Chainlink Statistics 2026: Oracle Market Share, TVS and Revenue

Chainlink secured $39.356 billion across 526 protocols as of August 26, 2026, according to DefiLlama’s oracle rankings. Chronicle, the next-largest tracked oracle, secured $7.461 billion across 13 protocols, leaving a wide gap between first place and the rest of the field. Chainlink’s own Q2 2026 quarterly review puts network Total Value Secured at a much higher $110 billion.

That distance is a methodology difference rather than a contradiction. The Chainlink statistics below cover both figures, their per-chain composition, the fee and revenue run-rate DefiLlama attributes to the network, CCIP mainnet coverage, and LINK token metrics, each carrying a capture date, because oracle-attributed data across blockchains moves daily.

Key Takeaways

• Chainlink holds roughly 63.1% of the total value secured across every oracle DefiLlama ranks, and about 68.8% once non-vendor categories are stripped out.
• Ethereum carries $25.876 billion of Chainlink’s secured value, roughly two-thirds of the network total, making single-chain concentration the dominant structural fact.
• Annualized fees of $62.67 million against a $39.356 billion secured base work out to about 0.16%, a reminder that oracle monetization is thin relative to the value that depends on it.
• CCIP now lists 77 mainnet networks, with Ethereum alone exposing 76 lanes and 203 supported tokens.
• The Chainlink Reserve added over 1.44 million LINK during Q2 2026, bringing holdings to 4.5 million LINK.
• Chainlink-secured value spans 526 protocols against 317 for Pyth and 90 for RedStone, so protocol count and value secured rank differently.

Editor’s Choice

• Chainlink Total Value Secured on DefiLlama: $39.356 billion.
• Chainlink self-reported Total Value Secured: $110 billion.
• Annualized fees of $62.67 million against annualized revenue of $58.25 million.
• LINK market capitalization: $8.443 billion, against a fully diluted valuation of $11.286 billion.
• Cross-chain token value migrated to CCIP in Q2 2026: over $7 billion.
• CCIP quarterly volume: $4.90 billion, a 353% year-over-year increase.
• Cumulative Chainlink SVR value recaptured: over $23 million.

Chainlink Statistics: Oracle Market Share vs Every Tracked Competitor

• Chainlink secures $39.356 billion across 526 protocols, the largest figure in DefiLlama’s oracle table.
• Chronicle ranks second with $7.461 billion across 13 protocols, a far narrower deployment footprint.
• RedStone secures $4.167 billion across 90 protocols.
• Pyth secures $2.794 billion across 317 protocols, the second-highest protocol count in the ranking.
• DefiLlama also lists an Internal category at $5.095 billion across 51 protocols, covering protocols that price their own assets rather than buying an external feed.
• Chainlink’s share of every ranked provider comes to 63.1%.
• Stripping the Internal and TWAP categories, which are not vendor oracles, lifts that share to 68.8%.

Source: DefiLlama Oracle Rankings, August 2026

About This Data

Figures here come from 16 Tier 1 sources captured on August 26, 2026: DefiLlama’s oracle and Chainlink protocol pages, Chainlink’s documentation and its Q2 2026 quarterly review, and two U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis publications. Selection was limited to primary and official-channel data carrying a visible capture date. Figures are updated when those sources publish new editions.

By the numbers: DefiLlama’s ranking puts Chainlink at $39.356 billion against Chronicle at $7.461 billion and Pyth at $2.794 billion. Protocol counts tell a different story: Pyth reaches 317 protocols to Chainlink’s 526, so the value gap is far wider than the deployment gap.

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Chainlink Total Value Secured by Blockchain

• Ethereum carries $25.876 billion of Chainlink’s secured value, the single largest chain exposure.
• Base follows at $2.944 billion.
• Arbitrum holds $1.618 billion, narrowly ahead of Stellar at $1.561 billion.
• BSC accounts for $1.539 billion and Tron for $1.271 billion.
• Ink and Solana sit below the billion-dollar line at $872.96 million and $800.46 million, respectively.
• Newer networks appear in the long tail, with Monad at $447.18 million and MegaETH at $28.84 million.
• Concentration is the structural story here. Two-thirds of the secured base sits on one chain, so the aggregate figure is far more sensitive to Ethereum DeFi conditions than a 77-network footprint suggests.

Recent Developments

• July 2026: Chainlink’s Q2 quarterly review reported over $7 billion in cross-chain token value migrating to CCIP during the quarter.
• Q2 2026: CCIP posted one of its strongest quarterly volumes at $4.90 billion, a 353% year-over-year increase.
• May 2026: DTCC announced it is integrating CRE and the Chainlink data standard into its Collateral AppChain, with an expected go-live in Q4 2026.
• Q2 2026: Chainlink and banking consortia launched Project Pangea, bringing over 50 banks representing $10+ trillion in assets under management toward cross-border T+0 settlement, a DeFi and capital-markets convergence point.
• Q2 2026: Fidelity International launched its first tokenized fund, FILQ, powered by Chainlink, adding to onchain tokenization of regulated fund products.
• Q2 2026: The Chainlink Reserve accumulated over 1.44 million LINK, bringing total Reserve holdings to 4.5 million LINK.

Chainlink Fees and Revenue on DefiLlama

• DefiLlama attributes $62.67 million in annualized fees to Chainlink.
• Annualized revenue runs slightly lower at $58.25 million.
• Trailing 30-day fees came to $4.8 million, of which Ethereum contributed $4.49 million.
• Trailing 7-day fees were $1.23 million, and the 24-hour figure was $26,561.
• Cumulative fees since tracking began total $69.48 million, against cumulative revenue of $62.53 million.
• Holders’ revenue matches total revenue at $58.25 million annualized, with incentives at zero across every window.
• Measured against the secured base, the annualized fee take is about 0.16%.

Source: DefiLlama Chainlink key metrics, August 2026

Ethereum dominates the fee base as heavily as it dominates the secured base, and the concentration is sharper still on the revenue side.

Worth noting: DefiLlama books $62.67 million in annualized Chainlink fees against $39.356 billion in value secured. That ratio is why oracle economics lean on service breadth and enterprise contracts rather than on a percentage of the assets the feeds protect.

Why Chainlink Reports $110 Billion, and DefiLlama Reports $39 Billion

• DefiLlama’s Chainlink page reported $39.356 billion in Total Value Secured at capture.
• Chainlink’s Q2 quarterly review states that the quarter’s integrations helped push Chainlink’s Total Value Secured to $110 billion.
• The DefiLlama measure spans 526 protocols inside its own TVL index.
• The narrower measure still leaves Chainlink ahead of Chronicle’s $7.461 billion by a wide margin.

Two Tier 1 sources publish very different figures for the same network, and neither is wrong.

• The divergence comes from scope. DefiLlama can only attribute value inside its own DeFi TVL index, and only where it has mapped a protocol’s price feed to a named oracle, so anything secured outside that index is invisible to the ranking. Chainlink counts network-wide exposure, which includes products and chains DefiLlama does not index as DeFi TVL. Readers comparing an oracle-share table against a network press figure are comparing a subset to a superset.
• The practical rule is to keep the two apart.
• Oracle market-share questions belong to the DefiLlama series because every provider in that table is measured the same way.
• Network-scale and interoperability questions belong to the network-reported series, which captures value the DeFi index never sees.

Source: DefiLlama and Chainlink Q2 2026 Quarterly Review, August 2026

How much value does Chainlink secure?

Chainlink secures $39.356 billion on DefiLlama’s oracle-attributed measure as of August 26, 2026, and $110 billion on its own network-wide measure reported for Q2 2026. Use the first figure for market-share comparisons against other oracles and the second for network-scale context.

CCIP Mainnet Coverage by Lanes and Supported Tokens

• Chainlink’s CCIP directory lists 77 mainnet networks.
• Ethereum exposes 76 lanes and 203 tokens, the widest coverage of any network.
• Base follows with 47 lanes and 148 tokens.
• BNB Chain lists 42 lanes and 96 tokens, and Arbitrum One lists 41 lanes and 91 tokens.
• Avalanche carries 34 lanes and 44 tokens.
• Solana, a non-EVM network, lists 26 lanes and 47 tokens.
• Newer chains sit at the shallow end, with Monad at 24 lanes and Plasma at 20 lanes.

Lane count measures reachable destinations; token count measures how much of an asset base can travel those lanes. The two rank differently, and Base is the clearest example.

CCIP Migrations Ranked by Token Value Moved

• Mantle migrated over $2.5 billion in MNT, with the Mantle Super Portal adopting CCIP as its exclusive cross-chain infrastructure.
• KelpDAO moved $1.5 billion in rsETH following the exploit of its legacy bridging provider.
• Virtuals migrated over $700 million in VIRTUAL used for cross-chain payments.
• Kraken moved over $330 million in Kraken Wrapped Bitcoin and all future Kraken Wrapped Assets.
• Across the quarter, over $7 billion in cross-chain token value migrated to CCIP.
• The migration list reads as a security-driven consolidation rather than a feature race. Several moves followed exploits at the incumbent bridge, which is the pattern our cross-chain coverage has tracked since 2024: bridge risk gets repriced after each incident, and the repricing favors the largest audited option.

LINK Token Market Statistics

• LINK’s market capitalization stands at $8.443 billion.
• Fully diluted valuation is $11.286 billion, against an outstanding FDV of $8.445 billion.
• The token traded at $11.29 at capture, against an all-time high of $52.7 and an all-time low of $0.15.
• Trailing 24-hour volume reached $358.29 million, split between $185.82 million on centralized venues and $161.88 million on decentralized ones.
• Decentralized venues handled 45.18% of total volume, a high share for a large-capitalization asset that also lists on every major centralized venue, including Binance.
• Staked LINK totals $480.39 million, or 5.69% of market capitalization.
• Onchain liquidity across pools totals $91.7 million.

Source: DefiLlama Chainlink key metrics, August 2026

Chainlink Reserve and Oracle MEV Recapture

• The Chainlink Reserve accumulated over 1.44 million LINK, bringing total holdings to 4.5 million LINK during Q2 2026.
• The Reserve accumulates LINK using off-chain revenue from enterprise adoption and on-chain revenue from service usage.
• Cumulative SVR value recaptured surpassed $23 million.
• Proceeds split approximately $15 million to integrated DeFi protocols and approximately $8 million to the Chainlink Network.
• SVR has processed over $880 million in DeFi liquidations, with zero bad debt accrual.
• In Aave V3 specifically, SVR processed over $884 million in liquidations before the mechanism extended to V4 Spokes.
• Circle’s L1 chain Arc and Kraken’s L2 chain Ink both joined Chainlink Scale during the quarter.

Why it matters: SVR returns liquidation MEV to the protocol that generated it, and Chainlink’s Q2 review puts cumulative recapture above $23 million, split roughly $15 million to protocols and $8 million to the network. That revenue share, rather than feed subscriptions, is where oracle economics and Aave protocol revenue now intersect.

Institutional Adoption Behind the Chainlink Data Standard

• DTCC is integrating CRE and the Chainlink data standard into its Collateral AppChain, with an expected go-live of Q4 2026.
• DTCC also converted assets held at The Depository Trust Company into tokens that were then used in real production trades.
• Fidelity International, a global asset manager with $1+ trillion total client assets, launched its first tokenized fund, FILQ, powered by Chainlink.
• Project Pangea brings together over 50 banks, representing $10+ trillion AUM for cross-border T+0 atomic settlement using ISO 20022 messaging and existing SWIFT infrastructure.
• Vayana, with over $62 billion in financing facilitated and a network of over 3,000 supply chains, adopted Chainlink to power tokenized asset distribution.
• Hastra, the DeFi arm of Figure, adopted Chainlink to bring $20 billion in HELOC and auto loans to DeFi markets.
• Bridgetower adopted Chainlink to tokenize over $11 billion in securities from the DOM X Arizona Copper-Gold Project.

Source: Chainlink Q2 2026 Quarterly Review, August 2026

Prediction Markets and Data Streams Coverage

• Polymarket’s high-speed up-and-down crypto markets reached $7+ billion in total trading volume, with market resolution powered by Chainlink Data Streams.
• Coverage expanded to include BTC, ETH, SOL, DOGE, HYPE, and BNB.
• ADI Predictstreet, the official 2026 FIFA World Cup prediction market partner, adopted Chainlink as its exclusive oracle infrastructure.
• Nine additional prediction market applications adopted Chainlink during the quarter.
• Data Streams delivers sub-second data delivery through a pull-based oracle design built for high-throughput markets.
• APAC Equities Streams went live starting with Japan and Korea, covering companies including Samsung, SK Hynix, Toyota, Sony, and SoftBank.
• OKX, a Top-10 crypto exchange with over 120 million users, adopted Chainlink on X Layer.

Source: Chainlink Q2 2026 Quarterly Review and Chainlink Data Streams, August 2026

Is the US government using Chainlink?

The U.S. Department of Commerce publishes macroeconomic data onchain, and Chainlink distributes part of it, which is the closest documented federal use. Chainlink’s own announcement states that Chainlink and the United States Department of Commerce have worked together to bring U.S. government macroeconomic data onchain from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, with feeds covering Real Gross Domestic Product, the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) Price Index, and Real Final Sales to Private Domestic Purchasers.

The underlying statistics remain BEA publications. The agency’s second-estimate GDP release reported that real gross domestic product increased at an annual rate of 3.3% in the second quarter of 2025, after real GDP decreased 0.5% in the first quarter. The inflation series behind the onchain PCE feed is published on BEA’s Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index page. Chainlink’s Q2 2026 review separately describes engagements at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and on Capitol Hill, which are policy engagements rather than production deployments.

Can Chainlink hit $100?

CoinLaw does not publish price forecasts, so the honest answer is arithmetic rather than a target. At the August 26, 2026 capture, LINK traded at $11.29 with a market capitalization of $8.443 billion and a fully diluted valuation of $11.286 billion.

Reaching that level would first require the token to clear its all-time high of $52.7, which sits far above where it trades today. The network fundamentals set out above, particularly the fee run-rate measured against the oracle-attributed base, are a firmer reference point than price commentary. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold LINK.

Conclusion

Chainlink’s $39.356 billion in oracle-attributed value secured, spread across 526 protocols, gives it roughly 63.1% of the total DefiLlama ranks and about 68.8% once non-vendor categories come out. That lead is wide enough that the sharper questions have moved elsewhere: how much of the secured base sits on a single chain, whether a $62.67 million annualized fee run-rate can support the infrastructure that value depends on, and how quickly CCIP’s 77 mainnet networks turn into settled volume.

Researchers, protocol risk teams, and analysts tracking Ethereum DeFi exposure get the most from these figures, provided the two Total Value Secured series stay separate. The DTCC integration, expected to go live in Q4 2026, and Project Pangea’s bank consortium are the next milestones that would move the network-reported number materially, and both will register in DefiLlama’s series only to the extent the resulting activity lands inside its DeFi index.