SmartContract.com - ChainLink

Connect Smart Contracts to your Applications and Data

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Connect Smart Contracts to your Applications and Data

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Hunter

I run one of the largest online fintech founder groups on facebook with several billion dollars in processing volume and a few billion worth of investors both in crypto and institutional funds. We often look for technologies that we think are significant to the ecosystem and make sense from a regulatory standpoint. This is one of them. Sergey & Steve have built a tool that is useful to the developer community. @sergeynazarov I'm sure tons of PH users will have questions. ;) @rrhoover - I think developers and the PH community will eat this up, I tried to tag it as "ethereum" but there was no ethereum tag.

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9yr ago

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@rrhoover @datarade Thanks for hunting us Kumar and thanks for making Product Hunt Ryan. We're excited to be on here to see how we can help the larger developer community integrate smart contracts into their existing web applications and/or get started with building a Decentralized Application (DApp) that can go beyond moving coins/tokens.

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9yr ago

Empower

@datarade what's the name of the group?

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9yr ago

Soound

Question. I'm assuming Chainlink has a built-in exchange that allows for the conversion of a crypto (ETH) To the desired fiat? If I'm understanding the product offering, whatever payments that need to be made by a Smart Contract can be using Chainlink. If that payment is in crypto, then it'll need to be converted/exchanged before sent to recipient.

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9yr ago

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@iamcardin ChainLink actually allows you to send a payment message off-chain, without cryptocurrency, it doesn't do any conversion from crypto to fiat. If you wanted to pay using a bank system or PayPal, you'd need to send it a request from your smart contract; that's what we allow. Are you looking for a way to send Cryptocurrency to a ChainLink to have it converted to fiat and forwarded onto the recipient; would that be a useful feature for what you're working on?

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9yr ago

Soound

@sergeynazarov that makes the most sense to me. So to not have to educate my users on cryptos & getting their value out of it.

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9yr ago

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Hi Product Hunt, Our team has been building smart contracts since the technology first started to emerge; one of the largest problems we've consistently run into when building production ready smart contracts is the ability to connect them to key external resources. Smart Contracts are a tamper-proof computable contract processing layer, but they do need inputs like data feeds that act as triggers, and outputs like traditional bank payments to pay end-users in the local currency they currently want to receive. The problem we're solving for both traditional developers and smart contract developers is that smart contracts aren't able to connect directly to critical external resources on their own. This lack of external connectivity is due to the method by which consensus is reached around a blockchain's transaction data, and will therefore be a problem for every smart contract network. We've made a secure, easy to implement way to connect smart contracts to the data feeds, web APIs and payment services you'll need to make them truly useful, and we're thrilled to be presenting this to you today. We're doing all of this to make smart contracts useful beyond tokens/coins, since we strongly believe that if smart contracts are going to mimic real financial agreements, they'll need to acquire objective proof of performance off-chain, and be able to easily pay in the format your users want to receive. You can connect any API to a smart contract on SmartContract.com, or run our open source software yourself (https://github.com/oraclekit/cha...) as a way to easily connect your existing APIs and/or data to a smart contract. We currently support the Ethereum and Bitcoin network, with more on the way. We also have a fully decentralized blockchain middleware solution in the works, for the maximum amount of security when connecting external resources to your smart contract, more on that soon. We're excited to hear how we can improve ChainLink, and how we can help you apply smart contracts for your existing web application, data-driven financial agreements and/or fully decentralized application(DApp).

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9yr ago

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Guys, what's cool about your product?

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9yr ago

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Hunter

@sprinter So others have certainly thought about building this kind of thing, but Sergey has a finance/wall street background and so the team at this co actually can build something that has enterprise relevance/regulatory compliance/proper security..

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9yr ago

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Hunter

@sprinter I'm actually curious what your thoughts are on the Slack Phishing bots and the ways to potentially prevent them? (looking at standuply now)

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9yr ago

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@datarade Slack Phishing bots? I've never heard of them

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9yr ago

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Maker

@sprinter we make it possible to build smart contracts that do much more than their native capabilities allow. If you want to connect smart contracts to use your existing APIs, data feeds, or send payments in the format a user wants to receive, we make that easy to do.

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9yr ago

Have no idea about the proposition here. Back to 🍝

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9yr ago

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@_pascalandy Hi Pascal, we are able to let you either make smart contracts part of your transaction/contractual execution backend, or if you're building a fully decentralized application (DApp) we allow it to interface with data/payments in the ways it needs to in order to become useful.

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9yr ago

Promoly

@_pascalandy @sergeynazarov can you provide real-world example? So far, I'm not following..

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9yr ago

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@_pascalandy @shoeboxdnb Sure, if you were to make a smart contract that releases payment for an international shipment you'd need the GPS and customs data to trigger payments, if you're making a financial contract around market prices you'll need those price feeds put into the contract, and if you have a smart contract insurance product around something like door locks, you'll need the IoT data to prove performance.

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9yr ago

@shoeboxdnb @sergeynazarov I think you guys need to produce video use case. I still can't imagine the UX. Cheers!

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9yr ago