Weekly Wrap: This Week In Chainlink February 15 - February 21

Weekly Wrap: This Week In Chainlink February 15 - February 21

Announcements and Integrations ?

• Rai Finance to Integrate Chainlink Oracles to Price Swaps on Its Cross-Chain DEX

@RaiFinance, a cross-chain swap protocol built on @Polkadot, will integrate Chainlink Price Feeds to enable users to build automated trading strategies. Chainlink's high-quality data & hyper-reliable network protect users from faulty trade executions.

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• ONBUFF Integrates Chainlink Price Feeds Into its Blockchain-Based IP Exchange / ONBUFF, 블록 체인 기반 IP 거래소에 체인링크 가격 피드(Chainlink Price Feeds) 적용

u/onbuffchain, a blockchain-based platform for tokenizing & trading intellectual property, is using Chainlink Price Feeds on mainnet to set secure & reliable exchange rates. This allows ONBUFF's IP-based NFTs to be purchased using various cryptocurrencies

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• XPeare to Integrate Chainlink to Value IP Content and Rewards

Blockchain-based digital content ecosystem http://XPeare.ai will use Chainlink to obtain valuations & exchange rates on digital IP content. Chainlink's flexibility allows XPeare to access a wide range of premium data to generate fair market prices.

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• BOSAGORA Blockchain to integrate Chainlink to determine fair staking returns from FMway

@BOSAGORA1 blockchain to use Chainlink for BOA/fiat exchange rates in its new staking platform. Staked BOA tokens can be used as collateral for fiat loans that are algorithmically invested into stocks. Profits are converted to BOA & distributed as yield.

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• AnRKey X Selects Chainlink VRF to Ensure Secure and Fair Distribution of Rare NFTs

DeFi gaming platform @AnRKeyX is using Chainlink VRF on mainnet to guarantee provably fair & tamperproof distribution of valuable NFTs to players. AnRKey X is using VRF because of its ability to provide transparency & security to yield-bearing loot drops.

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• WatchSignals to Launch a Chainlink Node to Bring Luxury Watch Data Onto The Blockchain

Leading luxury watch data provider @watchsignalscom will run its own Chainlink node to make its price benchmarks available on-chain for developers, enabling new DeFi products like tokenized watches used as collateral & derivatives based on future prices.

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• Tiingo Launches Live Chainlink Node to Provide Signed End-of-Day Equities Price Data On-Chain

Premium financial data provider @TiingoFinance has launched its own Chainlink node live on mainnet to sell EOD equities price data directly into DeFi markets. This enables a whole new class of on-chain financial products based around U.S. stock prices.

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• Danal Fintech to Support Retail Bitcoin Payments Using Chainlink Price Oracles

Danal Fintech, one of South Korea's largest payment gateways, will use Chainlink to support Bitcoin retail payments at 60,000+ merchants. Users can make BTC payments via the @payprotocol wallet, which relies on Chainlink Price Feeds for exchange rates.

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• DuckDAO to Collaborate with Chainlink to Strengthen the Digital Asset Ecosystem

Crowdsourced incubator @DAO_Duck is working with Chainlink to accelerate the development of DeFi projects by helping them integrate Chainlink Price Feeds. This allows teams to focus on core products while obtaining the best-in-industry oracle solutions.

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• block42 Receives Grant to Natively Integrate Chainlink on Fantom

We're excited to award a grant to @block42_company to natively integrate Chainlink on @FantomFDN. This will enable Fantom devs to build high-throughput, externally connected smart contract applications, starting with DeFi dApps using Chainlink Price Feeds.

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• Chainlink Expands Grant Program to Support Social Impact Projects

Chainlink’s goal is “Creating an Economically Fair World.” To further this goal beyond the DeFi ecosystem, we're extending our grant program toward blockchain projects that benefit emerging markets and generally improve society through smart contracts.

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What’s New for Developers ?

• How to Install Dependencies and Start a Chainlink Project

Installing the Chainlink library lets you leverage a wide range of oracle functions in your smart contract, from secure price feeds to verifiable randomness & external API calls. Use our Install Instructions to get your new & existing projects Chainlinked.

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• LRC/ETH Price Reference Contracts

As DeFi developers create new on-chain financial products, Chainlink matches that demand by providing more on-chain data to support these dApps. Integrate the LRC/ETH Price Feed today to easily launch markets for @loopringorg's native asset, already sponsored by @1inchExchange.

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• GBP/USD Price Reference Contracts

As DeFi’s growth surges over $40B in USD value, Chainlink is continuing to launch decentralized price oracles to support the creation of new markets. Developers can easily integrate the GBP/USD FX Rate into their dApps today, already relied on by @synthetix_io & @CelsiusNetwork.

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• Submit Your Work for the Chainlink Builders Program

Announcing our new Chainlink Builders Program! Find out how to contribute to the Chainlink Network and earn developer badges for being an active member of our technical community. Redeem badges for Chainlink swag, NFTs, exclusive access to events, & more.

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Featured Videos & Educational Pieces ?

• Building a Service-Oriented Architecture for the Smart Contract Ecosystem
  • Chainlink Co-founder @SergeyNazarov explains how service-oriented architecture has enabled explosive innovation in smart contract development and DeFi, providing developers with secure decentralized microservices to quickly compose new products on-chain.

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• Bifrost and Chainlink Live Q&A: Blockchain Agnostic Infrastructure for Decentralized Finance
  • Watch a live video Q&A with Dohyun Pak, the Co-founder, and CEO along with SOSO HyunSick Choi, the CMO of Bifrost. The discussion will be centered on decentralized oracles meeting the needs of DeFi and a look into two blockchain agnostic middlewares being used by developers around the world to create decentralized finance applications.

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• Ethercats and Chainlink Live Q&A + Demo: Using Chainlink VRF for Provably-Fair NFTs
  • Watch a live video Q&A and live demo of Chainlink VRF with Woody Deck and Nadia Khuzina the co-founders of Ethercats. The discussion will be centered on decentralized oracles meeting the needs of NFTs and decentralized gaming, the recent integration of Chainlink along with a demo of their product, and their future product roadmap.

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Ecosystem & Community Celebrations ?

• Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov tells Ausbiz decentralised finance is the antidote to the failures of the status quo. Here's his take on the systematic change taking hold in finance and what the future holds.
• Chainlink's Sergey Nazarov on the BraveNewCoin Podcast on how DeFi goes mainstream
• WAVES performance metrics are now available on Market.link
• Starting soon the daily DIGG rebase will be using the newly developed DIGG/BTC price feed from Chainlink.
• Assessing risk in decentralized finance: a handbook for money markets
• New IC3 blog post: Using Universal Composability to Implement Off-Chain Payment Channels

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Upcoming Events ?

• <23 February> [VIRTUAL MEETUP] - IRISnet and Chainlink Live Q&A
• <24 February> [VIRTUAL MEETUP] - Finance.vote and Chainlink Live Q&A
• <24 February> [VIRTUAL SPANISH MEETUP] - Meetup virtual con Microsoft - Javier Gómez y Jorge Valenzuela
• <24 February> [VIRTUAL SEA MEETUP] - Aavegotchi and Chainlink Livestream Q&A
• <25 February> [VIRTUAL MEETUP] - UniDex and Chainlink Live Q&A + Demo

Are you interested in hosting your own meetup? Apply to become a Chainlink Community Advocate today: https://events.chain.link/advocate

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Chainlink Labs is hiring to build Chainlink’s network: Check out these open roles ?‍?

View all open roles at https://careers.smartcontract.com

Are there other community content and celebrations that we missed? Post them in the comments below! ⤵️

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