Oracle

Oracles are essential infrastructure components that feed real-time, off-chain data (such as price feeds, weather, or sports results) into blockchain smart contracts. Without decentralized oracles like Chainlink and Pyth, DeFi could not function. In 2026, oracles have evolved to support verifiable randomness and cross-chain data synchronization. This tag covers the technical evolution of data availability, tamper-proof price feeds, and the critical role oracles play in ensuring the deterministic execution of complex decentralized applications.

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Created: 2026/02/02 18:52
Updated: 2026/02/02 18:52
Why IPO Genie’s Transparency Model Could Redefine Presale Trust?

Why IPO Genie’s Transparency Model Could Redefine Presale Trust?

For years, crypto investors have lived through the same painful story: hype-filled presales promising the moon, vanishing liquidity, and projects that disappear overnight. The result? A trust crisis that still haunts the market. That’s exactly where IPO Genie ($IPO) steps in. When its whitelist opened, something unusual happened. Over $2.5 million poured in within hours. […] The post Why IPO Genie’s Transparency Model Could Redefine Presale Trust? appeared first on Live Bitcoin News.

Author: LiveBitcoinNews
SoftBank sells entire Nvidia stake for $5.8 billion to double down on OpenAI

SoftBank sells entire Nvidia stake for $5.8 billion to double down on OpenAI

The post SoftBank sells entire Nvidia stake for $5.8 billion to double down on OpenAI appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Home » AI » SoftBank sells entire Nvidia stake for $5.8 billion to double down on OpenAI Shift in investment strategy highlights SoftBank’s growing focus on generative AI through partnerships and diversified tech holdings. Photo: Bolivia Inteligente Key Takeaways SoftBank sold its entire $5.8 billion stake in Nvidia, unloading 32 million shares. The move is part of the bank’s strategic effort to free up capital for new AI investments. SoftBank has fully exited its Nvidia position, selling 32 million shares worth $5.8 billion to reallocate funds toward its AI expansion, especially its deepening partnership with OpenAI. The firm described the divestment as part of an asset-monetization strategy designed to maintain financial discipline while fueling its next phase of AI-driven growth. Executives said the move ensures the company remains liquid and ready for major opportunities in the AI ecosystem. SoftBank has recently expanded its holdings in other AI-related companies like Oracle and TSMC to bolster its position in the generative AI sector. Disclaimer Source: https://cryptobriefing.com/softbank-sells-entire-nvidia-stake/

Author: BitcoinEthereumNews
Mainnet Launch: A Look at the Monad Ecosystem

Mainnet Launch: A Look at the Monad Ecosystem

Author: Haotian Rumors are circulating about a joint launch between Monad and Coinbase? Stop guessing and let's see what exciting early ecosystem surprises @monad has in store for everyone with the mainnet launch just around the corner: DeFi + Perp Dex: @KuruExchange: A fully on-chain order book DEX, Paradigm led an $11.6 million Series A funding round. Let's see how the CLOB model works on Monad. @DrakeExchange: Perpetual contract DEX, 50x leverage, CLOB+vAMM hybrid model. Will Perps, a high-frequency trading platform paired with a performance chain designed specifically for high-frequency trading, break through the ceiling of Perp DEX? @MondayTrade_: A comprehensive DeFi hub, handling spot trading, limited partners (LPs), and perps, positioned as "CEX speed + DeFi transparency." The concept of a full-stack on-chain trading center will be very trendy; @seertrade: An on-chain trading terminal, "one screen, all-in-one, integrating research, decision-making, and execution." The idea is to create a DeFi version of Bloomberg; the concept is good, but whether it can be successful remains to be seen. Prediction Markets + Games: @kizzymobile: Betting on influencers' social media performance, directly financializing the attention economy. The main focus is high-frequency betting + real-time settlement; @Levr_Bet: A decentralized leveraged sports betting platform with 5x leverage. It's important to know that the pain point of on-chain sports betting is oracle latency, which Monad aims to solve. @RareBetSports: A sports prediction platform with a fully blockchain-based design: smart contracts automatically verify match results and distribute rewards. Core gameplay includes combination betting and predicting player performance, offering a 100x multiplier return. GameFi Games: @LumiterraGame: An MMO game that focuses on "open economy + AI Agent". The AI autonomously trades within the game, and every action is an on-chain transaction, directly testing the underlying blockchain performance; @ExploreOmnia: A pet battle game made by the Sappy Seals team, positioned as a "Pokémon killer." It uses the old P2E+NFT formula; will it connect to a Pokémon blockchain narrative? @TeleMafia: Telegram gangster game, slap and fight interaction, play to earn. Light game + on-chain assets; @fluffleworld: A gamified wellness app that rewards you for putting down your phone, "Touch Grass." The "Focus" feature, which allows you to hatch dragon eggs offline, is a rather interesting anti-phone addiction design. AI Agent: @symphonyio: The AI Agent execution layer enables agents to execute DeFi strategies across protocols and chains. The challenge is to enable AI agents to conduct autonomous transactions; @KINETK_AI: An AI-driven content protection platform that helps creators monitor IP theft across the entire network and hashes content on the blockchain. A necessity for creators' economic needs. Social task type: @bro_dot_fun: A social task reward platform where you earn points by completing X/Twitter tasks. It features meme-style social interaction and lets you climb the leaderboards to win airdrops. Additional: Some of my insights and thoughts: 1) @monad will definitely enter the Perp DEX arena. After all, Hyperliquid's benchmark effect remains, and many projects are relentlessly pursuing it, but so far no newcomer has emerged to challenge it. It remains to be seen whether Monad can deliver a stunning performance after everyone has left the fray. This is definitely worth checking out. 2) Prediction markets + gaming will be the biggest application scenario for crypto in the future, and Monad naturally won't miss this high-frequency application scenario that gathers "attention + funding + daily active users". If Monad had launched a few years earlier, there's reason to believe that @Polymarket wouldn't have partnered with Polygon. Besides, Monad should have a firm grasp on making waves in the gaming industry; 3) AI Agent + x402: This is a long-term narrative that almost all blockchains are vying for, enabling "high-frequency trading + fragmented payments + gaming and heavy consumption scenarios." The x402 payment protocol is perfect for Monad.

Author: PANews
Best Crypto Under $0.1? Analysts Are Eyeing 500% Upside

Best Crypto Under $0.1? Analysts Are Eyeing 500% Upside

As the market moves toward utility-oriented projects, investors have been looking more towards new DeFi crypto projects that exhibit viable growth. Mutuum Finance (MUTM) is one of those projects that have yet to slow down in 2025, the latest crypto coin which has attracted powerful demand throughout its ongoing presale. With DeFi being this way, […]

Author: Cryptopolitan
Nubila has partnered with Piggycell, a South Korean DePIN project, to accelerate its expansion in the South Korean and Asia-Pacific markets.

Nubila has partnered with Piggycell, a South Korean DePIN project, to accelerate its expansion in the South Korean and Asia-Pacific markets.

PANews reported on November 11 that Nubila, a decentralized physical oracle project, announced a partnership with Piggycell, a leading South Korean DePIN & RWA protocol. The two companies will collaborate on the "Physical Perception Layer." This collaboration is seen as a key step in Nubila's expansion into the Korean and broader APAC markets. Piggycell's local ecosystem and channels will help Nubila expand its node, developer, and community reach. Nubila is also launching the Galxe campaign to incentivize community participation and attract more users from Korea and overseas. Nubila stated that it will continue to collaborate with leading regional DePIN/RWA projects to realize the closed loop of "real physical world data → on-chain → consumed by AI and financial scenarios," accelerating the creation of underlying data infrastructure for AI-native applications and smart contracts.

Author: PANews
Is "Delta Neutral" truly "neutral"? A series of hidden mines are buried underwater.

Is "Delta Neutral" truly "neutral"? A series of hidden mines are buried underwater.

Author: Azuma; Editor: Hao Fangzhou Produced by: Odaily Planet Daily DeFi is once again in the spotlight. As the most vibrant narrative direction in the industry over the past few years, DeFi carries the expectation of the continued evolution and expansion of the cryptocurrency industry. I firmly believe in its vision and am accustomed to deploying more than 70% of my stablecoin positions in various on-chain interest-earning strategies, and I am willing to take on a certain degree of risk for this. However, with the recent series of security incidents, the lingering effects of some historical events and the inherent problems that were previously hidden have gradually come to light, creating a dangerous atmosphere throughout the DeFi market. As a result, the Odaily author himself chose to withdraw most of his on-chain funds last week. What exactly happened? First half of the chapter: Opaque high-interest stablecoins Last week saw several noteworthy security incidents in the DeFi sector. While the Balancer hack could be considered an isolated incident, the successive de-pegging of two so-called yield-generating stablecoin protocols, Stream Finance (xUSD) and Stable Labs (USDX), exposed some fundamental problems. What xUSD and USDX have in common is that they are both packaged as synthetic stablecoins similar in model to Ethena (USDe), primarily utilizing a Delta-neutral hedging arbitrage strategy to maintain their peg and generate returns. This type of interest-bearing stablecoin has been very popular in this cycle. Because the business model itself is not particularly complex, and given the precedent of USDe's partial success, various stablecoins have emerged in large numbers, even experimenting with every possible combination of the 26 letters of the alphabet with the word USD. However, the reserves and strategies of many stablecoins, including xUSD and USDX, are not transparent enough, but they still attract a large influx of funds due to sufficiently high yields. Stablecoins can manage to function during relatively calm market fluctuations, but the cryptocurrency market is always prone to unexpected and massive volatility. Trading Strategy's analysis (see "In-depth Analysis of the Truth Behind xUSD De-anchoring: The Domino Crisis Triggered by the 10.11 Crash" (https://www.odaily.news/zh-CN/post/5207356)) states that the key reason for xUSD's significant de-anchoring is that Stream Finance's opaque off-chain trading strategy encountered the exchange's "automatic liquidation" (ADL) during the extreme market conditions on October 11th (for a detailed explanation of the ADL mechanism, see "Detailed Explanation of the ADL Mechanism of Perpetual Contracts: Why Are Your Profitable Trades Automatically Liquidated?" (https://www.odaily.news/zh-CN/post/5206797)). This disrupted the original Delta-neutral hedging balance, and Stream Finance's overly aggressive leverage strategy further amplified the imbalance, ultimately leading to Stream Finance's de facto insolvency and the complete de-anchoring of xUSD. The situation with Stable Labs and its USDX is likely similar. Although its official announcement attributed the de-pegging to "market liquidity conditions and liquidation dynamics," the protocol's situation may be even worse, given that it has consistently failed to disclose reserve details and fund transfer details as requested by the community. Furthermore, the unusual behavior of the founder's address allegedly using USDX and sUSDX as collateral to lend out mainstream stablecoins on lending platforms, seemingly unwilling to repay despite incurring interest costs exceeding 100%, suggests that the protocol's situation is indeed more serious. The situation with xUSD and USDX exposes serious flaws in the emerging stablecoin protocol model. Due to a lack of transparency, these protocols have significant black-box strategies. Many protocols claim to be Delta-neutral in their marketing, but their actual position structure, leverage ratios, hedging exchanges, and even liquidation risk parameters are not disclosed. External users have almost no way to verify whether they are truly "neutral," effectively making them the ones who transfer risk to others. A classic scenario for this type of risk is that users invest in mainstream stablecoins such as USDT and USDC to mint emerging stablecoins such as xUSD and USDX in order to earn attractive returns. However, once the protocol fails (it's important to distinguish between a genuine failure and a staged event), users will be placed in a completely passive position. Their stablecoins will quickly de-peg in a panic sell-off. If the protocol is conscientious, it may use its remaining funds to make some compensation (even if it does, retail investors are usually the last to receive compensation). If it is not conscientious, it will simply be a soft exit scam or the matter will be left unresolved. However, it's unfair to condemn all Delta-neutral interest-bearing stablecoins outright. From an industry expansion perspective, emerging stablecoins actively exploring diversified yield paths have their positive aspects. Some protocols, like Ethena, provide clear disclosures (Ethena's TVL has also shrunk significantly recently, but the situation is different; Odaily will elaborate on this in a separate article later). However, the current situation is that you don't know how many protocols that haven't disclosed information or have insufficient disclosure have already encountered problems similar to xUSD and USDX. When writing this article, I can only assume innocence, so I can only use examples of protocols that have "collapsed." But from the perspective of your own portfolio security, I would recommend assuming guilt if there is suspicion. Second half of the chapter: Loan agreements and the "Curator" of the capital pool Some might ask, "Why not just avoid these emerging stablecoins?" This leads to the two main protagonists in the second half of this round of DeFi systemic risk: modular lending protocols and Curator (the community seems to have gradually gotten used to translating it as "curator," and Odaily will use this translation directly below). Regarding the role of curators and their contribution to this round of risks, we provided a detailed explanation last week in the article "What is the role of a Curator in DeFi? Could it be a hidden mine in this cycle?" (https://www.odaily.news/zh-CN/post/5207336). Those interested can directly access the article, while those who have read the original article can skip the following paragraphs. In short, professional institutions such as Gauntlet, Steakhouse, MEV Capital, and K3 Capital act as managers, packaging relatively complex yield strategies into easy-to-use fund pools on lending protocols such as Morpho, Euler, and ListaDAO. This allows ordinary users to deposit mainstream stablecoins such as USDT and USDC with a single click at the front end of the lending protocol to earn high interest. The managers then determine the specific interest-earning strategies for the assets at the back end, such as asset allocation weights, risk management, rebalancing cycles, withdrawal rules, and so on. Because such pooled lending platforms often offer higher returns than classic lending markets like Aave, they naturally attract a lot of investment. Defillama data shows that the total size of pooled lending platforms managed by various operators has grown rapidly over the past year, exceeding $10 billion at the end of October and the beginning of this month, and is currently reported at $7.3 billion. The manager's profit path primarily relies on performance-based revenue sharing and fund pool management fees. This profit logic dictates that the larger the fund pool managed and the higher the strategy's return rate, the greater the profit. Since most depositors are not sensitive to brand differences among managers, their choice of which pool to deposit in often depends solely on the apparent APY (Average Return on Investment). This directly links the attractiveness of the fund pool to the strategy's return rate, making the strategy's return rate the core factor ultimately determining the manager's profitability. Driven by a yield-based business logic, coupled with a lack of clear accountability mechanisms, some fund managers have gradually blurred the lines of security, which should be their primary concern, and have chosen to take risks—"The principal belongs to the users, but the profits are mine." In recent security incidents, fund managers like MEV Capital and Re7 allocated funds to xUSD and USDX, indirectly exposing many users who deposited funds through lending protocols such as Euler and ListaDAO to risk. The blame cannot be placed solely on the loan manager; some lending agreements are equally culpable. In the current market model, many depositors are unaware of the role or even existence of the loan manager, simply believing they are investing their funds in a well-known lending agreement to earn interest. In this model, the lending agreement actually plays a more explicit endorsement role and has benefited from the surge in TVL (Total Value Added) due to this model. Therefore, they should bear the responsibility of monitoring the loan manager's strategies, but clearly some agreements have failed to do so. In summary, the classic scenario for this type of risk is that users deposit mainstream stablecoins such as USDT and USDC into the liquidity pool of a lending protocol, but most are unaware that the administrator is using the funds to run an interest-bearing strategy, nor are they clear about the specific details of the strategy. Meanwhile, the administrator, driven by the profit margin, deploys the funds into the emerging stablecoins mentioned earlier. After the emerging stablecoins collapse, the liquidity pool strategy fails, and depositors indirectly suffer losses. Then, the lending protocol itself experiences bad debts (in retrospect, timely liquidation would have been better, but forcibly fixing the oracle price of de-pegged stablecoins to avoid liquidation would have amplified the problem due to large-scale hedging borrowing), causing more users to be affected... In this path, the risk is systematically transmitted and spread. Why did things come to this? Looking back at this cycle, the trading side has already reached a hellish difficulty level. Traditional institutions favor only a very small number of mainstream assets; altcoins continue to fall with no end in sight; insider trading and automated programs are rampant in the meme market; coupled with the massacre on October 11th... a large number of retail investors have been either just going through the motions or even suffered losses in this cycle. Against this backdrop, wealth management, which appears to be a more certain path, has gradually gained larger-scale market demand. Coupled with the milestone breakthrough in stablecoin legislation, a large number of new protocols packaged as interest-bearing stablecoins have emerged (perhaps these protocols should not even be called stablecoins in the first place), extending olive branches to retail investors with annualized returns of ten or even dozens of percent. While there are certainly outstanding performers like Ethena among them, it is inevitable that there is a mixed bag of good and bad. In the highly competitive stablecoin market, some protocols seek higher yields by increasing leverage or deploying off-chain trading strategies (which may not be neutral at all) in order to make the product's yield more attractive—not necessarily long-term sustainability, but simply maintaining better data until issuance and exit. At the same time, decentralized lending protocols and administrators effectively address the psychological barrier some users face regarding unknown stablecoins—"I know you're worried about depositing your money in xxxUSD, but if you deposit it in USDT or USDC, Dashboard will show your position in real time, so how can you not feel at ease?" The aforementioned model has performed reasonably well over the past year or so, at least without any large-scale collapses over a considerable period. Due to the overall market being in a relatively upward phase, there is ample arbitrage opportunity between the futures and spot markets, allowing most interest-bearing stablecoin protocols to maintain relatively attractive yields. Many users have gradually lowered their guard during this process, and double-digit stablecoin or liquidity pool yields seem to have become the new normal for wealth management… But is this really reasonable? Why do I strongly recommend that you retreat temporarily? On October 11, the cryptocurrency market suffered an epic bloodbath, with hundreds of billions of dollars being liquidated. Wintermute founder and CEO Evgeny Gaevoy stated at the time that he suspected some running long-short hedging strategies suffered significant losses, but it was unclear who suffered the most. In retrospect, the successive collapses of so-called Delta-neutral protocols like Stream Finance have partially confirmed Evgeny's suspicions, but we still don't know how many more hidden dangers remain. Even those not directly affected by the liquidation on October 11th experienced a rapid tightening of market liquidity following the massive liquidation, coupled with a contraction in arbitrage opportunities due to cooling market sentiment. This increased the survival pressure on interest-bearing stablecoins. Unexpected events often occur at such times, and because various opaque liquidity pooling strategies are often intricately intertwined at the underlying level, the entire market is highly susceptible to a domino effect, where a single event can have far-reaching consequences. Stablewatch data shows that in the week ending October 7, interest-bearing stablecoins experienced the largest outflow of funds since the Luna collapse and UST crash in 2022, totaling $1 billion, and this outflow trend continues. Furthermore, Defillama data also shows that the size of pools managed by fund managers has shrunk by nearly $3 billion since the beginning of the month. Clearly, funds have reacted to the current situation. DeFi also applies to the classic "impossible triangle" of the investment market – high returns, security, and sustainability can never be satisfied at the same time, and currently the "security" factor is teetering on the brink. You may be used to investing your funds in a stablecoin or a certain strategy to earn interest, and you have obtained relatively stable returns through this operation over a long period of time. However, even products that always use the same strategy are not static. The current market environment is a window of relatively high risk and the most likely occurrence of unexpected events. At this time, caution is the best policy, and timely withdrawal may be a wise choice. After all, when a small probability happens to you, it becomes 100%.

Author: PANews
Band Protocol and Arc Join Forces for $USDC Price Feed Integration

Band Protocol and Arc Join Forces for $USDC Price Feed Integration

With this latest partnership announced today, Band Protocol is integrating $USDC price feeds through the testnet of Arc in a transparent environment.

Author: Blockchainreporter
NVIDIA Enhances AI Inference with Dynamo and Kubernetes Integration

NVIDIA Enhances AI Inference with Dynamo and Kubernetes Integration

The post NVIDIA Enhances AI Inference with Dynamo and Kubernetes Integration appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. James Ding Nov 10, 2025 06:41 NVIDIA’s Dynamo platform now integrates with Kubernetes to streamline AI inference management, offering improved performance and reduced costs for data centers, according to NVIDIA’s latest updates. NVIDIA has announced a significant enhancement to its AI inference capabilities through the integration of its Dynamo platform with Kubernetes. This collaboration aims to streamline the management of both single- and multi-node AI inference, according to NVIDIA. Enhanced Performance through Disaggregated Inference The NVIDIA Dynamo platform now supports disaggregated serving, a method that optimizes performance by intelligently assigning AI inference tasks to independently optimized GPUs. This approach alleviates resource bottlenecks by separating the processing of input prompts from output generation. As a result, NVIDIA claims that models such as DeepSeek-R1 can achieve greater efficiency and performance. Recent benchmarks have shown that disaggregated serving with NVIDIA Dynamo on GB200 NVL72 systems offers the lowest cost per million tokens for complex reasoning models. This integration allows AI providers to reduce manufacturing costs without additional hardware investments. Scaling AI Inference in the Cloud With NVIDIA Dynamo now integrated into managed Kubernetes services from major cloud providers, enterprise-scale AI deployments can scale efficiently across NVIDIA Blackwell systems. This integration ensures performance, flexibility, and reliability for large-scale AI applications. Cloud giants like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure are leveraging NVIDIA Dynamo to enhance their AI inference capabilities. For instance, AWS accelerates generative AI inference with NVIDIA Dynamo integrated with Amazon EKS, while Google Cloud offers a recipe for optimizing large language model inference using NVIDIA Dynamo. Simplifying AI Inference with NVIDIA Grove To further simplify AI inference management, NVIDIA has introduced NVIDIA Grove, an API within the Dynamo platform. Grove enables users to provide a high-level specification of their inference systems,…

Author: BitcoinEthereumNews
Baraga County Memorial Hospital Implements Oracle Health Solutions for Improved Care

Baraga County Memorial Hospital Implements Oracle Health Solutions for Improved Care

The post Baraga County Memorial Hospital Implements Oracle Health Solutions for Improved Care appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Rebeca Moen Nov 10, 2025 06:33 Baraga County Memorial Hospital partners with Oracle Health to enhance clinician efficiency and patient care through advanced AI solutions and seamless data interoperability. Baraga County Memorial Hospital (BCMH) in Michigan has announced its decision to integrate Oracle Health CommunityWorks solutions to enhance the experience for both clinicians and patients, according to oracle.com. This initiative aims to streamline workflows, reduce administrative tasks, and improve patient care through advanced technological solutions. Enhancing Healthcare Interoperability Oracle Health’s suite of solutions, including the Clinical AI Agent and Seamless Exchange, will be deployed across BCMH’s facilities. These tools are designed to integrate systems, enabling a more cohesive approach to patient data management. The use of AI-powered, voice-enabled solutions will allow clinicians to automatically generate structured notes from patient interactions, significantly reducing the time spent on documentation. The Seamless Exchange component will facilitate the aggregation and normalization of patient data from trusted external sources. This creates comprehensive patient histories, allowing for better-informed clinical decisions and improved patient outcomes. Addressing Rural Healthcare Challenges Oracle has a longstanding history of working with rural healthcare organizations, understanding the unique challenges they face. The CommunityWorks platform is tailored to meet the clinical, financial, and operational needs of smaller health systems, helping them to alleviate staffing burdens and enhance patient access through digital infrastructure and virtual care capabilities. BCMH, a 15-bed critical access hospital, employs over 200 staff and provides a range of services including family medicine, emergency services, and specialty clinics. The hospital has previously utilized Oracle’s ambulatory solutions successfully, which paved the way for broader technology adoption across its operations. Improving Clinician and Patient Experience Rob Stowe, CEO of BCMH, expressed optimism about the integration, stating that Oracle’s solutions are expected to boost operational efficiency…

Author: BitcoinEthereumNews
Educational Byte: How to Find and Install a Fully Decentralized Node on Obyte

Educational Byte: How to Find and Install a Fully Decentralized Node on Obyte

Obyte is a decentralized network powered by nodes instead of banks or miners. This guide breaks down how its different node types—full, light, and Order Provider (witness) nodes—work together to verify transactions, maintain privacy, and keep the Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) ledger in sync. Whether you’re a developer looking to contribute or a beginner installing your first wallet, Obyte offers scalable options to participate in a truly independent digital economy.

Author: Hackernoon