Chainlink Fear and Greed Index Today

What Is the Chainlink Fear and Greed Index Today?

The Chainlink Fear and Greed Index today shows whether the current Chainlink market is being driven by fear, neutrality or greed. It gives a live sentiment reading so traders can understand whether conditions are cautious, balanced or risk-on.

Current Chainlink Fear and Greed Index Value

The current Chainlink Fear and Greed Index value is measured from 0 to 100. Lower scores suggest fear, uncertainty or weak confidence in the Chainlink market, while higher scores suggest greed, confidence or stronger risk appetite.

• Daily Chainlink Fear and Greed Index: 37/100, showing Fear for the wider market trend.
• 4-hour Chainlink Fear and Greed Index: 35/100, showing Fear for the medium-term market trend.
• 1-hour Chainlink Fear and Greed Index: 37/100, showing Fear for the short-term market trend.
• 15-minute Chainlink Fear and Greed Index: 52/100, showing Neutral for the intraday and day trading.

These multi-timeframe readings help compare long-term, medium-term, short-term and intraday Chainlink sentiment in one place.

What Does the Current Chainlink Fear and Greed Score Mean?

Fear on the Chainlink Fear and Greed Index means the market is leaning cautious. Confidence is weak and participants are more risk-averse, which can signal hesitation or early-stage weakness.

Is the Chainlink Fear and Greed Index a Buy or Sell Signal?

The Chainlink Fear and Greed Index is a market sentiment indicator, not a standalone buy or sell signal. Traders use it to understand whether fear, greed, neutral or extreme sentiment is present, then compare that reading with price action, liquidity and risk management.

Which Chainlink Fear and Greed Timeframe Should I Use?

Use the daily reading for the wider Chainlink market trend, the 4-hour reading for medium-term conditions, the 1-hour reading for short-term sentiment and the 15-minute reading for intraday moves. The best timeframe depends on how long you plan to hold or monitor the market.

How Often Is the Chainlink Fear and Greed Index Updated?

The Chainlink Fear and Greed Index is updated every 15 minutes. That means the live Chainlink fear and greed reading can change as price action, impulse, volatility, volume, technicals, social sentiment, dominance, search interest, whale activity and order book pressure change.

How to Read the Chainlink Fear and Greed Index Chart

The Chainlink Fear and Greed Index chart shows how Chainlink sentiment has moved through different conditions over time. Use it to compare the current reading with previous periods of fear, greed, neutrality and extreme market conditions.

How CFGI Calculates the Chainlink Fear and Greed Index

CFGI combines live Chainlink market signals into one fear and greed reading. The modules below show whether the current Chainlink score is being driven by price action, impulse, volatility, volume, technicals, social sentiment, dominance, search interest, whale activity or order book pressure.

Chainlink Market Sentiment Today

As of 20:17 UTC, Chainlink scores 37/100 (Fear) versus Bitcoin at 40/100 (Neutral), indicating weaker sentiment than Bitcoin.

Chainlink market sentiment today is shaped by price action, volatility, trading volume, technical indicators, social activity and wider market behaviour. CFGI combines these signals to show how Chainlink sentiment is changing throughout the day.

For wider context, compare this page with the live Crypto Fear and Greed Index and other major crypto sentiment pages including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, BNB, XRP and Dogecoin.

Chainlink Price and Market Data

Current Price

$7.58

All-Time High

$52.70

All-Time Low

$0.15

Market Cap

$5.67B

24h Volume

$232.68M

Market Dominance

0.40%

Circulating Supply

748.10M LINK

Max Supply

1.00B LINK

What Is Chainlink?

The mid-cap major.

Chainlink is the network that feeds real-world data to smart contracts on other blockchains; its token is LINK. By size LINK is a mid-cap. By sentiment it is a major, and on the CFGI Chainlink fear and greed index that distinction is measured rather than asserted, in how closely it moves with the market, in zone time and in how its extremes line up.

The CFGI read: Every one of Chainlink's sentiment extremes in the year to June 2026 landed on a market-wide event day, and none survived it. With more Extreme Greed days than Bitcoin, none of its Extreme Fear, and a major-grade 76% sentiment match, LINK is the cleanest market proxy outside the big five in CFGI data.

Chainlink Fear and Greed Index History: June 2025 to June 2026

Its sentiment match with Bitcoin sits level with ADA, DOGE and XRP and ahead of BNB, and across the year to June 2026 its profile was the most balanced on our index: 5 days in Extreme Greed, which is more than Bitcoin managed, zero days in Extreme Fear, and a daily score that sits mid-table for calm.

The year's shape was the market's shape, with a mid-cap's amplitude. The price rose 51% between 1 and 20 July 2025, the score reached its yearly high of 83 on 9 August with LINK at $21.38, and the price went on to its peak of $27.03 on 22 August. Three days later came the shock of 25 August 2025, LINK's worst single sentiment day of the year, a 35-point fall, with the price down 11% in the session. The cascade of 8 to 11 October took 24% off the price, and the yearly sentiment low of 20 printed on 11 October at $17.17, exactly on the Extreme Fear boundary without crossing it on a daily close.

The capitulation of early 2026 followed the same disciplined script: a 34% price fall from 20 January to the 5 February bottom, then the third-strongest one-month rebound of the fifteen, 15% to $9.24 by 5 March, only Hedera and XRP recovered harder. The zone ledger for the year confirms the balance: 79 days in Fear against 55 in Greed, 226 in Neutral, and every visit to the extremes brief. The full year still closed down 50%, from $15.25 to $7.63, with the price's twelve-month low of $7.36 on 6 June 2026.

What stands out in LINK's record is what is missing from it. No private drama on its own calendar, no detachment from the market's mood, no euphoric excess and no capitulative panic; every one of its extremes landed on a market-wide event day, and none of them stuck. LINK simply trades like one of the big five wearing a mid-cap's market cap, and for readers of our index that makes it the cleanest single proxy for "the market" outside Bitcoin itself, with slightly more greed in it and slightly less fear.

Days by zone, year to 10 June 2026

Source: CFGI dataset, 365 daily readings to 10 June 2026.

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