Chainlink
Chainlink is a Wallets & Dev Infrastructure company founded in 2017.
Chainlink was created in 2017 by Sergey Nazarov and Steve Ellis, who co-authored its white paper with Cornell professor Ari Juels, and its mainnet launched in 2019. Chainlink Labs, led by Nazarov as CEO, develops the network. Its decentralized oracle networks feed market prices and other off-chain information to smart contracts, the Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) moves tokens and messages between blockchains, and the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) orchestrates workflows that connect bank systems to chains. On Sept. 28, 2026, Chainlink launched CCIP 2.0, which lets institutions run their own verifiers and screen transfers for KYC, AML and sanctions, and said it is building a way for banks to connect to Swift's blockchain ledger. Node operators are paid in the LINK token, and Chainlink says its fee model converts enterprise revenue into LINK held in the Chainlink Reserve. Chainlink put the cumulative transaction value enabled by its oracles at more than $36 trillion as of Oct. 6, 2026.
Chainlink sits between crypto-native protocols and the banks and market infrastructure that are tokenizing assets. CCIP 2.0 launch partners include ANZ Bank, Fidelity International, Deutsche Börse Group's Crypto Finance, SBI Digital Markets, Sygnum, AWS and Google Cloud, while DeFi protocols such as Aave, Lido and Maple use its services. In September 2026, Bottomline partnered with Chainlink to give its more than 600 bank customers access to blockchain settlement while they keep sending ISO 20022 payment instructions.
At a glance
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Founded
2017
Status
Private
Subsector
Wallets & Dev Infrastructure
Blockchain / Crypto, ranked
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Rounds tracked
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No dated funding rounds on file. This company is privately held and may be raising or operating on undisclosed capital.
