Weekly Wrap: This Week In Chainlink September 28 - October 4

Weekly Wrap: This Week In Chainlink September 28 - October 4

Chainlink Hackathon - Congratulations to the Winners of the Chainlink Virtual Hackathon 2020

Thanks to all #Chainlink Hackathon participants and congrats to the winners! Devs showcased a wide range of new Chainlink functions:

- P2P car rental platform using a @Tesla API

- Yield farming RPG game

- AMM insurance market

- decentralized library & more

Announcements and Integrations 🎉

• Chainlink Brings Onchain Proof of Reserve to WBTC

WBTC's $1 billion+ in Bitcoin will now gain additional security using Chainlink's Proof of Reserve capability. We're thrilled to be working with @BitGo to enable greater transparency & therefore more usability for WBTC as a form of collateral across DeFi.

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• Alchemy Pay to Integrate Chainlink Price Feeds to Power DeFi Products and Fair Crypto Payments

Crypto-fiat payment provider @AlchemyPay is integrating Chainlink price feeds into its payments & upcoming DeFi platform. This ensures that users receive the fair market when interacting with DeFi dApps or making retail crypto payments on Alchemy Pay.

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• Planetarium Plans Integration with Leading Oracle Solution Chainlink

Gaming platform Planetarium is integrating Chainlink into @NineChronicles to power cross-game Metaverse communication, in-game commodity pricing, and secure trading of in-game items, with additional plans to use Chainlink VRF to create unique NFT-backed in-game items.

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• StrongBlock Integrates Chainlink Oracles Live on Mainnet to Help Power its DeFi Mining Rewards Distribution

DeFi platform @strongblock_io has integrated Chainlink’s ETH/USD & LINK/ETH Price Reference Data feeds live on mainnet to calculate its staking rewards. This ensures that all rewards issued to StrongBlock users are accurately & transparently distributed.

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• Combining Stacks 2.0 And Chainlink Oracle Technology Brings Developers New Smart Contract Possibilities

Blockchain platform @blockstack is integrating Chainlink as its go-to oracle solution to empower universally connected smart contracts. Blockstack devs will have access to any API, Sybil resistant nodes, live decentralized price oracles for DeFi and more.

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• Offshift Taps Chainlink to Provide Oracle Feeds for Its zkAsset Private Pegs

Private synthetic asset DeFi platform @OffshiftXFT has integrated Chainlink's BTC/USD and XAU/USD Price Feeds live on Testnet to serve as decentralized reference prices for users minting, burning, and trading its privacy-preserving zkAssets.

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• Inotel Becomes a Chainlink Node Operator Live on Mainnet

DeFi platform @OfficialCentaur integrates Chainlink VRF to add enhanced transparency. Chainlink VRF's provably fair source of RNG enables unbiased random selection of sale participants, leveling the playing field for all.

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• Chainlink VRF used by Centaur to Deploy New Standard for Enhanced Transparency in Public Sale Lotteries

New Chainlink Node operator Inotel is now live on mainnet helping secure Chainlink's Price Reference Data for DeFi developers. Inotel brings DevOps experience as a PoS validator/node operator on 9 other Web3 networks, helping secure millions in USD value.

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Featured Videos & Educational Pieces 🎥

• DeFi Insurance available ahead of more Blockchain dApps and Regulation

Chainlink's oracle network unlocks new markets for insurance + expands DeFi’s footprint. @avivahl from @Gartner_Inc highlights how organizations like @ArbolMarket use Chainlink rainfall data to give farmers access to parametric weather insurance contracts.

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• Easily Sell Your APIs and Data to Any Blockchain via Chainlink

Data providers use Chainlink to sell data/APIs to multiple blockchains in under an hour, from existing APIs & without running any additional software. Many have then launched Chainlink Nodes in a few hours, to sell signed data directly to smart contracts.

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• TrustSwap and Chainlink Live Q&A: Using Decentralized Oracles for Trustless Defi Transactions

Rewatch our live Q&A with TrustSwap CEO, Jeff Kirdeikis. We will be speaking about TrustSwap's recent integration of Chainlink and its use of decentralized oracles to grow the DeFi ecosystem.

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• Aavegotchi and Chainlink Live Q&A: DeFi-staked Crypto Collectibles with Chainlink VRF

Rewatch our a live Q&A with the Aavegotchi team. We speak about Aavegotchi's recent integration of Chainlink VRF and its use of decentralized oracles to grow the NFT ecosystem. Come learn more about NFTs / crypto-collectibles, Aavegotchi and more.

SmartCon Videos are now ALL available. Watch them here

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Upcoming Events 📅

• <08 October> [VIRTUAL MEETUP] - Elastos and Chainlink Live Q&A
• <15 October> [VIRTUAL MEETUP] - Spanish Community Virtual Meet Up Chainlink con AAVE
• <15 October> [VIRTUAL MEETUP] - Virtual Meetup with IC3

Are you interested in hosting your own meetup? Apply to become a Chainlink Community Advocate today: https://events.chain.link/advocate

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Chainlink Labs is hiring to build Chainlink’s network: Check out these open roles 👩‍💼

View all open roles at https://careers.smartcontract.com

Are there other community content and celebrations that we missed? Post them in the comments below! ⤵️