Oracles

Oracles

Tech

How Chainlink and Cosmos Fit Into China's Grand Blockchain Initiative

Chainlink will help the state-backed Blockchain-Based Service Network with oracles, and Cosmos-powered Irisnet will assist with interoperability.

Shutterstock

Tech

Sequoia-Backed Band Protocol Creeps Onto Chainlink’s Turf With Oracle Product

Band Protocol 2.0 launched Wednesday with its mainnet oracle solution, BandChain, leveraging the Cosmos SDK from Tendermint Labs.

Credit: Shutterstock

Markets

First Mover: Chainlink 'Marines' Are HODLing and Here's Why You Should Care

Chainlink, the blockchain oracle provider, apparently has not only a devoted group of backers known as "LINK Marines" but a surprisingly committed crew of long-term investors. Here's why.

US marine (Credit: Shutterstock/Getmilitaryphotos)

Tech

UMA Project Creates Its First Synthetic Coin, Matching ETH Against BTC

Want to bet the price of ether is rising relative to the price of bitcoin? There's now a token for precisely that.

Credit: Shutterstock

Tech

Hybrid Blockchain Maker Kadena Adds Chainlink Price Feeds

The former JPMorgan blockchain leads at Kadena have inked a deal to use Chainlink’s oracles for pricing crypto assets on Kadena's high-throughput network.

Kadena founder Stuart Popejoy

Tech

Uniswap V2 Launches With More Token-Swap Pairs, Oracle Service, Flash Loans

The headline feature of the new Uniswap will be the ability for anyone to create any token pair they want, so long as it exists on Ethereum.

MAGIC: Some tokens are more like amulets. (Credit: Thomas Wyness/Shutterstock)

Tech

Trust No Dapp: Chainlink Launches Oracle for Provable Randomness

Chainlink may be solving part of the problem that first drove Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin’s interest in decentralized applications.

Providing a provably random string of numbers is not as easy as you may think. (Credit: Shutterstock)

Tech

Tezos Becomes Latest Blockchain to Tap Chainlink for Oracle Services

Chainlink has integrated with yet another blockchain, this time Ethereum rival Tezos.

Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov

Tech

Coinbase Launches Price Oracle Aimed at Reducing Systemic Risk in the DeFi Space

With around a billions dollars locked in decentralized finance projects, the new data feed for cryptocurrency prices is aimed to help keep those funds secure.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong

Finance

Crypto Lender Celsius Taps Chainlink's Price Oracles for Interest Rate 'Decentralization'

Celsius Network has teamed up with oracle provider Chainlink to make the price feeds it uses to calculate asset interest rates less centralized.

Celsius CEO Alex Mashinksy. (Credit: CoinDesk archives)