According to BlockBeats, on October 12, solstice this week, on October 18, LINK's secondary market price rose slightly, with a weekly increase of about 2.36%, ranking the seventh in market value. Chainlink invited Ben Chan, former CTO of BitGo, to join them this week to work on L2 extended solution Threshold Signatures; Giulia Fanti of Carnegie Mellon University was awarded the Chainlink Prize for research; Applications such as Dfinance, FinNexus, PlotX, Akash Network, Everipedia announce integration of Chainlink.
On October 18, LINK's price rose to $10.82, ranking seventh in total market capitalization. On Monday, Oct. 12, LINK opened at $10.57 and on Sunday, Oct. 18, it closed at $10.82, up about 2.36% for the week, according to CoinGecko. Chainlink is currently the seventh largest company by market capitalization, at $10.70.

Ben Chan joins Chainlink Labs as the new VP of Engineering:
Ben Chan will focus on building Chainlink's L2 extended solution Threshold Signatures in preparation for supporting DeFi's next growth. Ben Chan previously served as CTO at BitGo.
Giulia Fanti won the Chainlink Research Award:
Giulia Fanti of Carnegie Mellon University has won a Chainlink Research award and will actively work with a Chainlink Labs research team on fair trade ordering and scalable network improvements to further scale Up Chainlink.
Dfinance integrates the Chainlink prophesy machine to provide more advanced financial solutions:
The Financial Instruments Agreement Dfinance will integrate the Chainlink predictor so that users can create more extended Dapps using real-world data. DeFi development barriers are reduced by abstracting financial products to create and enable external connections.
FinNexus integrates Chainlink price information on ethereum's main network in real time to provide the impetus for decentralizing options:
DeFi Options platform FinNexus integrates Chainlink price reference data to bring real-time pricing data to its new decentralized FinNexus Protocol for Options (FPO) platform to manage its liquidity pool.
PlotX integrates Chainlink's BTC and ETH price reference data to predict market pricing and settlement on the chain:
AMM PlotX based on forecast market integrates BTC/USD price reference data of Chainlink on the main network in real time to create and settle forecast market. Chainlink's price predictor machine provides hourly updates before clearing to ensure fair market odds and results.
Akash Network integrates Chainlink Oracle into Power Pricing data:
Akash Network, a decentralized cloud platform, selects Chainlink data sources to calculate the price of its computing services. With Akash expanding into multi-currency settlement options, a Chainlink price predictor is crucial for setting fair market exchange rates.
Everipedia launches a Chainlink node to bring US election results into the blockchain:
Everipedia, a blockchain knowledge company, has announced an integration with Chainlink, a decentralized prognostic machine platform, to build the infrastructure to sign and publish us election events on the blockchain. Everipedia's Chainlink node will provide intelligent contracts with access to US election data, while developers will be able to create new financial products such as forecast markets, derivatives and so on based on the outcome of the upcoming US presidential election.
Chainlink conference preview
Oct. 21: Virtual meeting and live q&A with the winners of the "Online Meet and Greet" programming marathon;
October 22: "See you Online" q&A with DODO and Chainlink;
October 21: "Meet the French Online" programming marathon winners' virtual French gathering and live q&A;
October 21: "Meet the Crowd Online" & NBSP; Online interview with T-Systems analyst Gleb Dudka.
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