Chainlink (LINK) Perpetual Futures
Live Chainlink perpetual-futures data — price, funding rate, open interest, trader positioning and 24-hour liquidations, aggregated across major exchanges. Chainlink is a bellwether for DeFi and oracle-related flows.
Chainlink (LINK) market read LIVE
Right now Chainlink trades at $8.17, down 2.16% over the last 24 hours. It ranks #19 by market cap at $6.11 billion, with $156.8 million traded across markets in the past day. Funding is positive at +0.0064% — LINK longs are paying shorts to hold their positions, a long-tilted market. Open interest across major exchanges stands at $316.9 million, down 2.2% in a day as positions unwind — about 5.2% of the coin's entire market cap sitting in open perp positions. $183K in LINK positions was liquidated over the past 24 hours — mostly shorts ($139K vs $44K in longs), squeezed on the way up. Account positioning leans long: 60.8% of accounts are long vs 39.2% short. Over the past week LINK is down 7.1%, and over 30 days up 3.9%. The price sits 84% below its all-time high of $52.7 (set in 2021).
Written from live exchange-aggregated derivatives data · updated 08:28 UTC · the numbers on this page refresh continuously.
Chainlink perpetual futures, explained
A LINK perpetual future (perp) lets you trade Chainlink with leverage and no expiry. The funding rate keeps the perp price tethered to spot — positive funding means LINK longs are paying shorts (crowded longs), negative means the reverse. Open interest is the total value of open LINK positions; a fast rise means new leverage is flowing in. Liquidations show where over-leveraged LINK traders got force-closed — long liquidations on drops, short liquidations on rallies.
How to use this LINK dashboard
Read the four numbers together. Heavy positive funding plus lopsided long positioning and rising open interest is a crowded long setup that can unwind sharply. A spike in long liquidations often marks a local LINK bottom; a wave of short liquidations can fuel a squeeze higher. Confirm entries on the technical screener and size with the LINK liquidation calculator so leverage never puts you closer to liquidation than you intend.
LINK data aggregated across major exchanges (deepest market shown). For information only — not financial advice.