Chainlink is the industry standard for building, accessing, and selling oracle services needed to power hybrid smart contracts on any blockchain.
Chainlink oracle networks provide smart contracts with a way to reliably connect to any external API and leverage secure offchain computations for enabling feature-rich applications.
Chainlink currently secures tens of billions of dollars across DeFi, insurance, gaming, and other major industries, and offers global enterprises and leading data providers a universal gateway to all blockchains.
LINK, Chainlink’s native cryptocurrency, is central to its ecosystem.
Built on Ethereum’s ERC-677 standard, LINK facilitates payments to node operators and serves as collateral in staking mechanisms.
Node operators stake LINK to participate in the network, creating economic incentives for honest behavior. Malicious actors risk losing their stake, aligning operator interests with network security.
LINK has a fixed supply of 1 billion tokens, reinforcing its scarcity. During Chainlink’s 2017 ICO, 35% of the supply was sold to the public, while the remainder is allocated to support the ecosystem—funding initiatives like node operator incentives, grants, and strategic partnerships.
Demand for LINK is fueled by its core utility: powering data services, earning staking rewards, and serving as a speculative asset. Recent upgrades such as Staking v0.2 further decentralize the network by enabling broader participation in securing Chainlink’s infrastructure.
Chainlink 2.0 is a multi-year roadmap to advance the capabilities of Chainlink’s decentralized oracle networks (DONs), with a focus on expanding services, boosting efficiency, and enabling smarter, more cost-effective contracts.
As part of this evolution, LINK plays a critical role—not only as payment for data and services—but also as staked collateral, securing the network through economic incentives.
With the introduction of staking mechanisms like Staking v0.2, LINK holders can now actively participate in the protocol’s security and decentralization, making LINK essential to the growth and resilience of the Chainlink 2.0 ecosystem.
Augment the capabilities of smart contracts by securely composing on-chain and off-chain computing resources into hybrid smart contracts.
Augment the capabilities of smart contracts by securely composing on-chain and off-chain computing resources into hybrid smart contracts.
Ensure decentralized oracle networks achieve the latencies and throughputs required by high-performance blockchains, layer-2 solutions, and Web2 systems.
Ensure decentralized oracle networks achieve the latencies and throughputs required by high-performance blockchains, layer-2 solutions, and Web2 systems.
Present developers and users with simple functionality that eliminates the need for familiarity with complex underlying protocols and system boundaries.
Present developers and users with simple functionality that eliminates the need for familiarity with complex underlying protocols and system boundaries.
Catalyze high integrity systems that combine blockchains’ innate transparency with strong confidentiality protections for sensitive data and computations.
Catalyze high integrity systems that combine blockchains’ innate transparency with strong confidentiality protections for sensitive data and computations.
Support transaction sequencing in ways that are fair for end-users and prevent front-running and other forms of value extraction by bots and exploitative miners.
Support transaction sequencing in ways that are fair for end-users and prevent front-running and other forms of value extraction by bots and exploitative miners.
Create a reliable layer of support for smart contracts and other oracle-dependent systems by means of decentralization, cryptographic guarantees, and guardrails.
Create a reliable layer of support for smart contracts and other oracle-dependent systems by means of decentralization, cryptographic guarantees, and guardrails.
Ensure nodes in decentralized oracle networks have strong economic incentives to behave reliably and correctly, even in the face of well-resourced adversaries.
Ensure nodes in decentralized oracle networks have strong economic incentives to behave reliably and correctly, even in the face of well-resourced adversaries.
