Santiment Finds No LINK Activity Surge Despite Chainlink’s Infosys Deal

What to Know Chainlink’s Infosys partnership could connect banks to blockchain services, but neither company identified a specific deployment or launch timetable. Santiment recorded 1,344 new LINK addresses, below the previous day’s 1,556, while LINK slipped roughly 1% on the announcement day. Enterprise customers can pay Chainlink fees in fiat or stablecoins, making bank adoption possible without directly holding LINK tokens themselves. Santiment Intelligence found no unusual surge in new Chainlink (LINK) addresses when the Infosys partnership reached the market on September 22. According to Santiment, LINK added 1,344 new addresses that day, down from 1,556 on September 21.The count stood about 19% above September’s average, although eleven days since August 1 recorded higher totals, including 1,929 new addresses on August 21. The figures matter because the partnership attracted attention through Infosys’s banking reach. Its infrastructure serves more than 1.7 billion customer accounts worldwide, creating a potentially large channel for Chainlink services, although those accounts do not necessarily use Chainlink. Chainlink plans to integrate its services and Runtime Environment with Infosys Finacle Digital Assets, potentially easing bank adoption, although neither company named a bank or launch date. According to Santiment, September 22 brought no exceptional rise in new LINK addresses, while address counts alone cannot establish bank adoption. Also Read: Shiba Inu Breaks Key Resistance as 191 Billion SHIB Flows Into Exchanges LINK’s Broader Growth Predates the Infosys Announcement Santiment’s chart shows that LINK’s price rose roughly 60% between August 1 and the partnership announcement. Yet the token slipped about 1% on September 22, offering little evidence of an immediate price boost. Network growth also improved across the broader period. Average daily new addresses rose around 25% when Santiment compared August 1–10 with September 1–21. Because both comparison periods preceded the announcement, that increase cannot demonstrate an Infosys-related response. Chainlink’s Infosys partnership hit the feed on Sep 22 framed around 1.7 billion bank accounts. The deal names no bank and no timeline. On-chain, $LINK added 1,344 new addresses that day. Sep 22 new $LINK addresses: 1,344, down from 1,556 the day before. Sep 23 is still… pic.twitter.com/c2HAQqbU7Y — Santiment Intelligence (@SantimentData) September 23, 2026 The chart places September 22’s 1,344 new addresses within the recent range, below several earlier readings, including August 21’s peak. Santiment noted that September 23 data was incomplete, so the September 22 count could not rule out a delayed response. Another distinction concerns how enterprise usage could affect LINK demand. Chainlink’s Payment Abstraction system lets customers settle service fees using fiat or stablecoins. Banks therefore would not need to buy and hold LINK simply to use a Chainlink service. The payment system can convert eligible fees into LINK, but the partnership gives no estimate of future payments.