Rhombus has released new products designed to help further connect decentralized, ethereum-based blockchain applications to real-world data, the startup announced this weekend.
Revealed at the ongoing ethereum conference ETHDenver, the blockchain-based "Oracle" service will now support currency pairs, asset pricing and blockchain network data.
These products can be used for free by developers competing in the annual ETHDenver hackathon.
"For smart contracts to do most of the interesting things we want them to do, they have to have some connection to the real world. Blockchains in and of themselves don't have that connection. Oracles are a way to securely bring real world data to the blockchain."
CEO Rhombus Doug von Kohorn said the oracles can convert US dollar exchange rates into British pound, euro and Japanese yen rates.
Hourly updated stock prices for major companies such as Amazon and Tesla were also featured, among a host of other new releases.
Expecting developers at ETHDenver to request new and custom-built oracles throughout the conference, both Rosen and von Kohorn said they are excited to help facilitate the projects that will be created this weekend.
At the same time, Rhombus also released three decentralized applications that leverage their oracle technology.
One of these applications enables a recurring ethereum payment pegged to the US dollar, another allows users to purchase per-minute subscriptions to live video streams and a third application leverages gold price quotes to facilitate asset trading.
Rhombus is backed by ethereum venture capital studio Consensys who - along with companies such as MakerDAO, Status.
ConsenSys-Backed Rhombus Reveals New Products for Ethereum Developers
Publicado en Feb 17, 2019
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