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Oracles are essential infrastructure components that feed real-time, off-chain data (such as price feeds, weather, or sports results) into blockchain smart contracts. Without decentralized oracles like Chainlink and Pyth, DeFi could not function. In 2026, oracles have evolved to support verifiable randomness and cross-chain data synchronization. This tag covers the technical evolution of data availability, tamper-proof price feeds, and the critical role oracles play in ensuring the deterministic execution of complex decentralized applications.

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Marvell Technology (MRVL) Stock: SoftBank Takeover Talks Send Shares Soaring

Marvell Technology (MRVL) Stock: SoftBank Takeover Talks Send Shares Soaring

TLDR SoftBank explored acquiring Marvell Technology earlier this year but negotiations failed to produce a deal SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son has evaluated Marvell for years as a potential combination with Arm Holdings Marvell stock jumped over 9% on the news after falling 18% year-to-date The potential deal would have been the largest semiconductor acquisition in [...] The post Marvell Technology (MRVL) Stock: SoftBank Takeover Talks Send Shares Soaring appeared first on Blockonomi.

Author: Blockonomi

2025/11/06

Chainlink (LINK) Launches Inaugural Rewards Season

Chainlink (LINK) Launches Inaugural Rewards Season

The post Chainlink (LINK) Launches Inaugural Rewards Season appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Jessie A Ellis Nov 05, 2025 06:29 Chainlink (LINK) introduces its first Rewards Season, highlighting the evolution of the Chainlink Build program and detailing projects involved in this pioneering initiative. Chainlink (LINK) has officially launched its first Rewards Season, marking a significant development in the Chainlink Build program. According to Chainlink, this initiative aims to reward community participation and support the growth of projects within the Chainlink ecosystem. Introduction to Chainlink Rewards The Rewards Season is designed to incentivize and recognize projects that contribute to the Chainlink network. This strategic move is part of Chainlink’s broader efforts to enhance its decentralized oracle network, which plays a crucial role in connecting smart contracts with real-world data. Focus on Community and Project Development The inaugural season highlights the various projects participating in the program, each contributing unique solutions and innovations to the blockchain space. The initiative is expected to foster collaboration and drive technological advancements within the Chainlink community. Chainlink Build Program’s Evolution The Chainlink Build program, which supports developers and projects through technical guidance and resources, has been instrumental in the network’s growth. The introduction of the Rewards Season is seen as a natural progression in Chainlink’s strategy to expand its ecosystem and encourage active participation. For more detailed information on the Chainlink Rewards Season, please visit the official Chainlink blog. Image source: Shutterstock Source: https://blockchain.news/news/chainlink-link-launches-inaugural-rewards-season

Author: BitcoinEthereumNews

2025/11/06

Chainlink And SBI Digital Markets Forge Strategic Partnership In Blockchain

Chainlink And SBI Digital Markets Forge Strategic Partnership In Blockchain

TLDR Chainlink integrates CCIP with SBI Digital Markets to enable seamless token transfers. SBI Digital Markets explores Chainlink’s Automated Compliance Engine for regulatory compliance. LINK supply on exchanges drops to multi-year lows, signaling growing long-term holding. Chainlink’s Confidential Compute aims to enhance privacy in smart contract execution by 2026. In a key move for blockchain [...] The post Chainlink And SBI Digital Markets Forge Strategic Partnership In Blockchain appeared first on CoinCentral.

Author: Coincentral

2025/11/06

Ionex Adds Orbs’ Perpetual Hub Ultra, Expanding High-Performance Perpetual Trading on Plasma

Ionex Adds Orbs’ Perpetual Hub Ultra, Expanding High-Performance Perpetual Trading on Plasma

Orbs’ Perpetual Hub Ultra has been integrated into Ionex, the newly launched decentralized exchange by DefiZoo, bringing institutional-grade perpetual futures trading to the Plasma ecosystem. The move positions Orbs’ Layer-3 technology as a plug-and-play solution for DEXs looking to expand into derivatives without sacrificing speed or capital efficiency. The integration gives Ionex users access to what Orbs calls a fully managed, modular perps stack: deep liquidity, customizable leverage and low-latency execution. Built on Orbs’ Layer-3 infrastructure and developed in collaboration with Symm.io, Perpetual Hub Ultra supplies the back-end plumbing a decentralized platform needs to run high-performance perpetuals, hedging, liquidation, oracles and a professional-grade user interface are included out of the box. “Perpetual Hub Ultra makes it possible for any DEX to offer customized, high-performance perps trading experience, with full white label stack out of the box,” said Ran Hammer, Vice President of Business Development at Orbs. “By integrating with Ionex, we are enabling a new standard for decentralized markets that rivals centralized trading in both speed and efficiency.” Strengthening Layer-3 Trading Infrastructure Ultra is designed for scalability and capital efficiency, allowing liquidity routing from both on-chain and off-chain sources, including major centralized exchanges. That dual sourcing aims to deliver deep execution to DEXs and aggregators without requiring specialized chains or complex engineering work. The architecture mirrors the intent-based trading models that have gained traction in decentralized spot markets, now applied to perpetuals, so decentralized venues can better compete with centralized exchanges on performance, flexibility and user experience. Ionex itself is pitched as more than a conventional DEX. Operating entirely on Plasma, the platform serves as a liquidity marketplace and trading hub with features such as seamless token swaps, liquidity provision that earns $INX rewards, and DAO-driven governance for emission control. Its MetaDEX module unifies spot and perpetual markets, while the MetaPerp, a new category of self-custodial perpetuals powered by Orbs, promises CeFi-grade execution with up to 60× leverage and sub-100ms fills. The integration reinforces Orbs’ growing footprint in the derivatives layer of DeFi. Orbs has already powered several deployments of Perpetual Hub, and Perpetual Hub Ultra represents an evolution intended to lower the barrier for DEXs to offer professional-grade perps. Orbs describes itself as a decentralized Layer-3 blockchain purpose-built for advanced on-chain trading; leveraging Proof-of-Stake consensus, it provides a supplementary execution layer for complex logic and scripts beyond native smart contract capabilities. For Ionex, the partnership with Orbs and Symm.io looks to accelerate its goal of combining aggregator liquidity, zero-fee USDT transfers and a tri-token incentive model, $INX, veINX and oINX, into a single trading experience. By bundling spot and perpetual liquidity under the MetaDEX umbrella, Ionex aims to appeal to traders who want deep execution and a seamless, self-custodial interface. Together, the companies say the integration marks another milestone in the migration of complex financial products onto blockchain infrastructure. Perpetual Hub Ultra’s plug-and-play approach seeks to make sophisticated derivatives accessible to a new generation of decentralized trading venues while bolstering Orbs’ claim as the leading Layer-3 infrastructure provider for turnkey derivatives in DeFi.

Author: Coinstats

2025/11/06

Rain launches its decentralized prediction markets protocol, where anyone can create their own market – private or public

Rain launches its decentralized prediction markets protocol, where anyone can create their own market – private or public

Rain, a decentralized prediction markets protocol, launches its beta platform. Popular centralized models like Polymarket often face limitations in market scope, accessibility, and flexibility. The platform allows anyone to create customized prediction markets for a broad range of global events and niche scenarios. Rain, a decentralized prediction markets protocol, launches its beta platform, introducing the […] The post Rain launches its decentralized prediction markets protocol, where anyone can create their own market – private or public appeared first on CoinJournal.

Author: Coin Journal

2025/11/06

WisdomTree Adopts Chainlink to Bring $130B Fund Data Onchain for Tokenized Private Credit

WisdomTree Adopts Chainlink to Bring $130B Fund Data Onchain for Tokenized Private Credit

With Chainlink collaboration, WisdomTree will enhance its tokenized infrastructure enhancing transparency, auditability, and interoperability for institutional investors. Alongside the WisdomTree integration, Chainlink announced 62 new blockchain integrations and a strategic partnership with Chainalysis. In the latest development, $130 billion asset manager WisdomTree announced the adoption of Chainlink’s oracle technology to bring institutional-grade Net Asset Value [...]]]>

Author: Crypto News Flash

2025/11/06

WisdomTree Collaborates with Chainlink to Power NAV Data Onchain in CRDT Tokenized Private Credit Fund

WisdomTree Collaborates with Chainlink to Power NAV Data Onchain in CRDT Tokenized Private Credit Fund

WisdomTree, a global asset manager and financial services provider, today made a strategic partnership with Chainlink, a decentralized blockchain oracle network. WisdomTree, a US-based asset management firm, provides a wide variety of financial products, including ETPs, digital solutions, and blockchain-powered financial offerings.   According to the announcement shared today, WisdomTree integrated Chainlink’s DataLink services to bring NAV (net asset value) data on its tokenized fund, popularly known as the WisdomTree Private Credit and Alternative Income Digital Fund (CRDT), operating on the Ethereum blockchain. The tokenized fund, which focuses on private credit, aims to make private credit markets accessible to investors who, in the past, encountered barriers to accessing such alternative investments. We’re excited to announce that WisdomTree (@WisdomTreeFunds), a global asset manager with $130B+ AUM, has adopted Chainlink to bring institutional-grade NAV data onchain to power subscriptions and redemptions for its CRDT tokenized fund on Ethereum.https://t.co/kdqvoS6WW0The… pic.twitter.com/510HnqFVDY— Chainlink (@chainlink) November 5, 2025 WisdomTree Enabling Secure Interoperability for Its Tokenized Fund By leveraging Chainlink’s DataLink services, Chainlink’s NAV data provides WisdomTree’s tokenized fund with efficient, reliable, and real-time data, enabling the basket of financial assets contained within the fund to move compliantly and securely across numerous blockchains. The integration provides real-time NAV reporting for WisdomTree’s tokenized money market fund, powering a unified infrastructure for secure cross-chain distribution, automated fund operations, and operational efficiency of the tokenized assets. The partnership showcases the essential role of NAV data in digital fund management, offering important insights into fund value and performance. By incorporating Chainlink, WisdomTree’s tokenized fund can now access NAV data on-chain with exceptional security and accuracy. This ensures that NAV data is reported in real-time and synchronized across diverse blockchains, improving transparency for WisdomTree customers and its wider financial ecosystem. Tokenized Funds: Unlocking the Future of Finance The collaboration between WisdomTree and Chainlink highlights increasing demand for the tokenization of funds among asset management firms. Many asset managers have been embracing asset tokenization to enable more rapid, transparent, and secure transactions. Early this week, HSBC bank disclosed that its tokenized gold product accomplished widespread adoption among retail clients in Hong Kong. As per the latest data from Token Terminal, BlackRock’s tokenized fund, BUIDL, holds over $2.49 billion in AUM, an indicator of significant transfer of institutional capital into digital assets. 

Author: Coinstats

2025/11/06

When DAO meets homeowners' committee: How does the "happiness index" under Merkel's tree reshape grassroots governance?

When DAO meets homeowners' committee: How does the "happiness index" under Merkel's tree reshape grassroots governance?

Market predictions are all the rage lately, so I'd like to propose a new concept that might support some really cool experiments. The idea wasn't my original creation; it came from a rather fantastical research paper. The author, Ralph Merkle, one of the "founding fathers" of crypto, radically proposed using prediction markets to govern countries. And this very paper was published in the journal Cryonics. When I first read it, I only found the concept interesting, but its practicality was zero. Recently, upon rereading it, I suddenly realized that if the scenario is not limited to national governance, it is actually a universally applicable solution with considerable operability. If you don't remember who Merkel is, he is the co-inventor of "asymmetric encryption" (public-private key) and the inventor of "Merkle Tree". Every transaction on the blockchain relies on public and private keys. Each Bitcoin block is imprinted with a Merkle tree "root" (used to efficiently prove that all transactions within the block are complete and have not been tampered with). Thesis Background Merkel launched a fierce attack, arguing that "one person, one vote" democracy is a complete mess. She claimed that this system forces most ordinary people—who lack understanding of economics, political science, and sociology, and are misled by the media—to vote on extremely complex bills. This is not only unfair, but also inevitably leads to mediocre and poor decision-making. The governance machine designed in the paper (which Merkel calls DAO democracy) operates on a logic completely opposite to that of traditional voting systems. Traditional voting is "decision first, results later" (people vote for option A, then bear the consequences, good or bad). Merkel's machine is "predicting results first, then making decisions." The machine's operation relies on two core components: 1. The sole objective: the citizens' "happiness index" The machine has a unique and immutable ultimate goal (protected by a DAO contract), which is called the "happiness index". This index is obtained by all citizens themselves through "post-hoc scoring". Every year, all citizens score the past year, for example, from 0 (worst) to 1 (best). The average of all scores is the "annual happiness index" for that year. This score is the only metric the system pursues. 2. Decision Engine: Predicting Markets With a single objective, decision-making becomes simple. When someone submits a new bill (such as "whether to build a new high-speed rail line"), the system doesn't initiate a vote; instead, it automatically opens two parallel prediction markets: Market A: What is your prediction for the long-term "happiness index" if the bill passes? Market B: What is the predicted long-term "happiness index" if nothing is done? Then, the machine waits for the prediction period to end and then looks at the prices in markets A and B. If the price in market A is higher than that in market B (the prediction is 0.72), the machine automatically determines that the bill should pass. Otherwise, it should be rejected. The ingenuity of the design The brilliance of this design lies in transforming "decision-making" from a "political problem" rife with bias and populism into an "information problem" that rewards rationality and professionalism. In prediction markets, someone who makes random bets ("I don't care, I just hate high-speed rail!") will lose money. Those who truly profit are the ones who can most accurately predict whether "this bill will actually make most people happier in the future." It cleverly utilizes "greed," allowing the voice of reason, rather than the loudest voice, to dominate decision-making. Of course, the specific mechanisms are far more complex than I've explained; those interested can refer to the paper themselves. Back to reality Personally, I think the feasibility of using this machine to govern a country is zero. Merkel herself also mentioned many difficult problems: such as how to prevent the system from choosing an absurd solution like "giving everyone hallucinogens" in order to pursue high scores? And how to deal with a bill that "has a 10% chance of causing the end of the world"? Besides these technical difficulties, political friction also means that no political system can possibly apply this solution. However, if it's not about national governance, but rather some narrower areas, I think there's a possibility that, through appropriate abstraction and carefully crafted conditions, it's likely to be a viable path. To give a simple example The neighborhood's "owners' committee" made a decision. Those who value appearances wanted to spend 100,000 yuan to build a useless fountain. Those who prioritize their basic needs wanted to use the money to repair the leaky roof. In traditional voting, this matter ultimately becomes a matter of "the loudest voice" rather than "the right person" winning. Applying the "Merkel machine": Objective: Annual homeowner satisfaction. Two proposals were submitted to let prediction markets determine pricing: Market A: What is your prediction for the average "satisfaction" score at the end of the year if the fountain is repaired? Market B: What is the predicted average "satisfaction" score at the end of the year if the roof is repaired? Homeowners whose homes are leaking (the true "experts" on this issue) would only have one vote in a traditional poll. But in this market, they are 100% certain that fixing the roof will improve satisfaction, so they dare to bet heavily on "Market B". The system sees that the price (predicted satisfaction) of "Market B" is higher than that of "Market A" and automatically approves the roof repair proposal. Settlement: At the end of the year, all homeowners gave their ratings. Those whose homes were no longer leaking gave them high scores. The people who bet on the roof repairs won the money that those who bet on the fountain repairs had. The actual application design may be more complex than this, but the basic logic is as follows. Essentially, it involves entrusting a highly subjective and open community decision-making process to an equally open, financially driven predictive machine for arbitration. The principle of one person, one vote in democracy hasn't disappeared; it has simply taken a different form to keep the entire mechanism running. This product could even become a "governance as a service" platform. The platform itself does not determine any KPIs or schemes; it only provides a neutral "toolbox" (such as DAO contracts, prediction markets, and oracles). Any organization, from industry associations to open-source communities, can register to use it and then "insert" its own unique KPIs (such as "satisfaction" or "downloads") and specific proposals. The platform is only responsible for running the market and returning the "optimal solution." It acts like a neutral "referee," providing a plug-and-play decision-making machine for all organizations that need to make difficult, transparent decisions.

Author: PANews

2025/11/06

DeFi Autopsy Report: A Deep Dive into How Stream xUSD Went From "Stablecoin" to Off-Chain Ponzi Scheme

DeFi Autopsy Report: A Deep Dive into How Stream xUSD Went From "Stablecoin" to Off-Chain Ponzi Scheme

Author: Trading Strategy Compiled by: Tim, PANews Stream xUSD is a "tokenized hedge fund" masquerading as a DeFi stablecoin, claiming to operate using a delta-neutral strategy. Currently, this project is insolvent. Over the past five years, several projects have followed this model, attempting to drive their token growth through returns from delta-neutral investments. Successful examples include MakerDAO, Frax, Ohm, Aave, and Ethena. Unlike many of its more purist DeFi competitors, Stream lacks transparency regarding its strategies and holdings. Portfolio tracking platform DeBank shows that only $150 million of its claimed total locked value is visible on-chain. In reality, Stream invested in off-chain trading strategies run by its proprietary traders, some of whom suffered margin calls, reportedly resulting in a $100 million loss. 1. CCN report points out It should be noted that the $120 million hack that Balancer DEX suffered this Monday is unrelated to this. Rumors suggest (which we cannot verify as Stream has not publicly disclosed this information) that the incident allegedly involves an off-chain trading strategy of "shorting volatility." In quantitative finance, "shorting volatility" refers to profiting when market volatility decreases, remains stable, or the actual volatility is lower than the implied volatility in the pricing of the financial instrument. If the price of the underlying asset fluctuates smoothly (i.e., in a low-volatility environment), the option may expire, allowing the seller to retain the premium as profit. However, this strategy is significantly risky; a sudden surge in volatility can trigger huge losses, often described as "picking up coins in front of a steamroller." 2. Detailed Explanation of Shorting Volatility: We experienced such a surge in volatility on "Red Friday," October 10th. As market fervor surrounding Trump-related developments in 2025 continued to build, systemic leverage risk gradually accumulated in the crypto market. When Trump announced his new tariff policy on Friday afternoon, October 10th, panic gripped all markets, quickly spreading to the crypto market. In the midst of this panic, those who rushed to sell their available assets often gained an advantage. This sell-off ultimately triggered a chain reaction of liquidations. Due to the long-term accumulation of leverage risk, systemic leverage has reached a high level, and the perpetual futures market lacks sufficient market depth to smoothly unwind and liquidate all leveraged positions. Under these circumstances, the automatic liquidation mechanism is activated, beginning to distribute losses among profitable traders. This further distorts an already volatile market. 3. What is an automatic position reduction mechanism ? The market volatility triggered by this event is considered a once-in-a-decade event for the crypto market. While not unprecedented—a similar crash occurred in the early 2016 crypto market—most algorithmic traders' strategies were built on recent data of "stable fluctuations" due to a lack of reliable data at that time. Given the market's long absence of such dramatic volatility, even moderately leveraged positions of around 2x were not spared, ultimately resulting in numerous liquidations. Maxim Shilo provides an in-depth analysis of the impact of this "Red Friday" event on algorithmic traders and the potential fundamental shift in trading patterns in the crypto market: 4. Shilo discusses how October 10th will change algorithmic trading in the crypto market. Now, the first bodies of victims have emerged from the "Red Friday" attacks, and Stream is among them. The fundamental definition of a delta-neutral fund is that it will not incur losses. If losses occur, it cannot be considered delta-neutral by definition. Stream promised to adopt a delta-neutral strategy, but secretly invested in proprietary, opaque, off-chain operational strategies. Delta-neutral strategies are not always black and white; hindsight is always 20/20. Many experts might argue that these strategies are too risky to be considered truly delta-neutral because they could be counterproductive, and this has proven to be true. When Stream lost its principal in these failed trades, the platform became insolvent. The DeFi sector is high-risk, and some losses are acceptable. As long as you eventually break even and achieve a 15% annual return, a 10% drop in account balance is not fatal. However, the problem lies in the fact that Stream has pushed leverage to the extreme through a "recursive loop" lending strategy with another stablecoin, Elixir. 5. What is a recursive loop? 6. How does Stream increase leverage and its leverage size ? To make matters worse, Elixir, through an off-chain protocol, claims priority in recovering the principal of Stream in the event of its bankruptcy. This means that Elixir will recover more funds, while other DeFi investors in Stream will only recover less (or even lose everything). Due to a lack of transparency, the existence of recursive loops, and proprietary strategies, we are unable to know the actual scale of losses suffered by Stream users. Currently, the price of Stream's xUSD stablecoin has fallen to $0.6 per unit. Because this matter was not disclosed to these DeFi users, many users are now extremely indignant towards Stream and Elixir: they not only suffer financial losses, but are also forced to share the losses to ensure that wealthy Americans with Wall Street backgrounds can preserve their profits. This incident also impacted the loan agreement and its management: "Everyone who thinks they are taking out a secured loan on Euler is actually participating in unsecured lending through a proxy," says Rob from infiniFi. Furthermore, given Stream's lack of transparency regarding its positions and profit/loss status, or the absence of on-chain data, users have begun to question whether Stream has fraudulently misappropriated user profits for its management team. Stream's xUSD stakers rely on self-reported "oracle" data to generate returns, and third parties cannot verify the accuracy or fairness of these calculations. How to deal with it? Such Stream events could have been avoided, especially in emerging industries like DeFi. While "high risk, high reward" is a timeless principle, the key is to understand that risk is not homogeneous, and some risks are simply unnecessary. Several reputable liquidity mining, lending, and stablecoin (essentially tokenized hedge funds) protocols already maintain transparency in their risk exposure, investment strategies, and positions, making them worthy of market attention. Stani, founder of Aave, discussed the timing of DeFi governance and excessive risk-taking, and shared his views on recent events that have brought DeFi risks to the forefront: The survival of DeFi lending rests on trust. One of the biggest fallacies is comparing DeFi lending with AMM (Agent Matchmaker) liquidity pools—the two operate on completely different logics. The lending model can only continue to operate when people are confident that the market mechanism is sound, the collateral assets are reliable, the risk parameters are reasonable, and the system as a whole is stable. Once this trust collapses, an on-chain version of a bank run will occur. This is precisely why the model that allows anyone to deploy a fund pool and promote it on the same platform without permission is inherently flawed. Because most investment strategies are highly homogenized, strategy managers lack effective means to stand out and often can only push fees to the bare minimum or compete for capital from other fund pools by taking on higher risks. One day, a major collapse will destroy market confidence and set back the industry's progress. The next Terra Luna-style crash will inevitably stem from the out-of-control actions of an aggressive strategy manager on an open platform.

Author: PANews

2025/11/06

Dinari and Chainlink to Launch Tokenized Version of S&P Digital Markets 50 Index

Dinari and Chainlink to Launch Tokenized Version of S&P Digital Markets 50 Index

Dinari, a company specializing in the tokenization of traditional financial instruments, announced a partnership with Chainlink to create a tokenized version of the S&P Digital Markets 50 Index. The solution will combine 35 publicly traded blockchain-related firms and 15 crypto assets. The token will be issued through Dinari’s platform called dShares. It allows investors to […] Сообщение Dinari and Chainlink to Launch Tokenized Version of S&P Digital Markets 50 Index появились сначала на INCRYPTED.

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2025/11/06

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