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The Oracle of Pyth
Pyth Takes on Oracle Sector Dominated by Chainlink When people think of oracles, they think of Chainlink...A darling from the 2018-19 bear market, Chainlink is the most well-known and used oracle today, securing...This event would lend credence to oracles using aggregators....Oracles should be judged on whether their prices reflect the true price on exchanges.
20 Min
Oracles
Nov 2022
How “Oracle-less Primitives” Are Rearchitecting DeFi
Oracles Presently, oracles secure around $45B in aggregate total value secured (TVS) which constitutes...These protocols have not eliminated oracles for the sake of eliminating oracles, but rather, scaling...No oracles mean no solvency risk....Oracle-risk is overblown Is this the oracle cycle?
28 Min
DeFi
Mar 2024
Price Oracles for Derivative Assets
Delphi Labs is proud to present an analysis on price oracles for derivative assets....In this piece, we’ll analyze pre-existing assumptions on price oracles for derivative assets within the...Specifically, we’ll discuss why using the underlying asset’s price as the oracle for a derivative asset...
1 Min
Oracles
Nov 2022
Magic Eden Multiplies, Airdrop Rumors, & Exploring Oracle Attacks
Attack Cost and Profit from Manipulating Constant Product Market Maker TWAP Oracles in DeFi Protocols...[Excerpt from a Delphi Labs Paper] Oracles represent critical infrastructure for DeFi....In this paper, we explore some common oracle-related attacks, as well as the cost and profit potential...
4 Min
NFT Marketplace
Mar 2022
The Better TWAP Oracle: Arithmetic or Geometric Mean?
...protocols, is it preferable to use an arithmetic mean (AM) TWAP or a geometric mean (GM) TWAP as an oracle...As we’ll see, these two dimensions cover the most relevant factors when assessing DEX-based TWAP oracles...
1 Min
AMM
Oct 2022
The Oracle (Report) Of Delphi
Oracles are important....Decentralized Oracle Networks, “DONs”)....Chainlink is often touted as having hundreds of oracle nodes....It’s time to talk about the cost structure of oracle protocols....Chainlink has long dominated the oracle sector....Chainlink has long dominated the oracle sector but will this continue as viable competitors emerge to...
16 Min
Infrastructure
Jun 2021
Oracles
In this Thematic Insights report, we dive into the pivotal sector of oracles.
Oracles
May 2020
Oracles
In this Thematic Insights report, we dive into the pivotal sector of oracles.
Data
May 2020
Attack Cost and Profit from Manipulating Constant Product Market Maker TWAP Oracles in DeFi Protocols.
Oracles represent critical infrastructure for DeFi....Specifically, oracles often lie at the heart of a number of different DeFi protocols and are a key component...In this paper, we explore some common oracle-related attacks, as well as the cost and profit potential...
1 Min
Oracles
Feb 2022
Delphi Oracle Summary: Initia
With the recent Initia mainnet launch, we’ve asked Delphi Oracle (our AI Assistant) to revisit the original...As a reminder, Delphi Oracle provides an interactive experience across all report pages, helping you...Here’s the Oracle’s summary of the Initia report: Appchains Have Struggled Thus Far Appchains are expensive...
3 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Apr 2025
API3: The State of OEV
...as OEV or Oracle Extractible Value....Oracles update the prices of collaterals by aggregating off-chain data in an oracle contract, and lending...protocol using Pyth oracles....It is also optimal for an oracle to host an auction that sells the right to use its Oracle price update...
29 Min
Infrastructure
Jul 2024
Level Finance's Success and Sustainability
Introduction  Level Finance is an oracle-based margin and spot trading decentralized exchange (DEX)...Level Finance is an oracle-based margin and spot trading decentralized exchange (DEX) that emerged following...
12 Min
Derivatives
May 2023
The Rise of Prop AMMs on Solana
Oracle-Based Pricing It’s worth noting that these new “prop AMMs” aren’t the first of their kind....Today’s prop AMMs follow the same oracle-based pricing mechanism. ...Because prop AMMs don’t rely on active taker behavior to form prices, they depend heavily on oracles...As we mentioned earlier, it’s incredibly important for these systems to prioritize oracle latency in...
24 Min
Spot Exchange
Jul 2025
Supra - Vertical Integration with The Intralayer
Most popular oracles like Chainlink and LayerZero are examples of out-of-protocol oracles as they are...Supra’s oracles run based on their DORA (Decentralized Oracle Agreement) protocol designed to improve...DORA, or Distributed Oracle Agreement, dictates how oracle nodes gather and aggregate off-chain data...
39 Min
Infrastructure
Apr 2024
The Power of Algo Pools: Astroport's Passive Liquidity Solution
Oracle Price (Blue Line): Exponential moving average of the pair’s price Price Scale (Pink Line): Where...As the gap between the Price Scale (maximal liquidity concentration) and the Oracle Price (where liquidity...The wider the difference between Price Scale and Oracle Price, the higher the fees.
18 Min
DeFi
Jul 2024
Are Infinity Pools the Next Big Speculation Primitive?
...upcoming leverage trading DEX that offers unlimited leverage on any asset pair, with no liquidations, no oracles...Price oracles trigger liquidations that unwind losing trades before the protocol incurs bad debt....can collateralize the long tail of leverage trades on an individual basis, avoiding the reliance on oracles...
12 Min
AMM
Mar 2023
GMX's Success Spawns Competition, But Can They Keep Up?
Each protocol handles its oracles differently....oracle and pricing framework....on that oracle update to mitigate front-running....MUX: The protocol uses a custom oracle module, called the “Dark Oracle,” that does high-frequency price...Oracle Front-Running, Manipulation, and Toxic Arbitrage With oracle price feeds being the key to this...
21 Min
Perpetual Futures
Oct 2022
Can Euler Finance Carve Out a Moat?
TWAP oracles would be significantly more insecure post-merge....However, when Chainlink price feeds are not available, Uniswap v3 TWAPs are still the default oracle...The team at Euler Labs has done extensive research and tooling on oracles....From providing an Oracle Risk Grading System for users, to creating a Uniswap oracle attack simulator...
13 Min
Money Markets
Oct 2022
Transaction Ordering Policies & Value Accrual in L2s: Timeboost, OP PGA, Fastlane, and OEV Network
API3’s OEV Network is specifically designed for Oracle-reliant transactions like liquidations....FastLane FastLane builds smart contracts and infrastructure that allow validators, apps, oracles, and...OEV Network auctions off the right to use an Oracle price update....With OEV Network, auctions are held at the oracle level instead of the block builder level.
16 Min
Layer 2 / L2
Sep 2024
Initia: Fulfilling The Appchain Vision
Native oracle with the same network security Rely on third-party oracles Rely on third-party oracles...Native Oracle —Initia leverages Connect (formerly Slinky), an enshrined oracle secured by L1 validators...Unlike traditional oracles, Connect oracle doesn’t rely on normal chain transactions for price updates...oracle for rollups.
31 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Feb 2025