Chainlink reserve tops 6 million LINK

The Chainlink network's treasury has passed a round mark. According to several industry outlets reporting on September 26 and 27, 2026, the Chainlink Reserve holds exactly 6,047,498 LINK. In September alone, 373,791 tokens were added, worth a good $4.3 million at the price at the time. Alongside that, the price of Chainlink has risen sharply: in the early hours of September 29, 2026, LINK trades at $15.56, up around 10.6 percent within 24 hours and 16.7 percent over the week.

For you as an investor in Germany these are two different things, and they need to be kept apart. The reserve is a structural change on the supply side. The price jump is a day's move. What follows sets out what lies behind the reserve, which levels the price has just marked, and what you need to keep an eye on when buying, on the holding period, on staking and on leveraged positions.

Chainlink Reserve: 6,047,498 LINK now sit in the network treasury

The Chainlink Reserve is an on-chain treasury of the network into which part of the revenue from the oracle services flows, where it is converted into LINK and held. It is not a fund you can buy units in, and it is not a foundation handing out money. What is meant is simply a holding that grows as long as the network takes in revenue.