What Are Smart Contract Oracles?
One of the bigger bumps in the road for the adoption of blockchain based technologies has been not only the ability to communicate real-world data into a blockchain...
Oracles
The Oracles: Catalyst for connecting Smart Contracts to the Real World
Smart contracts run algorithmic calculations, store and retrieve data. Nevertheless, every node runs every calculation, it’s simply infeasible to put arbitrary data requests. This issue is efficiently resolved...
Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) Platforms and the Role of Zap Oracles: Game Changers Recipe
The capabilities of Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) providers have expanded and are offered as part of their cloud offerings. The latter as-a-Service offering is now known as Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS). Indeed,...
Oracle: Success Factor of Blockchain for Insurance
The complex types of insurance, such as parametric insurance policies can be digitalized and verified through blockchain and oracle. Parametric insurance is a form of insurance, where the payouts...
ZAP partners with Stox to revolutionize the prediction market platform
Zap.org, a platform that empowers smart contracts with data, has partnered with Stox, an open source Ethereum-based prediction market platform to provide real-world data about events listed on...
Natural Resources on the Blockchain: The Tokenization of Oil
There are endless potential applications of blockchain technology. The first, and most familiar, is in the creation of purely digital assets, like Bitcoin. But blockchain technology can be...