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Podcast: Software Engineering Daily
Episode: Chainlink: Connecting Smart Contracts to External Data with Sergey Nazarov
Description: A smart contract contains the βtermsβ of a blockchain transaction between a buyer and a seller as well as the capabilities to execute those terms. In order for smart contracts to include outside data from the world, such as stock market data, weather, sports data, etcβ¦, the contract needs a third party service called an oracle. The industry standard blockchain oracle is Chainlink.Chainlink is a decentralized and open-source oracle network that connects to any blockchain with seamless API connections. Their nodes connect to trusted data with cryptographic proofs that make their network tamper-proof. Chainlink is used with s...