Chainlink Price Prediction As Whales Buy The Dip: Will LINK Hit $100?

Crypto prices are facing significant selling pressure as weakness in U.S. regional banks has stirred fears of credit stress, prompting risk‐off sentiment and driving investors out of volatile assets.

Yet, smart money investors remain confident in another explosive bull rally that could push large-cap crypto prices to new highs. 

Chainlink has emerged as one of the most in-demand coins among top investors, with whales buying the dip. Just today, Lookonchain flagged a $16.94 million $LINK purchase by a whale wallet from Binance. 

With old “dino” coins like Zcash and BNB recently showing considerable bullish strength, whales are betting that LINK could be the next to explode. 

Chainlink price predictions from prominent analysts continue to indicate a high possibility of a new all-time high by year-end, with $100 emerging as a potential long-term target. 

Chainlink Price Prediction: How High Can LINK Go?

Chainlink continues to be one of the most fundamentally sound crypto assets on the market. 

Its strength lies in a deep and diversified technology stack, even beyond its cutting-edge Oracle services. Its decentralized price feeds, off-chain computation, privacy oracles, verifiable random functions (VRF), and flagship Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) that enables secure communication across blockchains, have made Chainlink perhaps the most indispensable company in the crypto industry. 

It also powers Proof of Reserves to verify asset backing and features an automated compliance engine that allows institutions to enforce on-chain regulatory requirements. With banks and institutions looking to launch their own stablecoin, Chainlink’s use case in the industry is only going to skyrocket. 

On Thursday, Chainlink announced that it has launched the first native real-time oracle on MegaETH to deliver sub-second data. 

On the institutional front, Chainlink has built partnerships and pilots with some of the largest players in global finance. It has collaborated with Swift, UBS, and J.P. Morgan to bridge traditional payment systems with tokenized assets. 

Banks such as Citi, BNP Paribas, and BNY Mellon have also participated in Chainlink interoperability pilots, while Fidelity International and Sygnum use it to bring fund NAV data on-chain. Other partners include Euroclear, ANZ, Clearstream, and Lloyds.

Even the US Department of Commerce have partnered with Chainlink to publish macroeconomic data. 

Now could be a good time to invest in LINK, considering Chainlink co-founder is set to speak at the Federal Reserve’s Payments Innovation Conference. 

LINK’s technical analysis supports this thesis as well. With its on-balance volume (OBV) now at a key support level, there is a strong likelihood of a bounce back. In fact, the Chainlink price is close to forming a bullish divergence with its OBV. 

More risk-averse investors can wait for a successful retest of the lower trendline of Chainlink’s ascending parallel wedge. 

Top analysts continue to give bullish Chainlink price predictions in the long term. Blockchainedbb is projecting LINK to hit $55 by year-end, while Crypto Tony expects a top anywhere between $280 and $450. 

Pepenode Tipped As The Next 100x Crypto

The success of BNB, Zcash and Chainlink indicates that the utility coins are in high demand. Unsurprisingly, investors are even giving preference to high-utility meme coins over run-of-the-mill scam tokens. 

For instance, Pepenode (PEPENODE) has raised nearly $2 million in its ICO, with smart money investors and whales among the early buyers. 

The project has already made a mark for itself, thanks to a unique mine-to-earn ecosystem. Pepenode’s virtual mining system allows holders to use their tokens to build digital server rooms and purchase Miner Nodes, which generate hashpower and produce rewards.

The entire process takes place off-chain, starting from the presale itself, requiring no GPUs, electricity, or physical equipment. As users upgrade their mining facilities, efficiency increases while a deflationary burn permanently removes a large portion of tokens from circulation, creating long-term scarcity. 

Rewards earned through the system include both $PEPENODE and leading meme coins like Pepe and Fartcoin, giving investors multiple streams of value within a single, gamified ecosystem.

Besides, investors can just stake their coins and earn passive income, currently at a reward rate of nearly 700% per annum. 

Considering the popular Pepe the Frog theme, low market cap and high utility, it is no surprise that many are viewing Pepenode as a potential 100x crypto. 

Nikolay Kolev

Nikolay is a cryptocurrency analyst and market writer with years of experience tracking digital asset trends and emerging blockchain technologies. A long-time crypto enthusiast, he actively trades across major exchanges and specializes in identifying early-stage projects and meme tokens. His analysis combines technical insight with a strategic, long-term investment perspective.