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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Education Unlocking Synthetic Derivatives With Chainlink Oracles We've developed a novel price oracle with Synthetix to power sOIL, a synthetic oil derivative. This is another example of how Chainlink bringing traditional financial assets to DeFi.
Education Digital Identity on the Blockchain: Securing User Data With Chainlink Digital Identity (D-ID) is a critical component of the Internet experience. We examine the risks and challenges with legacy D-ID implementations, introduce innovative blockchain D-ID solutions, and analyze how Chainlink oracles play a key part in connecting personal information to the blockchain.
Education Analyze Decentralized Oracles in Real-Time With Chainlink’s Price Feed Visualizations Chainlink’s Price Feed visualizations promote transparency across the DeFi space by showcasing the composition and real-time performance of decentralized oracle networks that feed price reference data to smart contracts.
Education How Chainlink Is Helping Blockchain Cross the Chasm Into the Mainstream 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.
Education What Is a Chainlink Node Operator? 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.
Education DeFi Yield Farming Explained 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.
Education Asset Tokenization: Bringing Real-World Value To The Blockchain 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.
Education Building and using External Adapters 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.
Education What Is the Blockchain Oracle Problem? The blockchain oracle problem is one the most important barriers to overcome to enable smart contracts on networks like Ethereum to achieve mass adoption across a wide variety of markets and use cases.
Education DeFi's Permissionless Composability is Supercharging Innovation DeFi composability on the blockchain enables a new generation of decentralized applications built upon interoperable, permissionless financial money LEGOs.
Education Data Quality for DeFi Smart Contracts We examine how Chainlink Price Reference Data provides the highest level of data quality to smart contracts & how to avoid large risks when building oracles.
Education The Economic Impact of Random Rewards in Blockchain Video Games 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.
Education Understanding How Data and APIs Power Next-Generation Economies 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.
Education 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? 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? 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.