Chainlink Reserve and U.S. Products Held 22.7 Million LINK at Q3 End

Chainlink’s reserve and two U.S. exchange-traded products held about 22.70 million Chainlink (LINK) tokens at the end of Q3 2026, a quarter-end tally of holdings rather than a measure of current market-wide buying.

Chainlink published its Q3 2026 review Oct. 21. At quarter-end, the reserve held 6,047,498.3150 LINK after adding 1,543,330.47 LINK during the quarter. Grayscale’s GLNK and Bitwise’s CLNK held 16,650,795 LINK combined. Together, the reserve and product balances totaled 22,698,293.315 LINK, or about 22.70 million.

Later fund disclosures listed 12,712,736.3349 LINK in GLNK as of Oct. 22 and 5,017,783.90 LINK in CLNK as of Oct. 21. Those balances total about 17.73 million LINK, but they are snapshots from different dates. They cannot be combined with the quarter-end reserve figure to produce a current, same-date total.

The reserve accumulates LINK from offchain enterprise revenue and onchain service fees. Reserve and fund balances show how many tokens were held at a point in time; they do not measure market-wide buying or purchases during a particular trading session.

A previous comparison of 30-day reserve additions and ETF flows covered 431,900 LINK in reserve additions and a $397,256 net ETF outflow in one session. Those figures used different measurement windows from the Q3 balance. A LINK benchmark level for Oct. 22 was $11.95.