Grayscale launches the first spot Chainlink ETF in the USA - already on Tuesday

Grayscale brings the first spot ETF on Chainlink to market in the USA. The product is created through the conversion of the existing LINK Trust into an exchange-traded fund and will track not only the asset's price but also staking income - a key difference from classic altcoin ETFs.

According to Bloomberg and the head of the ETF Institute, Nate Geraci, the trading start date is set for December 2.

Grayscale has long bet on Chainlink, calling the ecosystem a 'bridge between crypto networks and traditional finance.' It's not just about oracles—it's the infrastructure for tokenization, cross-chain automation, and data transfer, which is already being tested by J.P. Morgan, DTCC, ANZ, S&P Global, and others.

The launch of a spot ETF cements LINK's status as one of the key infrastructure tokens in the market. Against the backdrop of the SEC opening a green corridor for ETFs on XRP, Solana, Dogecoin, and other altcoins, the emergence of a fund on Chainlink further expands the institutional showcase. The regulated window for capital is widening.

For investors, this means a new source of demand. LINK gains access to money from Wall Street—not through crypto exchanges, but through brokerage accounts and pension products. Given that the fund accounts for income from staking, it becomes more attractive compared to ETFs that reflect only the asset's price.

The further growth of interest in tokenization and real assets works in favor of Chainlink. The new ETF formalizes the role of the network as a standard for data transfer between traditional finance and on-chain. And this is just the beginning of capital inflow into the infrastructure token segment.