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GLNK Grayscale Chainlink Trust ETF
A spot Chainlink trust. It holds the coin and trades like a share.Grayscale0.35% fee$72mSince May 19, 2022SEC filings ↗Every Grayscale fund ETFIQ covers
GLNK closed unchanged on 153 of its 1079 trading days, so its distance from Chainlink is a quote nobody moved.
−46.4%
Total return, year
−32.6%
Chainlink over the same days
not comparable
Difference against Chainlink, compounded
1,079
Days it has traded
| Window | The fund | Chainlink |
|---|---|---|
| 1M Aug 31 – Sep 30, 2026 | +24.5% | +26.9% |
| 3M Jul 1 – Sep 30, 2026 | +92.7% | +95.3% |
| 6M Apr 1 – Sep 30, 2026 | +57.1% | +60.6% |
| 1Y Sep 30, 2025 – Sep 30, 2026 | −46.4% | −32.6% |
| Since it listed May 19, 2022 – Sep 30, 2026 | +59.5% | +98.9% |
GLNK over each window to Sep 30, 2026. Every figure is an ETFIQ calculation. Source: ETFIQ.
Head to head
Funds near this one
In plain words
Over the year to Sep 30, 2026, Chainlink moved −32.6% and GLNK returned −46.4%. That leaves it not comparable. That difference is the fee, the custody cost, the friction of creating and redeeming shares in blocks, and whatever the market paid for the shares rather than for the coin, all of it together. It is the only figure on this page the sponsor does not publish itself. GLNK closed unchanged on 153 of its 1079 trading days. A price that does not move is a price nobody traded at, so its difference against Chainlink describes the days somebody did trade rather than the fund, and ETFIQ does not rank it against funds that trade every day. Chainlink is a proof of stake chain, so a fund holding it can stake. GLNK’s own filings say it does (424B3, Apr 16, 2026). Over the window ETFIQ measures it did not finish ahead of Chainlink’s own price, so whatever it earned did not cover its costs. A spot trust is not a registered investment company. It files a 10-K rather than an N-PORT, and its holding is one line: the Chainlink it custodies.
SponsorGrayscale
HoldsChainlink
Sponsor’s fee (10-Q)0.35%
Net assets (10-Q balance sheet, as of Jun 30, 2026)$72m
Stakingthe filings say the trust stakes
Listed sinceMay 19, 2022
Days traded1,079
Days it closed unchanged153
Quotedthinly, and not ranked against funds that trade daily
Price$12.6
GLNK (Grayscale Chainlink Trust ETF), crypto ETFs fields as of Sep 30, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.
Fund closes and coin closes from Tiingo, read at the same two dates. ETFIQ calculation. How these figures are computed
Questions people ask about GLNK
- Does GLNK track Chainlink?
- Over the year to Sep 30, 2026 it returned −46.4% against Chainlink’s −32.6%, which leaves it not comparable. That difference carries the fee, the custody cost and the market’s pricing of the shares, and ETFIQ computes it from the fund’s own closes and the coin’s own closes over the same two dates.
- Does GLNK stake?
- Chainlink is a proof of stake chain, so staking is possible. Whether this fund stakes, and what the sponsor keeps of it, is a term in its own filings and is read from those rather than assumed.
- What is GLNK?
- Grayscale Chainlink Trust ETF, a spot Chainlink trust sponsored by Grayscale, listed May 19, 2022. It holds the coin through a custodian rather than futures on it or shares in companies that own it.
Sources and dates
Prices, GLNK and ChainlinkPrices, Tiingo end of day ↗
Net assets, $72mSEC 10-Q balance sheet · Jun 30, 2026
All fund filingsFilings on SEC EDGAR ↗
IssuerGrayscale website ↗
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ETFIQ, GLNK, crypto ETFs, data as of Sep 30, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/glnk
ETFIQ. (Sep 30, 2026). GLNK, crypto ETFs. Retrieved from https://etfiq.com/funds/glnk
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Tracking difference
The fund’s total return minus the coin’s over exactly the same days, in percentage points. The fee, the custody cost, the creation and redemption friction and whatever the market paid for the shares, all of it, in one number.
Spot
The fund holds the coin itself, through a custodian, rather than futures on it or shares in companies that own it. Only spot funds are on this desk; the others are measured where they belong.
Sponsor
Who runs the trust. A spot crypto ETF is a 1933 Act trust rather than a registered investment company, so it has a sponsor rather than an adviser, and files a 10-K rather than an N-PORT.
Thinly quoted
A fund whose price sat unchanged on more than one trading day in twenty. Its quoted return is what somebody paid on the days anyone traded, which is not the same thing as what the fund did, so ETFIQ shows it and does not rank it against funds that trade.
Staking
Only proof of stake coins can be staked, so it exists for ether and Solana funds and cannot exist for a bitcoin one. Where a fund stakes, the yield and the sponsor’s share of it are terms in its own filings.
GLNK, Crypto ETFs, ETFIQ, data as of Sep 30, 2026. Every figure is calculated from a named public source; the method is at etfiq.com/methodology. ETFIQ is an independent publisher, is not a fund issuer, broker-dealer or investment adviser, and makes no recommendations.