Chainlink adds 19 integrations across five services and seven chains

Chainlink has added another batch of names to its customer list. The oracle network logged 19 new integrations of its standard, spread across five of its services and seven different blockchains. What Chainlink actually does Blockchains are very good at agreeing on what happens inside their own walls. They are very bad at knowing anything outside them, such as the price of an asset or the state of another chain. An oracle network fills that gap. Think of it as a trusted courier service: it brings offchain information onto the chain and carries messages between chains, so smart contracts can act on facts they could never see by themselves. Chainlink describes its offering as a standard made up of several services. Products referenced in its ongoing updates include Data Feeds, Data Streams, and the Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol, better known as CCIP. Data Feeds and Data Streams handle the information side, piping external data into onchain applications. CCIP handles the communication side, letting tokens and messages move between separate blockchains. The details of the latest batch The newest update counts 19 integrations across five services and seven chains. Put plainly, n...