Chainlink Powers Bottomline's $16T Bank Payment Network
Chainlink (LINK)
Editor:
Eugene Serbin
cryptowisser.com reports that Chainlink announced via X on Thursday that Bottomline has launched Global Pay Connect, a new onchain payment connectivity platform for over 600 banks. Bottomline is a top-three SWIFT service provider that moves over $16 trillion in payments annually. Chainlink extends this platform to blockchain networks through secure interoperability and orchestration infrastructure.
CCIP connects Bottomline's payments infrastructure to blockchain networks through a single, network-agnostic integration model. CRE coordinates end-to-end payment workflows across onchain and offchain systems. As a result, institutions can reach onchain payment rails through the SWIFT network and payment messaging standards they already use.
This allows them to do so without replatforming or building a bespoke integration for every network. Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform powering the majority of decentralized finance. The LINK token is used to pay for platform services and secure the network’s proper functioning. LINK is up 5% over the past 24 hours, trading at $11.71.
How the market reacted
Whalio's own Binance spot order flow for LINK, measured when this story was written up on 18 September 2026. Not the outlet's figures.
Whalio spot data shows LINK trading at $11.39 with a 1-hour buy ratio of 47.5%, indicating slightly more selling pressure in the immediate short term. This contrasts with the 4-hour buy ratio of 50.7% and the 24-hour buy ratio of 51.5%, suggesting that buying pressure has been more prevalent over longer timeframes. The 1-hour volume delta is -$83,302, showing recent net outflows, while the 4-hour delta is +$108,031 and the 24-hour delta is +$599,369. This indicates that cumulative buying has outweighed selling over the last day. The 24-hour cumulative volume delta closed at +$1,733,676, with spot volume reaching $19,593,047 across 210,180 trades. Net buying occurred for 19 of the 24 hours, confirming a generally positive flow despite the recent 1-hour dip.
The latest daily buy ratio of 49.4% sits at the 56th percentile of the last 322 days, against a median of 48.8% - ordinary for this coin.
Was that an ordinary day?
The same Binance spot measurements for LINK, averaged over the days leading up to the story.
Over the preceding week, the 7-day average buy ratio was 49.9%, making the current 24-hour ratio of 51.5% an increase of 1.6 points above the average. Volume was measured at 0.88x the average, indicating lighter trading activity than usual for this period. Net buying was recorded for 4 of the 7 days, with an 8-day volume delta total of +$541,962. The price change over 8 days was -0.6%, showing minimal movement despite the positive delta. This suggests that while buying pressure is slightly above average, the overall trading volume is lower than normal.