article was written by the News Desk and edited by Samuel Rae.
Chainlink se zapojil do Project Pangea, který má s 47 bankami v Evropě a Jižní Koreji zrychlit vypořádání EUR-KRW z T+2 na T+0. Projekt míří na ostré transakce do 12 měsíců.
Chainlink is embedding itself into the plumbing of international banking. The oracle network announced its participation in Project Pangea, a cross-border settlement initiative involving 47 banks across Europe and South Korea that collectively manage over $10 trillion in assets.
The goal is straightforward but ambitious: replace the current two-day settlement window for EUR-KRW foreign exchange transactions with near real-time, same-day finality.
How Project Pangea actually works The initiative, built in collaboration with Qivalis and UniKA, brings together 37 European banks and over 10 South Korean banks on a dedicated Pangea Layer 1 blockchain network. The mechanism at the core is something called atomic payment-versus-payment, or PvP, which ensures both sides of a currency exchange settle simultaneously or not at all.
The currencies themselves are represented as euro-pegged and Korean won-pegged stablecoins, regulated digital versions of the fiat currencies that can move on blockchain rails. This matters because the Europe-South Korea trade corridor processes over $150 billion in annual volume.
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Project Pangea integrates with Swift messaging and complies with ISO 20022 standards, the global standard for electronic data interchange between financial institutions. Banks can plug in without a painful migration.
The project’s partners are targeting compliant live transactions within 12 months.
Why this corridor, why now Asia as a whole accounts for 60% of global stablecoin payments, making the region the natural proving ground for regulated digital currency infrastructure.
The current T+2 settlement cycle creates counterparty risk, ties up capital, and introduces the possibility that one side of a trade defaults before settlement completes. Moving to T+0 eliminates most of that risk. Capital that was previously locked up as collateral during the settlement window gets freed immediately.
Chainlink’s institutional footprint includes prior work with Swift on cross-chain interoperability and various tokenization pilots with major banks. In January 2026, Chainlink also partnered with the Global Alliance for KRW Stablecoins in South Korea. Qivalis itself expanded from an original group of 12 European banks to 37 by May 2026, all working toward the creation of regulated euro-pegged stablecoins.
What this means for investors Project Pangea is designed around compliance from day one, using regulated stablecoins and existing banking standards. The involvement of 47 banks managing over $10 trillion in assets gives the project a scale targeting a real trade corridor of over $150 billion in annual volume with a 12-month timeline for live transactions.
The risk is execution. A 12-month timeline is aggressive given the regulatory complexity of operating across European and South Korean jurisdictions simultaneously. The difference here may be the economic incentive: $150 billion in annual trade volume creates significant motivation to ship.
Investors should watch for two signals over the coming year. First, whether any of the participating banks publicly confirm their involvement and commit resources beyond the initial announcement. Second, whether regulators in both jurisdictions provide the clarity needed for euro and KRW stablecoins to function within existing compliance frameworks.
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SEC schválila změnu pravidel pro zalistování aktivně spravovaného T. Rowe Price Active Crypto ETF na NYSE Arca. Fond má držet zhruba 5 až 15 různých kryptoměn včetně BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, ADA, AVAX, LTC, DOT, DOGE a LINK.
On June 14, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings show the regulator has formally approved a rule change proposed by NYSE Arca that enables the listing and trading of the T. Rowe Price Active Crypto ETF. An actively managed cryptocurrency ETF, the fund will invest in a basket of digital assets meeting SEC-defined "eligible asset" criteria. While it uses a cryptocurrency index as its benchmark, it will not track that index passively. The filing notes the fund is projected to hold roughly 5 to 15 distinct cryptocurrencies, including major tokens like Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL), XRP, Cardano (ADA), Avalanche (AVAX), Litecoin (LTC), Polkadot (DOT), Dogecoin (DOGE), and Chainlink (LINK). The SEC filing also reveals the fund may hold stablecoins—primarily USDC—as "tokenized cash" during normal operations to cover expenses and rebalance assets, though these will not count toward its core investment portfolio. The approval notice stresses the product must adhere to NYSE Arca’s rules around anti-manipulation, disclosure, liquidity, and risk management. It also requires the fund to have information barriers (often called "firewalls") and position transparency mechanisms in place to uphold market fairness and prevent insider trading. Analysts say this ETF’s approval further expands cryptocurrency’s footprint within the traditional financial sector, marking the arrival of actively managed multi-crypto ETFs as tradable products under mainstream regulatory oversight.
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Kraken přesouvá svůj wrapped Bitcoin kBTC z LayerZero na Chainlink CCIP a stejnou technologii použije i pro budoucí wrapped aktiva. kBTC má tržní kapitalizaci kolem 266 milionů USD.
In brief Kraken will migrate its wrapped Bitcoin product, kBTC, from LayerZero to Chainlink's interoperability protocol. The asset maintains a market cap of more than $260 million, and Kraken said it will use Chainlink for future wrapped assets, as well. LayerZero admitted it "made a mistake" with Kelp DAO's setup, which was exploited for $292 million in April. Crypto exchange Kraken is the latest firm to ditch LayerZero’s cross-chain interoperability technology following its role in last month’s $292 million Kelp DAO exploit.
As a result, the firm will migrate its existing wrapped Bitcoin product, kBTC, to Chainlink’s cross-chain interoperability protocol (CCIP). In the future, any wrapped Kraken products will also make use of Chainlink’s technology.
“Kraken chose Chainlink CCIP because it offers enterprise-grade infrastructure with strict security & risk management requirements,” the exchange posted on X.
Holders of the firm’s kBTC token, which is backed 1:1 by Bitcoin held in custody by Kraken, do not need to take any action at this time. The token holds a market cap of around $266 million at the time of writing.
Kraken is deprecating its existing cross-chain provider and migrating to @Chainlink CCIP as its exclusive cross-chain infra to secure Kraken Wrapped Bitcoin (kBTC) & all future Kraken Wrapped Assets.
Kraken chose Chainlink CCIP because it offers enterprise-grade infrastructure…
— Kraken (@krakenfx) May 14, 2026
Kraken’s migration extends the list of major crypto firms which have announced their intentions to detach themselves from LayerZero’s cross-chain tech after the interoperability protocol team admitted it “made a mistake” that led to the Kelp DAO exploit.
Prior to Kraken’s departure, Kelp DAO announced its intentions to shift to Chainlink’s technology and was followed by Solv Protocol, which said it would migrate the tech backing $700 million worth of Bitcoin-related assets to CCIP as well. Last week, on-chain reinsurance protocol Re also announced plans to make the switch from LayerZero to Chainlink.
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The cryptocurrency Api3 (API3) reached an 8-month high today after Upbit, South Korea’s largest digital asset exchange, announced its listing.
The triple-digit price surge has also made API3 the top daily gainer on CoinGecko. Additionally, the announcement has sparked significant interest, propelling the token to the top of trending coins in the market.
Upbit Listing Triggers API3 Rally For context, API3 is a decentralized oracle network that connects decentralized applications (dApps) with real-world data using first-party oracles. In contrast to traditional oracle solutions, which rely on third-party intermediaries, API3 empowers API providers to run their own oracles, enhancing data authenticity and reducing trust-related issues.
The coin is already available on several major exchanges, including Binance, Coinbase, OKX, and more. Now, it has made its debut on Upbit.
API3 went live for trading at 17:00 Korean Standard Time (KST) on August 19. The exchange informed users that the token is available to trade against two pairs: Korean Won (KRW) and Tether (USDT).
“Please ensure you check the network before depositing the digital asset. Deposits and withdrawals made through networks other than the specified network will not be supported,” the notice read.
After the initial listing announcement, API3 surged by 121.43% from $0.84 to $1.86. The latter level was last seen in December 2024. At the time of writing, the price adjusted to $1.77, retaining gains of 112.5%.
Furthermore, the market capitalization also doubled from nearly $100 million to over $200 million at press time. The pump in market value has pushed API3 to become the 3rd largest oracle coin by market cap, trailing only behind Chainlink (LINK) and Pyth Network (PYTH).
API3 Price Performance Post Upbit Listing. Source: TradingViewThe price surge was accompanied by a massive rise in volume as trading began. The daily trading volume increased 409.6%, reaching $473 million. Importantly, much of this came from Upbit.
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GMX spustil perpetuální trhy na MegaETH s Chainlink Data Streams a 10ms bloky pro rychlejší onchain obchodování. MegaETH tím zpřístupňuje téměř 14 miliard USD aktiv a GMX rozšiřuje dosah na více než 740 000 traderů.
TLDR: GMX has facilitated over $363 billion in notional volume across eight chains, now adding MegaETH. MegaETH processes up to 100,000 transactions per second with 10-millisecond block confirmation times. Chainlink’s oracle infrastructure has enabled over $28 trillion in total transaction value across DeFi. MegaETH’s Chainlink integration unlocks nearly $14 billion in assets for over 740,000 GMX traders. GMX has launched perpetual markets on MegaETH, combining Chainlink Data Streams with the blockchain’s 10-millisecond block times.
The deployment brings real-time trade execution to one of DeFi’s most active perpetual exchanges. With over $363 billion in notional volume, GMX continues expanding its multichain presence.
This move aims to close the performance gap between decentralized and centralized trading platforms.
GMX’s integration with MegaETH marks a notable step in onchain derivatives trading. MegaETH processes up to 100,000 transactions per second, making it the first real-time blockchain.
These speeds allow GMX to offer faster price updates than most decentralized competitors. The result is a trading environment that mirrors the responsiveness of centralized exchanges.
Chainlink Data Streams serve as the oracle backbone for this deployment. The pull-based oracle solution delivers sub-second price data directly to GMX’s smart contracts.
This setup supports lower gas fees while maintaining accurate and timely price feeds. Chainlink’s infrastructure has already enabled over $28 trillion in transaction value across DeFi.
GMX first partnered with Chainlink Data Streams in 2023 following a community governance vote. That partnership laid the groundwork for GMX V2’s computationally dense contract architecture.
The current MegaETH deployment builds directly on that foundation. It runs on the same proven GMX stack operating across seven other chains.
The initial launch phase prioritizes stability and performance consistency across the network. A second phase will introduce MegaETH-specific optimizations without disrupting the existing trading experience.
GMX serves over 740,000 traders and integrates with more than 70 DeFi protocols. Adding MegaETH extends that reach to a new layer of high-throughput users.
MegaETH’s Chainlink Integration Opens Access to Major DeFi Assets MegaETH joined the Chainlink Scale program last month, expanding its oracle capabilities. The integration covers Chainlink Data Feeds, Data Streams, and the Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol.
Through these tools, MegaETH users can now access nearly $14 billion in assets. These include Lido’s wstETH, Lombard’s BTC.b, and LBTC.
The Scale program connection also brings top DeFi protocols to MegaETH users immediately. Aave, Avon, HelloTrade, and GMX are among the protocols now accessible on the chain.
Each protocol benefits from Chainlink’s real-time oracle data flowing through MegaETH’s high-speed infrastructure. Together, they form a growing DeFi ecosystem built for performance.
A 2024 GMX case study confirmed Chainlink’s role in building secure, high-performance decentralized exchanges. The study showed how oracle quality directly affects user experience and platform safety.
Faster price updates reduce the risk of delayed liquidations during volatile market conditions. This directly protects traders from avoidable losses caused by stale price data.
As real-time blockchain infrastructure matures, partnerships like this one reflect where DeFi is heading. GMX and Chainlink are building tools that meet traders where centralized platforms currently operate.
MegaETH provides the speed layer that makes this possible at scale. The deployment represents a practical, tested approach to advancing perpetual market infrastructure onchain.
GMX spustil 24/7 syntetické perpetual swapy na zlato XAU/USD a stříbro XAG/USD. Ceny zajišťuje Chainlink Data Streams a obchodování běží na Arbitrum One i dalších sítích.
GMX now offers perpetual swaps on the two most popular precious metals: Gold (XAU/USD) and Silver (XAG/USD). Both markets are frictionless synthetic perps: positions are opened and settled onchain using WETH-USDC liquidity, with pricing secured via Chainlink’s low-latency Data Streams.
Market names: XAU/USD and XAG/USD
Availability: 24/7, continuous
Market type: Synthetic perpetuals (no spot asset)
Maximum leverage: 100x during on-hours / 25x during off-hours
Pricing: Chainlink Data Streams
Collateral backing: WETH-USDC GM liquidity pools
Dynamic GLV liquidity: Both GM pools are included in GLV [ETH-USDC]; GLV holders earn fee revenue from these markets, and liquidity automatically rebalances to these markets based on trader demand
Trading fees: 4 bps for the underweight side of open interest; 6 bps for the overweight side Now just 1 or 2 bps during market hours!
Primary deployment: Arbitrum One
Multichain access: Traders on Base, BNB Chain, and Ethereum Mainnet can also frictionlessly access these markets on GMX
Gold and Silver are two of the most liquid financial instruments globally, with daily turnover in the hundreds of billions across spot and futures markets. Gold (as seen again very recently) serves as a global pricing reference for inflation expectations, currency strength, geopolitical risk, and real interest rates.
Unlike equity markets, these commodities do not have exchange hours that create structural gaps in pricing or forced position closures. Both metals trade continuously across global futures and OTC markets. Traders are generally not heavily exposed to overnight risk from closed markets or to the spread distortions that follow a market re-open.
These properties make XAU/USD and XAG/USD very suitable for 24/7 on-chain perp trading. Moreover, the industry has shown significant demand for trading real-world assets lately, and GMX has been eager to offer access to these markets.
Both XAU/USD and XAG/USD markets leverage Chainlink Data Streams to ensure secure, reliable price data, operating on the same decentralized oracle infrastructure that underpins GMX’s more than 100 existing perps.
Chainlink Data Streams provide fast, reliable, and rich onchain data delivery, enabling decentralized applications to access high-frequency, real-time data on demand with cryptographic verification, powering latency-sensitive onchain financial products.
A sub-second delivery oracle that draws on global liquidity is an essential condition for running these GMX markets at acceptable risk parameters, for both traders and liquidity providers that depend on accurate real-time pricing for their positions.
The launch of XAU/USD and XAG/USD highlights GMX’s expansion into perps for commodities and other real-world assets. This reflects a broader assessment of where our permissionless derivatives trading infrastructure can meaningfully extend.
Crypto assets have been the natural starting point. But the architecture that supports those GMX markets — synthetic structure, oracle pricing, 24/7 settlement, permissionless access — is not specific to crypto. It applies equally to any globally traded financial instrument where continuous pricing exists, and deep underlying liquidity prevents manipulation.
Gold and silver markets are the opening position in that RWA direction. The required decentralized infrastructure is now increasingly available. Future expansion into other precious metals and asset classes is coming, evaluated on the same criteria: pricing availability, underlying market depth, and oracle coverage.
GMX’s objective is to be the go-to permissionless, composable, open platform for a broad range of financial markets — trade any leading asset, from any leading public blockchain.
“Gold and silver perps on GMX are the first step in a broader move into real-world assets. The infrastructure — synthetic markets, oracle pricing, 24/7 settlement — doesn’t care whether the underlying is a crypto token or a commodity. Chainlink Data Streams give us the pricing reliability these markets require. More asset classes are coming.” — Jone Zee, Communications Coordinator at GMX
“We’re excited to see GMX adopt Chainlink to power its newly launched gold and silver perpetual markets. Through Chainlink, GMX is establishing advanced markets where commodities are accessible to everyone and traded 24/7. This is how we enter a new era where the world’s largest commodities are traded onchain at a massive scale.” — Johann Eid, Chief Business Officer, Chainlink Labs
XAU/USD (Gold) and XAG/USD (Silver) perpetuals are live now; you can start trading the new 24/7 markets here:
Chainlink se integroval s Gearbox, aby na Monad zajistil přesné cenové feedy pro trhy AUSD, MON a USDC. Cílem je snížit chyby při likvidacích a posílit bezpečnost DeFi.
Chainlink is a decentralized oracle network that acts as a secure bridge between blockchains and the real world. Chainlink has announced its strategic integration with Gearbox protocol, a generalized, composable leverage protocol for lending assets across various decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystems. The main purpose of this integration is to ensure accurate pricing for Gearbox’s AUSD, MON, and USDC markets on Monad.
Chainlink is renowned worldwide for its efficient work in connecting blockchains with the real world. On the other hand, Gearbox is also facilitating users in terms of lending across DeFi, as per the source, Gearbox holds over $ 175 M in total value locked. This figure also supports the efficient and trusted services by Gearbox. Chainlink has released this news through its official X account.
Chainlink and Gearbox Alliance Elevates DeFi Security on Monad The alliance of Gearbox protocol and Chainlink price feeds will empower the whole infrastructure, especially for AUSD, earnAUSD, MON, and the largest USDC liquidity pool on monad. Chainlink helps Gearbox by reducing liquidation errors in accurate asset pricing. This will happen with Chainlink’s specialized features for price feed, and at the same time, open a smooth and safer leverage and credit account operation.
In this integration, Monad, which is a high-performance, EVM-compatible Layer-1 blockchain, plays its role to solve the problems related to Ethereum’s scalability. This integration is basically to enhance the DeFi security system on Monad for serving humanity.
Building a More Secure DeFi Ecosystem Chainlink and Gearbox ally to change the security infrastructure for users’ safety and trust all over the world without any errors. Both platforms have a huge number of users that support the efforts of both platforms, which always have only one aim: to bring beneficial innovation for users.
Moreover, their security is much stronger, and for that purpose, they never believe in any other third party for holding users’ details. In short, this integration is purely based on bringing safer, more scalable, and ready for larger capital inflows.
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Peněženka napojená na americkou vládu přesunula 98 590 LINK v hodnotě asi 768 000 USD na Coinbase Prime, což vyvolalo spekulace o prodeji. On-chain data ale sama o sobě neukazují, že tokeny míří na otevřený trh.
A wallet tied to US government seized FTX Chainlink holdings moved 98,590 Chainlink (LINK) tokens, worth about $768,000, to Coinbase Prime on Wednesday, reviving speculation over a potential sale.
Blockchain trackers flagged the deposit within minutes. However, on-chain data alone does not confirm that the tokens are headed for the open market.
US government wallet transferring seized FTX Chainlink (LINK) to Coinbase Prime, Source: ArkhamWhy the Seized FTX Chainlink Transfer MattersOn-chain tracker Lookonchain first reported the movement, and tracking account Solid Intel flagged the same deposit.
Arkham labels the sending address under its US government entity and has documented earlier movements from the same cluster.
The US Government just moved $800K of Alameda’s funds.
Many Alameda/FTX assets that were seized by the DOJ will be returned to FTX estate creditors and those who lost assets in FTX’s collapse.
Another $800K has been reclaimed for crypto users. pic.twitter.com/jW7PAcF1p4
— Arkham (@arkham) May 29, 2026 Follow us on X to get the latest news as it happens
The funds originate from assets confiscated after FTX and Alameda Research collapsed in November 2022.
A federal judge later ordered Sam Bankman-Fried to forfeit $11 billion after his fraud conviction, with recovered funds directed toward victim compensation.
The US Marshals Service selected Coinbase Prime in July 2024 to custody and trade its large-cap digital assets.
“After a comprehensive process, the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), a division of the U.S. Department of Justice, selected Coinbase Prime as its partner to safeguard and trade its “Class 1” (large cap) digital assets,” read an excerpt in a 2024 Coinbase blog.
Therefore, deposits to the platform often precede custody changes, over-the-counter deals, or liquidations.
The agency has managed seized crypto sales for over a decade, beginning with its auction of 30,000 Silk Road bitcoins in 2014.
Historically, it has favored structured sales over open-market dumps.
The transaction also extends a pattern of earlier seized altcoin transfers involving Uniswap (UNI), Render (RNDR), Ethereum (ETH), and The Sandbox (SAND), plus stablecoins.
Meanwhile, the FTX estate keeps repaying customers, with its fourth creditor distribution round delivering $2.2 billion in March.
Analysts See Limited Risk of a LINK Sell-OffChainlink’s current price sits near $7.66, down 2% over the past 24 hours. The token holds a $5.57 billion market cap and ranks 21st among cryptocurrencies.
Chainlink (LINK) Price Performance. Source: BeInCryptoThe transferred amount equals less than 0.4% of LINK’s $225 million daily trading volume. It also represents roughly 0.01% of the 727 million tokens in circulation.
Consequently, even an outright sale would barely move market liquidity.
Sentiment around the token remains cautious after a 27% slide over the past 30 days. LINK has also shed 49% over the past year, leaving holders alert to new supply signals.
In contrast, Chainlink’s ETF inflow outlook suggests institutional demand could absorb modest government supply over time.
Whether the tokens move to an over-the-counter desk or stay in custody should become clearer in the coming days.
The wallet’s next transaction will reveal whether the deposit marks routine management or the start of a liquidation.
Until then, the sell-off fears look larger than the numbers behind them.
Morph has taken a major step toward turning the promise of programmable, borderless money into reality by integrating the Chainlink Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) as the exclusive cross-chain bridge for the Bitget Token (BGB). The move routes all cross-chain movement of BGB through a single, verifiable pathway inside the Morph ecosystem, a design choice the companies say will bring predictability, stronger liquidity guarantees, and the kind of auditability that institutional users demand.
The integration pairs the protocol with the token that will serve as Morph’s gas and settlement asset, establishing a unified standard for how value moves between chains in payment rails, merchant platforms, and treasury systems. By consolidating token flows under CCIP, Morph aims to reduce fragmentation across liquidity pools and present developers and payment providers with a consistent settlement layer that behaves the same way regardless of the underlying chains involved.
“Cross-chain reliability isn’t just a technical goal — it’s essential for institutional adoption,” said Gracy Chen, CEO of Bitget. “By aligning BGB with Chainlink CCIP and the Morph network, we’re setting a clear, auditable framework that enterprises can trust. Bitget’s vision is to make interoperability a default standard for global payments, not a challenge that builders must overcome.”
The announcement comes amid significant tokenomics changes for BGB. The Morph Foundation holds more than 220 million BGB. There is a roadmap to migrate over half of the circulating supply onto Morph, and more than 50% of the original two-billion BGB issuance has already been permanently burned, a sequence of supply events that the teams say makes standardized, secure cross-chain movement especially important. Locking cross-chain transfers behind CCIP is intended to give confidence to businesses integrating BGB, since every transfer will be processed through the same cryptographically verifiable channel.
“The combination of Morph and BGB is creating one of the most transformative assets in the crypto space,” said Colin Goltra, CEO of Morph. “With supply migration and regular burning on Morph as core parts of the BGB roadmap, Chainlink CCIP plays a critical role in enabling secure, scalable cross-chain movement that supports real-world payment use cases.”
New Standard for Institutional Cross-Chain Payments CCIP’s role goes beyond basic token transfers. Because it can carry tokens and data together within a single coordinated cross-chain transaction, developers building on Morph can now orchestrate transfers of stablecoins, BGB, and programmable instructions in one go. That unlocks settlement flows where a token arrives with embedded instructions, for example, to settle a merchant invoice, trigger an FX swap, or move funds between liquidity pools, all without stitching separate bridges and manual reconciliations together.
As on-chain payments accelerate globally, the ability to synchronize liquidity across networks has become a practical requirement for enterprises. The teams argue that a single, secure cross-chain framework simplifies integration for stablecoin issuers, payment companies, and fintech platforms that need settlement assets to operate consistently across market environments. CCIP’s adoption as the exclusive interoperability layer for BGB is intended to make Morph the dependable execution layer for those multi-chain settlement products.
“By adopting Chainlink CCIP as the exclusive cross-chain interoperability solution for BGB issuance and transfer, Morph is defining how assets should move across chains at an institutional scale. This is how you turn cross-chain from a risk factor into a strategic advantage. It’s a clear signal of where onchain payments are heading next,” said Johann Eid, Chief Business Officer at Chainlink Labs.
The infrastructure underpinning this design will be strengthened further by Morph’s upcoming Emerald upgrade, which introduces new token standards and settlement primitives. With Emerald, CCIP-secured BGB is intended to become the reference model for how future institutional tokens, stablecoins, and payment-linked instruments are issued and managed on the network. Standardized issuance and verifiable cross-chain movement are the kinds of features enterprise issuers have been asking for when they consider building global payment products.
Morph is already working with payment providers, stablecoin issuers, and fintech platforms to roll out the first wave of CCIP-enabled integrations. Those partners, the companies say, require settlement assets that work predictably at scale, and an exclusive cross-chain pathway for BGB aims to deliver precisely that: a single, auditable channel for movement, lower operational friction, and clearer guarantees around liquidity and settlement timing.
For users and builders, the practical upshot is simpler integration and new capabilities. For enterprises, it’s a test of whether standardized, verifiable cross-chain frameworks can finally make on-chain settlement a reliable part of the global payments infrastructure. Morph and its partners are betting that they can turn cross-chain complexity into a feature rather than a liability, bringing programmable money a step closer to moving at the speed of life.
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Phishingový útok připravil čtyři oběti o 12 milionů USD v LINK, SAVM, USDT, USDC, BUSD, OP, SUPER a dalších tokenech. Jeden investor přišel o 2,34 milionu USD v SUPER a jeho tržní kapitalizace spadla o 20 % za 45 minut.
In a massive phishing scam, $12 million vanished from four victims within five days, exposing critical gaps in cryptocurrency security. The prevalent use of create2, a standard tool, empowers malicious actors to exploit temporary addresses and sidestep wallet defenses based on address blacklists. Moreover, the crypto scam drained millions worth of Chainlink (LINK), SatoshiVM (SAVM), Optimism (OP), Tether (USDT), USD Coin (USDC), Binance USD (BUSD) and SuperVerse (SUPER) tokens.
Details Of Recent Crypto Scam According to Scam Sniffer, a Web3 scam tracking platform, the ERC20 permit has become a standardized weapon. It intensifies the impact of wallet-draining attacks, with collateral tokens, including LP tokens and NFTs.
Moreover, the post highlighted that the calculated use of ERC20 permit signatures has become the primary mode of operation for such crypto scams. This is a significant peril to users who unsuspectingly fall prey to seemingly legitimate ERC721 signatures designed for gasless token approval.
In addition, the snapshots shared by Scam Sniffer on X reveal that apart from the above-mentioned digital currencies, collateral tokens, such as aEthWETH, aEthUNI, and aEthLink were also affected Furthermore, the most recent incident further underscores the severity of the threat.
The latest update underscores that a victim lost a staggering $2.34 million worth of SUPER to a crypto scam via phishing. This eventually caused an immediate 20% plummet in SUPER’s market cap within a mere 45 minutes.
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Ripple CTO Unveils New OpenSea Scam Ripple Chief Technology Officer David Schwartz has recently revealed a phishing scam targeting users of OpenSea, a prominent NFT marketplace. He noted that the scam involves fraudulent emails that claim to be from OpenSea and notify users of bids on their NFTs.
Schwartz added that these emails contain a malicious link, disguised as a SurveyMonkey survey, redirecting users to a fake OpenSea page aiming to steal their credentials. The Ripple CTO’s revelation highlights the increasing sophistication of hackers in the digital asset space.
Furthermore, similar scams have been reported, suggesting a growing trend of fraudulent activities in the crypto community. Moreover, this displays the necessity for heightened vigilance and security measures among users and industry platforms.
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Coinbase, Kraken, Bittrex, Circle a další spustily Crypto Rating Council, který bude hodnotit kryptoprojekty podle toho, zda mohou být podle amerického práva považovány za cenné papíry. Bitcoin dostal nejnižší skóre 1, zatímco XRP 4.
Some of the most popular companies in the cryptoeconomy have banded together to create an organization that will assess and rate top cryptocurrency projects on the likelihood of these projects being securities per U.S. federal securities laws.
That organization, the Crypto Rating Council (CRC), counts exchange operators like Bittrex, Coinbase, Kraken, and Poloniex-backers Circle among its first members, as well as the firms of Anchorage, DRW Cumberland, Genesis, and Grayscale Investments.
So why the need for such a body?
The so-called Howey Test, which is a test devised by the U.S. Supreme Court to determine if a given asset is a security, commonly leads to “judgment calls, inconsistent results, and … disagreement among legal experts,” the CRC said on the Frequently Asked Questions section of its new website.
Accordingly, the organization’s rating system — which runs from 1 to 5, with 5 indicating an asset bears the hallmarks of a security and 1 meaning the opposite — is being hailed by members as a “compliance tool” that will help bring consistency to their respective asset review processes.
Founded by prominent companies across the crypto industry, our mission is to lead crypto financial services firms committed to practical compliance with the U.S. securities laws. We are the Crypto Rating Council, and we launched today: https://t.co/FbdwfSZN9D
— Crypto Rating Council (@CRC_Crypto) September 30, 2019
“The CRC will publish a simple rating for most assets it reviews to indicate the results of its analysis as a reference for operators, developers, and the public,” the organization said.
With that said, the ratings are utterly non-binding and have been made without involvement from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). So, while clarity is the professed goal, the only thing the CRC has ultimately made more clear is what its members think about the legal status of top cryptocurrencies in America.
“The score does not reflect a legal conclusion and is no indication of qualitative value of an asset or suitability for investment or any other purpose,” the CRC said of its ratings.
How the First Scores Look Don’t expect any surprises when it comes to bitcoin (BTC). The oldest cryptocurrency, which has long been held up by various stakeholders as a standard for decentralized projects, received a 1 rating from the CRC.
Other projects the body deemed to have “few or no characteristics consistent with treatment as a security” included DeFi’s darling Dai stablecoin, the popular Monero (XMR) privacy cryptocurrency, and Litecoin (LTC).
The 2 rating was given to the next rung of projects that the CRC deemed to seem mostly decentralized according to its framework. These projects included Ethereum (ETH), Zcash (ZEC), Numeraire (NMR), ChainLink (LINK), and the fledgling proof-of-stake project Algorand (ALGO).
Getting on up there according to the group were projects like Augur (3.75), EOS (3.75), Stellar (3.75), Tezos (3.75), and XRP (4). The highest inaugural scores were given to Polymath (4.5) and Maker (4.5).
Notably, the SEC announced just hours after these ratings were released that Block.one, the team behind the EOS launch, had settled charges and would pay a $24 million civil penalty for its year-long ICO being an unregistered security offering.
The Commission said the securities status only applied to the “IOU” ERC20 token that was issued during the sale rather than the current EOS cryptocurrency, which lives on EOS now rather than Ethereum.
Are Exchanges Listing Securities? One question that immediately started buzzing through the ecosystem on the heels of the announcement of the CRC was why would exchanges like Coinbase take chances on assets like XRP that appear to bear considerable resemblances to a security in the U.S.?
One possibility is that the group’s members consider “security status is binary,” according to Jake Chervinsky, the General Counsel of DeFi lending project Compound Finance. In other words, anything less than a 5 rating would be fair game accordingly.
My best guess: they'd say security status is binary and as a matter of law it doesn't make a difference how close a token comes to being a security if it's ultimately not one.
On that logic, though, query the value of publishing the five-point score in the first place.
— Jake Chervinsky (@jchervinsky) September 30, 2019
But even if the already rated cryptocurrencies later end up being cleared as “not securities” per the SEC, the CRC rating system can lead to future conflicts of interest, e.g. member exchanges being charitable in their ratings because they stand to gain from trade volume.
In my opinion, this rating system creates a massive conflict of interest. All of the companies that joined this consortium are massively incentivized to rate the vast majority of tokens as non-securities. Coinbase listed some very questionable tokens including XRP, Tezos, EOS
— Larry Cermak (@lawmaster) September 30, 2019
But there’s a silver lining here, according to Blockchain chief executive officer and president Marco Santori. In a Twitter thread on the CRC announcement, Santori said the effort was suspect in some ways but was also a positive attempt at self-regulation in an industry that needs more regulatory clarity in general.
8/ So why on earth would they publish this? Why on earth should we applaud their effort?
Well, actually we should.
As an industry, this stuff is basically the best we've got.
THAT'S RIGHT ITS A TWIST
wait hear me out.
— Marco Santori (@msantoriESQ) September 30, 2019
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Chainlink rozšířil ekosystém o Zeus Network, Liquity a SHIFT RWA. Zeus přidává zBTC na Solanu, Liquity nasazuje ETH-backed BOLD, který může fungovat nativně napříč řetězci, a SHIFT tokenizuje reálná aktiva.
Chainlink, the leading provider of onchain data and interoperability solutions, welcomed three new projects—Zeus Network, Liquity, and SHIFT RWA—to its ecosystem. These integrations highlight the rising demand for secure, decentralized infrastructure as cross-chain and tokenized asset markets grow.
Zeus Network Brings Bitcoin to Solana Zeus Network, a Bitcoin layer built on Solana, has integrated Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) and Proof of Reserve to expand the reach of zBTC, its permissionless Bitcoin-backed asset. This move aims to connect Bitcoin with multiple chains, including Ethereum, Base, and Sonic, while using Chainlink’s infrastructure to ensure zBTC remains fully collateralized.
Through its dApp, APOLLO, Zeus allows users to lock native BTC and mint zBTC on Solana. Unlike centralized wrapped BTC options, zBTC is entirely decentralized. Its reserves are transparently verifiable through ZeusScan, backed by Chainlink's Proof of Reserve—a key step toward full transparency and security in cross-chain asset flows.
By leveraging CCIP, Zeus is looking to make zBTC more mobile across chains. Their long-term ambition is bold: onboard 1% of all Bitcoin onto the Solana ecosystem. The use of Chainlink's infrastructure helps ensure zBTC can move between blockchains while remaining fully backed and independently verifiable.
“Zeus Network’s integration of Chainlink CCIP and Proof of Reserve demonstrates a strong commitment to secure, decentralized cross-chain BTCFi,” said Luke Lim, Head of CCIP Go-To-Market at Chainlink Labs.
Image: Zeus NetworkLiquity V2 Turns to Chainlink CCIP Liquity V2, the Ethereum-native borrowing protocol, has also adopted Chainlink’s CCIP—but with a different mission. It’s rolling out BOLD, a new ETH-backed stablecoin that can operate natively across chains. This is made possible by Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Token (CCT) standard, which allows any token to become interoperable across EVM-compatible networks.
By integrating CCT, BOLD can now bridge across Arbitrum, Base, Ethereum, and Optimism, streamlining access to liquidity and simplifying cross-chain operations. Users no longer need to rely on wrapped assets or third-party bridges. This also enables Liquity to unify the many forks of its protocol scattered across different blockchains.
Security remains central to the Liquity-Chainlink collaboration. Per reports, Liquity selected CCIP after evaluating various solutions due to its strong security track record.
CCIP uses the Chainlink Decentralized Oracle Network (DON), which has secured over $75 billion in DeFi total value locked (TVL) and powered $18 trillion in onchain value transfers since 2022.
It also features the Risk Management Network—a separate verification layer that monitors CCIP activity in real time. This defense-in-depth architecture makes CCIP one of the most secure interoperability protocols on the market, a vital consideration after numerous cross-chain bridge exploits in recent years.
By using CCIP, Liquity V2 ensures BOLD can travel across chains securely, with programmable token transfers that allow smart contracts to take immediate action on the destination chain.
Image: LiquitySHIFT RWA Joins Chainlink BUILD SHIFT RWA, a project focused on bringing real-world assets onchain, has joined Chainlink’s BUILD Program. This will give SHIFT enhanced access to Chainlink’s oracle services, technical support, and ecosystem-wide collaboration—all in exchange for a share of its native token supply distributed to Chainlink service providers and stakers.
SHIFT is building Asset-Referenced Tokens (ARTokens)—MiCAR-compliant digital assets backed by stocks, bonds, and ETFs. These tokens aim to offer 24/7, cost-effective, and transparent access to real-world assets via DeFi platforms. TradFi institutions can use ARTokens to tap into DeFi liquidity without leaving regulatory frameworks behind.
To increase user trust, SHIFT will integrate Chainlink’s Proof of Reserve for its tokenized assets. This ensures that each ARToken is fully backed by corresponding offchain assets and that this backing can be verified onchain at all times. The result is higher transparency and more confidence for both institutions and individual users.
SHIFT’s broader mission is to enable compliant and secure crossovers between Wall Street and decentralized finance.
Image: Shift RWAWhy This Matters for the Future of Web3Chainlink's newest integrations reflect a growing trend: projects are no longer willing to compromise on security or decentralization in the name of convenience. Whether it’s cross-chain Bitcoin (Zeus), stablecoins that work natively across multiple chains (Liquity), or real-world asset tokenization (SHIFT), the need for reliable infrastructure is clear.
Each of these projects uses Chainlink differently:
Zeus brings secure, verifiable Bitcoin to Solana.Liquity turns its stablecoin into a native cross-chain asset.SHIFT ensures real-world assets are always transparently backed.As more ecosystems embrace Chainlink standards, crypto’s fragmented infrastructure begins to unify. That benefits users, builders, and institutions alike—reducing risk, boosting efficiency, and enabling new financial applications across chains and asset types.
Korejský stablecoin v wonu KRWQ integroval Chainlink Proof of Reserve pro automatické a téměř okamžité ověřování rezerv v poměru 1:1. Jde o první stablecoin v korejském wonu, který tento standard nasadil ve velkém měřítku.
@Krwqcash, the Korean Won-pegged stablecoin developed by @IQ_wiki and @FraxFinance, has officially integrated @Chainlink Proof of Reserve (PoR) to provide automated, real-time verification of its off-chain fiat reserves. The move positions $KRWQ as the first Korean Won stablecoin to adopt this standard at scale, raising the bar for transparency in South Korea's emerging digital currency corridor.
What the Integration Does Chainlink Proof of Reserve connects off-chain reserve data to on-chain systems by fetching information from custodians, verifying it through a decentralized oracle network, and automatically updating smart contracts whenever reserve balances change. For $KRWQ, the integration uses Chainlink Data Streams to deliver continuous 1:1 confirmation that every token in circulation is matched by an equivalent Korean Won held in reserve. Manual attestations and delayed audits no longer meet institutional standards for transparency or timeliness, and Chainlink Proof of Reserve addresses this by providing automated, on-chain verification of a stablecoin's underlying collateral in near real time.
Reserve checks are integrated directly into the token's mint logic, ensuring only collateralized assets enter circulation, while verified reserve data is published on-chain so users and partners can confirm the asset is fully backed in real time. The system also allows protocols to trigger circuit breakers, cap redemptions, or pause minting when reserve thresholds are not met.
Background on KRWQ IQ and Frax announced the launch of $KRWQ as the first fiat-backed stablecoin pegged 1:1 to the South Korean Won, launching on Base, Coinbase's Ethereum Layer 2 network, with IQ describing the move as filling a gap where no won-denominated stablecoin had previously launched at scale. $KRWQ is built on Frax's stablecoin infrastructure, which includes backing from BlackRock's BUIDL fund and Superstate's USTB fund.
The stablecoin provides 24/7 on-chain KRW settlement for remittances, B2B trade, and institutional use, reducing dependence on USD stablecoins and improving cross-border efficiency. $KRWQ operates using LayerZero's Omnichain Fungible Token standard and Stargate bridge, enabling transfers across multiple blockchains with zero slippage.
IQ has stated that KRWQ is designed to be the first fully regulatory-compliant stablecoin in Korea, developed in anticipation of forthcoming stablecoin legislation currently under review in the Korean National Assembly. The Chainlink PoR integration strengthens that compliance positioning by replacing periodic manual audits with continuous, verifiable on-chain proof, setting a new reliability standard for the South Korean digital finance corridor and its broader DeFi distribution.
Sources:
CoinSpeaker: IQ and Frax Launch KRWQ, First Korean Won Stablecoin on Base Network
Chainlink Blog: 5 Ways Chainlink Supercharges Growth for Stablecoin Issuers
The Block: KRWQ Launches as First Korean Won Stablecoin on Base
Tokenizované zlato v 1. čtvrtletí 2026 dosáhlo objemu spotového obchodování 90,70 miliardy USD, přičemž růst táhnou hlavně PAXG a XAUT. Tyto tokeny ale mají odlišná pravidla odkupu, úschovy i práv držitele.
Gold-backed crypto sounds straightforward until you check the redemption rules, custody setup, and issuer terms. In practice, two tokens may track the same ounce of gold while offering very different rights to the holder.
That gap between price exposure and holder rights is drawing more attention in 2026 as tokenized gold trading volume rises and products like Pax Gold (PAXG) and Tether Gold (XAUT) pull in more activity across crypto markets. This guide explains how tokenized gold works, how PAXG and XAUT differ, and what buyers should check before they treat a token like physical bullion.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
➤ Tokenized gold tracks physical bullion, but holder rights, redemption terms, and custody structures can differ sharply between issuers.
➤ Tokenized gold trading volume reached $90.7 billion in Q1 2026, with PAXG and XAUT leading the category’s growth.
➤ Issuer risk, redemption limits, wallet controls, and regional regulations still affect how tokenized gold works in practice.
➤Tokenized gold gives crypto users 24/7 transferability and wallet access, but it does not remove traditional gold-market risks.
In this guide:
What is tokenized gold? How gold-backed crypto works in 2026PAXG vs. XAUT, side by sideDo you own real gold with PAXG and XAUT?Can you redeem PAXG and XAUT for physical gold?Tokenized gold vs. gold ETFs vs physical bullionTokenized gold risks and how to mitigate themHow to buy tokenized gold in 2026Frequently Asked Questions What is tokenized gold? How gold-backed crypto works in 2026 Tokenized gold is a digital token issued on a blockchain that is backed by physical gold stored in audited vaults. Gold has long attracted buyers who want a hard asset outside fiat currencies, but physical settlement, storage, and transfers can be slow or expensive.
This “tokenized” model has brought two markets together that rarely interacted in the past. One is physical gold, which offers a 5,000-year store-of-value record but settles slowly, trades on dealer hours, and is hard to fractionalize. The other is public blockchains, which can settle transactions in seconds, run 24/7, and split assets into tiny units.
A gold-backed token bridges the two by locking real bullion with a custodian and minting transferable claims on it.
What is a troy ounce and London Good Delivery gold?
A troy ounce is the standard unit used in global precious-metals markets and equals about 31.1 grams. “London Good Delivery” refers to large gold bars that meet quality and purity standards accepted by major bullion markets, central banks, and institutional traders.
How tokenization works An issuer such as Paxos or TG Commodities acquires physical gold from refiners or bullion dealers and stores it with a professional custodian. The issuer then creates a matching amount of blockchain-based tokens tied to that gold reserve. Token holders can buy, sell, transfer, or self-custody the assets like other crypto tokens.
When holders redeem tokens through the issuer, the corresponding amount of gold leaves the reserve pool and may be sold, transferred, or delivered physically if redemption minimums are met. Independent attestors or audit firms publish reserve reports on a scheduled basis to verify that the token supply matches the underlying gold holdings.
Why tokenized gold is exploding in 2026 Adoption has accelerated through 2025 and into 2026 as real-world asset (RWA) tokenization moved from pilots to live products. Tokenized gold achieved $90.70 billion in total spot trading volume in Q1 2026, surpassing the $84.64 billion traded throughout 2025, according to CoinGecko’s RWA Report 2026.
Meanwhile, on March 19, 2026, the World Gold Council and Boston Consulting Group proposed a “Gold as a Service” framework designed to standardize custody, reconciliation, compliance, and redemption processes across digital gold products.
Tokenized gold is not a stablecoin. Its price moves with the spot price of gold, so holders gain or lose value as bullion rallies or falls. The “stability” only refers to the 1:1 backing, not a fixed dollar peg.
The combination of rising gold prices, clearer rules in some jurisdictions, and on-chain demand for non-dollar collateral has produced what looks like a structural rather than cyclical lift.
The tokenized gold market includes smaller products such as Kinesis Gold (KAU), Comtech Gold (CGO), VeraOne (VRO), and Matrixdock Gold (XAUM). Even so, market activity and liquidity remain concentrated around Pax Gold (PAXG) and Tether Gold (XAUT), which makes them useful reference points for how large-scale gold-backed tokens currently operate.
Top tokenized gold products by market cap: CoinGecko PAXG vs. XAUT, side by side Pax Gold (PAXG) and Tether Gold (XAUT) together hold roughly nine-tenths of the gold-backed token market. They follow the same backing standard, but their regulator, chain support, audit cadence, redemption process, and US availability are not the same.
AttributePAXGXAUTIssuerPaxos Trust CompanyTG Commodities Limited (Tether)RegulatorOCC, U.S. federal oversight; previously NYDFSCNAD, El SalvadorBacking1 token = 1 troy ounce LBMA Good Delivery1 token = 1 troy ounce LBMA Good DeliveryVault locationBrink’s vaults, LondonSwiss vaults via MKS PAMP and LoomisAuditor and cadenceKPMG LLP, monthlyBDO Italia, quarterly ISAE 3000ChainsEthereum (ERC-20)Ethereum, TRON, Polygon, Solana via LayerZero, BNB ChainIssuance and redemption feeTiered 1% down to 0.125%Flat 0.25%Minimum physical redemption430 tokens for a full bar, 1 gram and up via Alpha Bullion430 tokens for a full bar, no fractional partnerOwnership typeAllocated gold with Paxos bar lookupUndivided gold rights with Tether Gold bar lookupReserve and oracle supportPaxos attestations, allocation lookup, and Chainlink reserve-related infrastructureTether Gold attestations, wallet/bar lookup, and Chainlink XAUT/USD market-data feedsUS retail availabilityListed on Coinbase, Kraken, Gemini, Crypto.comRestricted, not directly available to US retailMarket cap (May 2026)About $2.2 billion per CoinGeckoAbout $2.6 to $2.7 billion per CoinGecko Pax Gold at a glance PAXG launched in September 2019, when Paxos operated under its NYDFS trust-company framework. Paxos later received approval to convert to a national trust charter overseen by the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). Current PAXG terms say PAXG is issued pursuant to specific OCC approval.
Paxos assures that the underlying gold is stored in Brink’s vaults in London, and each PAXG token is linked to a specific serial-numbered gold bar that holders can verify through Paxos’ allocation lookup tool. KPMG took over the monthly attestation in February 2025, replacing WithumSmith+Brown, and the reports are published on the Paxos site.
Tether Gold at a glance XAUT was launched by TG Commodities Limited in January 2020 and is now operated under a license from El Salvador’s National Digital Assets Commission, known by its Spanish initials CNAD.
The bullion is stored in Swiss vaults, with MKS PAMP and Loomis named in TG Commodities’s attestation materials. XAUT launched on Ethereum and TRON before expanding to additional networks through the XAUT0 cross-chain system. Tether later announced Polygon, Solana, and BNB Chain integrations between late 2025 and early 2026.
BDO Italia issues an ISAE 3000 opinion on the reserves on a quarterly basis.
Fees, audits, and oracle data PAXG’s fee structure has changed over time. As of May 2026, Paxos advertises zero on-chain transfer fees and zero storage fees for PAXG, although its terms still reserve the right to impose storage fees in the future with notice. Its terms also govern conversions into USD, unallocated gold, or allocated gold through the Paxos platform.
XAUT says it charges no custodian fee and applies a one-time 25 basis point fee when verified customers purchase or redeem XAU₮ through TG Commodities.
Chainlink has supported reserve-related infrastructure for PAXG, while Chainlink also provides XAUT/USD market-data feeds. A price feed is not the same as a reserve feed. In both cases, users still need to check issuer attestations, custody disclosures, and official lookup tools rather than relying on oracle data alone.
Do you own real gold with PAXG and XAUT? The short answer is that both products describe gold ownership, but the issuer structure, custody chain, legal terms, and redemption process are not the same.
PAXG gives holders ownership rights to allocated London Good Delivery gold held under Paxos custody. XAUT gives holders undivided ownership rights to gold on specified bars, with bar details available through Tether Gold’s lookup system.
The practical question is not only whether gold backs the token, but how each issuer records, verifies, and redeems that claim.
How ownership is recorded PAXG uses an allocated-gold structure. Paxos says each PAXG represents one fine troy ounce of a London Good Delivery gold bar held in professional vaults. Its terms also say that when a holder is not allocated a full bar, the holder owns a pro rata share of that bar based on their PAXG balance. Paxos’ lookup tool lets eligible on-chain holders view bar details tied to their holdings.
XAUT uses a different legal structure. Tether Gold says XAU₮ gives holders undivided ownership rights to gold on specified bars. It also says the allocated gold is identifiable by serial number, purity, and weight through Tether Gold’s lookup system.
So, the cleaner distinction is not “specific bar versus pool.” Both products describe a bar-level link. The real differences come from issuer structure, custodian arrangements, jurisdiction, disclosure cadence, redemption rules, and the legal terms behind each token.
Bankruptcy remoteness and counterparty risk The difference matters most if the issuer fails. Paxos Trust Company is a New York limited-purpose trust company that holds the bullion as a bailee, a structure designed to be bankruptcy remote, meaning the bullion would not be available to general creditors.
TG Commodities is a private Tether subsidiary under El Salvadoran oversight rather than a US trust company, which leaves the holder’s claim subject to El Salvadoran insolvency rules.
As of May 2026, neither structure has faced a major issuer failure or large-scale court test, so the legal outcome in a stress event remains untested.
Insurance and custody disclosures Paxos says each PAXG is backed by one fine troy ounce of gold held in LBMA vaults in London. Its allocation lookup tool lets holders of PAXG in on-chain Ethereum wallets view serial-number and bar information, though the tool does not apply to tokens held through custodial exchanges or wallets. Paxos also publishes monthly PAXG attestation reports.
XAUT’s terms refer to custodian insurance, but the public disclosures do not itemize coverage at the same level of detail. XAUT’s terms refer to custodian insurance, but they also say there is no assurance that the custodian will maintain adequate insurance, or any insurance.
The public terms do not give the same bar-level insurance detail that a cautious buyer may want before they rely on insurance as a risk control. Holders should review the latest issuer terms, reserve reports, and custody disclosures before they treat insurance as meaningful protection.
Allocated ownership is one of the strongest legal protections available in the gold market, but it depends entirely on the custody chain functioning as advertised. Always read the latest attestation rather than relying on marketing language.
Can you redeem PAXG and XAUT for physical gold? Eligible verified holders can redeem both PAXG and XAUT for physical bullion, but the rules are not necessarily retail-friendly in the same way.
PAXG supports direct full-bar redemption through Paxos and smaller physical-gold redemptions through partnered retailers. XAUT redemptions, by contrast, occur through TG Commodities and must be tied to full gold bars.
PAXG redemption Paxos says holders can convert PAXG into USD, unallocated gold, or allocated gold through the Paxos platform, subject to its terms.
Direct allocated-gold redemption requires at least 430 PAXG plus the applicable fee for each London Good Delivery gold bar. Paxos also says customers with smaller holdings can redeem fractional amounts through partnered gold retailers.
Alpha Bullion, a platform tied to Bullion Exchanges and Paxos, says it lets PAXG holders redeem physical gold in sizes from 1 gram to 1 kilogram.
Note that Alpha Bullion requires account verification before order fulfillment. Because product availability, fees, taxes, and delivery terms can change, holders should check Alpha Bullion’s current checkout terms before they treat PAXG as an easy route to small physical-gold delivery.
XAUT redemption XAUT redemption follows a relatively stricter process. Tether Gold says only KYC-verified customers can redeem through the Tether Gold website, and redemptions can occur only for full gold bars. Since those bars usually range from about 385 to 415 fine troy ounces, holders are generally asked to deposit at least 430 XAU₮ to cover a full-bar redemption.
After redemption, the gold can be delivered to the verified customer’s chosen location in Switzerland, with delivery costs payable by the customer. Tether Gold says it does not currently offer delivery outside Switzerland.
Instead of physical delivery, a verified customer may ask Tether Gold to attempt a sale of the gold bar in the Swiss gold market and return the USD proceeds, minus the redemption fee. That sale is subject to available rates and counterparties, and Tether Gold says it has no obligation to repurchase the tokens or gold bars.
How to verify your gold on-chain Both issuers offer on-chain transparency tools. For PAXG, holders enter an Ethereum address into the Paxos lookup page and see the serial numbers of the underlying bars. For XAUT, the Tether site shows the gold attributed to a wallet at a given time.
These tools can help holders check issuer-level allocation data, while Chainlink infrastructure can support market-data or reserve-related checks depending on the token. Users should still treat issuer attestations, custody disclosures, and official lookup tools as the main sources for reserve verification.
That is the redemption side. The next question is how tokenized gold stacks up against the alternatives most investors already know.
Tokenized gold vs. gold ETFs vs physical bullion Tokenized gold is right there in between two long-established options. The table below compares the three on the dimensions that drive most allocation decisions.
AttributeTokenized gold (PAXG, XAUT)Gold ETFs (GLD, IAU, GLDM)Physical bullionCustodyLBMA vault held by issuer custodianLBMA vault held by ETF trusteeSelf-custody or third-party vaultTrading hours24/7/365Stock market hoursDealer hoursAnnual fee0% storage, 0.125% to 1% issuance and redemption0.17% to 0.40% expense ratioDealer spread plus storage and insuranceSettlementSeconds, on-chainT+1Same day at dealerRedemption for physicalYes, with minimumsNo, cash settlement onlyAlready physicalDeFi useCollateral, lending, yieldNoneNoneUS tax treatmentProperty treatment likely, still developingCollectibles 28% per IRS guidanceCollectibles 28% per IRS guidance Fee math at retail scale Headline fees can look simple until you apply them to a real position size. For example, take a $10,000 PAXG buy held for 12 months. If that order falls into Paxos’ 2–25 PAXG fee tier, the 1% entry fee comes to about $100.
Paxos currently advertises zero on-chain transfer fees and zero storage fees for PAXG.
If the position is sold or converted through the Paxos wallet at the same fee tier, the exit fee would add another $100. That puts the direct Paxos round-trip cost at about $200 on a $10,000 position held for one year, before spreads, gas, taxes, exchange fees, or any third-party platform costs.
Cost note: This example assumes direct Paxos wallet creation and sale or conversion at the 1% fee tier. If you buy or sell PAXG through an exchange, your actual cost may come from trading fees, spreads, withdrawal costs, and venue-specific rules instead.
A $10,000 GLD position over the same period pays the 0.40% expense ratio, or about $40, before any broker-specific costs. A $10,000 GLDM position is cheaper still at 0.10%, or roughly $10 for the year.
On direct fees alone, a lower-cost gold ETF such as GLDM can be much cheaper than a direct PAXG round trip at the 1% tier. PAXG’s case becomes stronger only if the holder values features an ETF cannot provide, such as crypto-wallet custody, around-the-clock transfers, DeFi use, or PAXG-specific redemption routes.
Tax treatment In the United States, the Internal Revenue Service classifies physical gold and most gold ETFs as collectibles, which carry a long-term capital gains rate of up to 28% rather than the standard 20%.
As of May 2026, tokenized gold is in a less settled position. Some practitioners argue it should follow the underlying asset and be treated as a collectible, while others apply general property rules for digital assets. UK, EU, and UAE treatments vary and depend on whether the holder uses an exchange domiciled in a regulated venue.
Always confirm with a tax professional before relying on any single framing.
Tokenized gold in DeFi The structural advantage of tokenized gold over an ETF is on-chain usability. PAXG is listed as collateral on the Aave deployment on Ethereum and trades in Curve and Uniswap pools, while XAUT has integrations on TRON-based DeFi venues and emerging yield vaults on platforms such as Falcon Finance.
Yields available in 2026 have ranged from low single digits to mid single digits, depending on the pool and risk tier, with strategies that wrap gold collateral into lending or basis trades.
Tokenized gold risks and how to mitigate them The risks attached to tokenized gold are not the same as the risks attached to physical bullion or to an ETF. Buyers should weigh three categories before committing.
Issuer and depeg risk Both PAXG and XAUT depend on a single issuer to honor redemptions and report reserves. A failure at Paxos or TG Commodities would cap the value of the token at whatever a court determined was the holder’s claim on the bullion.
Token prices can also drift from spot during stress events. PAXG traded at a premium to spot during the February 2025 London bullion shortage as physical delivery times stretched, an episode that reminded the market that on-chain liquidity does not always equal physical liquidity.
Smart contract, sanctions, and wallet freezing PAXG and XAUT contracts both include administrative functions that allow the issuer to freeze tokens in specific wallets. Paxos has used the function to comply with US sanctions enforcement, and Tether has frozen XAUT-related addresses tied to flagged activity. The functions exist for legitimate compliance reasons, but they mean a holder who trips a sanctions flag could lose access to their tokens.
Both tokens can be frozen by the issuer. A buyer who values censorship resistance above gold exposure should consider physical bullion or self-custody alternatives instead.
Regulatory risk Paxos previously operated under NYDFS oversight and is now OCC-regulated as a national trust institution.
XAUT has a narrower U.S. retail access path. Tether Gold says U.S. persons cannot purchase or redeem XAU₮ directly through its issuer platform, which means U.S. users should not assume they can access issuer-level redemption features.
In the European Union, MiCA rules for asset-referenced tokens and e-money tokens became applicable on June 30, 2024, while broader crypto-asset service provider rules followed on Dec. 30, 2024. Paxos says it operates under MiCA compliance through FIN-FSA in the EU, but its current PAXG page also says PAXG is unavailable in the EU.
Put simply, access can depend on the issuer, exchange, user location, and product feature. So, as a buyer, you should check current exchange notices and issuer disclosures before they assume PAXG or XAUT is available in the jurisdiction you are in.
How to buy tokenized gold in 2026 Tokenized gold trades on both centralized exchanges and on-chain venues. Most retail buyers start on a centralized exchange for the smoothest path, then move tokens to self-custody or a DeFi position if they want to use the gold as collateral.
Buying on a centralized exchange PAXG is listed on Coinbase, Kraken, Crypto.com, Binance, and Bitpanda, among others. The standard flow is to fund an account with fiat, place a market or limit order against the PAXG pair, and either keep the tokens on the exchange or withdraw them to a personal wallet.
XAUT is listed on a smaller set of venues, with Bitfinex and several non-US exchanges providing the deepest order books. US residents typically cannot buy XAUT directly through a domestic exchange.
Buying on a DEX On Ethereum, PAXG can be bought on Uniswap and Curve pools using ether or a stablecoin, though gas costs and pool depth should be checked before larger trades.
XAUT liquidity tends to sit in TRON-based and non-EVM venues, which makes the operational steps more involved. Buyers who use a DEX should always verify the token contract address from the issuer’s official site to avoid scam tokens.
Other gold-backed tokens worth knowing PAXG and XAUT dominate the market, but several other gold-backed tokens are worth knowing. Kinesis Gold (KAU) and Kinesis Silver (KAG) pay a share of network fees back to holders, which gives them a yield profile unlike PAXG or XAUT. CACHE Gold (CGT) uses a fractional-gram model with on-chain bar serial assignment.
AurusX (AWG) and Matrixdock XAUM are relatively newer entrants targeting cross-jurisdictional retail demand. Comtech Gold (CGO) markets a Shariah-compliant structure aimed at Middle East and South Asian buyers.
Note that liquidity for these smaller tokens is thinner, so always check the on-chain market depth before committing.
Frequently Asked Questions What is tokenized gold and how does it work? Tokenized gold is a digital token on a blockchain that represents ownership of physical gold held in an audited vault. Each token typically equals one troy ounce of London Good Delivery bullion held by a custodian on behalf of the issuer. Holders can transfer the token like any other crypto asset and, in some cases, redeem it for physical metal when minimums and verification rules are met.
Do you own real gold with PAXG? Yes. PAXG uses an allocated ownership model in which each token is mapped to a portion of a specific London Good Delivery bar identified by serial number. Paxos publishes a lookup tool that lets a wallet holder view the bars assigned to their address. The bullion is held in Brink’s vaults in London and is described by Paxos as legally separate from the company’s general balance sheet.
Can you redeem PAXG for physical gold? Yes, with two paths. A holder with 430 PAXG or more can redeem directly through Paxos for a full London Good Delivery bar, subject to Paxos’ terms. Holders below that threshold can use Alpha Bullion’s partner route for smaller physical-gold redemptions from 1 gram upward, subject to identity verification, product availability, taxes, delivery terms, and any current checkout costs.
Can you redeem XAUT for physical gold? Yes, but only at the full-bar level and only in Switzerland. A holder must accumulate at least 430 XAUT, complete identity verification with TG Commodities, and arrange Swiss delivery or cash settlement at spot. There is no fractional retail partner equivalent to Alpha Bullion, so most XAUT holders treat the token as a price exposure rather than a redemption vehicle.
What is the difference between PAXG and XAUT? The main differences are issuer structure, regulatory profile, chain support, audit cadence, and redemption rules. Paxos previously operated under NYDFS oversight and is now OCC-regulated as a national trust institution. PAXG uses monthly attestations and links holdings to allocated London Good Delivery gold. XAUT is issued through TG Commodities, operates under El Salvador’s CNAD framework, uses quarterly assurance reports, and gives holders undivided gold rights with Tether Gold’s bar lookup system. PAXG is Ethereum-based, while XAUT is available across several networks.
Is tokenized gold safe and what are the main risks? Tokenized gold inherits the price behavior of physical gold and adds three risk categories on top. Issuer risk covers the potential failure of Paxos or TG Commodities, smart contract risk covers code or governance failures, and sanctions risk covers the issuer’s ability to freeze tokens in flagged wallets. Holders mitigate these risks by reading the latest attestations, splitting positions across issuers, and avoiding behavior that could trigger a wallet freeze.
Dusk Network integrovala Chainlink CCIP pro tokenizaci cenných papírů z NPEX, regulované nizozemské burzy s více než 200 miliony EUR financování. DUSK navíc získá nativní převody mezi Ethereum a Solanou.
TLDR: Dusk Network integrates Chainlink CCIP for cross-chain trading of €200M+ NPEX tokenized securities DUSK token gains native transfer capability between Ethereum and Solana via Cross-Chain Token standard Chainlink DataLink becomes exclusive oracle for NPEX exchange data with low-latency institutional feeds Partnership creates compliance framework for European securities to settle across DeFi environments Dusk Network has integrated Chainlink’s infrastructure to tokenize securities from NPEX, a regulated Dutch stock exchange with over €200 million in financing and 17,500 active investors. The partnership establishes cross-chain interoperability for European equities through blockchain rails.
NPEX assets will gain composability across multiple networks while maintaining regulatory compliance. The integration marks a significant step toward institutional adoption of tokenized securities.
CCIP Enables Cross-Chain Movement for Tokenized Equities Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol will function as the primary bridge for NPEX tokenized assets on Dusk Network.
The protocol allows securities issued under European regulation to move between blockchain ecosystems without compromising compliance frameworks. CCIP integration extends beyond NPEX securities to include the DUSK native token itself.
The DUSK token will transfer natively between Ethereum and Solana using Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Token standard. This dual-chain presence expands liquidity options for token holders across major DeFi platforms.
Institutional users can now access compliant digital securities regardless of their preferred blockchain environment.
Emanuele Francioni, CEO of Dusk, stated the integration builds infrastructure needed for next-generation real-world asset markets. The combination of CCIP with DataLink creates an end-to-end framework for compliant asset issuance.
Tokenized equities can now settle in DeFi environments while maintaining their regulatory status.
The architecture supports new distribution models for financial instruments across chains. Settlement processes that previously required intermediaries can now execute through smart contracts. This reduces friction in trading European securities for global participants.
DataLink Brings Regulated Market Data Onchain Dusk and NPEX adopted Chainlink DataLink as their exclusive oracle solution for exchange data. The platform will deliver official NPEX pricing and trading information directly to smart contracts. Both organizations become data publishers for regulatory-grade financial information through this arrangement.
Chainlink Data Streams will provide low-latency price updates for institutional applications on Dusk Network. The high-frequency data feed supports trading strategies that require real-time market information. Smart contracts can now access verified financial data with the auditability institutions demand.
Johann Eid, Chief Business Officer at Chainlink Labs, described the collaboration as defining a blueprint for regulated markets onchain. The data standard ensures transparency across tokenized asset platforms. Market participants gain access to the same quality of information available on traditional exchanges.
The integration combines interoperability with verified data feeds in a unified infrastructure. NPEX securities can move across chains while maintaining connection to authoritative pricing sources. This architecture addresses two critical barriers to institutional blockchain adoption simultaneously.
Chainlink rozšířil CCIP, CRE, Data Streams a Data Feeds na pět nových sítí včetně Creditcoin, Neo X, Tempo, Ink a testnetu Robinhood Chain. Cílem je širší adopce a bezpečnější přenos dat i likvidity napříč blockchainy.
Chainlink recently announced a major ecosystem update after seeing a significant surge in trading volume. The company has revealed plans to extend its core services, including CCIP, CRE, Data Streams, and Data Feeds, to a range of new blockchain networks. According to the official statement on May 22, this move aims to drive broader global adoption and make Chainlink’s services accessible across multiple blockchains.
Extensive network integrations achievedChainlink, which has become known in the blockchain space for its focus on tokenization and multi-chain protocols, continues to strengthen its presence with robust infrastructure. The rollout of the Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) on networks like Creditcoin, Neo X, and Tempo now allows other blockchains to access Chainlink’s services with ease.
This enhancement paves the way for more flexible use of tokenized assets, decentralized applications, and inter-network liquidity. By integrating seamlessly with different blockchain protocols, Chainlink is no longer confined to its own network, but offers secure and interoperable connections for a broader range of platforms.
Glossary: CCIP (Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol) is a technical protocol that enables direct data and value transfers between different blockchain networks, ensuring that applications and assets on separate chains can communicate securely.
Strategic moves with Ink and Robinhood ChainA key part of this ecosystem expansion revolves around Chainlink’s collaboration with Ink. By integrating CRE and Data Feeds into the Ink network, Chainlink has enabled the platform, which includes decentralized finance applications, to access secure off-chain data and oracle infrastructure. Ink’s adoption of these two Chainlink services broadens both data streaming and oracle-based application capabilities.
In addition, Chainlink has migrated data streams to Robinhood’s blockchain-focused test network. This collaboration, centered on delivering low-latency and real-time data solutions, has sparked interest in institutional-grade trading applications built on blockchain.
Chainlink’s official announcement emphasized: “By integrating our data streams with the Robinhood Chain testnet, we’re providing scalable, low-latency data to both investor communities and institutional users.”
Moving data streams to Robinhood Chain’s testnet further demonstrated Chainlink’s capacity to deliver fast and reliable market data to blockchain-based systems, reinforcing its leading role in real-time information transfer.
Five new integrations spotlight growth potentialWith its latest developments, Chainlink has integrated a total of five new blockchain networks into its data and solution infrastructure. This advancement strengthens its position both in tokenized asset markets and multi-chain management. The new integrations are expected to bolster secure data flow within decentralized applications.
Chainlink’s ongoing expansion, driven by these connections, facilitates easier data and liquidity transfer across different networks. Such interoperability could help accelerate the broader growth of the blockchain ecosystem.
Chainlink Integration NetworksServices OfferedCreditcoinCCIPNeo XCCIPTempoCCIPInkCRE, Data FeedsRobinhood Chain (Testnet)Data StreamsWith these new integrations, Chainlink aims to accelerate adoption by providing secure data and effective communication infrastructure across multiple, specialized networks.
Disclaimer: The information contained in this article does not constitute investment advice. Investors should be aware that cryptocurrencies carry high volatility and therefore risk, and should conduct their own research.
SEC se v odvolání v případu Ripple nezabývá verdiktem, že XRP není cenný papír, uvedl právní ředitel Stuart Alderoty. Ripple podá vlastní Form C příští týden.
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Ripple chief legal officer Stuart Alderoty says the recent filing by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in its case against Ripple Labs does not appeal the ruling that XRP is not a security.
Alderoty’s comments follow an Oct. 16 Form C filing by the SEC with a pre-judgement statement against certain aspects of the court’s summary judgment.
Alderoty Says Court Decision Regarding XRP’s Security Status “Stands As The Law Of The Land” Ripple defense attorney James Filan shared the filing on Oct. 17. In their appeal, the SEC asks the court to review its decisions related to Ripple’s XRP sales through exchange platforms. It also requests the court to review the ruling on the personal sales executed by Ripple executives Brad Garlinghouse and Chris Larsen.
The SEC went on to argue that Larsen and Galinghouse violated securities laws by offering and selling XRP. It also said that they both “aided and abetted Ripple’s violations of those provisions.”
Alderoty responded to the SEC’s request by saying that the court’s decision regarding XRP’s security status “stands as the law of the land.” He added that the fintech firm intends to file its own Form C next week.
No surprises here — once again it’s been made clear. The Court’s ruling that “XRP is not a security” is NOT being appealed. That decision stands as the law of the land.
Stay tuned for Ripple’s Form C to be filed next week. https://t.co/m9molUGSBv
— Stuart Alderoty (@s_alderoty) October 18, 2024
SEC Ripple Case Expected To Continue Through July 2025 According to a timeline shared by Fox Business producer Eleanor Terret on X, the Ripple SEC case could carry on well into July next year. After Ripple files its own Form C next week, both the regulator and Ripple Labs will need to “agree on a briefing schedule.”
🚨NEW: Just had a great chat with @s_alderoty of @Ripple who gave me a rundown of the appeals timeline.
📌The @SECGov’s last day to file Form C (which will give some level of detail about what it plans to appeal) is tomorrow.
📌Seven days later, Ripple will file its own Form…
— Eleanor Terrett (@EleanorTerrett) October 15, 2024
Thereafter, the SEC will have up to 90 days to file its first brief according to Terrett, who cited Alderoty. She added that Alderoty believes the regulator will take advantage of this period, and try to only make its filing at the end of the 90 days. Thereafter, the full briefing process “will go through July 2025,” according to the Ripple legal chief.
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Coinbase Derivatives podala u CFTC žádost o spuštění futures na Avalanche, Chainlink, Polkadot, Stellar a Shiba Inu. Obchodování má začít po 15. červenci.
The derivatives arm of crypto exchange Coinbase has just submitted to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) documents to self-certify the listing of new futures products tied to five popular crypto assets.
According to the filings, Coinbase Derivatives is launching futures contracts for Avalanche (AVA), Chainlink (LNK), Polkadot (DOT), Stellar (XLM), and Shiba Inu (SHB), which will all be offered for trading on or after July 15th.
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The documents say that Coinbase has spoken with futures commission merchants (FCMs) and market participants who support the decision to launch the contracts.
“The Exchange is not aware of any substantive opposing views to the Contract. The Exchange certifies that the Contract and related rules certified herein comply with the Commodity Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.”
In a statement, Coinbase Derivatives says it will be the first futures exchange in the US to introduce CFTC-regulated margined futures contracts for AVA, LINK, DOT, XLM and SHB.
“With the addition of AVA, LNK, DOT, XLM, and SHB, our participants and their clients gain more access points to manage risk, speculate on price movements, and participate in the crypto economy with reduced upfront capital requirements.”
Coinbase Derivatives also recently launched commodities futures contracts for oil and gold after noticing increased demand for retail-focused products on accessible and regulated exchanges. The new futures contracts are sized at 10 barrels of oil and one troy ounce of gold.
Huma Finance spustila PST na Fluid, kde lze aktivum vkládat, půjčovat si proti němu a využívat looping přes jednu integraci. Podpora Chainlink přidává cenová data a cross-chain infrastrukturu.
Huma Finance's PayFi asset ($PST), backed by real-world payments, now accesses DEX liquidity and borrowing on Fluid through a single integration. PST is among the first assets leveraging Fluid's Liquidity as a Service infrastructure — designed to bring scalable liquidity to real-world assets.
Huma Finance, the leading PayFi network providing on-chain liquidity for global payment financing, today announced that PST — its USDC-denominated yield primitive backed by real-world payment flows — is now live on Fluid.The launch leverages Fluid, one of the top decentralized exchanges and lending venues on Ethereum and the world's most capital-efficient Liquidity Layer for finance. This partnership combines Huma's PayFi yield primitive with Fluid's composable liquidity layer and Chainlink's institutional-grade cross-chain infrastructure and oracles, enabling PST to be deposited, borrowed against, and looped natively on Fluid from day one.
Since inception, Huma has facilitated over $14 Billion in payment volume with zero credit defaults, delivering institutional-grade USDC yield sourced from real-world payment financing activities including cross-border prefunding, trade finance, settlement liquidity, and credit card receivable financing. With this launch, Ethereum DeFi users can now borrow USDC and USDT against PST, or loop their PST positions natively on Fluid.
Through a single integration with Fluid, PST accesses DEX liquidity, borrowing markets, and looping mechanics in one infrastructure layer. PST is among the first assets leveraging Fluid's Liquidity as a Service platform — Fluid's institutional infrastructure designed to bring scalable, composable liquidity to real-world assets. The single-integration model gives RWA issuers a unified deployment path: one connection, three composability surfaces.
The integration is supported by Chainlink, whose oracles provide institutional-grade pricing for PST, while CCIP — secured by Decentralized Oracle Networks with a minimum of 16 independent node operators per bridge lane — connects PST across chains. Together, this gives lending markets, vault curators, and structured product venues the infrastructure to integrate PST with institutional-grade reliability.
About Huma: Huma Finance is the first PayFi network, providing on-chain liquidity for global payment financing. The network has processed more than $13 Billion in payment volume with zero credit defaults to date. PST, Huma's PayFi Strategy Token, is the network's USDC-denominated yield primitive, backed by real-world payment financing flows including cross-border prefunding, trade finance, settlement liquidity, and credit card receivable financing. Learn more at huma.finance.
About Fluid: Fluid is the world's most capital-efficient Liquidity Layer for finance that can support an entire ecosystem of financial products on top of it. Connects lending, DEX, borrowing, stablecoin markets and more financial products into one efficient system. Learn more at fluid.io.
About Chainlink: Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and the market leader powering the majority of decentralized finance (DeFi). The Chainlink stack provides the essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards needed to power advanced blockchain use cases for institutional tokenized assets, lending, payments, stablecoins, and more. Since inventing decentralized oracle networks, Chainlink has enabled tens of trillions in transaction value and now secures the vast majority of DeFi. Learn more at chain.link.
For more information about the partnership and related investment opportunities, visit:
Huma Finance: https://huma.finance/
Fluid: https://fluid.io/
Chainlink: https://chain.link/
PST contract on ETH mainnet: 0x22aE3D9a738471f405169Af055d31c687087d4c7
Explore PST Market on Fluid: https://fluid.io/dashboard/1?token0Address=0x22ae3d9a738471f405169af055d31c687087d4c7
Podle Nansen už v peněžence hackera WazirX zůstává jen asi 5 milionů USD poté, co prodal Uniswap, Chainlink i The Sandbox. Největší tlak byl na Chainlink a PUSH.
The entity behind the WazirX exploit has liquidated a good portion of its ill-gotten gains, which analysts have noted has had a major impact on some prices.
Alex Svanevik, CEO of blockchain analytics firm Nansen, pointed out on Twitter that the entity behind the hack of Indian exchange WazirX—suggested to be a North Korean hacking group—became the top Uniswap (UNI) seller. Nansen data for UNI shows that the address in question has sold $859,514 worth of the token over the last seven days.
The @WazirXIndia Exploiter is back on the move...
In the past hour, they've moved 21.16b $BOB ($800k) and some smaller holdings that have also been sold. And a further 6.7m $CHR ($1.6m), was sent to a separate address and was sold a few minutes ago
This is after the… pic.twitter.com/L0zPf8Id0O
— Nansen 🧭 (@nansen_ai) July 22, 2024
Similarly, the presumed North Korean hacker group also topped the sale charts for Chainlink (LINK) and The Sandbox (SAND). Nansen data shows that the hacker sold over $2.77 million of Chainlink and $1.6 million of SAND over the last seven days.
Later, the firm's main account sent a tweet saying that there's now only $5 million worth of funds left in the exploiter's wallet. The remainder is mostly comprised of Celer Network (CELR), Ooki (OOKI), and Frontier (FRONT).
Market reacts to WazirX hacker's sellingDespite this, according to CoinMarketCap data, Chainlink is trading at $14.16 after seeing a 2.57% gain over the last seven days. Similarly, The Sandbox is trading at $0.3371 after seeing 3.61% worth of gains over the last seven days. Uniswap is trading at $7.91 after trading in the red for most of the last seven days—even before the hack—and lost 6.1% over the last seven days.
The same cannot be said about Push Protocol (PUSH). The token has dropped 24% over both the last seven days and 32% in the last 24 hours. It's now trading at $0.1027 after rebounding 28% from its $0.08022 low reported earlier on Monday. Nansen data shows that the WazirX hacker wallet sold $529,167 worth of PUSH over the last da—with the next top seller only having sold $11,133, highlighting the low liquidity.
Push Protocol and The Sandbox 24-hour price chart. Source: CoinMarketCapPush Protocol & The Sandbox 24-hour price chart. | Source: CoinMarketCap
The difference in impact is to be largely attributed to the different levels of liquidity. Push Protocol has a market cap of under $6.2 million and a 24-hour volume of under $4.9 million as of press time.
Hi Push Community
As you may know, WazirX exchange has been the victim of a hack that exposed several coins, and unfortunately, PUSH as well. We have traced them to this address: https://t.co/NA2ObL7eM6 exploiter of the exchange has sold 100% of the reserve of PUSH tokens… pic.twitter.com/m43ec4TrME
Chainlink has a market cap of nearly $8.6 billion and a volume of over $421 million, whereas The Sandbox has $767 million and $69 million respectively. Uniswap has a market cap of $4.74 billion and a volume of nearly $158 million.
Edited by Stacy Elliott.
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