Daniel

[nick.eth @nicksdjohnson]

A few days ago I wrote a simple Solidity CBOR encoding library for a client. I’m pleased to say they’ve agreed to release it under an OSS license (thanks @smart_contract!)

https://t.co/t0Q8uNaura

It also contains a ‘Buffer’ lib others may find useful.

cc @simondlr

[Jonny Huxtable @HuxtableJonny]

It's amazing to see @nicksdjohnson creating utilities for the @chainlink team. https://t.co/H1S7wkh2rt

[Jonny Huxtable @HuxtableJonny]

I'm suprised how little I see Oracles mentioned within peoples long-term roadmaps for $ETH. Items like Sharding are critical to the scaling of $ETH, but the addition of decentralised oracles will be what truly utilises these advances by creating real use-case beyond tokenisation.

[LinkPool @linkpoolio]

We've recently open-sourced an external adaptor for #chainlink that aggregates data from multiple exchanges for all crypto assets. It provides a price based on a weighted average from exchange volume. Feel free to contribute!
https://t.co/CAro9Xjxzp

[LinkPool @linkpoolio]

Smart Contracts in financial services: getting from hype to reality by @CapgeminiConsul https://t.co/IBbcnEdoFu

[LinkPool @linkpoolio]

Make sure to subscribe to the official @chainlink subreddit https://t.co/X8RgwlNHOn

[Ari Paul @AriDavidPaul]

I think I found the project that will bring cryptocurrency to 1 billion users. Excited. Sorry, no details yet. Enjoy the suspense.

[Jonny Huxtable @HuxtableJonny]

Check out @chainlink's official technical backlog/tracker which has just been made public:
https://t.co/roc1nuWBrO

[Steve Ellis @streamOfCo]

https://t.co/QNMZz47r1w

[Sergey Nazarov @SergeyNazarov]

@AriDavidPaul When smart contract developers have access to on-chain contracts that represent off-chain resources, they will then have the building blocks necessary to build complex Dapps the way web developers build complex applications using APIs for inputs/outputs; this is our primary goal

[Sergey Nazarov @SergeyNazarov]

@AriDavidPaul @chainlink The smart contract and the input oracles (commonly data feeds) and outputs oracles (commonly off-chain payments) form the full offering of the smart contract. If evaluated end-to-end, as it will be, the smart contract needs to retain its tamper-proofness/reliability end-to-end.

[Sergey Nazarov @SergeyNazarov]

@AriDavidPaul Yep, totally agree with you @AriDavidPaul, this is what we're implementing at @chainlink. Without oracles that provide a certain level of security/reliability, it isn't possible to build the more complex smart contracts that go beyond tokenization. A few points to consider:

[Ari Paul @AriDavidPaul]

The single biggest crypto innovation of 2018 will be working oracles. Oracles (the ability to bring info from outside a blockchain into a blockchain) are critical to a great many projects. Oracles exponentially increase the scope of what crypto can do.