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Demand is growing in global markets for security and transparency around financial transactions. Here’s how Chainlink’s oracle networks are accelerating DeFi and helping existing systems connect to trusted, decentralized infrastructure.

The Chainlink Network is made of a growing collection of secure node operators who power decentralized oracle networks across a multitude of blockchains. Through numerous interfaces, developers can discover these nodes and use them to power their unique decentralized applications.

Yield farming is the newest phenomenon within DeFi that financially rewards users for providing a service to the protocol, typically through the provisioning of liquidity within a decentralized application's ecosystem.

Asset tokenization can help investors access cloistered investment opportunities, reduce transactional friction, increase transparency, and connect real-world value to DeFi, but needs secure oracles to function.

Chainlink’s blockchain-agnostic and decentralized oracles make it easy for developers everywhere to connect real world data and events to the world of blockchains. Chainlink built-in core adapters make it easy to configure and validate data from any desired open APIs.

DeFi composability on the blockchain enables a new generation of decentralized applications built upon interoperable, permissionless financial money LEGOs.

As the field of blockchain-based gaming grows and expands, randomness and RNG will become an increasingly powerful economic force for both developers and players.

Smart contracts are exponentially more powerful when externally connected to the data and API economy outside the blockchain. Tapping into these vast data reservoirs can make smart contracts the dominant form of digital agreement across all the major markets.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

An oracle is a blockchain middleware that creates a secure connection between smart contracts and various off-chain resources. In order for smart contracts to gain mass adoption, they need secure and reliable oracles to connect to external off-chain data and systems.

Smart contracts promise a powerful new way of doing business. Similar to how the Internet revolutionized the way people process information and connect with one another, smart contracts can fundamentally change the way societies make and keep agreements among individuals and groups.