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The Chainlink Reserve, the on-chain treasury run by the <a href="https://x.com/chainlink" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">@chainlink</a> project, now holds about 6.48 million unsold <a href="https://x.com/search?q=%24LINK&amp;src=cashtag_click" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">$LINK</a> tokens, and its total value has risen above $70 million following the latest official purchase. The project has added to the reserve on a regular weekly basis since August 2025 and has shown no sign of selling any of the tokens.
According to <cite>official Chainlink disclosures cited by TechFlow on October 31, the reserve added 427,577 LINK in October at a cost of more than $5.3 million, taking total holdings to 6,475,076 LINK</cite>.
<h2 id="how-the-chainlink-reserve-works">How the Chainlink Reserve Works</h2>
The reserve is not funded by open-market buybacks in the traditional sense. <cite>Chainlink announced the reserve in August 2025 as an on-chain vehicle designed to funnel enterprise demand into LINK, accumulating the token from fees paid by large institutions and on-chain usage fees from decentralized applications</cite>. <cite>The mechanism, known as Payment Abstraction, lets users pay for Chainlink services in formats such as stablecoins, which are then programmatically swapped into LINK on decentralized exchanges</cite>.
<cite>At launch, the reserve already held more than $1 million worth of LINK</cite>. <cite>Chainlink said it does not plan any withdrawals from the reserve for several years</cite>. <cite>The project also published a dashboard at reserve.chain.link to track the balance, along with the reserve contract on Etherscan</cite>.
<h2 id="reserve-growth-and-market-context">Reserve Growth and Market Context</h2>
The pace of accumulation has been steady. <cite>On January 30, 2026, the reserve held 1,774,215.90 LINK, worth more than $19 million at the time</cite>. By mid-October, <cite>on-chain monitoring by Onchain Lens showed the reserve had cumulatively acquired 6.29 million LINK for $70.76 million, with the holding valued at $78.3 million</cite>.
Figures vary by source and date because the value of the holding moves with the LINK price. The $70 million figure refers to the reserve's overall size, while the total cost of purchases is a separate measure.
The reserve has not insulated the token from market weakness. <cite>One report put the reserve at 6.29 million LINK, worth about $78 million as of mid-October 2026</cite>, while noting that <cite>Chainlink has never committed to a purchase price or a schedule, and the reserve's mandate is network sustainability rather than price support</cite>. <cite>According to CoinGecko, around 766.8 million LINK are in circulation, with total supply capped at one billion</cite>.
For $LINK holders, the reserve represents a growing block of tokens removed from active supply, backed by revenue from network usage rather than by token sales.
Sources
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 <li><a href="https://www.techflowpost.com/en-US/newsletter/142176" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">TechFlow: Chainlink Reserve Acquires Approximately 428,000 LINK in October</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/08/07/chainlink-launches-link-reserve-to-fuel-network-growth" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">CoinDesk: Chainlink Launches LINK Reserve to Fuel Network Growth</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://www.theblock.co/news/ecosystems/2025-08-07-chainlink-strategic-link-reserve-365988" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">The Block: Chainlink Launches Strategic LINK Reserve</a></li>
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Chainlink Reserve Holds 6.48 Million LINK Tokens, Valued Above $70 Million

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