On November 20, explore the latest trends of Oracles 2025

Source: Next Capital

This Thursday at 20:00, join Sora Tex Ted, Deagent AI Hans, APRO Instant Pig Yuxin, Trade1 William, along with a surprise guest, to discuss the latest trends in oracle technology for 2025!

In 2025, the global oracle network will reach a developmental milestone. According to the latest data from DeFiLlama and Dune Analytics, the total value locked (TVL) in the entire sector has surpassed hundreds of millions of dollars, with a month-on-month increase in trading volume of over 50%. The leading project Chainlink has reached a daily request volume of 12 million. Technically, multi-source aggregation algorithms significantly reduce the interference of anomalous data, KZG promises to reduce verification costs by 90%, and Pyth Network's data processing efficiency has improved by 300%, with the price feed delay for some core assets (like BTC/USD) compressed to 300 milliseconds. Notably, the integration of AI and oracles has become a new hotspot, further enhancing data reliability through intelligent verification and analysis.

Oracles are the core infrastructure that connects real-world data with blockchain smart contracts, reliably inputting off-chain information such as prices, events, and asset statuses into on-chain systems to trigger automatic contract execution. The information market is specifically divided into two categories: one is subjective questions, focusing more on news events related to politics, culture, economics, and sports. The other is the price market, similar to binary options products for cryptocurrencies/stocks, but presented in a simpler and more understandable manner. Currently, the Polymarket oracle is dominated by UMA, supporting 80% of the market size for subjective information markets, while Chainlink is introduced to settle the remaining 20% of the price market. Pyth is brought in to solve the on-chain data issues for the Kalshi information market, while other oracle solutions mainly focus on AI.

The core application scenarios for oracles are continuously deepening. In the DeFi sector, oracles have become the central hub for risk control. Through multi-source data aggregation and on-chain verification mechanisms, they provide reliable off-chain data inputs for smart contracts, directly determining the safety of protocol funds and their resistance to attacks; at the same time, in the RWA asset on-chain scenarios, oracles like DappLink provide real-time bank account verification services for cross-border financial platforms, achieving a 1:1 peg between on-chain assets and offline physical assets, supporting an average monthly issuance of $500 million in RWA tokenization; event-driven contracts in compliance scenarios are also experiencing an explosion, as off-chain events like sports results and election votes are brought on-chain through oracles, allowing smart contracts to automatically execute operations such as distributing betting prizes and settling DAO proposals, with a weekly increase of 400% in related application calls during the 2025 UEFA European Championship; moreover, with the rise of decentralized AI agents, oracles are starting to provide real-time reliable data support for them, becoming the core basis for AI decision-making.

In niche tracks, many outstanding projects have been continuously achieving technological breakthroughs and scenario innovations in recent years. Chainlink, as a veteran DeFi oracle service provider, serves thousands of applications through a decentralized oracle network, covering multiple public chain ecosystems, and has become one of the factual standard infrastructures for price feeds and Proof of Reserve (PoR). APRO Oracle is a decentralized oracle network specifically designed for the Bitcoin ecosystem, focusing on supporting BTC L1, various BTC L2, Ordinals, Runes, Lightning, and EVM-compatible chains, providing secure data infrastructure for scenarios such as BTCFi, RWA, AI agents, and information markets; Sora Oracle deeply engages in the BNB Chain ecosystem, emphasizing "decentralized data integrity + real-time result settlement," providing multi-source data aggregation and real-time settlement capabilities for the information market, helping achieve fast and verifiable results on-chain. Meanwhile, new players like DeAgentAI focus on providing verification and trading decision services using AI: its AlphaX market trend prediction tool is based on a feedback-driven training mechanism, achieving a price prediction accuracy of about 70% in multiple rounds of real data disclosed by officials and media, with a monthly strategy win rate close to 90%, showcasing the potential of AI in enhancing trading and pricing; Pyth Network focuses on institutional-level financial data services, rapidly expanding in multi-chain ecosystems with low-latency price feed capabilities aimed at high-frequency trading and derivatives.

From solving the "data island" problem of smart contracts to building an AI-coordinated value network, oracles are upgrading from "infrastructure" for blockchain to the "trust engine" of the digital economy. However, mainstream oracles still face issues such as long settlement times and manipulation by large holders, leaving significant opportunities for the future.

On November 20, this Thursday at 20:00, the innovation-loving Next Capital, in collaboration with Rootdata, will launch the 280th session of the Next Capital Entrepreneurial Banquet! We have invited Sora Business Development Manager Tex Ted, Deagent AI BD Head Hans, APRO Co-founder Instant Pig Yuxin, Trade1 CPO William, along with a surprise guest, to deeply discuss the latest trends in oracle technology for 2025! We welcome all researchers, entrepreneurs, investors, and industry experts interested in oracle development to join us!

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