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Moody's Ratings has tested with Chainlink Labs whether credit ratings can be distributed to several blockchains at the same time through Chainlink's CCIP protocol. The test worked, but it ran only on a testnet with sample data. So far the news has done nothing for the price: Chainlink cost about $10.03 on Thursday morning, November 12, 2026, leaving it just below its 200-day moving average. That is the lowest level since August 19.

Investors therefore face two questions side by side. The first is long term: how much is it worth that one of the three big rating agencies wants to send its data through Chainlink? The second is short term: which levels now decide whether LINK holds the zone around $10? This article puts both into context and shows what to consider when you buy and store the token.

Moody's and Chainlink: what the CCIP pilot of November 10 shows

The pilot was announced on Tuesday, November 10, 2026. According to a report by Decrypt, Moody's connected its Token Integration Engine (TIE) to Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol, CCIP for short. Through that link, rating data went simultaneously to permissioned and public blockchains. Moody's stressed that its existing processes for publishing and overseeing ratings remained unchanged.

CCIP is a protocol that moves messages and value between different blockchains. Think of it as a postal service that delivers the same parcel to several addresses, even though each address speaks a different language. For an issuer like Moody's, that is the decisive point: a rating should be published only once, yet arrive wherever the rated securities are traded.

Johann Eid, chief business officer of Chainlink Labs, said according to Decrypt that as more and more financial assets move onto blockchains, credit analysis has to move with them. Fabian Astic, who is responsible for the digital economy at Moody's, added that the future of tokenized finance is unlikely to sit on a single blockchain, platform or market infrastructure.

Token Integration Engine: how Moody's brings credit ratings on-chain

The Token Integration Engine is not a new project. Moody's unveiled it in March 2026 and first deployed it on the Canton Network, a blockchain used mainly by banks and asset managers. An expansion to Solana followed in June. The Chainlink test is therefore the third step of the same strategy: Moody's wants to offer its ratings where tokenized bonds and funds actually sit, rather than only on its own website.

According to Decrypt, Moody's rated or assessed more than 70 digital issuances between January 2017 and October 2026, including digital bonds and tokenized funds. Compared with the traditional bond market, that is a small number. It does show, however, that there is already a stock of securities for which an on-chain rating would be of practical use, for example when a smart contract may only accept paper with a minimum rating as collateral.

This is where the real lever for Chainlink lies. An oracle is a service that feeds data from outside the blockchain into smart contracts. Chainlink grew large with this business, initially with price data for DeFi applications. Credit ratings are a new and weighty type of data: whoever supplies them sits at a point where banks and fund houses care about reliability and pay for it.

Testnet, not production: the open questions around the Moody's pilot

For all the big names involved, the state of play is cautious. The pilot ran entirely on a testnet, a trial environment without real money. Moody's sent representative test data there, not actual rating decisions. The two companies have not said which blockchains took part, which issuers were involved or when a live service could start.

For the assessment, that means the test proves the technology works and that Moody's takes Chainlink seriously as a distribution candidate. It does not yet prove any revenue, any contract for a permanent service or any demand for the LINK token. CCIP fees can also be paid not only in LINK but in each blockchain's own token. A link between the Moody's test and the LINK price is therefore more of an expectation than a calculation.

The market apparently sees it the same way. On the day of the announcement, LINK closed at $10.28 according to price data from the Kraken exchange, after opening at $10.65. There was no price jump; on the contrary, the selling continued.

Chainlink price at $10.03: LINK slips below the 200-day moving average

Shortly before eight o'clock German time on Thursday morning, LINK stood at $10.03 according to Kraken's price data, roughly €9.05. Over the preceding 24 hours it traded between $10.01 and $10.58. According to CoinGecko, the token has lost about 12.7 percent from the previous week, about 23.7 percent over 30 days and almost 35 percent year on year.

The 200-day moving average is the mean of the closing prices of the past 200 trading days. Many market participants read it as the boundary between a trend that is intact in the long run and one that is damaged. Based on Kraken's daily closes, it currently sits at about $10.10 for LINK. The price is therefore only a few cents below it, but below it all the same. The 100-day line at around $11.60 and the 50-day line at around $12.38 are well above.

The distance to the upside shows how sharply the picture has turned since the autumn. On September 29, LINK still reached $15.77 intraday. Since then the price has fallen by a good third. LINK is about 81 percent below its record high of $52.70 from May 2021. Market capitalization was about $7.7 billion in the morning, with around 767 million tokens in circulation.

Since the Schwab listing: how LINK has changed in two days

On Tuesday we reported on LINK being added at Charles Schwab. The US broker charges a 0.75 percent fee there, and investors in Germany have no access to the offering (Chainlink at Charles Schwab, cryptoticker, November 10). At the start of trading on Tuesday, LINK was at $10.65 on Kraken. Today it is $10.03, about 5.8 percent lower.

Two pieces of positive news within two days, first the listing at one of the largest US brokers and then the Moody's pilot, have not stopped the decline. That suggests the broader market is currently driving the price rather than the news flow of individual projects. Bitcoin stood at about $73,470 in the morning and had also slipped over the previous 24 hours.

The level from our analysis of November 6 has not held either. Back then the question was whether LINK would stay above $10.26. On Wednesday the price closed at $10.19, below that mark for the first time, and today the slide to the zone around $10 followed.

LINK support levels: $10 and the August low at $9.48

The first support is the obvious one: the round $10 mark. It almost exactly matches the daily lows on Wednesday ($10.01) and Thursday morning ($10.02). Twice in a row, buyers caught the price there. A daily close clearly below $10 would therefore be a signal that many market participants will notice.

Below that, the next confirmed level is the low of August 19. On that day LINK fell as far as $9.48 intraday. That is a good 5 percent below the current price. If you work with stop orders, bear in mind that such orders often cluster at round numbers and can briefly accelerate a slide there.

What a break below $10 would mean

A drop below $10 would take LINK to its lowest level since mid-August. For investors who only bought in during the autumn, the paper loss would grow. There is no automatic outcome, though: technical levels describe where other investors might act, not where they will act for certain.

LINK resistance levels: where a recovery runs into sellers

To the upside, the first resistance sits right at the 200-day moving average at about $10.10. If the price quickly returns above it, Thursday's slip would soon be forgotten. Beyond that comes the former level of $10.26, which had held until Wednesday, and then the 24-hour high at $10.58.

A genuine change in sentiment would need more. LINK fell below the 100-day line at around $11.60 in early November, and it sits more than 15 percent above the current price. Only a rise into that region would show that news such as the Moody's test or the Schwab listing is also reaching the market.

Buying Chainlink in the EU: exchanges, fees and the MiCA licence

The Schwab offering is not open to investors in Germany, but LINK can be bought on numerous exchanges and brokers in the EU. Since the end of the transition period, providers that arrange or hold crypto assets need authorization under the European MiCA regulation. MiCA stands for Markets in Crypto-Assets and sets out, across the EU, which obligations a crypto service provider must meet on capital, segregation of client funds and disclosure.

Before you buy, first check whether your provider holds such a licence. An overview of authorized platforms is available in our comparison of regulated crypto exchanges. After that, fees are worth a look: for the same amount, the gap between a cheap order book and an instant purchase in an app can be several percentage points. At a price around $10 that hardly shows, but with larger amounts it does.

Also make sure you are acquiring real LINK tokens and not just a derivative on the price. With a derivative you cannot transfer the tokens to your own wallet, and depending on the product, leverage multiplies losses. Especially at a time when the price hangs on an important line, a leveraged position can be liquidated quickly.

Storing LINK: exchange account or your own wallet

LINK is a token on the Ethereum blockchain under the ERC-20 standard. If you withdraw your tokens from the exchange, you therefore need a wallet that supports Ethereum tokens and a small amount of ether for the network fee. For larger holdings, a hardware wallet is the safer choice because the private key never leaves the device. Our hardware wallet comparison shows which models support LINK.

If you buy more at around $10 now, record every purchase with its date and price. That matters especially if you buy across several exchanges, because you will later need a clear allocation of each lot, usually on a first in, first out basis.

Chainlink pilot: without a live launch, LINK lacks a tailwind

The Moody's test is one building block in a series of partnerships with large financial institutions, but it is not revenue. As long as neither networks nor a launch date have been named, it remains an option on the future. In the market, the zone around $10 is what counts right now. Three steps help you sort out the situation for yourself:

Check the provider: buy LINK only on a platform with MiCA authorization and compare fees in advance, for example with our overview of the best crypto exchanges.
Decide on storage: choose whether your tokens stay on the exchange or move to your own wallet, and keep some ether ready for the fee. Suitable devices are listed in our hardware wallet comparison.
Record your purchases: note the date, amount and price of every purchase. A crypto tax tool handles the allocation across several exchanges for you.

(As of November 12, 2026. This article is not investment advice. Prices and fee structures change; check the terms with the provider before you buy.)

Frequently asked questions about Chainlink

Moody's Ratings connected its Token Integration Engine to Chainlink's CCIP protocol and distributed rating data to permissioned and public blockchains at the same time. The pilot ran only on a testnet with sample data, and no real ratings were published.

Neither the Schwab listing nor the Moody's pilot has stopped the decline, because the broader market is currently setting the price. LINK lost about 12.7 percent within a week and stood at around $10.03 on the morning of November 12, 2026.

To the downside, the round $10 mark and the August 19 low at $9.48 count. To the upside lie the 200-day moving average at about $10.10, the former level of $10.26 and the 100-day line at around $11.60.

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