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# Chainlink (LINK) price and news

Sampled market data; prices and returns do not verify news or establish causation.

- Price: $12.403; 24h: +3.59%
- Market source / sampled at (UTC): Gate · USDT / 21/10/2026, 07:39
- Events received in 30 days: 0

## Why is Chainlink up 3.6% today?

As of 21/10/2026, 07:39 (UTC), LINK was sampled at $12.40, +3.59% over 24 hours (Gate · USDT). For the closed-hour 24h window: LINK largely moved with the market. LINK rose further than this on 6 of the past 29 days. Chainlink moved up, within about its usual daily range, and most other tracked coins moved the same way. Trading volume was below usual, while funding on the OKX perpetual swap stayed near zero and open interest was flat. No recent report about Chainlink explains the move, so any cause beyond the broad co-movement is unresolved.

- Versus Bitcoin: +2.57% / BTC +1.21%; +0.6 pts left after BTC × its hourly beta 1.65
- Versus the past month: 6 of the past 29 days rose further; Closed-hour 24h move +2.57%, 1.2× its prior 30-day median of 2.1%.
- 30-day range: 22.0% below the high · 6.7% above the low; From hourly highs and lows on the same venue
- Other tracked coins: 16 of 17 moved the same way
- 24h volume: 0.4×; of its prior 30-day daily average
- Perpetual swap: funding near zero · open interest flat; OKX perpetual swap LINK-USDT-SWAP

Computed 21/10/2026, 07:00 (UTC) from OKX · USDT hourly candles; this window and venue may differ from the live ticker above.

### Open questions

- Whether any Chainlink-specific announcement, partnership or network update accompanied the move; an official project statement or filing would settle this.
- What drove the broad co-movement across tracked coins that day; commentary or disclosures from major venues and market participants would help clarify.

## Prior 30-day hourly baseline

- Coverage: 100.0% (720/720)
- Median absolute hourly return: +0.37%
- 99th percentile of absolute hourly returns: +3.03%
- BTC beta: 1.65
- Source / cutoff (UTC): OKX · USDT / 21/10/2026, 07:40
Hourly statistics cannot be compared directly with minute moves. Missing or stale baselines are not estimated.

## Recent publication-ready events and observed returns

Returns start after site detection. Each linked event records its actual sampled intervals, venue, quote currency and news sources. Missing windows remain unavailable; publisher coverage is not independent verification.

| Event | Evidence | 5m | 1h | 24h | 5m difference from BTC |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |

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