The Modern Day Oracle with Marcin Kazmierczak and Jakub Wojciechowski
Exploring the tradeoffs of fast blockchains, reliable price feeds, and the real cost of keeping oracles honest
Oracles are the center of DeFi. They're not just important, they're vital. With the evolution of high-performance blockchains, oracles are adapting their strategies to meet new demands.
In today's episode, we sit down with Marcin and Jakub from RedStone to explore how oracles are evolving alongside increasingly faster and more complex blockchains. This discussion examines the unique technical challenges facing the oracle ecosystem.
From the Hyperliquid backstop situation to the Polymarket/UMA incident and Pyth's price freeze event, we examine how different oracle systems respond to challenges. Marcin and Jakub take us behind the scenes, breaking down geographic considerations, data delivery models, and the specific requirements for scaling to support systems like MegaETH.
We also cover the relationship between zkTLS and oracles, the implications of Ethereum updates, and what infrastructure is needed to reliably serve hundreds of blockchains simultaneously.
Let's jump in.
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