Chainlink (LINK) Price Prediction 2025-2030: Is LINK hitting $500 in 2030?

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Chainlink [LINK] was on a bad downtrend, at press time, falling by more than 13% in 24 hours,. Enticing, but a drop in the bucket compared to what it lost in the crypto-winter that spared no one. In fact, LINK saw its value plummet by more than 83% from its all-time high of $52.88 in May 2021.

So, what does this movement mean and, is now a good time to get into LINK? This article will talk about the crypto ranked twenty fourth by market capitalization and touch upon what are the important factors to consider.

Back in 2014, SmartContract.com, set out to develop a bridge between external data sources and public blockchains. This ironically led to the creation of a centralized oracle system called Chainlink. In 2017 this product was reshaped into what we now know as the Chainlink Network.

Chainlink is the largest oracle project in terms of market cap and total value secured, and number of crypto-projects associated with it. An oracle is basically a software that acts like an intermediary between the on-chain and the real world.

Source: Chainlink

Here’s a fun fact from Defi Llama – Chainlink is securing more value than all of its competitors combined. The network has secured more than $15 billion from protocols that rely on its data feeds. At the time of writing, data revealed that LINK was trading at $7.09. Its market capitalization stood at $3.30 billion with $504.18 million being traded in 24 hours.

Source: LINK/USD, TradingView

In May 2021, Sergey Nazarov, Co-founder and CEO of Chainlink, disclosed in a podcast that Chainlink is estimated to have 60% of the market