Once the altseason starts everything will go up and chainlink will be the top on list of the biggest gainers once it happened, and i guess chainlink will be on the top 3 on coinmarket when it comes to market cap.
Top 3? Are you serious about this? Do you think that link has a chance to surpass either bitcoin, ethereum or ripple? Look, I understand that people are excited about this project, it has several good things and characteristics, but that is really difficult, even the closest coin has four times the market cap of link and it has been on the market for a very long time and unless something extraordinarily happens I cannot see how link is going to surpass any of those coins.
I guess, just be conservative with estimations here. I also don't think that it will surpass btc or eth, but chainlink is much better than most of the defi platforms that are introduced lately. It is one of the solid DeFi platforms that you can find in the market. Since defi market is full of trash tokens, this one is somewhat leading the pack. Now, it depends on the chainllink team how they will progress in terms of their development. If they can gain more users, I believe they are heading to be one of the good defi platforms worth following.