Everyone keeps talking about Bitcoin and Ethereum. And rightly so, they are both on fire and looking at new ATHs. However, there’s one coin that’s quietly building up momentum. So, what if I tell you that the one to keep an eye out for is Chainlink? There are predictions that LINK will go to $100. If you had told me that a few weeks ago, I wouldn’t have believed you.
However, slowly the wheels have turned for Chainlink and LINK. After I tell you what the catalyst is, you may never look at LINK the same way again. So, let’s dig in and see what’s happening.
The Chainlink Reserve
The recent big news for Chainlink was the creation of a Chainlink Reserve. This caused a 43% price increase for LINK during the past 7 days. Chainlink will create its own strategic on-chain reserve of LINK tokens. It designed this reserve to support the long-term growth and sustainability of its Network. Quite a clever move by Chainlink. The recent uptick in the LINK price supports this. So, let’s take a closer look at some features of this Chainlink Reserve.Â
Real Revenue-Backed Accumulation
This is immediately an important factor. The Reserve collects real revenue from Chainlink’s services. Even payments made in stablecoins or other tokens are converted to LINK. All this happens with an on-chain smart contract. In other words, adding LINK is not speculative. Instead, it ties straight into actual business usage. It does this by using off-chain revenue. This comes from large enterprises that are adopting the Chainlink standard. Another way to add to the Reserve is from on-chain service usage. See the picture below on how the Reserve adds LINK.
Source: Chainlink blog
This also means they are not allocating coins that were previously held by insiders. They are market buying and holding.
Circulating Supply Reduction
That almost sounds like a burn program is in place. However, that’s not the case. All LINK tokens that end up in the Reserve are locked away with a multi-day time lock. What makes this even more enticing is that there’s no withdrawal expected for years. So, the LINK tokens aren’t burned, but instead, they’re taken out of circulation. This creates scarcity and should have a positive effect on the LINK price.
To make the Chainlink Reserve upgrade even more effective, Payment Abstraction has now officially expanded to support offchain payments for Chainlink and multiple onchain services.
Payment Abstraction enables revenue from both onchain service usage, as well as significant… pic.twitter.com/h8p7WabbMH
— Chainlink (@chainlink) August 7, 2025
Transparency and Trust
You can see all transactions for and by the Reserve on-chain. They’re publicly visible to anyone who’s interested in them. This reassures trust among institutional and retail investors. Everybody can see that the LINK accumulation is real. So, don’t underestimate how important this transparency is and how it creates trust.
Source: Reserve website
Payment Abstraction Innovation
This is what I mentioned a moment ago. Enterprises that pay for the Chainlink services can do so in various ways. For instance, with fiat, stablecoins, or gas tokens. The Payment Abstraction innovation converts all these payments automatically to LINK. It also increases demand for LINK tokens. And as I pointed out earlier, this creates scarcity and may give the LINK price a push. The picture below shows how the Payment Abstraction works.
Source: Chainlink blog
The Chainlink Reserve launched about a week ago with 65,539 LINK. At the time I wrote this, that was worth around $1.1 million. During this week, there was more inflow. So, due to the current LINK price, the Reserve’s worth grew to $2.5 million. See the picture below.
Chainlink and RWAs
Chainlink is also active in the RWA sector. This is one of the most promising sectors in crypto. It has a projected market cap increase of 50x by 2030. So, here are some reasons why Chainlink is successful in this sector.
Cross-Chain Interoperability and Secure Asset Transfers
Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) plays an important role here. It offers seamless and secure transfers of tokenized RWAs between various blockchains. Having this interoperability creates liquidity for the RWAs. It also allows for multichain DeFi apps.Â
#Chainlink is in the center of the tokenized real-world asset (RWA) trend, and for good reason
Institutions need an abstraction layer solution to connect their existing backend infra to any public/private chain via one integration
They also need a secure cross-chain… pic.twitter.com/a6qS1gPNfA
— Zach Rynes | CLG (@ChainLinkGod) October 20, 2023
Providing Decentralized Proof of Reserve for RWAs
Chainlink offers a Proof of Reserve service. This service verifies that tokenized assets are 100% backed by off-chain reserves. For instance, fiat currencies, commodities, or securities. This is an autonomous verification. Its transparency is also an important factor. As such, it builds trust and security in digital representations of physical assets. Samples of projects that already use this service are Tokenyze and Backed Finance.Â
This is key since many are more interested in the underlying asset being tokenized, like Tesla stock, than the RWA chain’s native token.Â
Enabling Real-Time Data Feeds for RWA Valuations
This fits Chainlink like a glove, since it’s an oracle. So, having reliable and decentralized market data is crucial for on-chain asset valuation. Chainlink offers secure data feeds from various sources. In this case, for assets like commodities, equities, or bonds. It provides price accuracy and other useful information for on-chain RWAs.
Powering Tokenized Stock and Equity Platforms
Platforms like Backed, xStocks, Aktionariat, and 21X all use Chainlink oracles. That’s because Chainlink delivers crucial information that these platforms need. For example, secure price feeds, or proof of reserve verification. CCIP takes care of the cross-chain interoperability. With this infrastructure in place, you can tokenize and trade real-world equities. For instance, Apple or Amazon stock, or ETFs. Chainlink offers compliance and real-time valuation for this.
#Chainlink is in the center of the tokenized real-world asset (RWA) trend, and for good reason
Institutions need an abstraction layer solution to connect their existing backend infra to any public/private chain via one integration
They also need a secure cross-chain… pic.twitter.com/a6qS1gPNfA
— Zach Rynes | CLG (@ChainLinkGod) October 20, 2023
The LINK Price
The current LINK price is around $24. That’s up 50% over the last 7 days. Currently, LINK is hovering just outside the top 10 by market cap. Today, it has a $16 billion market cap.
So, LINK went from $16.50 to $24 in only 6 days. That begs the question, what else is possible? Where is the next goal for the LINK price?Â
$29 and $46 are the next targets for Chainlink $LINK. pic.twitter.com/13LEjoDfxz
— Ali (@ali_charts) August 12, 2025
Well, Trader Ali Martinez seems to have an answer for the short term. As the next target, he sees $26 and $49. However, only a few days ago, he also mentioned that if LINK breaks $24, it can go all the way up to $95. Is that close enough to $100 for your liking? See the chart below.
Source: X
Furthermore, during the last 48 hours, whales withdrew 2 million LINK from exchanges. That’s about $48 million worth. These whales are confident to hold their LINK in their noncustodial wallets. Remember, not your keys, not your coins. This is a vote of confidence in the LINK token.Â
2 million Chainlink $LINK withdrawn from exchanges in 48 hours! pic.twitter.com/uoddDiWQTN
— Ali (@ali_charts) August 12, 2025
So, do I see LINK going to $100 in 2025. Well, yes I do. All the ingredients are there. It’s as if Chainlink created its own LINK flywheel.Â
- The Chainlink Reserve turns real-world revenue into long term locked LINK tokens.Â
- This tightens the supply AND enhances demand.Â
- In turn, this should increase the LINK price.Â
You may know that I’m a Chainlink fanboy, but even without my tainted glasses, I can see a LINK price rally happening.
What do you think? Is LINK primed to go all the way to $100? Let me know in the comments and make sure to follow our X and Discord accounts.
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