Oracles

Oracles

Finance

‘Chainlink Killer’ API3 Closes $3M Funding Round With Placeholder and Pantera

API3, a firm aiming to provide an alternative to oracle service Chainlink, has raised $3 million in a private funding round led by Placeholder.

Placeholder partner Chris Burniske at Consensus Invest 2017

Tech

Flash Loans Aren’t the Problem, Centralized Price Oracles Are

Flash loans attacks have received a lot of press attention. But they're not DeFi's biggest vulnerability, says Chainlink's CMO.

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Finance

Razor Network Raises $3.7M to Prove There’s Room for More Oracles in DeFi

Razor Network raised $3.7 million in seed funding from NGC Ventures, Alameda Research and Mariano Conti, the former oracles chief at MakerDAO.

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Finance

Huobi, Dragonfly, Coinbase Invest $500K in New DEX With Alternative Oracle Solutions

CoFix claims to have better token price feeds based on a pricing mechanism derived from a decentralized price oracle and the DEX’s patented risk assessment model.

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Markets

Oasis Network Announces Chainlink Oracle Integration to Enable Privacy-Focused DeFi Applications

Oasis Network, a privacy-centric data-sharing network, said it will integrate Chainlink’s price feeds into its network.

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Tech

Chainlink Acquires Blockchain Oracle Solution From Cornell University

Chainlink has acquired privacy-focused oracle solution DECO from Cornell University. The data feed system is also drafting a second white paper for the project.

Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov

Markets

Open-Source DeFi Data Platform DIA Raises $15M Through Token Sale

Marketed as an open-source data aggregator for DeFi markets, DIA announced on Friday that the $15 million were raised through selling the firm’s governance token.

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Tech

5 Years After Launch, Predictions Market Platform Augur Releases Version 2

Augur v2 has all the bells and whistles: Interplanetary File System (IPFS), 0x Mesh, MakerDAO’s dai and Uniswap’s v2 oracle network.

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Tech

Chainlink Integration Brings Data Feeds to Binance’s DeFi Project

Binance is building out a DeFi platform with its Smart Chain protocol and has integrated Chainlink as a pricing solution.

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Markets

OKCoin Joins Coinbase in Supplying Oracle Feed for DeFi Project Compound

OKCoin says its regulated status and liquidity mean users will be able to trust that its data feed will be accurate and reliable.

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