Chainlink is a decentralized oracle technology connecting smart contracts on any blockchain to data providers, web APIs, enterprise systems, cloud services, IoT devices, payment systems, other blockchains, and more. This tag should be applied to any question about building or debugging decentralized oracles with Chainlink.
Chainlink is a technology for connecting smart contracts on any blockchain to data providers, web APIs, enterprise systems, cloud services, IoT devices, payment systems, other blockchains, and much more. The technology was envisioned by Sergey Nazarov, Ari Juels, and Steve Ellis. The Chainlink whitepaper was published in 2017 and the mainnet went live on Ethereum on May 2019. Chainlink is being built with solidity.
Resources:
- Official website
- Chainlink: A Decentralized Oracle Network (whitepaper 1.0)]
- Chainlink Labs
- Chainlink's page on the Bitcoin wiki
- The Chainlink Blog