Weekly Wrap: This Week In Chainlink April 6 — April 12
Announcements and Integrations 🎉
- @CypheriumChain Integrates with Chainlink: To meet the off-chain data demands of its enterprise clients such as Randstad (23.81B ARR), the enterprise-focused blockchain Cypherium, is integrating with Chainlink oracles to access the trusted inputs/outputs needed to build fully integrated, end-to-end secure smart contracts. Read Announcement
- Contentosio Integrates with Chainlink: The decentralized content ecosystem will use Chainlink to aggregate performance data from cross-platform content. Such data provides insights into a content creator’s influence, which can facilitate cash advances, tokenized investment & more. Read Announcement
- New Price Reference Feeds Page: Based on requests from users such as @synthetix_io, we’ve redeployed the ETH-USD contract on Ethereum to provide smart contract developers more options and flexibility for gathering data from our Price Reference Contract. Read Announcement
Videos and Podcasts 🎥
- Set Protocol and Chainlink AMA: This live-stream Q&A features Anthony Sassano of Set Protocol and Johann Eid of Chainlink. The two discussed the Set Protocol integration of Chainlink, Set Protocol as a native DeFi primitive, and what the Set Protocol team is looking to create in the future.
- Cosmostation and Chainlink Video AMA: The Chainlink Korean community is growing faster than ever before. This is a video AMA featured Cosmostation’s BDO David, and developer Kim Bu-yeon and is in the native language of Korean. Cosmostation is a Chainlink node operator and is an active major validator on blockchain’s such as Ethereum and Cosmos Network.
- Crypto 101 Ep. 319 — A Conversation with Chainlink founder, Sergey Nazarov Crypto 101 sat down with Sergey Nazarov, founder of Chainlink, and broke down what a future running on irreversible, autonomous, machine-to machine value transfers really looks like. The podcast dives into how that new reality will affect industries such as insurance, capital markets, gaming, and more.
Mentions in the Press ✅
- <8 April> [PRESS] CoinDesk: How Blockchain Tech Can Make Coronavirus Relief More Effective
- <8 April> [PRESS] BraveNewCoin: Celsius Network partners with Chainlink
- <9 April> [PRESS] UToday: Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Chainlink (LINK) Have Most Active Developer Communities on GitHub
- <10 April> [PRESS] PR News Wire: Contentos (COS) and Chainlink (LINK) Explore New Business Models for Content Industry
- <11 April> [PRESS] Forbes: This Bitcoin Challenger Is Suddenly Soaring And Fast Approaching Its All-Time High Price
“The world increasingly relies on data. Smart contracts will be no different. Chainlink is the only solution to bring data into smart contacts through a decentralized, secure manner. The future is now.” -Kris Humphries, Former NBA Basketball Player
Upcoming Events 📅
- <14 April> [VIRTUAL MEETUP] Virtual, Bay Area, Global — Virtual Meetup Bay Area
- <16 April> [VIRTUAL MEETUP] Virtual, NYC, Global — Virtual Think Tank Meetup
Are you interested in hosting your own meetup? Apply to become a Chainlink Community Advocate today: https://events.chain.link/advocate
Community Content & Celebrations 👏
- Elon agrees: Plaid is the look for his CyberTruck
- World Economic Forum releases a paper detailing the importance of oracles for blockchain and the 4th Industrial Revolution: Read the paper
- CryptoCat does a fantastic job seeing the latest on ecosystem github integrations of Chainlink
- Chainlink Community Advocate, @SiebeVerschaeve created a bot to tweet out github releases and repository changes to the Chainlink codebase
Chainlink is hiring: Check out these open roles 👩💼
View all open roles at https://careers.chain.link
Are there other community content and celebrations that we missed? Post them in the comments below! ⤵️