Hi Product Hunt,
Our team has been building smart contracts since the technology first started to emerge; one of the largest problems we've consistently run into when building production ready smart contracts is the ability to connect them to key external resources.
Smart Contracts are a tamper-proof computable contract processing layer, but they do need inputs like data feeds that act as triggers, and outputs like traditional bank payments to pay end-users in the local currency they currently want to receive.
The problem we're solving for both traditional developers and smart contract developers is that smart contracts aren't able to connect directly to critical external resources on their own. This lack of external connectivity is due to the method by which consensus is reached around a blockchain's transaction data, and will therefore be a problem for every smart contract network.
We've made a secure, easy to implement way to connect smart contracts to the data feeds, web APIs and payment services you'll need to make them truly useful, and we're thrilled to be presenting this to you today. We're doing all of this to make smart contracts useful beyond tokens/coins, since we strongly believe that if smart contracts are going to mimic real financial agreements, they'll need to acquire objective proof of performance off-chain, and be able to easily pay in the format your users want to receive.
You can connect any API to a smart contract on SmartContract.com, or run our open source software yourself (https://github.com/oraclekit/cha...) as a way to easily connect your existing APIs and/or data to a smart contract. We currently support the Ethereum and Bitcoin network, with more on the way.
We also have a fully decentralized blockchain middleware solution in the works, for the maximum amount of security when connecting external resources to your smart contract, more on that soon.
We're excited to hear how we can improve ChainLink, and how we can help you apply smart contracts for your existing web application, data-driven financial agreements and/or fully decentralized application(DApp).
I run one of the largest online fintech founder groups on facebook with several billion dollars in processing volume and a few billion worth of investors both in crypto and institutional funds. We often look for technologies that we think are significant to the ecosystem and make sense from a regulatory standpoint.
This is one of them. Sergey & Steve have built a tool that is useful to the developer community.
@sergeynazarov I'm sure tons of PH users will have questions. ;)
@rrhoover - I think developers and the PH community will eat this up, I tried to tag it as "ethereum" but there was no ethereum tag.
@rrhoover@datarade Thanks for hunting us Kumar and thanks for making Product Hunt Ryan. We're excited to be on here to see how we can help the larger developer community integrate smart contracts into their existing web applications and/or get started with building a Decentralized Application (DApp) that can go beyond moving coins/tokens.
@sprinter So others have certainly thought about building this kind of thing, but Sergey has a finance/wall street background and so the team at this co actually can build something that has enterprise relevance/regulatory compliance/proper security..
@sprinter People in Slack chats will post phishing links and pose as existing projects or sites to trick them into sending money to the wrong addresses
@sprinter we make it possible to build smart contracts that do much more than their native capabilities allow. If you want to connect smart contracts to use your existing APIs, data feeds, or send payments in the format a user wants to receive, we make that easy to do.
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