About Chainlink

Quick take - Chainlink

Chainlink is an open-source infrastructure project that provides blockchains and blockchain based smart contracts with any type of data or computation that they cannot inherently obtain due to technical, financial, governance, or legal constraints.

Vision

In the article entitled "Three Years on Mainnet", published in May 2022, the Chainlink team clearly state their overriding vision.

"From day one, the goal of Chainlink has been to provide the most secure oracle services possible to unlock DeFi and equip global industries to realize the power of smart contracts."

In depth

In the most simplistic of terms, Chainlink brings additional functionality to smart contracts.

Chainlink is a permissionless protocol and an open-source framework for the creation of decentralized oracle networks that feed reliable and high quality data into your smart contracts and provide secure off-chain computation services. FROM SYL - NEEDS EDITING

Blockchains are highly secure and reliable networks for value exchange but lack the functionality to natively fetch external data or send data to off-chain systems in a manner that retains end-to-end tamper-resistance.

Through the use of secure oracles, Chainlink extends the functionality of blockchains by connecting smart contracts to real-world data, events, payments, and off-chain computation in a highly tamper-resistant and reliable manner.

REVIEW NEEDED Chainlink is a secure, open-source blockchain middleware (referred to as an “oracle”) that provides smart contracts with any type of data or computation that they cannot inherently obtain on their native blockchain due to technical, financial, governance, or legal constraints.

Unlike blockchains, which maintain internal consistency around transaction validation, Chainlink aims to generate and deliver oracle reports to blockchains that accurately reflect the state of external events and computation. Chainlink oracles are able to generate oracle reports because the Chainlink oracle node software can read data from and write data to blockchains and APIs and perform off-chain computation. REVIEW NEEDED

Blockchain agnostic

https://blog.chain.link/chainlinks-blockchain-agnostic-design/

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Advisory Boards - Policy Making

In addition to their core offerings, Chainlink belongs to a number of organizations and advisory boards that are developing blockchain specifications and standardized frameworks aimed at boosting innovation, awareness and development within tokenized ecosystems. Find out more HERE.
https://blog.chain.link/chainlink-enterprise-blockchain-middleware/

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Timeline

Date	Media	Author	Title

Educational

Date	Media	Author	Title
N/A	Official Docs	Chainlink	Chainlink Overview
25 Sep 22	Article	Chainlink	Blockchain Agnostic: What, Why, and How?
17 Sep 21	Article	Chainlink	Chainlink’s Blockchain Agnostic Design: Native Oracle Support for Any Network
17 Sep21	Video	Chainlink	What Is Chainlink?
25 Jan 21	Article	Chainlink	What Is Chainlink? A Beginner’s Guide
30 May 22	Article	Chainlink	Three Years on Mainnet

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