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According to on-chain analyst Onchain Lens, Kanye West's YZY token will experience the largest unlock, with an unlock amount of 120.83 million YZY (approximately 35.26 million USD), accounting for 12.08% of the total supply of 1 billion tokens.

According to monitoring by Onchain Lens, Chainlink has once again completed a LINK buyback operation, purchasing 127,740 LINK, worth approximately 1.12 million USD, and transferring the tokens to the reserve wallet.Data shows that Chainlink Reserve currently holds approximately 5.48 million LINK, valued at around 48.5 million USD, with an average purchase cost of 11.14 USD per LINK.

According to SoSoValue data, the cryptocurrency market sector showed mixed results, with the DeFi sector performing prominently, rising by 1.04%. Among them, Hyperliquid (HYPE) rose by 1.74%, and Chainlink (LINK) rose by 2.42%. The Meme sector increased by 0.7% in 24 hours, with Fartcoin (FARTCOIN) rising by 9.04% and Pump.fun (PUMP) rising by 8.76%.In other sectors, the PayFi sector rose by 0.4%, with eCash (XEC) increasing by 1.56%. The Layer1 sector rose by 0.2%, with Cosmos Hub (ATOM) increasing by 8.71%. Additionally, the CeFi sector fell by 0.07%, but Cronos (CRO) remained relatively strong, rising by 1.07%. The Layer2 sector decreased by 0.97%, while Optimism (OP) rose by 4.11%. The cryptocurrency sector index reflecting historical market trends shows that the ssiAI, ssiDeFi, and ssiMeme indices rose by 1.93%, 1.29%, and 1.28%, respectively.

According to Santiment data, Chainlink (LINK) whale activity has significantly increased, with 246 large transactions of over $100,000 in LINK occurring within 24 hours, marking the highest single-day level in five months. Meanwhile, wallets holding between 100,000 and 10 million LINK currently hold approximately 466.3 million LINK in total, accounting for 46.57% of the total supply, indicating that this round of whale activity is accompanied by a balance increase.Santiment points out that Chainlink is continuously expanding in areas such as CCIP, tokenized assets, stablecoins, institutional data, and new cross-chain channels, with official metrics still positioning the network as the core oracle infrastructure for on-chain finance.

Standard Chartered Bank set a target price of $200 for the Chainlink token LINK by the end of 2030, indicating significant upside potential from the current level of around $8.The bank believes that the development of asset tokenization will continue to increase the demand for reliable on-chain data, and Chainlink is expected to play a key role in the infrastructure of traditional finance and decentralized finance.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Chainlink repurchased 139,956.08 LINK, worth approximately 1.13 million USD, and transferred the tokens to its reserve wallet.This batch of LINK was accumulated through multiple exchanges on CoWSwap, then consolidated and sent to its reserve wallet. Chainlink's reserves currently hold 5.35 million LINK, worth approximately 43.9 million USD, with an average acquisition cost of 11.19 USD per LINK.

According to CoinDesk, cryptocurrency infrastructure company BitGo will replace LayerZero with Chainlink CCIP as the exclusive cross-chain service provider for $7.3 billion WBTC.After the $292 million cross-chain bridge exploit incident at Kelp, multiple projects announced their migration from LayerZero to Chainlink, with a disclosed total migration scale reaching $14.5 billion. BitGo will use CCIP for future assets while retaining control over token contracts, rate limits, and transfer settings.

Bitget announced a comprehensive upgrade to its BGBTC, adding daily coin-based earnings, large-scale rapid redemption, and institutional-level risk management. This upgrade also introduces an independent Curator mechanism, with the DeFi risk management agency Gauntlet responsible for supervising the underlying earnings strategy and risk management, adding independent strategy reviews beyond asset custody to strengthen portfolio monitoring, risk control, and long-term earnings sustainability. Currently, BGBTC supports the deployment of earnings strategies on the Morph chain, further expanding multi-chain earnings channels and application scenarios.At the infrastructure level, Bitget uses Chainlink CCIP as the official cross-chain solution for BGBTC and continues the Chainlink Proof of Reserve program, providing real-time transparency and verifiable reserve guarantees for its 1:1 pegged Bitcoin. The upgraded BGBTC can still be used for contract margins, loan collateral, and participation in Launchpool and PoolX while obtaining earnings, further enhancing capital efficiency while retaining asset liquidity.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the Chainlink whale (0xF5B...9650) received 467,180 LINK from Binance in the past 13 hours, worth approximately 3.94 million USD, which includes 253,920 LINK, worth about 2.14 million USD, and 213,260 LINK, worth about 1.80 million USD. The most recent transfer occurred 3 hours ago.This whale currently holds 2,050,000 LINK, worth approximately 17.7 million USD.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a certain Chainlink whale transferred 431,000 LINK to a Gnosis Safe multi-signature wallet, valued at approximately 3.76 million dollars.This whale had previously accumulated and withdrawn these tokens from Binance into two wallets through multiple transactions over the past three weeks, with the final two transfers being 176,029 LINK, valued at approximately 1.53 million dollars, and 255,468 LINK, valued at approximately 2.23 million dollars.

After completing a rigorous and comprehensive security review, United Stables officially announced the adoption of Chainlink as the official data and cross-chain infrastructure driving the U stablecoin.

Aave announced that it has selected Chainlink CCIP as its cross-chain infrastructure standard. CCIP is currently delivering infrastructure a.DI through Aave to undertake cross-chain GHO transfers and multi-chain governance execution.Subsequently, cross-chain logic for the Aave App will be supported through Stable Vaults, covering scenarios such as vault rebalancing, yield optimization, deposits, and transfers. Relevant cross-chain operations will take place between Ethereum, Base, and Arbitrum.

According to CoinDesk, Mantle announced the migration of its Super Portal, co-developed with Bybit and with a locked value of $2.5 billion, from LayerZero's OFT standard to Chainlink's CCT standard.The portal supports MNT token transfers between Ethereum and Solana and plans to support other blockchain networks. This migration includes Mantle's native token MNT, which has a locked value exceeding $2.5 billion. The migration window is from July 9 to July 15, during which the Super Portal will suspend services, and existing MNT assets and related activities on Byreal and Bybit will not be affected.This migration brings the total assets flowing from LayerZero to Chainlink CCIP to over $7.24 billion. Previously, Kelp ($1.5 billion), Lombard (over $1 billion), Solv Protocol ($700 million), Virtuals Protocol ($700 million), Re ($475 million), Kraken ($330 million), and Yuzu Money ($54.5 million) have completed their migrations.

Aave has deployed the V3 lending protocol on Monad, with the initial market supporting a total of 12 assets: USDT 0, USDC, Aave stablecoin GHO, USDe, mUSD, AUSD, WETH, cbBTC, wstETH, weETH, syrupUSDC, and sUSDe. In this deployment, Aave has enabled the Chainlink Smart Value Recovery mechanism (SVR) at launch for the first time, which can return part of the MEV value generated during the liquidation process back to the protocol.The Monad Foundation will invest $15 million as incentive funds within the first 12 months after the project launch and has agreed to purchase 10 million GHO and hold it for at least six months; Aave DAO has also committed to invest 500,000 GHO as incentives to support applications on Monad.

According to CoinDesk, the on-chain prediction market platform World has launched on Solana, allowing users to trade contracts linked to cryptocurrency prices, the 2026 World Cup, and other events using Solana wallets. It will later expand to sports, geopolitics, and macroeconomic markets.The platform is designed to be non-custodial, with user funds only moving when participating in the market. Positions, settlements, and payouts are all completed on-chain, using the CASH stablecoin launched by Phantom as the settlement asset, with data and settlement oracle infrastructure provided by Chainlink to reduce reliance on manual adjudication.

According to CoinDesk, blockchain infrastructure company Chainlink Labs has announced that it will join an alliance composed of several banks that collectively manage assets exceeding $10 trillion, aiming to promote real-time cross-border foreign exchange payment settlements based on stablecoins within a year.The alliance is named "Project Pangea." Niki Ariyasinghe, Vice President of Chainlink for the Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions, stated in a video interview on Tuesday that the project aims to reshape the global foreign exchange market.In addition to Chainlink, the alliance also includes: a euro stablecoin consortium Qivalis supported by 37 European banks; and a Korean banking alliance UniKA representing more than 10 commercial banks.The goal of the project is to explore moving foreign exchange settlements from the traditional T+2 (48 hours after the transaction) cycle to an almost instantaneous T+0 settlement method, primarily relying on regulated euro and Korean won-pegged stablecoins—cryptocurrencies that are pegged 1:1 to the underlying fiat currency.

According to Cointelegraph, Chainlink has launched a data stream for Asia-Pacific stocks, bringing real-time data from major Asian companies such as Samsung, Toyota, Sony, and SK Hynix on-chain.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, Chainlink's quarterly unlock occurred 3 hours ago, with 21 million LINK unlocked and transferred from 4 non-circulating supply addresses, valued at $166 million. Among them, 18.375 million LINK was transferred to Binance, valued at $145 million; 2.625 million LINK was transferred to the 0xD50...8Af multi-signature address, valued at $20.8 million.Each quarter, Chainlink's non-circulating supply addresses unlock approximately 10 million to 20 million LINK, with most transferred to Binance and a small portion to the 0xD50...8Af address; the portion of LINK transferred to that address enters the LINK staking reward distribution contract, used to distribute rewards to LINK stakers.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the Chainlink non-circulating supply wallet deposited 18.375 million LINK worth 144.93 million USD into Binance.