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Nascent’s Elitzer Says Oracle-Free DeFi is Emerging
Dan Elitzer of venture capital firm Nascent says safer DeFi will minimize governance and oracles.
DeFi News
Oracle Pyth Goes Haywire on Solana with Bad Prices
The Pyth Network malfunctioned on Sep. 20 as the data provider reported a Bitcoin price of $5,402 on a day when other sources like CoinGecko didn’t report a BTC price below $40K. That wasn’t the only snafu. Pyth’s price feed for the stock of movie theater chain, AMC, showed a spike to $772 on Sep.…
DeFi News
Solana Attracts Oracles as Momentum Builds for Next Phase of DeFi
Blockchains really only know themselves. That’s what blockchains are good at: knowing the current state of assets held by all the blockhain’s users with confidence grounded in cryptographic verifiability. “[Blockchains] don’t have the ability to speak to the outside world, so they aren’t able to incorporate that into their logic and their contracts,” Kanav Kariya,…