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During Monday’s market session, the Chainlink price witnessed an intraday sell-off of over 6.7% to trade at the $12 mark. The selling pressure followed Bitcoin’s breakdown below $85,000 and continued uncertainty in the broader market. However, the anticipated debut of Grayscale’s Chainlink ETF in the U.S market could bolster volatility and rebound opportunity in the near term.
Key Highlights:
Grayscale Investments is taking its Chainlink stocks out of over-the-counter and into a full exchange product. The firm’s Chainlink Trust, which has been operating as a private vehicle since 2020, was cleared by the SEC to restructure as a spot ETF. Trading under the GLNK symbol on NYSE Arca begins December 2, following an announcement on November 28. The setup replaces the old OTCQX venue with all its OOTC identifiers and introduces ARCX as the new market code.
This shift opens up Chainlink exposure to more market participants, as Grayscale did with its recent rollout for XRP and Dogecoin assets. The GLNK structure monitors the CoinDesk LINK reference rate; it fetches up-to-date pricing from different platforms to reflect the value of the token, less fees. Unlike standard holdings, it includes staking options once regulatory hurdles get out of the way, which enable a portion of the trust’s LINK to yield network yields through vetted providers. Custody is down to Coinbase, while Bank of New York Mellon is responsible for administration.
Nate Geraci, who leads The ETF Store, flagged the development on X early on the 1st of December, pointing to the timeline for the uplisting in the week. His note emphasizes the conversion’s role in making it easier for institutions to get into Chainlink’s oracle tech, which feeds off-chain data to blockchains.
Meanwhile, on-chain activity indicates that a swing trader is doubling down on the ETF hype. According to the Lookonchain data, the wallet 0xa96b… has spent around $5.37 million USDT for 422,064 LINK tokens at an average of $12.72 per unit.
This is the seventh swing play in the address using LINK since the beginning of October, where buys and sells are based on short-term price swings. Four out of those previous six panned out in a positive way, giving a 67% ratio of success, but the overall ledger is $1.24 million underwater from accumulated losses.
The fresh address timed in advance of the Chainlink ETF debut is in line with a pattern of testing volatility to the decentralized network’s native asset.
Over the last five days, the Chainlink price witnessed a sharp pullback from $13.56 to the current trading value of $12, registering an 11.27%. This downstream created a new lower-high formation in LINK’s daily timeframe chart, suggesting an intact sell-the-bounce sentiment among market participants.
A downsloping trend in the daily exponential moving averages (20, 50, 100, and 200) accentuates the broader bearish sentiment in price. With sustained selling, the Chainlink price could plunge 10% and retest the bottom trendline at $10.2.
Since late August, the coin price has witnessed a steady trend, resonating within the two parallel trendlines. Thus, the potential retest could act as a key pivot level for the LINK price and drive a temporary upswing toward the upper boundary.
If the Chainlink ETF is able to withdraw sufficient inflows from institutions, the coin price will likely attempt a bullish breakout from channel resistance to bolster further rally.
