Aave's protocol revenue over the past few years:
2020: $177.12K
2021: $252.45M
2022: $137.41M
2023: $105.26M
2024: $456.47M
2025: $907.70M
2026 YTD: $333.14M
All onchain.
🔥 NEW: Chainlink will power the official FIFA World Cup prediction market partner, enabling instant payouts and market resolutions for billions of football fans worldwide.
⚡️CHAINLINK POWERS ONCHAIN ACCESS TO STRATEGY’S STRC
Saturn, a stablecoin financial protocol, has selected Chainlink CCIP to power its onchain digital credit products.
The move helps bring access to Strategy’s STRC to investors outside the U.S., tying Chainlink infrastructure to Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin-backed capital strategy.
🚨 UPDATE: Aave confirms WETH LTVs have been restored to pre-incident levels across all affected V3 deployments following the rsETH technical recovery plan.
CHAINLINK TOKENOMICS TO CHANGE DRAMATICALLY?!
Highlighted by @LinkBoi777, @chainlinklabs is currently hiring for a Product Manager specialising in 'Node Economics'.
Though no plans have been revealed, speculators suggest that it could pave the way for an eventual overhaul of @Chainlink's tokenomics, potentially improving the system architecture around the $LINK token and driving additional value therein.
In 4 days, 4 leading protocols with $3B+ combined TVL decommissioned their legacy oracles & bridges and are migrating to Chainlink.
⬡ @KelpDAO
⬡ @SolvProtocol
⬡ @re
⬡ @tydrohq
DeFi will win.
chainlink CCIP moved $18b+ in cross-chain value last quarter. $6m/month in oracle fees. zero exploits across 80+ chains. now JPMorgan kinexys, ondo, and DTCC are using it as settlement infrastructure for a tokenized securities pilot going live october 2026 with 50+ firms including blackrock and goldman. DTCC settles 98% of US securities. LINK market cap is $7.28b. the protocol routing settlement for firms holding $87 trillion in assets trades below uniswap. that's either the mispricing of the cycle or the market correctly pricing token value accrual risk. i know which side i'm on.
WHO'S STILL HOLDING $LINK RIGHT NOW? 👇
Because the gap between what this protocol delivers and what the market pays for it has never been wider.
🟢$30 trillion in total value enabled.
🟢More than U.S. GDP.
🟢Seven years. Zero exploits.
And the token? still sits at $9.
Swift chose Chainlink. DTCC chose Chainlink. Euroclear chose Chainlink. JP Morgan chose Chainlink. Mastercard chose Chainlink. Fidelity International chose Chainlink. UBS chose Chainlink. The Central Bank of Brazil chose Chainlink. SBI chose Chainlink.
These aren't speculative partnerships. These are the institutions that clear, settle, and move the world's capital.
And they all independently arrived at the same infrastructure layer.
CCIP weekly volume just surged 260% to $1.3B. Record exchange outflows. 970K LINK pulled off exchanges in one day. ETF inflows past $111M.
Whale wallets holding 1M+ grew 25% in the past year.
Amundi, Europe's largest asset manager, launched a Chainlink-powered tokenized fund that hit $400M in three weeks.
Coinbase is pushing exchange data on-chain through Chainlink's DataLink.
The U.S. Department of Commerce uses Chainlink oracles for GDP and inflation data.
SEC and CFTC classified LINK as a digital commodity. Chainlink's deputy general counsel sits on the SEC's Crypto Task Force.
The protocol that powers 65%+ of all DeFi oracle services, connects the world's largest financial institutions to blockchain, and just crossed $30T in value enabled trades at $9.
If you're still holding, you see what the price doesn't show yet.
The fundamentals aren't waiting for the market to catch up. They're compounding regardless.
HODL! 💎
AAVE HORIZON CROSSES $550M, TARGETS $1B IN 2026
@aave's Horizon platform, a permissioned V3 market built for institutions, has crossed $550M in net deposits with a 2026 target of $1B+. Qualified entities can post tokenized US Treasuries and CLOs as collateral to borrow stablecoins like USDC, RLUSD, or GHO.
The partner list keeps growing. @circle, @Ripple, @FTI_US (Franklin Templeton), and @vaneck_us are all involved, with Chainlink NAV feeds keeping collateral values updated in real time.