Chainlink Statistics 2026: TVS, CCIP and Market Share

Chainlink statistics tracked across primary sources show the oracle network now secures $33.124 billion in total value across 505 protocols, according to DefiLlama’s oracle dashboard. The network has enabled $30,006,888,224,116 in cumulative transaction value.

The figures put Chainlink at the center of decentralized finance infrastructure even as the LINK token trades 81.4% below its May 2021 all-time high of $52.70, a network-vs-token disconnect that defines this cycle.

Key Takeaways

• Chainlink’s oracle network secures $33.124 billion in total value across 505 protocols, holding roughly 59% of the tracked oracle market by TVS.
• CCIP transfer volume grew 319% Year-over-Year in Q1 2026, processing over $18 billion for the quarter.
• Chainlink Data Feeds power 908 integrations across 27+ blockchains, with Ethereum alone hosting 1,403 integration points.
• Aave V3 accounts for 43.11% of Chainlink’s total secured value at $14.28 billion.
• The Chainlink Staking v0.2 pool caps at 45,000,000 LINK with a base reward rate of 4.5% annually and 4.32% effective for community stakers.
• Amundi’s Spiko tokenized fund, powered by Chainlink, reached $400 million+ in AUM in three weeks since launch.

Editor’s Choice

• LINK spot price: $9.82, market-cap rank #19 on CoinGecko (May 17 snapshot).
• Chainlink market capitalization: $7,141,682,792; fully diluted valuation $9,822,146,999.
• Circulating supply: 727,099,970 LINK out of a 1,000,000,000 max supply.
• CCIP supports 35 Chains with 76 Tokens available as Cross-Chain Tokens (CCTs).
• Polymarket’s up/down crypto markets powered by Chainlink Data Streams logged $5 billion+ in trading volume and over 3,000 algo traders and market makers.
• Chainlink’s SVR captured $8.3 million in Q1 2026 alone, reaching 99% of the total market share for oracle-related MEV capture.

Recent Developments

• May 6, 2026: Chainlink, Apex Group, Bluprynt, and Hacken joined the Bermuda Monetary Authority to build an embedded supervision tool for digital-asset compliance.
• April 24, 2026: AWS Marketplace integrated Chainlink data standards, letting developers link traditional cloud services to public blockchains through the platform.
• April 23, 2026: Bridgetower adopted Chainlink to tokenize over $11 billion in securities tied to the DOM X copper-gold asset project in Arizona.
• April 15, 2026: SIX and Chainlink brought Swiss and Spanish equities on-chain at approximately €2 trillion in combined market value.
• March 25, 2026: Coinbase and Chainlink launched exchange data on-chain, bringing order book and trading data to the blockchain for the first time.
• March 18, 2026: Unichain integrated the Chainlink Data Standard and joined the Chainlink Scale initiative.

Chainlink Total Value Secured (TVS)

• Chainlink’s Total Value Secured stands at $33.124 billion across 505 protocols, per DefiLlama’s oracle rankings.
• Within Chainlink-secured protocols, Aave V3 dominates at 43.11% with $14.28 billion in TVL.
• Maple sits at $2.073 billion, Steakhouse Financial at $2.013 billion, and Sentora at $1.579 billion in Chainlink-secured TVL.
• USDD anchors $1.475 billion in CDP collateral secured by Chainlink price feeds.
• Compound V3 carries $1.251 billion, Spiko $1.218 billion, and SparkLend $1.081 billion in Chainlink-secured value.
• Lending protocols make up the majority of Chainlink’s secured value, a structural concentration worth tracking for risk-management readers.

Across our coverage of DeFi infrastructure, the pattern holds: Oracle-secured value tends to consolidate inside a handful of blue-chip lending markets. Chainlink’s $33.1 billion looks robust on paper, but a single Aave incident would test the network’s claim to systemic neutrality.

Source: DefiLlama Oracle Rankings

By the numbers: Chainlink’s $33.124 billion in oracle TVS dwarfs the next four competitors combined, Chronicle ($7.491 billion), Internal ($4.843 billion), RedStone ($3.611 billion), and Pyth ($3.08 billion), according to DefiLlama. The gap suggests oracle competition runs on relationships and integrations, not raw technology parity.

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What is Chainlink’s total value secured?

Chainlink’s total value secured reached $33.124 billion across 505 protocols in the latest DefiLlama snapshot, the highest figure in the oracle category. Aave V3 represents 43.11% of that value, concentrating systemic exposure inside a single lending market.

Chainlink Oracle Market Share

• Chainlink secures $33.124 billion in oracle TVS, an estimated 59% of the tracked oracle sector, once the long-tail oracles are aggregated.
• Chronicle ranks second at $7.491 billion across 12 protocols.
• RedStone secures $3.611 billion across 91 protocols, a wider integration footprint than its TVS suggests.
• Pyth Network sits at $3.08 billion across 305 protocols, a fragmented integration pattern tied to Solana-native deployments.
• Chaos Labs holds $1.335 billion in TVS across 9 protocols, a high per-protocol value indicating risk-curator focus.
• Switchboard secures $778.13 million, UMA $483.58 million, and Stork $317.41 million, a long-tail oracle layer.

Source: DefiLlama Oracle Rankings

Key finding: Per DefiLlama’s latest snapshot, Chainlink secures $33.124 billion in TVS while the second-place Chronicle holds $7.491 billion across 12 protocols. The competitive gap looks insurmountable on raw value, though Pyth’s 305-protocol footprint shows a different distribution strategy taking hold across newer chains.

The oracle market reads less like a contested category and more like a regulated utility, one dominant carrier plus a few specialty alternatives. That structure mirrors how settlement networks consolidated in traditional payments through the 1990s, and it has the same implication: the moat is integration depth, not technology novelty.

Chainlink CCIP Adoption

• CCIP processed over $18 billion in transfer volume during Q1 2026, according to Chainlink’s quarterly review.
• Transfer volume grew 78% Quarter-over-Quarter and 319% Year-over-Year in Q1 2026.
• Tokens active on CCIP rose more than 165% year-over-year.
• CCIP fee revenue climbed 213% Quarter-over-Quarter, a leading indicator of paid-usage adoption rather than mere connectivity.
• CCIP currently supports 35 chains with 76 Cross-Chain Tokens (CCTs) live.
• New mainnets added in Q1 2026 include Morph, MegaETH, Pharos, EdgeX, and ADI.
• CCIP-enabled wallets exceed 50 million through integrations with MetaMask, Phantom, Robinhood, and Rabby.

How does Chainlink CCIP compare to other interoperability protocols?

Chainlink CCIP is the only interoperability platform that meets key institutional security standards, including SOC 2 Type 2, SOC 2 Type 1, and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification. Competing bridges such as LayerZero and Wormhole have not published equivalent third-party audit results, and Kraken’s May 2026 migration from LayerZero to CCIP cited that compliance posture as the decisive factor.

Chainlink Data Feeds and Integrations

• Chainlink Data Feeds power 908 integrations in the ecosystem directory.
• Across all Chainlink products, total integrations reach 1,294.
• Coverage spans 27+ blockchains, with a concentration on Ethereum-aligned networks.
• Ethereum alone hosts 1,403 Chainlink integrations, Polygon hosts 443, BNB Chain hosts 424, and Arbitrum hosts 219.
• Avalanche carries 182, Solana 165, Base 118, and Optimism 106 Chainlink integrations.
• DeFi leads category breakdown at 1,120 projects, followed by NFT (608) and Gaming (346).

The chain breakdown carries the real lesson for builders: Chainlink’s footprint is still Ethereum-heavy, with Polygon and BNB Chain trailing well behind. Newer chains that want serious DeFi flow ship with Chainlink integration day one, that’s the playbook Unichain followed in March 2026, and what Morph, MegaETH, and Pharos did in Q1.

How many data feeds and integrations does Chainlink support?

Chainlink Data Feeds power 908 integrations across 27+ blockchains, with 1,294 total integrations spanning all Chainlink products. Ethereum tops the Chainlink Data Feeds chain breakdown with 1,403 integrations, ahead of Polygon (443) and BNB Chain (424). DeFi leads the vertical breakdown at 1,120 projects, followed by NFT at 608 and Gaming at 346.

Chainlink LINK Token Statistics

• LINK trades at $9.82, ranked #19 by market capitalization on CoinGecko as of May 17, 2026.
• Chainlink’s market cap stands at $7,141,682,792 with a Market Cap / FDV ratio of 0.73.
• Fully diluted valuation reaches $9,822,146,999.
• Circulating supply is 727,099,970 LINK out of a 1,000,000,000 max supply.
• LINK’s all-time high of $52.70 was reached on May 10, 2021, placing current prices 81.4% below ATH.
• 24-hour trading volume hit $227,430,821 in the May 17 snapshot.

Source: CoinGecko Chainlink Market Data

Worth noting: LINK trades 81.4% below its May 2021 all-time high of $52.70, while network TVS sits at $33.124 billion, the highest level recorded. The gap between network adoption and token price is the structural feature of the current cycle and one most coverage either ignores or misreads.

What is the current price of LINK and its all-time high?

LINK trades at $9.82 with a market capitalization of $7,141,682,792 at rank #19 in the May 17 snapshot. The all-time high of $52.70 was set on May 10, 2021, placing current prices 81.4% below that peak. The all-time low of about $0.1482 dates to November 29, 2017, before the first major DeFi cycle drew investor attention to oracle infrastructure.

Chainlink Staking

• Chainlink Staking v0.2 caps at 45,000,000 LINK, an 80% increase from the v0.1 cap.
• The pool splits into 40,875,000 LINK for community stakers and 4,125,000 LINK for node operators.
• Community stakers face a 15,000 LINK maximum per address; node operators face a 75,000 LINK cap.
• Base floor reward rate is 4.5% annually, with a 4% delegation rate to node operators.
• Effective community reward rate after delegation lands at 4.32% annually.
• Unbonding cooldown is 28 days, followed by a 7-day claim window.
• The 45,000,000 LINK pool represents over 8% of LINK circulating supply at v0.2 launch.

How much LINK is staked, and what’s the reward rate?

Chainlink Staking v0.2 caps the pool at 45,000,000 LINK, an 80% increase from v0.1. The base reward rate sits at 4.5% annually, with community stakers earning an effective 4.32% after the 4% delegation to node operators. The pool represents over 8% of LINK’s circulating supply at v0.2 launch in December 2023 and remains the canonical staking program for the network.

Chainlink Network Transaction Volume

• Chainlink has enabled $30,006,888,224,116 in cumulative transaction value as of April 29, 2026.
• Chainlink’s SIX integration will enable over 2,600 applications across more than 75 blockchains to access SIX’s premium reference and pricing data, per the partnership announcement.
• Maple Finance’s cross-chain deposits have surpassed $3 billion via CCIP by the end of 2025.
• Solana CCIP access touches over $19 billion of assets across integrations.
• Lido’s $33+ billion TVL is included in Chainlink’s year-end ecosystem milestone list.
• Chainlink’s Smart Value Recapture (SVR) product has captured a cumulative $18.3 million in oracle-related MEV.

Chainlink Institutional Partnerships

• Amundi, Europe’s largest asset manager at €2.3 trillion AUM, and Spiko launched a tokenized mutual fund powered by Chainlink that reached $400 million+ in AUM within three weeks.
• Polymarket’s 5- and 15-minute up/down crypto markets, powered by Chainlink Data Streams, attracted $5 billion+ in trading volume and signed over 3,000 algo traders in Q1 2026.
• SIX and Chainlink brought Swiss and Spanish equities on-chain at approximately €2 trillion in combined market value on April 15, 2026.
• Bridgetower adopted Chainlink to tokenize over $11 billion in securities tied to the DOM X copper-gold project on April 23, 2026.
• Coinbase and Chainlink launched exchange order-book and trading data on-chain on March 25, 2026.
• Institutional adopters span Swift, Euroclear, Mastercard, Fidelity International, UBS, ANZ, State Street, Deutsche Börse Group, DTCC, and BNY Mellon.
• The corporate actions initiative reportedly includes 24 of the world’s largest financial-market infrastructures coordinated via Chainlink.

Source: Chainlink Quarterly Review, chain.link/press newsroom

Our coverage of tokenization shows a recurring pattern: every wave of institutional crypto adoption begins with payment rails, moves to data infrastructure, and ends with settlement layers. The Swift, JPMorgan, and Mastercard pilots sit firmly in the data-infrastructure band; they need Oracle data before on-chain assets. See interoperability for the wider cross-chain adoption picture.

Common Questions

What is Chainlink’s market share in the oracle sector?

Chainlink leads the oracle sector with $33.124 billion in Total Value Secured across 505 protocols against a sector total of approximately $56 billion when smaller oracles are aggregated, per DefiLlama. The next-largest oracle, Chronicle, secures $7.491 billion across 12 protocols, about 13% of the market, followed by RedStone and Pyth at single-digit shares each.

How does Chainlink work with cross-chain interoperability and DeFi under MiCA?

Chainlink CCIP supports 35 chains with 76 Cross-Chain Tokens and is the only interoperability platform that meets key institutional security standards, including SOC 2 Type 2, SOC 2 Type 1, and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification. The compliance posture matters for European protocols under MiCA. See our DeFi for adoption data.

Does Chainlink integrate with Binance and other major exchanges?

Yes. Chainlink Data Feeds power 424 integrations on BNB Chain, the third-largest chain by Chainlink footprint after Ethereum and Polygon. See our Binance for the broader Binance ecosystem stablecoin context. Coinbase and Chainlink launched exchange data on-chain, bringing order book and trading data to blockchain for the first time on March 25, 2026.

Conclusion

Chainlink’s $33.124 billion in Total Value Secured and $30,006,888,224,116 in cumulative transaction value enabled the network to be at the center of decentralized finance infrastructure in 2026. The Q1 2026 inflection on CCIP, 319% Year-over-Year transfer volume growth alongside the $18 billion quarterly figure, signals that cross-chain demand is shifting from optional to default, with Amundi’s tokenized fund reaching $400 million+ in AUM in three weeks and Polymarket’s Data Streams markets logging $5 billion+ in trading volume as the institutional entry points.

The disconnect between network growth and the $9.82 LINK price tells a different story: oracle value accrues to applications and integrators before it accrues to token holders. The companies and platforms benefiting first are lending markets, tokenized-asset issuers, and cross-chain bridges; LINK holders capture residual security value through staking. CCIP fee revenue is up 213% Quarter-over-Quarter, the cleanest leading indicator for whether that pattern shifts during the current year.