SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Chainlink, the backbone of the blockchain industry, announced today the launch of the Chainlink Reserve—a new upgrade centered on the creation of a strategic onchain reserve of LINK tokens. The Chainlink Reserve is designed to support the long-term growth and sustainability of the Chainlink Network by accumulating LINK tokens using offchain revenue from large enterprises that are adopting the Chainlink standard and from onchain service usage.
The Chainlink Reserve is being built up by using Payment Abstraction to convert offchain and onchain revenue into LINK. Introduced earlier this year, Payment Abstraction is onchain infrastructure that reduces payment friction by enabling users to pay for Chainlink services in their preferred form of payment (e.g., gas tokens and stablecoins), which are then programmatically converted to LINK using a combination of Chainlink services and decentralized exchange infrastructure.
"The launch of the Chainlink Reserve marks a pivotal evolution in Chainlink, establishing a strategic LINK reserve funded using offchain revenue, as well as from onchain service usage. Demand for the Chainlink standard has already created hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, substantially from large enterprises. The Chainlink Reserve provides a clear answer to how offchain revenue and large scale institutional adoption of the Chainlink standard will be connected back to the growth, security and sustainability for those standards." — Chainlink Co-Founder, Sergey Nazarov.
Demand for Chainlink has already created hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, substantially from large enterprises that have paid offchain for access to the Chainlink Platform. With increasing demand from a number of the world's largest banking and capital markets institutions, this form of paying for the Chainlink standard is expected to grow into the future as the industry grows. The Reserve has already accumulated over $1MM worth of LINK from this early stage launch phase, which is expected to gradually grow in the coming months as more revenue is converted into LINK and placed into the Reserve.
We do not expect any withdrawals from the Reserve for multiple years and thus it is expected to grow over time. We believe that as the industry demand for Chainlink's unique capabilities increases, that adoption of Chainlink services will enable the Reserve to grow further.
To support community visibility into the Chainlink Reserve, we have created an analytics dashboard, which can be found on reserve.chain.link. Information about the circulating supply of LINK can be found here and the Reserve contract address can be found here on Etherscan.
About Chainlink
Chainlink is the backbone of the blockchain industry, the global standard for connecting blockchains to real-world data, other blockchains, governments, and enterprise systems. Chainlink has enabled tens of trillions in transaction value across the blockchain economy, powering critical use cases across DeFi, banking, tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), cross-chain, and more. Chainlink is widely adopted by major financial market infrastructures, institutions, and top DeFi protocols, including Swift, Euroclear, Mastercard, Fidelity International, UBS, ANZ, Aave, GMX, Lido, and many more. Learn more by visiting chain.link.
Disclaimer: This post is for informational purposes only and contains statements about the future, including anticipated product features, development, and timelines for the rollout of these features. These statements, including, without limitation, with respect to the size or growth of the Chainlink Reserve, the makeup or growth of offchain or onchain revenue within the Chainlink Reserve or generated by adoption of the Chainlink Standard, and anticipated uses of the Chainlink Reserve, are only predictions and reflect current beliefs and expectations with respect to future events; they are based on assumptions and are subject to risk, uncertainties, and changes at any time. There can be no assurance that actual results will not differ materially from those expressed in these statements, although we believe them to be based on reasonable assumptions. Please review the Chainlink Terms of Service, which provides important information and disclosures. Note that revenue from enterprise integrations, usage and maintenance includes existing and historical revenue from the Chainlink Scale program as well as other sources. All statements are valid only as of the date first posted. These statements may not reflect future developments due to user feedback or later events and we may not update this post in response.
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