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How to Bring More Capital and Less Risk to Automated Market Maker DEXs

Automated Market Maker (AMM) based Decentralized Exchanges (DEXs) alter how users swap cryptocurrencies. We explore how AMMs work, dissect their inherent problems, and examine solutions to solve these key obstacles.

Education

What is a Smart Contract and Why it is a Superior Form of Digital Agreement

Smart contract—a software program on the blockchain with conditions attached to its execution. In this article, we examine what a smart contract is, why it is valuable, and how it is being applied today.

Education

16 Ways to Create Dynamic Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) Using Chainlink Oracles

Chainlink oracles enable developers to create dynamic NFTs on the blockchain that react to external data and fully integrate with existing infrastructure.

Education

What is a Blockchain and How Can it Impact the World

Blockchain is the foundational technology that underpins the value proposition of Bitcoin and Ethereum smart contracts. This article describes what is a blockchain, why it provides value, and how it is being used today.

Hackathon Winners

Showcasing the Winners of the 2020 HackMoney Virtual Hackathon

At the 2020 HackMoney Virtual Hackathon, we awarded the top three projects building smart contract applications on Ethereum using Chainlink Price Reference Data, Chainlink VRF, and off-chain gaming data.

Announcements

Chainlink VRF: On-chain Verifiable Randomness

Chainlink VRF helps enable and accelerate the development of smart contracts. Developers can easily integrate Chainlink VRF to add verifiable randomness to their smart contracts focused on gaming, security, layer-two protocols and more.

Education

How Smart Contracts Can Decrease Information Asymmetry, Build Trust, and Revolutionize the Insurance Industry

Insurance is a multi-trillion dollar global industry with inherent trust problems that prohibit it from reaching its economic potential. Chainlink-enabled smart contracts offer a way to upgrade the foundational infrastructure of insurance to benefit both insurance companies and policyholders.

Events

The Future of Oracles: Fireside Discussion with Ari Juels, IC3 Co-Director and Distinguished Cornell Computer Science Professor

Oracles have even more capabilities that go beyond securing off-chain data and delivery. To develop the larger scope and future outlook of oracles, Sergey Nazarov sat down for a fireside chat with Professor Ari Juels on Tuesday, February 18th, 2020 in San Francisco, CA.

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Showcasing the Winning Projects from the ETHDenver 2020 Hackathon

All three winners at the ETHDenver hackathon demonstrated how data-driven business models can be built on top of decentralized infrastructure powered by Chainlink, featuring products for parametric insurance, multi-platform automated leverage trading, and real-time attendance tracking on-chain.

Announcements

Improving and Decentralizing Chainlink’s Feature Release and Network Upgrade Process

Chainlink’s accelerated growth to meet increasing demand from the DeFi ecosystem has led us to quickly launch many new Decentralized Oracle Networks for Price Reference Data.

Announcements

The Chainlink Community Rapidly Expands Around the World, Driving Ecosystem Growth

As part of this community growth, we are launching a Community Events page! This new community resource enables everyone to stay to date with future meetups, locate upcoming conferences the team is attending, and find details about all online live streams, AMAs, and other ecosystem activity.

Announcements

Introducing Chainlink’s Meta Oracle Capabilities for DeFi

We’re excited to announce our upcoming "meta oracle" functionality, which extends Chainlink to aggregating and reacting to any/all on-chain data. This gives developers even greater choice when deciding which data resources will be used to build and improve their DeFi smart contracts.

Announcements

Chainlink Price Reference Data for DeFi

The DeFi ecosystem now has access to the largest collection of on-chain market data! Use the new Chainlink Price Reference Data For DeFi to explore and gain access to this growing list of cryptocurrency, fiat currency, and commodity prices secured by Chainlink’s decentralized oracle networks.

Education

Analyzing the DeFi Ecosystem and The Many Ways Chainlink Can Accelerate Adoption

Decentralized Finance (often referred to as DeFi) is a growing movement around recreating common financial instruments from traditional finance using decentralized back-end infrastructure. Chainlink can increase the functionality and real-world applications of DeFi instruments.

Hackathon Winners

Exploring the Wide Variety of Winning Chainlink Applications from Recent Hackathons

It’s been a busy month of building on Chainlink, with the conclusion of three hackathons that featured winning projects with a plethora of new functionalities for decentralized applications thanks to secure and reliable off-chain connections. Learn more about the winners here!

Announcements

Chainlink’s Growing Presence Throughout Asia

Over the last few months, Chainlink embarked on a multi-city trip across China, Korea, Japan, and Singapore to accelerate the adoption of connected smart contracts.

Announcements

Announcing the Chainlink Community Advocate Program

We are pleased to announce the official launch of the Chainlink Community Advocate Program! This will enable our passionate and talented community members to play a pivotal role in shifting the way the world does business via new smart contract-based economies.

Education

Embedding Smart Contracts Into Our Legal Fabric

While smart contracts offer immense business benefits, are they legally binding in a court of law? To answer this question, we explore the construction of current legal agreements and how they may evolve into smart contracts.

Hackathon Winners

Congratulations to the Winners of the Chainlink Virtual Hackathon

Several weeks ago, the Chainlink Virtual Hackathon launched with the goal of sparking a new wave in smart contract development by showcasing the power of secure off-chain connection via Chainlink oracles.

Events

Highlighting Our Successful Chainlink HackerNode Event at Web3 Summit

As part of the Web3 Summit in Berlin, Chainlink hosted its own series of events focused around the ongoing development of the Chainlink ecosystem. The event featured nineteen speeches, three panel discussions, a

Education

Interoperability and Connectivity: Unlocking Smart Contracts 3.0

Interoperability between blockchains and disparate systems will usher in a new wave of smart contract functionality. New use cases that were previously impossible in the Web 2.0 will change the way consumers and businesses interact.

Education

Solving Deep-Seated Trust Problems in Derivatives Using Chainlink-Enabled Smart Contracts

Chainlink-enabled smart contracts offer a way to transform the derivatives landscape from one run on trust by central entities with overexposure to risk to a decentralized P2P marketplace that spreads risk onto highly-reliable decentralized systems.

Events

Chainlink Virtual Hackathon: Building Real-World Smart Contracts Using Off-Chain Resources

Join the first Chainlink Virtual Hackathon from October 14th to 31st with over 60k in bounties. Anyone in the world can participate.

Announcements

Driving Demand for Enterprise Smart Contracts Using the Trusted Computation Framework and Attested Oracles via Chainlink

Blockchains can greatly enhance their capacity to meet enterprise requirements around privacy and scalability by using Chainlink oracles to route transactional computation off-chain to the Trusted Computation Framework (TCF).

Education

Breaking Down Mixicles and Their Potential to Unlock Enterprise Demand for DeFi Applications On Public Blockchains

Given the complexity of the research paper, we broke down the core Mixicles concepts so that the wider DLT community can grasp the underlying mechanisms at play, as well as the profound applications it opens up for enterprise adoption of Decentralized Finance (DeFi).