Welcome back to the Chainlink Overview. Every month, we dive deep into the Chainlink ecosystem to bring you up to speed on the network’s latest developments, metrics and more. All in one place.
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Chainlink By The Numbers
Total Value Secured: $76.7B (-4.72%)
Transaction Value Enabled: $27.64T (+2.03%)
Total Verified Messages: 19B (+0.69%)
Total Chainlink Reserve Value: $19.3M (+60.93%)
The metrics are accurate at the time of publication. The percentage change is over a 30-day period.
What Caught Our Eye This Month
In 2025, Chainlink enabled $27.4 trillion worth of transactions, launched initiatives like the Chainlink Reserve, Runtime Environment, Automated Compliance Engine, and maintained 70% of DeFi oracle share.
Blockworks Research’s December report goes into how S&P Global, Deutsche Börse, and FTSE Russell are bringing proprietary data onchain using Chainlink’s DataLink.
Etherealize collaborated with Chainlink to produce a guide to better help enterprises understand how blockchains work, what interoperability is, as well as different privacy and governance mechanics.
Chainlink Reserve Approaches $20M in AUM
Chainlink continued to expand its Chainlink Reserve in December with consistent weekly purchases of LINK tokens, bringing its total to 1.42 million LINK tokens.
During the month, the Reserve acquired 442,600 LINK, and continued buying in the new year, purchasing an additional 94,268 LINK on January 1, 2026.
While the number of LINK tokens acquired increased during December, the estimated USD value of each weekly purchase remained relatively flat at approximately $1.2 million, based on LINK’s current price of $13.77. This suggests that higher token acquisition volumes were primarily driven by price dynamics rather than an increase in capital outlay.
Collectively, these purchases pushed the Reserve’s total value to approximately $19.8 million.
By systematically converting revenue into LINK holdings, the network is reinforcing its balance sheet while maintaining flexibility for long-term ecosystem support, operational resilience and strategic initiatives.
Over time, since the Reserve is funded through both onchain and offchain revenue, the ecosystem will look to support a dynamic where sustained revenue generation enables continued reinvestment into the network, strengthening infrastructure and ecosystem development.
Expanding The Ecosystem
The SEC approved trading for Bitwise’s Chainlink ETF, CLNK, on Jan. 5
BitMEX will use Chainlink Data Streams to power its Equity perpetuals, which provide data streams for stock and ETF markets.
Sergey Nazarov, co-founder of Chainlink, spoke with FinextraTV on why the convergence of TradFi and DeFi relates more to the tokenization of equities and commodities than cryptocurrencies
VOOI integrated the Chainlink Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol to its crypto and stock perpetual trading exchange, enabling transfers between BNB Chain, Ethereum and Mantle
QuantAMM is integrating Chainlink Runtime Environment as a curator strategy layer to power a BTC/USDC inflation-based strategy
Octav integrated Chainlink to process NAV data onchain so asset managers, vault curators or strategists can use independent, automated and verifiable data
Judge is now using the Chainlink Runtime Environment to route assets in its Cross-Chain Vault through lending platforms like Aave, Compound, Fluid, Dolomite and Folk for stablecoin yields
Gearbox Protocol integrated Chainlink’s Price Feeds to its stablecoin and MON token liquidity pools
NCFX partnered with Chainlink to make its regulated FX spot and FX forward benchmarks available onchain for 24/7 trading
Blocksize will use Chainlink’s State Pricing to facilitate access to node operations, real-time crypto data and delegated staking
Get Active In The Ecosystem
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