Have you ever thought about it—your card draws in blockchain games, your mining in DeFi, the real assets purchased on RWA platforms—all of this might be built on data that could fail at any moment.
Sound like a conspiracy theory? But this is indeed the harsh reality of the current blockchain industry. We can use code to redefine financial rules, yet we can't fully trust the real-time prices of a single stock.
Recently, I looked into a team working on oracles and found they are doing something "costly but pleasing"—making the blockchain truly see the real world.
**How serious is the problem?**
One guy’s DeFi protocol was liquidated overnight just because the price was delayed by 3 seconds. Another friend’s blockchain game was bombarded by players after their random number was cracked. There’s also an RWA project stuck on a fundamental issue—how do you prove that the property deed on the chain is genuine?
In the middle of 2023, a group of people fell silent in a voice chat late at night. Someone finally posed the key question: "If the data fed to the blockchain itself isn’t trustworthy, what are we actually building?"
**They decided to change this situation**
The founder of this team isn’t a celebrity. They are seasoned veterans who have been in the chain space for ten years and have been burned by bad data to the point of losing patience. No fancy whitepapers, no gimmicks to pump tokens. Their goal is pure—design a "truthful" data pipeline.
While others chase the hot trends, they are working on the most demanding infrastructure. This is the real way to play in the oracle track.
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CodeZeroBasis
· 9h ago
The 3-second liquidation part was really amazing, which is why I don't dare to hold a heavy position in DeFi now.
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TopBuyerBottomSeller
· 9h ago
I truly believe in the 3-second liquidation, having experienced something similar firsthand. That's why I'm so cautious about on-chain data now — it's not paranoia, I'm genuinely afraid of getting scammed.
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ZenZKPlayer
· 9h ago
Clearance in 3 seconds haha. This is Web3. Data is really a huge pitfall.
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GamefiHarvester
· 9h ago
I personally experienced the 3-second liquidation. I didn't sleep that night, and now I see oracles with shadows.
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WalletDetective
· 9h ago
A 3-second delay to directly liquidate is just ridiculous. Our entire ecosystem is actually betting that the data won't be wrong, but no one can guarantee it at all.
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gm_or_ngmi
· 9h ago
The 3-second liquidation part is truly amazing; this is the real picture of what's happening on the chain now.
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BugBountyHunter
· 9h ago
The 3-second liquidation part hit my pain point. I've been through it too, and it was truly despairing.
Have you ever thought about it—your card draws in blockchain games, your mining in DeFi, the real assets purchased on RWA platforms—all of this might be built on data that could fail at any moment.
Sound like a conspiracy theory? But this is indeed the harsh reality of the current blockchain industry. We can use code to redefine financial rules, yet we can't fully trust the real-time prices of a single stock.
Recently, I looked into a team working on oracles and found they are doing something "costly but pleasing"—making the blockchain truly see the real world.
**How serious is the problem?**
One guy’s DeFi protocol was liquidated overnight just because the price was delayed by 3 seconds. Another friend’s blockchain game was bombarded by players after their random number was cracked. There’s also an RWA project stuck on a fundamental issue—how do you prove that the property deed on the chain is genuine?
In the middle of 2023, a group of people fell silent in a voice chat late at night. Someone finally posed the key question: "If the data fed to the blockchain itself isn’t trustworthy, what are we actually building?"
**They decided to change this situation**
The founder of this team isn’t a celebrity. They are seasoned veterans who have been in the chain space for ten years and have been burned by bad data to the point of losing patience. No fancy whitepapers, no gimmicks to pump tokens. Their goal is pure—design a "truthful" data pipeline.
While others chase the hot trends, they are working on the most demanding infrastructure. This is the real way to play in the oracle track.