There is approximately 4 Million LINK left on 1 of 6 publicly known Chainlink team wallets:
0xf37c348b7d19b17b29cd5cfa64cfa48e2d6eb8db
Four days ago, 1.5 Million LINK were transferred out. One week before that other 1.5 Million. And two weeks before that too. To put it simply, we’re 3 weeks away from emptying this wallet.
Ok but, what does that mean?
Token Distribution
Let’s begin to remember how the tokens have been distributed.
There is a maximum supply of 1 Billion tokens. This is the total number of LINK that will be ever created. This is still far from being the number of LINK in the circulating supply. As of today, there is only 408.5 Million LINK of circulating supply. That’s only approx. 40.85% of the maximum supply.
On its ICO , this was how LINK was distributed:
So, 300 Millions LINK go to the company, in 6 publicly known Chainlink wallets with 50 Million LINK each (in 2017).
Those are the wallet addresses with the current LINK balance (obviously some with less than 50 Million now):
1. 0xf37c348b7d19b17b29cd5cfa64cfa48e2d6eb8db (4.09 Million — in orange)
2. 0xe0362f7445e3203a496f6f8b3d51cbb413b69be2 (50 Million — in black)
3. 0x75398564ce69b7498da10a11ab06fd8ff549001c (50 Million — in black)
4. 0x5560d001f977df5e49ead7ab0bdd437c4ee3a99e (50 Million — in black)
5. 0xdad22a85ef8310ef582b70e4051e543f3153e11f (37.4 Million — in blue)
6. 0xbe6977e08d4479c0a6777539ae0e8fa27be4e9d6 (50 Million — in black)
So the circulating supply has been increasing since 2017 with transactions mostly from Chainlink’s Team wallet 1 (in orange) and wallet 5 (in blue) to other wallets (e.g. exchanges). Other wallets have stayed untouched with 50 Million LINK each. The last transaction out of wallet 5 occurred August 2019 and to this day it has 37.4 Million LINK left. The wallet 1 has been the more active and has still 4.09 Million LINK left and if we keep the same rate of the previous weeks (i.e. 1.5M LINK per week), we’re 3 weeks away from emptying this wallet (dotted line in orange).
So after the wallet is emptied-out, the longer it gets without Chainlink moving LINK from one of the their wallets, the more significant the case for price going up (i.e. reducing supply).
When will Wallet 1 be emptied-out?
I'm expecting Wallet 1 to be emptied on March 12th but they could just sell all of the remaining LINK sooner on any day or more probably on a Friday.
So watch out for the following days:
What comes next?
Let’s entertain the idea for a moment that they do stop selling for some time. This is one of those cases, where the why they would do that becomes less important than for how long. Wouldn’t you say that 50 Million+ LINK would be enough to support the development of the Chainlink protocol for some time? We’re most probably 3 weeks away from emptying the wallet, and 4 weeks away to find out what comes next. And if this happens, it helps the case for upward movement.
0xf37c348b7d19b17b29cd5cfa64cfa48e2d6eb8db
Four days ago, 1.5 Million LINK were transferred out. One week before that other 1.5 Million. And two weeks before that too. To put it simply, we’re 3 weeks away from emptying this wallet.
Ok but, what does that mean?
Token Distribution
Let’s begin to remember how the tokens have been distributed.
There is a maximum supply of 1 Billion tokens. This is the total number of LINK that will be ever created. This is still far from being the number of LINK in the circulating supply. As of today, there is only 408.5 Million LINK of circulating supply. That’s only approx. 40.85% of the maximum supply.
On its ICO , this was how LINK was distributed:
- 35% to Node Operators
- 35% to the Public Token Sale
- 30% to the Company
So, 300 Millions LINK go to the company, in 6 publicly known Chainlink wallets with 50 Million LINK each (in 2017).
Those are the wallet addresses with the current LINK balance (obviously some with less than 50 Million now):
1. 0xf37c348b7d19b17b29cd5cfa64cfa48e2d6eb8db (4.09 Million — in orange)
2. 0xe0362f7445e3203a496f6f8b3d51cbb413b69be2 (50 Million — in black)
3. 0x75398564ce69b7498da10a11ab06fd8ff549001c (50 Million — in black)
4. 0x5560d001f977df5e49ead7ab0bdd437c4ee3a99e (50 Million — in black)
5. 0xdad22a85ef8310ef582b70e4051e543f3153e11f (37.4 Million — in blue)
6. 0xbe6977e08d4479c0a6777539ae0e8fa27be4e9d6 (50 Million — in black)
So the circulating supply has been increasing since 2017 with transactions mostly from Chainlink’s Team wallet 1 (in orange) and wallet 5 (in blue) to other wallets (e.g. exchanges). Other wallets have stayed untouched with 50 Million LINK each. The last transaction out of wallet 5 occurred August 2019 and to this day it has 37.4 Million LINK left. The wallet 1 has been the more active and has still 4.09 Million LINK left and if we keep the same rate of the previous weeks (i.e. 1.5M LINK per week), we’re 3 weeks away from emptying this wallet (dotted line in orange).
So after the wallet is emptied-out, the longer it gets without Chainlink moving LINK from one of the their wallets, the more significant the case for price going up (i.e. reducing supply).
When will Wallet 1 be emptied-out?
I'm expecting Wallet 1 to be emptied on March 12th but they could just sell all of the remaining LINK sooner on any day or more probably on a Friday.
So watch out for the following days:
- February 26 (assuming they move everything left in one go)
- March 5 (assuming they move everything left in one go)
- March 12 (if same rate is kept i.e. 1.5M LINK per week)
What comes next?
Let’s entertain the idea for a moment that they do stop selling for some time. This is one of those cases, where the why they would do that becomes less important than for how long. Wouldn’t you say that 50 Million+ LINK would be enough to support the development of the Chainlink protocol for some time? We’re most probably 3 weeks away from emptying the wallet, and 4 weeks away to find out what comes next. And if this happens, it helps the case for upward movement.
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2.59M LINK left❗
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1.09M LINK left❗
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LINK Tx out resumed on another Dev Team wallet