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Chainlinkis a decentralized oracle network that connects blockchain smart contracts to real-world data. MostDeFiusers interact with it every single day without knowing it. When you deposit crypto into Aave or borrow against collateral on Compound, Chainlink is the system feeding those protocols the price data they need to work correctly.

Open any market dashboard and sort by 24-hour volume. Bitcoin is not at the top. Tether is, and usually by a wide margin: a recent reading showed roughly $31.4 billion of $USDT changing hands against $20.3 billion of Bitcoin, with $USDC third at $7.87 billion, ahead of Ethereum. Three of the four most-traded assets in…

Ripple locks $XRP in time-based smart contracts on the$XRP Ledgerand releases a maximum of 1 billion $XRP on the first day of each month, a supply schedule set up in December 2017 and enforced by the ledger’s code rather than by any company decision. This is $XRP’s escrow system, and it is the reason $XRP’s…