We released Airnode v0.9 this month, which reworks how cloud resources are managed to address an issue with GCP redeployments and prevent similar issues in the future. We still have a few additional v0 releases planned before we start working on Airnode v1. The work on the new data feed…

Providing an oracle service requires changing the chain state, which is only achievable through a transaction. This raises the question: Who pays for the gas of that transaction? The answer to this used to be a univocal “The oracle pays for the gas as a part of the service.” One…

We released Airnode v0.8 this month, which introduces a few useful features that we’ve been using in customized versions for a while. We’re currently working on v0.9, and have already planned out v0.10 and v0.11. As a reminder, we track our work on a public board (even though we can’t…

Alchemy can generally be described as letting intuitive thinking utilize technical expertise to achieve extraordinary impact. Intuition is inevitably subjective, which means applying intuitive thinking successfully — without doubt or self-delusion — is a psychological skill. Furthermore, the type of intuition that is impactful will by definition be controversial, which…

The core technical team has recently had the DAO and the staking pool contracts and their front end audited again by Hexens. We decided to make this announcement to address one of the points raised. For additional information about the audit, you can refer to this post. The API3 DAO…

About two years ago when API3 had just been founded, we had a generic Aragon DAO as a placeholder (referred to as DAOv1). …

In preparation for our insurance-like service coverage product, we scheduled a fourth audit of the DAO and the staking pool to be done this month. Unlike others, the scope of this audit included the front-end, and there were two critical findings in the module we specifically requested extra attention to…

API3 data feeds are built to be updatable by RRP (request–response protocol), relayed RRP, PSP (publish–subscribe protocol), relayed PSP and Airnode-signed data. The Airnode protocols are optimized for EVM, which makes them very difficult to port to non-EVM chains. For example, the requester pays for all gas costs in the…

We’ve been running testnet Beacons since January and mainnet Beacons since the end of April. We encountered some exciting chain and market conditions during this period, yet Airnode performed as intended without any surprises. As a result, we finally decided to ship our data feeds. Note that we not only…