Updated: November 30th, 2022 Chainlink is a modular, generalized, and blockchain-agnostic protocol for building decentralized oracle networks that connect smart contracts to real-world data, off-chain computation, and cross-chain communication in a trust-minimized and hyper-reliable manner. In short, Chainlink makes smart contracts actually useful. To help educate the world, I have…

Sergey Nazarov, the CEO of Chainlink, recently gave an excellent presentation at the Virtual Ready Layer One conference on May 5th 2020 featuring some newly designed slides that introduced more information about the Chainlink framework overall. …

Everything within this article is a collection of my own thoughts, research, and findings. It does not reflect any official stance taken by the Chainlink team. If you find any factual errors in this article, please let me know. A Little Background 2019 was quite a monumental year for Chainlink, to say the…