LINK · Daily move · 2026-10-30
Why did Chainlink go up 7.8% on October 30, 2026?
LINK's move can't be compared with Bitcoin's yet; the figures below describe the move, not its cause. This is LINK's largest 24-hour rise in 29 days. No LINK report was collected from the day before to the day after; the cause is unresolved.
A Chainlink partnership report may have helped support the rise, but its contribution is uncertain. The price climbed from its 24-hour low and was near its high at the end; the onset time is not established.
May have started the movePossible
A report about Chainlink partnering with Hanwha Securities appeared Oct 30, 17:30 UTC. The news could have improved expectations for LINK, but the report alone does not show when the partnership took effect or how traders responded.
What is not shown
No verified announcement or timing link to the price move is provided; the onset is unknown.
What is still unknown
Did the partnership report or other project news trigger buying, and when did the rise begin?
Looked at the 24 hours to Oct 31, 2026, 00:19 UTC
- Day open / close
- $10.61 → $11.4524 hourly candles, OKX · USDT
- Day range
- $10.26 – $11.4511.7% from low to high
- Versus the past month
- Its largest 24h rise in 29 days+7.84% in the 24 hours to Oct 31, 2026, 00:00 UTC, 4.3× a typical day (1.8%).
- 30-day range
- 21.9% below the high · 11.6% above the lowFrom hourly highs and lows on the same venue
- 24h volume
- 3.5×of its prior 30-day daily average
- Perpetual swap
- funding near zero · open interest flatOKX perpetual swap LINK-USDT-SWAP
Computed from OKX · USDT hourly candles for the 24 hours to Oct 31, 2026, 00:00 UTC. Methods →
LINK timeline around October 30, 2026
Largest closed hourly move: +2.25%, Oct 30, 2026, 03:00–04:00 (UTC).
1 sharp price swing was flagged; the largest was +1.70% in 5 minutes at Oct 30, 2026, 01:36 UTC.
How often has this happened before?
Since 2017-11-10, LINK has risen 7% or more in a UTC day 184 times on Gate · USDT daily closes, counting moves within 7 days of each other once. Seven days later it was higher in 94 of 184 cases, with a median change of +0.29%. This is history, not a forecast.
Latest 10 episodes: 2026-09-28, 2026-09-18, 2026-09-06, 2026-08-19, 2026-06-07, 2026-04-13, 2026-02-25, 2026-02-06, 2026-01-13, 2025-12-02 (UTC)
One venue’s daily closes, before costs; the coin’s own survived history, so it says nothing about coins that no longer trade. Past episodes are not a forecast.