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What Are Stablecoins?

Stablecoins are an increasingly popular mechanism for bringing stability to the DeFi ecosystem. Here’s how they work, as well as popular examples that use Chainlink to ensure end-to-end security.

Education

Growing the Smart Contract Ecosystem With New Data Types

Chainlink is driving the growth of the smart contract ecosystem by continuously bringing new datasets and off-chain resources on-chain, broadening the number of use cases.

Grants

The Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (IC3) Awarded a Chainlink Research Grant

IC3 awarded a Chainlink grant to conduct research that improves oracle networks like Chainlink, as well as the underlying blockchain, smart contract, and data infrastructure Chainlink supports.

Grants

Protofire Receives a Grant for Native Integration of Chainlink on Avalanche

Protofire is receiving a grant for a native integration of Chainlink into the Avalanche blockchain, supporting projects building externally connected smart contracts on Avalanche.

Announcements

Circuit Breakers and Client Diversity Within the Chainlink Network

Chainlink circuit breakers and client diversity ensure hyper-reliability of Chainlink Price Feeds, protecting user funds from an unexpected black swan event.

Grants

Cdot Receives a Grant for Native Integration of Chainlink on Solana

Cdot receives a blockchain integration grant co-sponsored by Chainlink, Solana, and Serum to natively integrate Chainlink oracles on the Solana blockchain.

Education

The 3 Levels of Data Aggregation in Chainlink Price Feeds

Chainlink Price Feeds incorporate three levels of data aggregation in each price update on-chain: at the data source, node operator, and oracle network level.

Announcements

Introducing the Chainlink On-Chain Data Directory: Data.eth

The Chainlink On-Chain Data Directory uses the data.eth ENS domain name to create a decentralized on-chain index of human-readable Chainlink Price Feed addresses.

Grants

TheLinkMarine Receives a Grant to Build a Chainlink News Website

TheLinkMarine is receiving a grant to develop and maintain a new Chainlink News website—a full spectrum resource for consuming all Chainlink-related news.

Grants

BlockSpaces and LinkUp Florida Receive a Grant to Integrate Chainlink on NEAR Mainnet

BlockSpaces and LinkUp Florida receive a joint Chainlink grant for a native integration of Chainlink on the NEAR blockchain, supporting the many NEAR dApp developers.

Education

What Is a Decentralized Money Market?

Decentralized money markets enable users to borrow and lend their crypto assets in a permissionless manner. In this article, we explore how DeFi money markets work and why they need secure price feeds.

Grants

SmartPy Receives Grant to Integrate Chainlink Price Feeds on Tezos

SmartPy receives a grant to integrate Chainlink Price Feeds on Tezos and build out a more advanced monitoring solution for the cross-chain integration.

Grants

Chainlink Awards Grant to Anyblock Analytics

Anyblock Analytics receives a grant to build a Chainlink node operator dashboard, create CSV export functions, and enable one-click management of earned LINK in Flux Monitor Contracts.

Announcements

Announcing the Chainlink Builders Program

This program gives our active technical community members rewards for building, testing, and supporting others in Discord. Earn badges and redeem them for gear, NFTs, and sponsored prizes.

Education

Chainlink Proof of Reserve: Bringing Transparency to DeFi Collateral

Chainlink Proof of Reserve provides on-chain smart contracts with definitive truth on the collateralization of tokens backed by off-chain assets commonly used in DeFi as collateral.

Announcements

Chainlink Participating in Gitcoin Grants Round 8 to Support Ethereum Infrastructure

Chainlink is participating in Gitcoin Grants Round 8 as a matching partner to fund community-selected projects focused on improving Ethereum's infrastructure.

Announcements

Using Chainlink Oracles to Securely Utilize Curve LP Pools

DeFi protocols needing to price Curve LP tokens in stablecoins or cryptocurrencies should use Chainlink Price Feeds to avoid flash loan attacks.

Education

77 Smart Contract Use Cases Enabled By Chainlink

Chainlink is a flexible and generalized framework for building decentralized oracle networks. To inspire developers, here are 77 ways Chainlink can enhance your smart contract applications.

Developers

Random Number Generation (RNG) in Solidity

Learn how to use Chainlink VRF to generate a random number in a Solidity smart contract and build provably unpredictable outcomes into your Ethereum dApp.

Grants

IRISnet Receives Grant to Natively Integrate Chainlink on BSN

IRISnet receives a blockchain integration grant to complete a native integration of Chainlink on BSN, enabling BSN dApps to incorporate validated real-world data.

Education

How Axie Infinity Is Advancing Play-to-Earn Gaming With Chainlink

Blockchain-based game Axie Infinity is using the Chainlink Network’s tamper-proof price feeds and verifiable randomness to unlock a new economic model for players worldwide.

Education

Growing Bitcoin Adoption Using Externally Connected Smart Contracts

Through the combination of Bitcoin and Chainlink, innovative on-chain and off-chain financial products can be created that leverage the unique properties of Bitcoin, without requiring any changes to the Bitcoin blockchain itself.

Education

Flash Loans and the Importance of Tamper-Proof Oracles

As the DeFi ecosystem grows, there is an increasing incentive for malicious actors to exploit vulnerabilities. In this post, we walk through flash loan funded oracle attacks and how to prevent them.

Hackathon Winners

Congratulations to ETHGlobal’s 2020 Hackathon Winners

Learn about the winning Chainlink projects from the ETHOnline 2020 Hackathon, including a decentralized creators platform, DeFi data stream derivatives, a fiat on-ramp, and more.

Grants

Chainlink Awards Grant to Support the Joint Venture Between ACRE Africa and Etherisc

Chainlink grant awarded to support a joint venture formed between Etherisc and ACRE Africa aimed at delivering sustainable, blockchain-based parametric crop insurance solutions to smallholder farmers in Africa.