Chainlink LINK
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Price History
The shaded fan is where this price has historically travelled over the months after a close like today’s. It is not a forecast: it has no view on direction, only on distance.
Over 3 months from Sep 2026, roughly two-thirds of past moves landed between $8.46 and $18.25; nine in ten between $6.61 and $23.38.
Tested against this asset’s own history: across 92 past 3-month windows, the price actually landed inside the two-thirds band 78% of the time. The gap from 68% is the model’s error — real returns have fatter tails than the maths assumes, so the band gets breached more often than it claims.
Time underwater
How far below its previous all-time high the price sat, each month. 0% means a new high.
Worst drawdown: −85%, peaking Apr 2021 and bottoming Dec 2022 — still unrecovered after 65 months.
DCA Backtest
- Invested
- $10,700
- Value today
- $78,138
- Return
- +630.3%
- Months invested
- 107
Scenarios
Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $12,581 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +521.1%.
Lump sum instead — $10,700 all at once in Nov 2017: $780,156 (+7191.2%) — lump sum came out ahead.
Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Apr 2021): $7,262 on $6,600 invested (+10.0%).
Backtests use monthly closing prices. Stock dividends aren’t reinvested, so long-run equity returns are understated.
If this saved you a spreadsheet — buy me a coffee.
Every start month at once
Each cell is the return-to-date of £/$/€100-a-month DCA started that month. Click a cell to load it in the backtest above. The ringed cell is the all-time-high start — the worst timing scenario.
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About Chainlink
Chainlink is the industry-standard decentralized oracle network that solves the "oracle problem" by connecting smart contracts with real-world data. Blockchains cannot access external information on their own, so Chainlink acts as a secure bridge, enabling smart contracts to react to real-world events using verified, tamper-proof data. It is widely considered one of the first decentralized oracle networks and is the market leader in bringing off-chain data on-chain. The platform operates through a decentralized network of nodes that fetch, validate, and deliver data to smart contracts. (CoinGecko)
It's a cryptocurrency categorised under oracles, with a market cap of about $10.1B.
It rates Medium-High Risk at 2.3/5, meaning real but ordinary risk — the kind most mainstream assets carry, with some factors scoring poorly.
What pushes the score up: market / volatility (3.7/5) and regulatory (3.0/5).
Scoring well: governance / team at 1.0/5.
Not yet researched: supply & concentration. These are excluded from the score rather than guessed, so the real risk may be higher than what’s shown.
Ratings summarise sourced facts against fixed rules — not investment advice, and no substitute for your own diligence.
Risk Profile
- Annualised volatility (3yr)3/576.8
- Max drawdown from ATH5/585.4
- Beta vs BTC3/51.2
- 24h volume / market cap3/53.1
- Top exchange % of volume1/57.9
- Significant listings1/544.0
- Top 10 wallets % of supplynot yet researched
- Unlocks in next 6mo, % of supplynot yet researched
- Annual supply growth %not yet researched
- Audit status1/5audited top tier recent
- Admin key / upgradeabilitynot yet researched
- Share of its mining algorithm (PoW)not yet researched
- Bridge reliance1/5no bridge dependency
- Team1/5doxxed track record
- Largest staking operator, % of stakenot yet researched
- Regulatory profile3/5significant premine centralized issuer
- Correlation to BTC3/50.65
Linked Assets
Same sector, or return-correlated — worth knowing what else might move if this one does.