Chainlink is an Oracle network framework that has generated over a thousand live Oracle Networks on production, securing trillions of dollars worth of transaction value.
Chainlink allows you to generate unique Oracle Networks to solve specific problems, such as market data aggregation, random number computation, or cross-chain communication.
Oracle Networks can reliably prove things about market data and extend to trust-minimizing computations outside of a blockchain.
Chainlink has expanded to become the largest provider of proof of reserves and various other types of data, as well as offering critical capabilities for accessing external systems.
The recently launched cross-chain system uses Oracle Networks as a valid data set to compute cross-chain communication, combining the movement of value and data messages.
With the cross-chain system, you can instruct the system to perform actions with your value when it reaches the destination, eliminating the need to be present with your own wallet or address.
Sergey Nazarov is the co-founder of Chainlink. Chainlink, you might know as the price oracles for DeFi… providing DeFi with the data it needs to know prices. More ambitious than just prices, Chainlink is aiming to become the interoperability layer between all of TradFi and all of DeFi, acting as a gateway between onchain and offchain data. We’re going to explore that vision today on Bankless.