LINK

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TheMasterQuaker

Hi, gotta watch out for those paid $LINK shills. SWIFT Ledger is based on Hyperledger Besu AKA Linea Besu, a specialized distribution of the Hyperledger Besu execution client bundled with custom plugins to support Linea's ZK technology. Lubin states Consensys in the form of Linea is building SWIFT Ledger: [https://x.com/shaams/status/1974235877472682023](https://x.com/shaams/status/1974235877472682023) Joe Lubin confirms Linea technology is part of the SWIFT Ledger prototype: [https://x.com/BMNRBullz/status/2002477508281659401?s=20](https://x.com/BMNRBullz/status/2002477508281659401?s=20) Linea Besu documentation: [https://docs.linea.build/network/how-to/run-a-node/linea-besu](https://docs.linea.build/network/how-to/run-a-node/linea-besu)

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Well no one knows but i bet on LINK. LINK said to be added in the charles schwab in the coming months It also had some positive adoptions, partnerships and developments in the last couple of weeks. If everything goes right it could do 4x although it might be a long term run.

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Ok_Reputation9512

Automatic buy some $Sui, $Sol, $LTC, and $LINK every month. Just put $100 in each.

EarningsPal

1. Buy BTC with $400. 2. Use it as collateral. Borrow 25%. Sweep that into a brokerage account, buy high cash flow ETFs like QQQI. Not long term good as pure index exposure but short term high cash flow. 3. Take the 1% monthly dividend, DCA fee switch altcoins. Look at the gas guzzler lists and buy what people pay to use. Ex. UNI, AAVE, ARB, SOL, LINK, etc. anything with already on fee switch and revenue.

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If you want the safe way with less upside go BTC and ETH. If you want something with more upside then look on altcoins that are in the top 50 or top 100, make sure they are not memecoins, have a working project behind them, a trending narrative, good tokenomics and either put all your available money on one, or diversify and hold long term. For example some of my goins i will hold long term and dca on them are LINK, HBAR, TRAC, NEAR, TAO. I am not mentioning them to influence you. Do your own research. I dont know if its a good entry point now. But if youre gonna hold long term and dca on any coin you choose then it doesnt matter.

opensandshuts

Canton does generate revenue for it's holders as part of its burn/mint program. This list also doesn't include LINK, which generates fees and also has a payment abstraction layer that converts USD to LINK, and they have the LINK reserve, where they buy back around 97k LINK every week using their revenue. 97k per week at 52 weeks is 5M LINK a year or $55-$60M at current prices. The reserve alone would put them in the top 15 on this list.

fan_of_hakiksexydays

There's definitely some good reasons for ZEC to pump, but you guys should definitely look at the reasons why ZEC is pumping before jumping in. It's not so much that the news is about anything that exceptional, despite bagholders now trying to call it the "invisible Bitcoin" lol. It's a lot of your typical alt coin news and "partnerships", governance voting, someone famous mentioning ZEC, VC and funds who put money into it, etc...except that it all came out at once. One of the main tech reasons is that the network upgrade should now fix the major security issues, and reduce the block time. So it's not so much that it's doing something exceptional or groundbreaking, it's just that it won't be as shitty. But ultimately the big reason is the ETF. Even in 2026 crypto ETFs are still a big deal. An alt coin getting an ETF is still gonna create a major pump. Whether the pump can sustain is another story. We've seen what happened to ETH, SOL, XRP, ADA, BNB, LINK, etc...

billybobbybrownbaby

so glad i closed my ZEC long and kept LINK open. i’m such a good and smart trader 🫠

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Suitable_Acadia_190

In this cycle now, ETH & LINK

billybobbybrownbaby

LINK price action is criminal

coffee_is_fun

The industry degenerated into Mazoni's Artist's Shit and Cattelan's Comedian. The industry part of it wasn't about fixing finance. Let's replay a bit of the last few cycles. 2017 was selling the idea that rich people are rich because accredited investors already have money, can buy into IPOs and rip off the general public by flipping to them in subsequent rounds. ICOs being for unaccredited investors. That narrative got people betting on napkin math, whitepapers and founder narratives. Everyone's a VC. 2021 was yield farming. Far more complicated. So it degenerated into NFTs and animal coins. Some legit looking projects too, but Binance ran away with those and made walled garden, LARP versions to siphon financial support to the knockoffs and kept a lot of interesting projects on the ground. The NFTs were interesting but they quickly crossed from a way to use virtualized scarcity to solve for duplication issues in digitizing tradfi and economics to art jokes. 2025 calcified crypto as a shitcoin casino. We were back to www wild west types of degeneracy with people hard scamming, selling themselves in borderline criminal (sometimes criminal) ways. It was just BTC and a few platforms that made it easy for anyone to mint a meme coin. Unrelated to the Solana hell, we saw Polymarket rise as a killer app. 2025 made fighting for crypto's reputation impossible. So did 2021 with the animal coins and things like BAND vs LINK, PancakeSwap vs Uniswap, Venus Protocol vs AAVE. People forget, but 2021-2022 was when it went off the rails. There were legitimate looking projects rising from the ashes of 2017-2018. But the collective we went with spring breaker tier champagne popping at the knockoffs, NFTs and the meme coins. Crypto is not going to loudly revolutionize anything at this point. It is a tool to be worked with if its the right solution to emergent problems. We have digital gold, peer to peer gambling, turing complete ledgers, oracles to connect chains and offchains, etc. I'll point at individual technologies when they make sense to include in a solution. I'll hope the infrastructure and expertise are there to pick up the pieces if a finance catastrophe plays out. But I can't evangelize it without acknowledging a lot of bullshit in the past decade.

JustStopppingBye

You’re actually so dumb it’s funny lol https://chain.link/blog/payment-abstraction-svr-fee-conversion Yes, you can pay in any token but it’s converted to LINK to pay node ops. This reduces payment friction within the Chainlink Network. The funnier part is Ethereum is doing the EXACT same thing in their next hegota upgrade schedule for 2027. https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/09/07/ethereum-commits-to-letting-users-pay-gas-fees-without-having-to-hold-eth

beatthebook2x

and they still dont need your token, they accept payment in stables and fiat also so please enlighten where u need LINK to pay for said services???

JustStopppingBye

Chainlink is on track to be the most successful blockchain middle ware companies as they’re integrated into both Swifts and DTCCs blockchain platform who help move and settle quadrillion dollars worth of value each year. Probably why DTCCs CEO is speaking at their conference next month as well as Swifts head of strategy. https://chain.link/events/linknyc/speakers The entire point of LINK is to economically secure the network, pay node operators and create incentives around the infrastructure. Saying “the token isn’t needed” is like saying a toll road doesn’t need tolls because cars can physically drive on it without paying. Just like any chain, their services aren’t free and you need to pay them in LINK. Go back into your hole.

Legitimate_Cry_5194

I'm a BTC maxi since quite a few years back. If i was forced to buy some alts they'd be ETH, SOL, HYPE, ZCASH, AAVE, BNB and LINK.

fadeddreams555

I think we're partly arguing semantics now. If by "gamble" you simply mean putting capital at risk when the future outcome isn't guaranteed, then sure, Bitcoin is a gamble. But under that definition, buying an individual stock, gold, foreign currency, commodities or a speculative growth company is also a gamble. ETH, SOL, LINK, XRP, etc. gaining against BTC doesn't contradict what I said. I'm not claiming they can't outperform Bitcoin. I'm saying Bitcoin remains a major driver of crypto liquidity and sentiment. An altcoin can gain against BTC during part of a cycle while still getting crushed when the entire crypto market sells off alongside Bitcoin. Like, how many alts have reached their ATH or maintained close to it while Bitcoin was over 50% down? I'm sure some obscure ones have, but far more alts have failed to reclaim prior highs or faded into irrelevance after a cycle. That's what makes them a gamble in comparison. And I didn't say Bitcoin was a collectible. I brought up collectibles because they demonstrate the broader point that an asset doesn't need cash flow or earnings in order to have market value.

JustStopppingBye

You’re arguing that BTC is a rational speculation, not proving that it can't be considered a gamble. Historical halving cycles don't guarantee future returns….this is literally a gamble. \>Bitcoin doesn't determine the value of altcoins, but it still strongly influences the broader crypto market. If it crashes, everything goes with it for the most part, and vice-versa.  ETH, LINK, SOL, BNB and XRP have all gained against BTC itself. \>Lack of cash flow does not make something a gamble. Gold has no earnings or cash flow either. Neither do currencies, collectibles or many other non-productive assets people invest in. Gold has centuries of monetary, industrial and cultural demand. Bitcoin is also not a collectible lol Fiat** **currencies have value largely because they are established mediums of exchange and units of account, backed by governments.

HelloYatta

LINK & ADA with our luck another pandemic strikes and the normies get bored again. 🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑

ChangeNOW_Community

SOL, LINK, HYPE and SUI would be my starting watchlist. not saying they’re going to moon, but at least there are actual catalysts to research

duracellchipmunk

I always hold the line of BTC/ETH/LINK

Suitable_Acadia_190

LINK

Radiant-Age-3590

LINK only!

xcaddz

LINK doing well

billybobbybrownbaby

classic LINK pump so had to dump entire market

Doritos707

Bitcoin, Stacks STX, ChainLink LINK, PythNetwork Pyth, RailGun RAIL, ZCash ZEC, Solana SOL. To me nothing else matters tbh

Traditional_Most105

Chainlink -LINK. Charles Schwab has announced plans to add LINK, SOL and AVAX so these will have more exposure to more people. And LINK the past couple of weeks had some positive news that makes it even stronger canditate for long term holding. But dont just take blindly mine or others opinion. Do your own research on coins that interest you.

gioacostax

BTC, ETH, SOL y LINK. El resto es basura, estos al menos son infraestructura y tienen apoyo politico, lo que lo deja bien parado a nivel especulativo.

RecoverOld9545

I'm gonna start doing monthly DCA into mostly BTC but also major like HYPE, TAO, LINK, XRP. Still have ETH and SOL from last bull market that are in staking. Bear market is easy, bull markets are hell.

NMoney007

Not financial advice, but let me share my data. I built a 30-factor scoring system (on-chain activity, tokenomics, liquidity, whale flows, etc.) that grades 1,000 coins — here's how your list reads on it right now: Your current holds all score in the top tier: BTC 76, ETH 78, SOL 81, LINK 77. Solid and defensible — which is a compliment. On your two candidates: ZCash grades 78 — same tier as your majors — and it's been one of the strongest upward movers in my data for weeks (score climbed from \~61 while the price ran; privacy sector's been quietly leading). Hyperliquid grades 68 — good, not elite; strong on liquidity and usage, weaker on tokenomics-type factors.

SenseiRaheem

I wish that LINK was twice the 52.00 ATH that it held 5 years ago. Someone, despite having all those integrations you’ve mentions, it’s trading around $11.

SenseiRaheem

After 6 years of watching LINK struggle to regain where it was in 2020, it isn’t anything I’d recommend to anyone

billybobbybrownbaby

LINK ETH memes on robinhood

Temporary-Cause730

I think it would be a broad rally, all majors going up, and things like ETH, SOL, HYPE, LIT overperforming. And maybe some old coins like LINK and XRP. 

veskald

The per-asset table is the most interesting thing here, but careful with it: 94 trades across 10 coins is about 9 trades each. LINK at 71% and BTC at 20% is exactly what pure noise looks like at that sample size. If you cut the losers and keep the winners now, you will have fitted the portfolio to three months of noise, and the next three months will hand you a different top three. On the give back pattern - 76% of losing trades were green at some point is not automatically a bug. With a trailing stop that is normal: the same mechanism that gives back profit on losers is what lets winners run. The question is not "how do i stop giving back", its "what does the MFE distribution look like on winners vs losers". If losers reach the same max favourable excursion as winners before dying, no exit rule can separate them, because at the moment of decision they look identical. Thats a signal problem, not an exit problem, and it would explain why every exit change you tried made things worse or barely moved.

ivanx90

Really appreciate you actually reading through the code, this is exactly the kind of feedback I was hoping for. The gradient booster idea makes sense in theory but yeah, like you said, not enough data at 2h resolution to train anything reliable right now. Filed away for later if we ever get more history. The per-asset thing hit hardest though, went and checked it right after reading your comment. Same exact strategy across 10 coins on the 2H bot, 3 months of data: LINK 71% winrate, +0.71 ADA 70% winrate, +0.59 SOL 50% winrate, +0.07 BNB 50% winrate, -0.64 DOGE 42% winrate, -0.76 NEAR 43% winrate, -1.86 XRP 29% winrate, -1.07 AVAX 27% winrate, -1.52 BTC 20% winrate, -0.94 ETH 30% winrate, -2.19 Basically confirms exactly what you guessed without even seeing the numbers. One model, wildly different results per coin. Feels like the next real thing to dig into rather than more exit tuning. Volatility-adaptive stops instead of fixed thresholds lines up with something we found digging into MFE/MAE research before posting here (Chandelier exit type stuff), so good to hear it independently from someone who actually trades this way. You're right on the order book too, we're doing a REST snapshot via fetch_order_book, not a real delta stream, and yeah the main loop is just sleeping 60s between polls. Both accurate, both would be a real infra upgrade, just not sure yet if that's the bottleneck or if it's the per-asset thing above. Probably worth doing eventually either way. Maker vs taker on exit is a good point for whenever this goes live, but it's all paper trading right now so no real fills happening yet, nothing to optimize there for the moment. Thanks again, this was way more useful than I expected when I posted.

faisal_yk26

Historically not much, no. Most oracle feeds were subsidised or paid in other tokens, so usage went up and LINK didn't really capture it. CCIP and the staking side changed that a bit since fees route back, but the honest answer is the link between "Chainlink is used everywhere" and "LINK accrues value" has always been weaker than people assume. Schwab adding it is probably a bigger price driver right now than any of the actual usage mechanics.

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Anyone in crypto for Twitter clout doesn’t deserve a second thought. As for coins going to near zero, I’ve been here since 2017 and 80% of the coins I’ve owned have gone to near zero. The ones that haven’t (TRON, XMR, BNB, LINK, ZEC) have made up for the ones that have. Mind you I never held meme coins either. Looking back, had I just DCA’d BTC I would have still done better, and with much less stress.

opensandshuts

Just my opinion....they are patiently awaiting a broad scale roll out before putting the foot on the fees gas pedal. It's easier to have leverage when you are the undisputed leader and already ingrained into the financial systems. LINK is also proving themselves again and again as being reliable. Let's suppose LINK eventually charges 10bps as a processing fee (.10%) - which is considerable less than what tradfi charges (in fact, a RIDICULOUSLY LOW fee) 10 bps on $1 Quadrillion annually would be $100B in fee revenue for LINK. The DTCC alone processes $4 Quadrillion in volume annually. The scope of this market is truly massive.

ShittingOutPosts

Serious question: LINK seems to be one of the few coins actually being utilized in a meaningfully way…so why hasn’t the price been so muted.

opensandshuts

IMO, Ripple will hold off on integrating CCIP until they are absolutely have to. My understanding of Ripple is that they seem to be betting on XRP being the "gas token" for transactions on XRPL. Integrating LINK would be an indicator that XRP may not survive.

opensandshuts

LINK started the entire rally: [https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1vuvs2c/analyzing\_the\_recent\_run\_leaders\_vs\_followers/](https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1vuvs2c/analyzing_the_recent_run_leaders_vs_followers/)

opensandshuts

Just letting you know this is misinformation. They have a payment abstraction layer that converts payments into LINK, and they also use revenue they receive for services to buy back LINK as part of the LINK reserve: [https://metrics.chain.link/reserve](https://metrics.chain.link/reserve) They've been buying back LINK weekly for about a year now and have 5.5M LINK worth $64M. Honestly there is not a single crypto company out there actively buying their own token.

opensandshuts

What time range are you looking at? That's most important when considering "top performers". I did analysis here that shows that XMR and LINK were the first movers in this run up. SOL, HYPE, hell..even BTC were trailing XMR and LINK [https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1vuvs2c/analyzing\_the\_recent\_run\_leaders\_vs\_followers/](https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1vuvs2c/analyzing_the_recent_run_leaders_vs_followers/)

micho510900

You cannot borrow conviction. Make your own research, convince yourself that the move you are doing is right. I will make you endure downturns and you won't be asking yourself why you even bought in the first place. I did that for both BTC and ETH, and I held since 2017. Don't listen to people online. I sold my 100 000 LINK for like 10K $ long time ago cause someone on this sub said that they saw the founder on Bahamas and was told the project won't be continued which was obviously a lie. I lacked conviction, don't make the same mistake.

EntrepreneurLife9883

LINK

opensandshuts

I'll have to read more about Hyperliquid, but NASDAQ seems to be following the route of xstocks by kraken. Regardless, all of it needs LINK's CCIP. The banks, DTCC, cryptomarkets. Why bet on a single chain when you can bet on the token that makes it all possible? that's LINK.

opensandshuts

It's true, I posted the analysis that showed it was gaining in early August along with LINK, ahead of all the other cryptos. LINK ended up flipping XMR by marketcap tho, as it became the biggest benefactor of this run. But def don't rule out XMR, because it was gaining ahead of everything else.

opensandshuts

In this cycle, it's actually daddy XMR (Monero) and daddy LINK (chainlink). easy to verify- just look at the charts. XMR + LINK had mid-August gains, BTC and all others were August 19th

glitch3107

LINK base off the list. But SOL is good option too with recent improvement to processing speeds.

PotentialGur31

Yeah SOL probably deserves a spot tbh. I left it out mostly because I was trying to keep the list to stuff I’m actively comparing right now. LINK still feels like the boring answer that keeps surviving every cycle, and SOL probably has one of the clearest actual usage cases out of the majors.

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alrightfornow

damn LINK is pumping

AlternativeHunter543

The top comment asks what happens if it dumps now. Worth knowing what the base rates say, and also what they do not say. I pulled every daily candle across 8 majors (BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, DOGE, BNB, ADA, LINK) that closed +15% or more. 253 instances. The day after: 57.9% closed red, 30.3% worse than -5%. But the mean next-day return was +0.92% against a +0.21% baseline, and the median was -1.51%. Barbell, not a drift. About one in seven ripped another 10%+ and carried the average by itself. Then I tried to get more specific, because that is exactly the setup we are in now: the pump day was followed by a green day. Across the same sample, the second day after that pattern was green only 41.1% of the time (n=107). Nine points below baseline. That looked like a real edge. So I split the history in half and ran each half separately. First half 38.6%, second half 52.6%. The effect reversed. Sample sizes in the second half are small, but a result that flips sign when you cut the data is not a result, it is a coincidence with good marketing. So I do not have a call for today, and that is the honest answer. What I do have is a note about the first number: after a vertical day, red is the modal outcome, but the tail that pays is fat enough to make the average positive. Anyone quoting only one of those two numbers at you is selling something. Method: daily candles, Binance spot, close vs open on the same candle for the pump day, close to close after.

opensandshuts

I appreciate your willingness to discuss it civilly and know you did not name call anyone. Everyone knows the "value" accrual hasn't been there. My issue with detractors is that they act like they've been rugged, when LINK publicly announced the schedule for selling supply to fund the project. It's no different from AMZN being founded in 1994, going public in 1997, and not becoming profitable until 2003, nearly 10 years after being founded. Are investors mad at AMZN? Any AI search can tell folks that, but it's easier to parrot a "rug pull" narrative. How else are they going to pay a staff of engineers, business leaders, etc. to work on this project for 10+ years? Would folks rather they accept a ton of VC money like Solana and others? IMO, the fact that they are selling the token to fund the growth of the project is compelling. **The 2017 ICO:** Chainlink officially raised $32 million in September 2017 **by selling LINK tokens directly to both retail and institutional participants.** Historical Supply Dynamics & Releases (easily researched): * **Initial Allocation (2017):** The initial 1 billion LINK supply was divided into a 35% token sale (private and public), 35% for node operators/ecosystem incentives, and 30% for the parent company/reserve. * **Economics 2.0 Shift (2022):** The Foundation pledged transparent periodic movements of non-circulating supply (such as capping early targeted releases to 50 million LINK) to support initiatives like staking. * **Quarterly Unlocks:** On-chain analytics routinely track predictable multi-million LINK movements from non-circulating Foundation/Team addresses (often releasing 10M to 20M tokens quarterly) into operational or exchange-labeled wallets. * **Current Circulating Supply:** Out of the 1 billion hard cap, approximately 748 million LINK (\~75%) are in active circulation, while the remaining balance resides across designated non-circulating or staking contract vaults

opensandshuts

agree to disagree. This post has 0 upvotes, all the comments are about LINK holders being suckers. Keep in mind this is a single thread and I've been interested in crypto for a while.

JustStopppingBye

Ripple and Chainlink are basically polar opposites. Ripple is a private company with shareholders, and XRP holders are not shareholders in Ripple. The company can sell XRP from its holdings to fund its operations, acquisitions and business activities, while any benefit to XRP holders is indirect. That creates an obvious distinction between the interests of Ripple shareholders and XRP holders. Chainlink on the other hand, has increasingly been using revenue to acquire LINK for its reserves, directly tying part of the network's economic activity to the token itself. And as for your 600% XRP trade, congratulations but making money on an asset doesn't prove the underlying project deserved its valuation. XRP's market cap has repeatedly priced in expectations that Ripple or XRP would achieve something extraordinary, yet the actual adoption of XRP as a global bridge asset has never come close to justifying the kind of valuation its community constantly claims is inevitable. You got lucky because you didn’t actually do any research into the company.

opensandshuts

Imo, it’s okay to be condescending when people treat you like a moron for doing DD.  Look- if your goal is to participate in tulip/beanie baby mania and play hot potato to see who wins and who holds a bag - go “invest” in PEPE, Shibainuobamacoin, or whatever the fuck else crops up. Unfortunately for those who bought LINK at its highest point, they were unfortunately caught in the combo of a low circulating supply and high volume of interest. In my experience, LINK has been one of the few projects that has pushed through the naysayers, and actually done things for the holders. 1. They announced when LINK circulating supply would be increased (sales to fund expansion) 2. Staking opened up on a priority basis for those who held LINK through price drops. 3. They are the ONLY project I’ve ever seen to buy back the token in regular intervals, using the fees they earn, in addition to the payment abstraction layer. When people stop treating LINK investors like they’re idiots, maybe we can let up on the condescending tone.  Satoshi himself once said, “if you don’t get it, I don’t have time to explain it to you.”

Big-Finding2976

LINK's problem is there's no link between the profits the company makes and the token price, so even if the company makes a ton of money it doesn't follow that the token price will increase. That's true of a lot of crypto tokens unfortunately. Having said that, it's up 22.4% and 32.5% in the last 7 and 14 days respectively, which is about the same as HYPE and more than you would have made with most stocks in that time. Although it's still down 80% from it's ATH in May 2021 and down 57% since August 2025, whilst HYPE is up 73% in a year. I don't know if HYPE's price is based on profits being made by the company though, or just hype.

AlternativeHunter543

Since the top comment is asking whether this is a bull trap, here's what the base rates actually say. I pulled every day across 8 majors (BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, DOGE, BNB, ADA, LINK) where the coin closed up 15% or more on the day. 253 instances. Then I looked at the following day. 57.9% of those next days closed red. 30.3% closed more than 5% down. 13.8% closed more than 10% down. But the average next-day return is +0.92%, comfortably above the +0.21% baseline for a random day. Both of those are true at once, and that is the whole point. The median next day is -1.51% while the mean is positive, because 14.6% of the time the thing rips another 10%+ and drags the average up by itself. The distribution is barbell shaped, not centered. So "is it a bull trap" is the wrong shape of question. Most days after a big pump are red, and the ones that aren't are occasionally enormous. If you size for the average you get run over by the median. If you size for the median you miss the tail that pays. Method: daily candles, Binance spot, up day measured close vs open on the same candle. Happy to be told this breaks somewhere I didn't test.

opensandshuts

1. Payment abstraction layer converts payment into LINK- [https://chain.link/blog/payment-abstraction-svr-fee-conversion](https://chain.link/blog/payment-abstraction-svr-fee-conversion) 2. Link is using fees to buy back a strategic reserve of LINK: [https://metrics.chain.link/reserve](https://metrics.chain.link/reserve) The DTCC themselves announced working with LINK and the major banks: [https://www.dtcc.com/news/2026/july/15/dtcc-turns-tokenization-into-reality](https://www.dtcc.com/news/2026/july/15/dtcc-turns-tokenization-into-reality) Ever hear of Robinhood the trading platform? They use LINK: [https://www.chainlinkecosystem.com/ecosystem/robinhood](https://www.chainlinkecosystem.com/ecosystem/robinhood) Ever heard of Ondo finance, one of the leading institutional tokenization companies? They use LINK: [https://www.chainlinkecosystem.com/ecosystem/ondo-finance](https://www.chainlinkecosystem.com/ecosystem/ondo-finance) Ever heard of Kalshi, the prediction market - they use LINK: [https://www.chainlinkecosystem.com/ecosystem/kalshi](https://www.chainlinkecosystem.com/ecosystem/kalshi) Ever heard of Kraken, one of the first cryptocurrency markets to tokenize stocks with xstocks? They migrated to CCIP after trying to use a legacy provider: [https://www.chainlinkecosystem.com/ecosystem/kraken](https://www.chainlinkecosystem.com/ecosystem/kraken) Did you know that xstocks is partnered with NASDAQ and uses LINK? [https://www.chainlinkecosystem.com/ecosystem/xstocks](https://www.chainlinkecosystem.com/ecosystem/xstocks) [https://blog.kraken.com/news/payward-partners-with-nasdaq](https://blog.kraken.com/news/payward-partners-with-nasdaq) What about Coinbase, have you ever heard of them? they use LINK: [https://www.chainlinkecosystem.com/ecosystem/coinbase-cloud](https://www.chainlinkecosystem.com/ecosystem/coinbase-cloud) Look, everyone following LINK could be completely wrong. I get that. But of all the fucking evidence/news developments associated with LINK, imo, you could not possibly place another "bet" on a crypto in the entire market. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. But there's not a better bet in the market than LINK right now and I'll stand by that even if it doesn't take off.

opensandshuts

Let me say it louder for those in the back: How many of your choice cryptos are actively buying back their tokens as a reserve vs. dumping them all on retail? [https://metrics.chain.link/reserve](https://metrics.chain.link/reserve) How many of your choice cryptos have built payment abstraction layers that convert fees paid into the native token? [https://chain.link/blog/payment-abstraction-svr-fee-conversion](https://chain.link/blog/payment-abstraction-svr-fee-conversion) How many of your choice cryptos have had their staking pool completely filled since the 1st day they launched the pool? FYI: LINK staking has been at 100% capacity for the 2+ years they've launched. Any open spots get snapped up.

JustStopppingBye

Comparing Sergey Nazarov to Justin Sun is pretty fucking stupid. Sergey is out there speaking at swifts SIBOS every year and working with institutions like DTCC on real financial infrastructure, while you’re dismissing everything based on “vibes” lol You don’t have to buy LINK, but at least make an argument based on something other than feelings.

opensandshuts

And LINK just overtook Monero…. 😆

opensandshuts

In the 24 hours since your comment, LINK has overtaken Monero

alrightfornow

Finally some movement with LINK

opensandshuts

How many of your choice cryptos are actively buying back their tokens as a reserve vs. dumping them all on retail? [https://metrics.chain.link/reserve](https://metrics.chain.link/reserve) How many of your choice cryptos have built payment abstraction layers that convert fees paid into the native token? [https://chain.link/blog/payment-abstraction-svr-fee-conversion](https://chain.link/blog/payment-abstraction-svr-fee-conversion) How many of your choice cryptos have had their staking pool completely filled since the 1st day they launched the pool? FYI: LINK staking has been at 100% capacity for the 2+ years they've launched. Any open spots get snapped up.

opensandshuts

Love all these downvotes on LINK when it's on a tear. 

Dense-Cauliflower276

What is the utility of the LINK token? Buyback ? Revenue ?

opensandshuts

You can't say "utility" in the crypto market without mentioning LINK. It has competition, but lately they've been dropping like flies.

opensandshuts

And LINK. People keep hating on it, but it's utility grows and grows. DTCC, SWIFT. just wait...

opensandshuts

LINK fans know..

Over_Variation_1007

I bought in on XRP, HBAR, QNT, Solana, and LINK during the bull run so I’m down about 50% on those. I also got lucky and sold my Bitcoin and Ethereum near the top. I also sold about 20% of my XRP at $2.75 last September anticipating a bigger drop. I should have sold more.  During the bear market, I have kept buying, but have mostly focused on XRP, Bitcoin, and Ethereum. I’m down about $10K across the coins at loss, but about even when including Bitcoin and Ethereum. I’ll probably sell during the next bull market whenever that and keep DCA’ng every week or two until then. 

sluglife1987

That’s actually one of the better portfolios Iv seen on Reddit. Usually it’s XRP, LINK, Cardano, LTC etc. legacy shit coins that are lower in price than they where 10 years ago

OutcomeBig4141

Especially when RWAs take off. LINK stands to gain from that. 

tequilawhiteclaws

I'm with ya. Was a cardano maxi, sorta still bullish but theyve got a massive branding problem even if the tech is good. It's probably a 3rd world governance + rwa platform eventually. BTC is all brand. 99% of use cases will be ETH + LINK + Google/Apple running private wallets on your phone

zzscrubzz

Consider NFTs dead. Well established altcoins with utility profiles that are publically implemented into global finance such as XRP, LINK, XDC, HBAR, Stellar, etc are the ones to focus on. Ignore the fud, and 'hype', as it largely doesn't matter unless you're a cone who makes their investment decisions based on market sentiment.

Django_McFly

Why not *neither*? LINK never got back to it's 2021 high. SOL got back there for like a day or two then quickly crashed. LINK was ~$50 peak in 2021, ~$25 in 2024... 2024 is with more oracles being used and Chainlink looking brighter than ever, just like now. You'd be lucky to get $15 bucks if the trend continues. ADA is an even worse story. It's like you look at diminishing returns every cycle and are assuming *the last cycle is probably the floor*. Imo that's a super gamble. You could bet on the 999,999/1,000,000 or the 1/1,000,000. If you don't stop being silly and take that easy 999,999/1,000,000 bet... None of those tokens are at attractive prices for risk vs just buying BTC imo. I'm not even a BTC maxi but LINK and ADA are like confirmed dog shit. Hoskinson was throating Trump late 2024 and the token still couldn't get within 50% of the 2021 highs. Sometimes the best thing to do if you MUST do something crypto is to buy some stablecoins 1:1 and get your little 4 to 8 % in defi. Or buy BTC. Or just pick the stuff that's winning rather than going out on a limb for darlings from literally two cycles back.

JustStopppingBye

That’s just objectively wrong. As Chainlink services move into production, usage generates fees and Chainlink’s Payment Abstraction converts those fees into LINK. More institutional usage = more economic activity flowing through LINK. If you think this doesn’t create demand then why are you even invested into crypto and discussing it? 😂 L1 chains are in an even worse position.

SpontaneousDream

SOL had its run. Been down since 2021. [https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/SOLBTC/?timeframe=ALL](https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/SOLBTC/?timeframe=ALL) LINK had its run. Been down since 2020 (and near all time lows). [https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/SOLBTC/?timeframe=ALL](https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/SOLBTC/?timeframe=ALL) Buy shitcoins, stay poor

Elendron

Converted a load to ETH on Monday. It's pumping little bits since while ETH does nothing... The ultimate BS thing is that Link was at my cost basis while I set my LINK/ETH order, then it wicked down, filled, and now I have a tiny capital loss to report. This market shows no mercy.

ubermensch1001

Bottom for ADA was most likely in after the Yoroi wallet hack, where those who were using it as a hot wallet had their funds drained. It went down to 14 cents and smaller holders have more or less completely sold off while whales have loaded up heavily. However, I already have a very large position with this and feel that it would be overexposure to continue making large moves. With that said, it's still very attractive given just how cheap it is right now. I am looking to invest 50%+ of this cash into BTC but would prefer making a large move into one or the other with SOL vs. LINK if I decide to go this route. Easiest decision would be 100% BTC, and right now that is what I'm leaning towards.

Timely-Fig2030

It's not SOL and it's not LINK either. But for your question i would go for LINK, since it was not hyped last cycle. But keep looking out for better tech and i won't spoil it too you.

Suitable_Acadia_190

Not 100%. I play the macro flows & the rotation cycles, when it starts its always been ETH to move before LINK. I mean Solana is great and will grow massively as well, just different scales of tradfi adoption and that's where the real capitol will come from so anything more directly attached to that has reason to grow the fastest and the most.

ubermensch1001

Are you 100% LINK or do you have other positions as well? What are you referring to with your last part here, I don't know enough about Solana and Link right now.

Southern-Bid4831

Solana offre de la liquidité et du rendement via le staking.Chainlink est une infrastructure sous-évaluée sous les 10 $.Une répartition 70 % BTC / 15 % SOL / 15 % LINK serait je pense pour toi la meilleure stratégie

Suitable_Acadia_190

I am what almost all would call irrationally heavy in LINK. Solanas great too, But one of them has partners and a required framework for tradfi with a system & monopoly, that over time, whoevers 2nd in that space will be just a blip in comparison.

PotentialStraight466

Anyone else looking at LINK

opensandshuts

that's why LINK has such a huge potential to be the winning crypto bet. oracle data

Bogdanoff_dump_it

LINK bottomed at $5 in 2023. Maybe we revisit that price again in the coming months.

ubermensch1001

Yeah, I'm actually thinking about LINK given the fact that it's trading around the same levels it was at in 2023.

ubermensch1001

Given how low it is right now I plan on just letting my ADA position ride. BTC is an obvious one. ETH I think is solid but what makes me a bit less excited about it is I don't think it will make massive returns relative to BTC. For instance, in 2021 it peaked at .085 to BTC, so it could maybe do a 2-2.5x compared to BTC at best. The only alts I'm really considering are maybe SOL and LINK.

Mulvita43

Any crypto I have invested in. Soooooo Sol, Hbar, LINK, CC…etc

Epictricker2025

Personally I think I will go heavy into BTC, XRP, some SOL, LINK and HYPE too.

The-great-phoenix

Perp DEX and exchanges obviously like HYPE and LIT but in regards of the rails for DEFI you will be doing fine with some SOL and ETH as they are capturing most of traffic I am as well kind of optimistic about LINK utility