Chainlink Jumps 12 Percent to $13.93: What to Check on Buying Route, Holding Period and Staking

Chainlink trades at $13.93 on September 25, 2026 at 13:46 UTC, putting it 12.21 percent above where it stood 24 hours earlier. Behind the rise sits a concrete product launch: on September 24, Paxos Labs brought the token PAXGy to market and made Chainlink's cross-chain rail CCIP the sole route between networks. What you can draw from that as a holder or a prospective buyer depends less on the percentage than on four things: the buying route, the holding period, custody, and whether you want staking at all. Chainlink price at $13.93: the numbers behind the jump The groundwork first, so you can place the move. All the figures below come from our own retrieval of CoinGecko market data on September 25, 2026 at 13:46 UTC. Price: $13.93 Change over 24 hours: plus 12.21 percent Change over seven days: plus 19.19 percent Daily range: $12.41 to $14.19 Trading volume over 24 hours: around $1.05 billion Market capitalisation: around $10.43 billion, rank 13 Two figures matter more for context than the daily gain. The first is the ratio of volume to market capitalisation: a good billion dollars of turnover against ten billion dollars of market value means that roughly a tenth of the stock chang...