Compounded price return for every calendar month on record. Read down a column for seasonality, across a row for the year's rhythm.
LINK came into the perpetual-futures era as the original DeFi bellwether — its 2020 rows glow green from the oracle-narrative run that peaked before most of the market's 2021 highs. That timing offset is LINK's signature: several of its best months arrived earlier in the cycle than the majors', and its 2021 peak-to-trough turn started sooner too.
Since then LINK's grid has tracked the broad alt market with a slight value-tilt: long quiet stretches, occasional narrative-driven bursts around oracle and tokenization news. The weekday view is worth a look here — averaged across a year it is usually flat, a useful reminder that day-of-week effects in crypto are mostly noise.
Chainlink is down 19.3% in October 2026 so far, measured from the last daily close of the previous month to the daily close of 31 October 2026 (UTC). This is a month-to-date figure: it keeps moving with every daily close until October ends, and the cell stays italic in the grid until then.
Chainlink returned +26.9% in September 2026, its most recent completed calendar month, from that month's last daily close against the close of the month before. The median September return on record is +4.4%, so last month came in above its historical norm.
Chainlink is down 5.0% year-to-date in 2026, compounding 9 completed months plus October to date. A year-to-date return is what a position bought at the 2025 close would be worth at the 31 October 2026 close, not the sum of the monthly cells. For comparison, 2025 closed at −39.0%.
Chainlink returned −39.0% over calendar 2025, compounding its monthly returns from the 2024 close to the 2025 close. Its best month was August at +37.1%, its worst was February at −41.1%, and 4 of 12 months closed positive.
Among the 9 completed months of 2026, Chainlink's strongest was August at +38.6% and its weakest was June at −21.3%. 5 of the 9 closed positive. October is still in progress and is not counted until it closes.
Across 9 completed Octobers on record (2017–2025), the median October return for Chainlink is +13.8%. The best October was 2019 at +55.3%, the worst was 2017 at −57.0%, and 6 of 9 closed positive. The current October is excluded until it closes.
Chainlink is down 19.3% quarter-to-date in Q4 2026, compounding October so far. The previous quarter, Q3 2026, closed at +99.6%. Quarterly figures multiply the monthly returns together, so they match a position held through the whole quarter.
By median return across 109 completed months on record, January has been Chainlink's strongest calendar month at +24.7% and June its weakest at −17.4%. Medians shift as each new year is added, so treat this as a description of the past, not a forecast.
Its most saturated green cells sit in the 2020 DeFi-summer rows, when the oracle narrative led the market. The Median row under the monthly grid tracks which calendar month holds the highest median across all years as new data lands.
Directionally yes, but offset — LINK front-ran the 2021 cycle, peaking and turning earlier than BTC. Comparing the two grids column by column shows where the timing diverged.
Last daily close of the period divided by the last close of the previous period, minus one, in USD on UTC boundaries — identical across every coin page, so cells are comparable between coins.