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While Chainlink is the dominant player in the decentralized oracle sector, it’s certainly not without competition. Numerous other projects are also tackling the issue of delivering reliable data to blockchain-based smart contracts. To help you discover the best decentralized oracle options to explore for your next step in crypto development (or investing), we’re showcasing the very best Chainlink competitors.  Before we continue, let’s quickly refresh our memory about the problems Chainlink is looking to address with its solutions. This will also provide us with better context to assess Chainlink’s competitors.  What problems is Chainlink solving? Smart contracts are very powerful tools, allowing for operations such as transfers of value to be executed deterministically when pre-defined conditions are met. However, blockchains by themselves are self-contained. When it comes to reaching consensus about which transactions are valid, blockchain nodes are concerned with a very narrow set of parameters. Here’s a few examples: Did the holder of the public key sign the transaction with the correct private key? Did the sender of the transaction cover the transaction fees? Does the type of transaction adhere to the rules of the smart contract its interacting with? Blockchains are good at determining whether transactions are adhering to their internal rules. However, they are not designed to validate data from external systems, for example the price at which a cryptocurrency is trading on an exchange. So, if you’re for example trying to create a DeFi app that needs pricing data from a crypto exchange, you’ll need some external help.  A service that provides external data to smart contracts running on blockchains is called an oracle. Chainlink is the leading example of a decentralized oracle network, and it provides a wide range of data such as asset prices, reserves, climate data, verifiably random numbers, and much more. The…

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