Chainlink Keeps Stacking LINK — The Reserve Has Crossed $70M

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The Chainlink Reserve just broke $70 million. Chainlink bought another $1.1 million worth of LINK for its official reserve. That pushed the treasury’s total value to roughly $70.5 million.

What the Reserve Actually Is

Chainlink’s own blog explains how the Reserve works. It launched in August 2025 as part of Economics 2.0. The reserve doesn’t rely on token emissions. It runs on Payment Abstraction instead.

That system converts network revenue into LINK. The revenue comes from enterprise clients and on-chain app usage.

Price Chart Shows Renewed Strength

A TradingView weekly chart created on September 20, 2026, at 15:13 UTC shows LINK/USD at $12.228. MACD reads 0.627 against a signal line of 0.308. The histogram sits at -0.319 but is narrowing fast.

Chainlink Keeps Stacking LINK — The Reserve Has Crossed $70M — *LINKUSD Weekly Chart. Source: TradingView.*

The chart also shows a fresh SAR flip below price. That’s a signal often tied to renewed upward momentum.

Regulatory Momentum Keeps Building Too

The Reserve isn’t Chainlink’s only recent milestone. A former Chainlink Labs executive joined the SEC’s crypto task force earlier this year. Commissioner Hester Peirce welcomed the hire directly.

That move signals closer ties between Chainlink’s world and U.S. crypto policy, even as the Reserve keeps growing on its own separate track.

The Growth Pattern Behind the Milestone

Weekly inflows into the Reserve averaged 80,000 to 90,000 LINK in late 2025. By early 2026, that pace climbed to 125,000 to 137,000 LINK per week.

That’s roughly a sevenfold jump in revenue feeding the Reserve. Holdings now sit at 5.96 million LINK. That’s worth about $70.5 million at current prices.

Chainlink’s infrastructure keeps expanding into tokenized real-world assets too, an area the SEC is actively building new rules around. That backdrop gives LINK’s steady Reserve growth added context.

What Comes Next

A reserve that only buys and never sells removes LINK from circulating supply over time.

With weekly inflows still scaling and zero tokens sold since inception, the Reserve looks set to keep growing. That steady accumulation could matter more the longer it continues.

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