Chainlink

This research report highlights the need for a Chainlink DeFi Yield Index (CDY Index) that utilizes Chainlink oracles to aggregate market-wide DeFi lending yield rates.

Decubate and Chainlink have formed a channel partnership to support Chainlink BUILD members. The partnership will provide BUILD members with access to Decubate's launchpad, incubation and advisory services, vesting and staking portals, and more.

Protocol Labs and Chainlink Labs have partnered to form a strategic alliance. The alliance aims to provide developers in Chainlink's BUILD program with access to developer tools, services, and support, including decentralized storage credits and engineering support.

This week, there were 8 new integrations of 5 Chainlink services across 6 different chains, including Arbitrum, Avalanche, Base, BNBCHAIN, Ethereum, and Polygon. The new integrations include Arbitrum, Base, Courtyard NFT, Fearless Wallet, Morpho Labs, Omni Hub, and PancakeSwap.

Chainlink is actively working on solutions to manage the challenges of Oracle Extractable Value (OEV) in the blockchain and DeFi industry. The company has implemented various approaches, such as Fair Sequencing Services (FSS) and Protected Order-Flow (PROF), to mitigate the impact of OEV. Chainlink advises against connecting to unproven and untested third-party OEV designs due to concerns about decentralization, security, and transaction delays. The company emphasizes the importance of decentralized infrastructure and alignment of incentives to deliver reliable and secure data for dApps and users.

Micro3io has joined Chainlink BUILD to gain access to Chainlink's oracle services and support for cross-chain NFTs. They will make 3% of their token supply available to Chainlink service providers. Micro3io offers a decentralized NFT platform, SocialFi, a gaming platform, and more. As part of BUILD, they will receive benefits such as access to Chainlink CCIP and VRF, and early access to Chainlink product releases.

The Q4 2023 Product Update for Chainlink is now available with audio. Chainlink CPO Kelmoujahid, Head of Developer Relations TheOnlyAkersh, and Director of Community Rorypiant discuss what's next for the Chainlink Network.

The Chainlink community highlights eight games that gamers should keep an eye on in 2024. These games include Abyss World, Bless, Blue Kraken Online, Cyber Titans, DESPERADO B218, a Three Kingdoms simulation game, a multiplayer sailing game, and a waste-cleaning strategy game. Some of these games are already playable, while others are coming soon. Chainlink provides the necessary tools for developers to succeed in building these Web3 games.

Chainlink Functions mainnet beta release is now available on Arbitrum. This release allows Arbitrum developers to connect and compute upon offchain data, devices, and systems in a trust-minimized manner.

Chainlink Automation is now officially available on Base, the layer-2 network incubated by Coinbase. Base builders can now utilize Chainlink's reliable and performant automation solution to drive next-generation use cases.