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- Advertisement -LINK sits at $8. 732, pressing into a confluence of resistance near $8. 90-$9. 00. The 200-day SMA at $8. 838 has converged almost exactly with the 0. 5 Fibonacci retracement at $8. 925. Whale. . .
- Advertisement -LINK sits at $8. 732, pressing into a confluence of resistance near $8. 90-$9. 00. The 200-day SMA at $8. 838 has converged almost exactly with the 0. 5 Fibonacci retracement at $8. 925. Whale wallets added to a 246-transaction spike in trades above $100K, the highest daily count in five months. A daily close above $9. 00 opens the path toward $9. 383 and eventually $10. 036. Chainlink is trading at $8. 732 on August 12, right against a resistance zone that has rejected the token on four or five separate occasions since June. The chart shows why this particular price level matters more than the ones LINK passed through on the way up: three unrelated technical signals have landed on almost the same number at the same time, something that happens rarely enough to be worth watching closely. ChainLink tests $9. 00 resistance confluence. Chart: Alexander StefanovA 36% drop in a month set up today’s Fibonacci gridLINK reached $10. 868 in early May before losing more than a third of its value in roughly four weeks, bottoming at $6. 982 in early June. That swing low became the reference point for the Fibonacci grid now overlaid on the chart. Since then, LINK has carved out a pattern of higher lows inside a rising channel, the lower boundary of which is visible running from the June low through the July and August price action. Momentum has cooperated with that structure. The RSI reads 60. 64, comfortably above the neutral 50 line without drifting into overbought territory above 70. A reading in this range usually signals that buyers control the pace of the move without the exhaustion that tends to precede a sharp pullback. Why Three Separate Signals Point to the Same NumberThe upper boundary of the ascending channel built off the July low intersects almost exactly here, meaning the level marks resistance within LINK’s own uptrend structure rather than old overhead supply left over from May. The 50-day SMA sits at $8. 098, a shorter-term average that price has hovered around for weeks, while the 200-day SMA has fallen all the way to $8. 838, converging almost exactly with the 0. 5 Fibonacci retracement at $8. 925. That kind of overlap between a rising trendline, a long-term moving average, and a retracement level built off the May-June swing does not happen often on a daily chart. A clean break above it would confirm LINK is extending its uptrend rather than merely reclaiming lost ground, though the confluence still means the level needs real volume to clear. LINK’s Next Move Hinges on a Single Close Above $9A daily close above $9. 00 backed by rising volume would confirm buyers have absorbed the selling that capped every prior attempt at this level, and $9. 383 becomes the next stop on the way toward reclaiming the May trading range near $10. 036. Failure to hold above $9. 00, on the other hand, sends LINK back toward $8. 466, a level that has already acted as support through most of July. Losing that floor puts the psychological $8. 00 mark and the $7. 899 Fibonacci level back in focus. Whale wallets are buying at a pace not seen in five monthsOnchain activity has picked up alongside the technical setup. 246 separate $100K+ LINK transactionshit the network in 24 hours, the highest daily count in five months, while wallets holding between 100,000 and 10 million LINK now control 466. 31 million tokens, or 46. 57% of total supply. That kind of accumulation among mid-sized holders often precedes a directional move rather than random noise, though it says nothing about which direction that move takes. For readers building a position, ETHNews has abreakdown of Chainlink wallet optionsworth reviewing before increasing exposure. Source: Santiment XInstitutions keep plugging into Chainlink’s oracle railsChainlink currently holds$1. 819 billion in total value locked, with $381. 31 million staked. The protocol has also been adding institutional integrations at a pace that outstrips most of its oracle competitors this year. DTCC processed a tokenized securities trade involving J. P. Morgan and CME Group through Chainlink’s infrastructure, and a banking consortium spanning more than 50 institutions and $10 trillion in assets under management launchedProject Pangeato build cross-border settlement on the network. BitGo migrated over $7. 4 billion in Wrapped Bitcoin to Chainlink’s CCIP after what it described as an extensive review process, and Robinhood adopted the protocol as the oracle infrastructure for its Robinhood Chain stock tokens. None of this changes what the chart shows for the next few sessions, but it does explain why whale wallets might be positioning ahead of a breakout attempt rather than simply trading the range. Disclaimer: ETHNewsdoes not endorse and is not responsible for or liable for any content, accuracy, quality, advertising, products, or other materials on this page. Readers should do their own research before taking any actions related to cryptocurrencies. ETHNews is not responsible, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use of or reliance on any content, goods, or services mentioned.