Chainlink Reserve launches with strategic LINK token reserve

Chainlink Overview - August 7, 2025

Aug 07, 2025

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Chainlink by the numbers

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Say Hello to the Chainlink Reserve

For many networks, there’s a question of how to build long term value. Some focus on new initiatives, product launches or community engagement. Others focus on all those areas, and then some.

Chainlink is a decentralized blockchain oracle network that connects more than 60 chains to real-world data, governments and enterprise systems. It has enabled tens of trillions in transaction volume across the ecosystem. But on the front of revenue, Chainlink is changing its strategy.

Chainlink Reserve is a new upgrade centered on the creation of a strategic onchain reserve of LINK tokens. It will initially be funded through offchain and onchain revenue. This means money coming into the network can be used to support its long-term growth and sustainability, via LINK tokens.

Through Payment Abstraction, Chainlink will convert any revenue into LINK, reducing the payment friction for any provider. This means a large enterprise can pay in whatever currency they’d like on the network and it’ll be converted on the backend into LINK.

Chainlink’s Payment Abstraction infrastructure originally launched in late March, but has now been upgraded to cover additional categories for revenue and facilitate automated operations. This includes areas like cross-chain interoperability protocol (CCIP) and price feeds.

Chainlink’s users and integrations span across dozens of entities including crypto-native ones like Aave, Jupiter, Compound, Lido and Euler to traditional financial entities like Swift, UBS and Mastercard.

To date, Chainlink has “created hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue,” the team shared with Token Relations. A lot of it derived from large enterprises that paid offchain for access to Chainlink Platform.

“With increasing demand from a number of the world’s largest banking and capital markets institutions, this form of paying for the Chainlink standard is expected to grow into the future as the industry grows,” the team stated.

To start, the reserve accumulated over $1 million worth of LINK in its early stage launch phase. That holding is expected to “gradually grow” as more existing revenue is converted into the token and put into the reserve.

Similar to other strategic treasuries, the team shared there are no nearterm plans to withdraw capital from the reserve. The reserve also builds off the network’s existing economic pillars for building a stronger onchain economy with user fee growth and operating cost reductions, among other aspects.

“The introduction of the Chainlink Reserve supports Chainlink adoption across DeFi and TradFi, and establishes Chainlink as the infrastructure standard for mass adoption of tokenized assets,” the team stated.

All in, this is opening the door for new economic upgrades to the Chainlink platform, LINK holders and a way to put existing and new revenue to work through the reserve.

For more visibility, view the analytics dashboard on reserve.chain.link. Information about the circulating supply of LINK can be found here and the Reserve contract address can be found here on Etherscan.

Expanding the ecosystem

Here’s what happened in the past month that caught our eye

Chainlink launched Data Streams for U.S. equities and ETFs on GMX, Kamino and GMX-Solana to access real-time market data
Chainlink announced State Pricing, a pricing methodology for asset pricing designed for price accuracy, market resilience and liquidity assessment for assets that have limited trading volume on exchanges
BOB joined joined Chainlink Scale to integrate Chainlink Data Feeds for its developers to launch secure markets to its BTCfi ecosystem
Interop Finance leveraged Chainlink CCIP to enable cross-chain transfers between Ethereum and BNB Chain for Falcon Stable’s yield-bearing asset USDf
Learn about the winners from the Chainlink Chromion Hackathon which saw more than 3,000 participants and featured $100K in total rewards
Blockchain Association partnered with Chainlink to launch Tokenized in America, a public resource that tracks how all 50 states are advancing crypto and blockchain innovation

Get active in the ecosystem

Want to explore Chainlink further? Check out some activations below:

Watch the latest Chainlink interviews below:
- "People Don't Know What's Coming" | Chainlink Founder on Trump GENIUS Act, CLARITY Act, & MORE (AltCoin Daily)
- Chainlink Co-Founder Sergey Nazarov brought on ANZ Banking Services Lead Nigel Dobson for the latest Future is On podcast episode
- Chainlink Labs Chief Business Officer Johann Eid joined Botanix Labs to discuss building reliable oracle services on Bitcoin
- ICYMI: Nazarov spoke at EthCC about institutional capital and its role in growing the blockchain industry to $100T
Chainlink Labs is hiring, check out job listings here
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