Hello crypto community! As many of you know, Chainlink oracles help provide off-chain data to on-chain Dapps and smart contracts. These data feeds can include cryptocurrency prices, stock prices, weather forecasts, live sports scores and outcomes, and random number generators.
Steelblock wants to be your data provider for your next contract! Steelblock is built on top of a multi-zone, high availability Amazon Web Services cluster to provide 24/7 uptime. Today, Steelblock handles Chainlink's default adapters, such as HTTP Get, HTTP Post, and JSON Parsing. While most nodes verified on market.link (LinkPool's aggregated source of Chainlink nodes and corresponding jobs) can handle these requests, Steelblock's price is 10% less than the average cost.
Although most data requests can be handled using the default adapters, creating custom adapters has its benefits. Suppose you want to pull data from Coinbase's API. Using the default HTTP Get adapter, you would have to send the full URL to the Chainlink Oracle, taking up space in the transaction and increasing your transaction fee. On top of that Coinbase requires API keys for some of their endpoints which would take up more space in a transaction. These values can be integrated in a unique job to require the minimal amount of data sent in transactions while providing the most impact to you as the customer.
Steelblock's team has an immense background in DevOps and software development to include working with APIs of some of the biggest data providers. The team has worked with the following APIs as an example of what data you can bring to your next project:
Steelblock has oracles on the Ropsten testnet and on Mainnet. We are read to supply data to contracts for customers from any industry and cost basis. The team is excited to develop new adapters, jobs, and data feeds to supply any requirements at the lowest prices. If you are looking for a new dataset, or even just looking to save on fees from your current data provider, please reach out to the Steelblock team at [email protected].
