Pacific Meta selects CCIP on October 16: What it means for the Chainlink price

Published on 10/28/2026 at 07:04 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS

Spot LINK funds attracted 12,157 USD on October 15. The Chainlink price is 11.58 USD on October 28, 2026, down 4.04 percent.

Tokenization and ETF flows

Japan's Pacific Meta selected Chainlink's CCIP on October 16, 2026, for tokenized finance work.
LINK spot funds recorded 12,157 USD of net inflows on October 15, 2026.
The Chainlink price stands at 11.58 USD as of October 28, 2026, 4.04 percent below the UTC daily close of October 27, 2026.
Chainlink's CCIP secured more than 85 billion USD in cross-chain token value in a report dated October 22, 2026.

Chainlink, XCRYPTOLINK2, Illustration mit AI erstellt.

Chainlink (LINK) secured a Japan tokenization connection on October 16, 2026, when Pacific Meta selected its Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol, or CCIP, for interoperability work. The Chainlink price is 11.58 USD as of October 28, 2026, down 4.04 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 27, 2026, according to Investing.com.

Pacific Meta selected CCIP for Japan on October 16

Pacific Meta selected CCIP as its preferred interoperability solution for tokenized finance in Japan, according to 247WallSt. CCIP is Chainlink's system for moving tokens and data between blockchain networks. The same report said Pacific Meta also integrated Chainlink's Automated Compliance Engine, which automates checks such as eligibility and regulatory restrictions for tokenized assets.

The October 16, 2026, announcement concerned infrastructure rather than a disclosed transaction value. Pacific Meta's marketplace integration gives developers a route to combine cross-chain transfers with programmable compliance controls. The report also described the partnership as part of Pacific Meta's work with tokenized finance and noted that the companies had collaborated since 2023, according to 247WallSt.

LINK funds attracted 12,157 USD on October 15

U.S. spot LINK exchange-traded funds, which hold the cryptocurrency and trade on exchanges, recorded 12,157 USD of net inflows on October 15, 2026, according to TokenPost. Bitwise's CLNK fund received 456,396 USD, while Grayscale's GLNK recorded an outflow of 444,240 USD. The combined products reported 222.78 million USD in net assets and 9.58 million USD in trading volume.

A separate October 20, 2026, announcement from OpenZeppelin said CCIP and the Automated Compliance Engine were live in its developer tooling. The announcement also described three planned institutional reference solutions, with the solutions combining OpenZeppelin smart contracts and Chainlink Runtime Environment workflows.

Investing.com records an 8.66 billion USD market cap

According to Investing.com, the Chainlink price stands at 11.58 USD as of October 28, 2026. LINK is down 4.04 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 27, 2026. The daily high is 11.91 USD and the daily low (UTC day) is 11.52 USD. Market capitalization is 8.66 billion USD, ranking Chainlink 13th, while 24-hour volume is 202.36 million USD. Circulating supply is 748.10 million LINK.