Chainlink Whales Are Moving Big
Chainlink $LINK top exchange outflows have surged to their highest levels of 2025, CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost says.
The largest Binance withdrawals averaged more than 3,600 LINK daily throughout May, with several spikes above 5,000 LINK.
The trend suggests some investors may be quietly accumulating despite LINK still trading far below previous highs.
Chainlink has enabled $8.23 trillion in transactions in the past year.
@Chainlink's oracles have powered more than $8 trillion worth of blockchain transactions in the past year alone.
The current metric stands at some $30.31 trillion, up from $22.08 trillion in May 2025.
$LINK recently announced that its CCIP and data feeds have also secured a staggering $110 billion in value.
Though the price of $LINK may not show it, Chainlink is having an absolutely mental 2026.
$3,000,000,000.00 in capital have migrated from compromised oracles (Chaos Labs) and legacy exploited bridges (LayerZero) to Chainlink in the past few days alone
When teams reevaluate their security posture, the conclusion is always the same: migrating to Chainlink is the obvious answer as it provides the highest level of security
Nobody ever got fired for choosing Chainlink:
- Operational during 2020 Covid dump
- Operational during 2022 FTX collapse
- Operational during 2025 AWS outage
- Operational during 2025 Oct 10 crash
DeFi will win 🤝
Chainlink Labs advisors span from top academia from Cornell to Duke to Stanford and Yale. $LINK
From Google CEOs to LinkedIn Executives to the founder of Docusign.
Current list (as of 2026):
• Ari Juels — Technical Advisor (Chief Scientist at Chainlink Labs, former Chief Scientist at RSA, Cornell Professor, Director IC3)
• Eric Schmidt — Advisor (Chairman of Steel Perlot; former Google CEO)
• Farinaz Koushanfar — Technical Advisor (Professor, UC San Diego)
• Dan Boneh — Technical Advisor (Professor, Stanford University)
• Jeff Weiner — Advisor (Executive Chairman of LinkedIn)
• Tom Gonser — Advisor (Founder of DocuSign)
• Christian Cachin — Technical Advisor (Professor, University of Bern)
• Michael Reiter — Technical Advisor (Professor, Duke University)
• Fan Zhang — Technical Advisor (Professor, Yale University)
New @Grayscale report covers why Chainlink $LINK is one of the best "picks and shovels" opportunities in tokenization 🔥
Chainlink provides the data, interoperability, compliance, privacy and orchestration standards that power the full end-to-end lifecycle of tokenization
@willhamilogden and @LowBeta break down every stage:
✅ Asset tokenized onchain → Chainlink Proof of Reserve → Verify assets are backed
✅ Investors onboarded → Chainlink Data Feeds → Provides intraday net asset value (NAV) data
✅ Asset begins trading onchain → Chainlink ACE → Enforces KYC and jurisdiction polices
✅ Asset moves to new chains → Chainlink CCIP → Facilitates secure cross-chain asset transfers
✅ Asset makes dividend or coupon payment → Chainlink CCIP and Function → Connect to offchain systems for administration
✅ Asset used as collateral in DeFi → Chainlink Data Feeds → Validate asset value for margin requirements
An advanced institutional workflow, spanning multiple chains, enterprise systems, and APIs, all coordinated by the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE)
Importantly, Chainlink is fully blockchain-agnostic, so it doesn't matter which chains are adopted by capital markets, they all still need Chainlink
"It is hard to imagine the tokenization of capital markets playing out without tools like Chainlink, regardless of which blockchain is leading."
The two other service providers named in this section, Securitize and Ondo, both use Chainlink to power the distribution of their tokenized assets across onchain finance
CHAINLINK JUST CROSSED $30T IN VALUE ENABLED.
$30,006,888,224,116 to be exact.
Larger than US GDP. Larger than bitcoin:native and ethereum:native all-time settlement volume combined.
7 years. Zero exploits.
The data layer compounds quietly.
$LINK reached $55 in 2021 without:
• SWIFT
• CCIP
• Gas in $LINK
• Tokenization of RWA’s
• Global banks adopting it
• Chainlink Reserve
• $LINK ETF
• The U.S. government working with it
• Every institution on the planet using it
• Stable coins need the Chainlink infrastructure
And today you can buy it below $10