>AOIN bridges are actually decentralized oracles. They can feed data from participating blockchains, but also from non-blockchain legacy sources (e.g. data feeds for meterological services, sports results, whatever). They don't use the term 'blockchain agnostic', but decentralized oracles can be developed using AION bridges to pull data from any source. They are 'source agnistic' in that sense. You should do some research on this, you'd quickly learn that even if Chainlink ever does commit to a launch date, they will not have much traction in the market at that stage.
LMAO holy fuck that sub has some dumb people on it. I guess this is what your brain is like on onions milk.
Michael Carter
>AION offers a more efficient approach to solve the same problem. Aion bridge is an entire Byzantine Fault Tolerant protocol on its own where the majority of nodes must agree on transactions or state changes on one network (whether it’s a DTL or Legacy system as in real-time data feed from a meteorological office), then pass that information to another network.
>So an Aion bridge can act as a decentralized oracle that pulls real-time data feed into the Aion blockchain, so other interconnected blockchains can make use of that data. Make sense?
Ryder Foster
See how advanced they are?
Owen Perez
The way you phrased it makes it sound like their oracles would be a copy of oraclize oracles. Not decentralized at all and completely open to sybil attacks.
>"When we talk about cross chain, people are often thinking about atomic swaps, and other forms of moving coins, ... and that definitely a use case, an importanat use case, and that is where a lot of the adoption is today. But our view is that blockchains become a core part of the infrastructure of many many different industries, and many different processes, so transactions are significantly more generic than just coin swaps so anytime data is written in a smart contract, that's a transaction. Anytime you need to validate something on network, that's a transaction. So, we look at these as generic events, so we are creating a protocol that allows you to validate that an event has taken place, and that event could be a coin moving or it could be something completely different, it could be someone uploading data into a contract, or whatever the case might be." >Related to this - Aion also serves as a general oracle, it doesn't need to only be pulling from blockchains, but any database, even things like tangles.
Julian Morgan
A single oracle has a central pount if failure
Samuel Allen
Sure, but AION is still an blockchain-agnostic oracle, if this is accurate. Just a centralized one, it sounds like.
Robert Jones
This. If that was intended to be their main application, they have already fucked themselves out of the gate.
John Powell
Yeah, and then this le reddit snark poster is also saying that AION can interface with chainlink decentralized oracles and deliver it to any blockchain.... this is just plain retarded.
Le reddit snark poster also things AION will have muh first movers advantage and will actually be used. The more I learn about chainlink, with its connections to Microsoft, Docusign etc. the more I learn about LINK the more I think any other oracle solution is just a meme. Chainlink is an industry token from the ground up. Can you really see financial institutions using a meme crypto project like AION for their derivatives .... or will they use the one that's been working with SWIFT
Dylan Price
Yeah, and they seem to think that if AION even transitioned to a decentralized solution (remaking the whole thing and being years behind link) that AION would even be considered when dudes like Gonser are retweeting linkmarine twitter posts.
Oliver Allen
Their argument is that the first movers will win. His posts are really infuriating. "Chainlink MAY in the future provide this" as if they won't be delivering mainnet within a matter of months.
>I've just had a look through their WP and dev docs and can't find anything relating to acting as an oracle to fetch external data sources. If anyone does have any information on that, I'd love to see more around the implementation, but it looks like it doesn't support that from the WP.
>I think what's important to remember with ChainLink is the external adaptors, these are what give it the power and use-case. From what I've seen in projects like aeternity, Mobius and Oraclize; they only support public & open data sources with HTTP GET methods. Whereas with CL and the flexibility of external adaptors, it can support every HTTP type and even non HTTP data sources. You could build an adaptor which queries your companies database in SQL or build one which is actively listening to a WebSocket API or build one which works with SOAP endpoints etc. Even in HTTP RESTful API's, HTTP POST's are a big factor for any sort of query or search operation as you'd usually submit a query with the request which contains your search criteria.
>I think in the thread linked in the OP, there's too much focus on inoperability as that I feel is a big buzzword around CL. To me with projects like AION, inoperability isn't that important unless ETH wasn't the network it is today. You'll be able to use AION as an example to query ETH and get whatever data you need from CL.
