Company
Date Published
Author
Chainlink
Word count
77
Language
Chinese
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Hybrid smart contracts integrate on-chain code with off-chain data and computational resources through decentralized oracle networks, enabling innovative functionalities such as scalability, confidentiality, and fair sequencing. These contracts leverage blockchain's tamper-proof characteristics while securely accessing off-chain oracle services, facilitating complex economic and social activities. Chainlink oracles play a pivotal role by offering decentralized services that enhance the capabilities of smart contracts, leading to a new generation of hybrid applications. These applications, poised to transform mainstream industries and societal collaboration, rely on oracles to expand blockchain's cooperative possibilities by securely interfacing with external data and performing computations beyond the blockchain's native capabilities. The Chainlink 2.0 whitepaper emphasizes the significant role of decentralized oracle networks in extending the potential of smart contracts, as demonstrated by the rapid growth of decentralized finance (DeFi). Hybrid smart contract applications consist of blockchain-based code and decentralized oracle networks, synchronizing two distinct computing environments to achieve functionalities unattainable by blockchain or oracle networks alone. As blockchain ecosystems continue to evolve, hybrid smart contracts and Chainlink decentralized oracle networks hold substantial potential for future applications across various sectors, including identity verification, finance, supply chain, insurance, gaming, marketing, and governance, by enabling secure, automated, and scalable interactions between decentralized and traditional infrastructures.