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Chainlink (LINK) price and market data
Oracle network · Infrastructure
Short answer: Chainlink is the decentralized oracle network that feeds real-world data into smart contracts. The panel below loads its live price, market cap, volume, supply, and 24h/7d/30d performance from named public sources with the as-of time printed on it. The sections after it explain what Chainlink is and how it works, without quoting prices that would go stale.
What is Chainlink?
Chainlink is a decentralized oracle network: the bridge that feeds real-world information into blockchains, which cannot see outside data on their own. Its best-known service is price feeds, the reference prices most decentralized finance protocols use to value collateral and settle positions. When a lending protocol liquidates a loan at a fair price, that price usually arrived through an oracle network like this one.
LINK is the network's payment and security token. Node operators earn LINK for fetching, validating, and delivering data, and LINK can be staked to back the reliability of specific services. Chainlink has expanded from price feeds into cross-chain messaging (CCIP) and other data services, but the oracle core remains the business.
How Chainlink works
- When a contract requests data, a committee of independent node operators retrieves it from multiple sources and aggregates the answers, so no single node or source controls the result.
- Operators are paid in LINK per service, and reputation and staking mechanisms penalize inaccurate or unavailable reporting.
- Price feeds update when prices move beyond a set deviation or after a maximum time, balancing freshness against cost.
- CCIP extends the same operator network to moving tokens and messages between different blockchains.
The risk, in plain terms
LINK's value follows demand for oracle services and DeFi activity generally. Oracle failures, though rare, can cascade into the protocols that consume the data.
Every figure on this page comes from the named public source printed beside it. If a feed fails, the panel says so instead of presenting old numbers as live. Read the methodology for how CryptosEyes sources market data, and the disclaimer before acting on anything you read here.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the current price of Chainlink?
The live panel at the top of this page shows the latest LINK price in US dollars, loaded in your browser from the CoinGecko public market API with the CoinPaprika public API as fallback. It refreshes about every two minutes while the page is open and prints its source and as-of time beside the figures. An aggregator price is a market-wide average across exchanges; a single exchange can quote slightly higher or lower at the same moment.
How is Chainlink's market cap calculated?
Market capitalization is the current price multiplied by the circulating supply, the amount of LINK in public hands as reported by the data source. Where the source publishes total and maximum supply, this page shows those beside the circulating figure so the gap is visible. Market cap values the circulating coins at today's price; it is not the amount of money anyone has invested in the asset, and it moves whenever either the price or the reported supply changes.
Is LINK a good investment?
CryptosEyes does not make that call for any asset. This page publishes market data with named sources and explains how Chainlink works, so you can judge it against your own research. The risk to understand first: LINK's value follows demand for oracle services and DeFi activity generally. Oracle failures, though rare, can cascade into the protocols that consume the data.
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