Scaling & Network Infrastructure

Oracle

Also: Oracles

A service that delivers outside information, such as prices, weather, or sports results, to smart contracts, which cannot reach beyond their own blockchain. Because so much value depends on them, manipulating or breaking an oracle is a classic way to attack DeFi protocols.

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