Understanding oracles

This post is to discuss about what we think oracles really are and to cover some common misconceptions around the matter.

To us an oracle is a third party you have to talk with when you need some data you don’t want to (or you cannot!) fetch by yourself. The…

Encrypted Queries: Private Data on a Public Blockchain

Introduction

One of the biggest unsolved limitation of current public and permission-less blockchain technologies, as Ethereum and Bitcoin, is the lack of financial privacy that their inherent transparent…

1,749,693 blocks later..

Almost a year has passed since our presentation at Devcon One— this post serves as a recap on what has happened behind the scenes during all this time in between.

New blockchain integrations and beyond

Some of you might recall that when Oraclize was first released in February 2015 the only blockchain integration we had was with Bitcoin — that was our first attempt to reinvent oracles and to provide data-awareness to the blockchain context.

Oraclize & Rootstock integration

Being Oraclize blockchain agnostic, the integration with different platforms is designed to be an easy process. The blockchain specific integration layer is thin and enabling new chains is very straightforward.