Oracles

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.

By Brady DaleMay 20, 2020

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.

By William FoxleyMay 19, 2020

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.

By Brady DaleMay 18, 2020

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.

By William FoxleyMay 12, 2020

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.

By William FoxleyApr 30, 2020

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.

By Daniel PalmerApr 24, 2020