Avalanche and Chainlink Q&A: Avalanche Consensus, Decentralized Oracles and the DeFi Movement

Watch Avalanche Founder Emin Gün Sirer and Co-founder of Chainlink Sergey Nazarov on a live-streamed Q&A discussing oracles, highly-scalable networks like AVA, and how both projects are rapidly growing the decentralized finance movement.
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1:00 - Introduction to Emin Gün Sirer, his experience in Peer-to-peer technologies, Bitcoin, The DAO hack, and cryptocurrencies
2:10 - Introduction to Avalanche Consensus and a history of consensus protocols
3:44 - Story of how Sergey Nazarov and Emin Gün Sirer met each other during The DAO hack
5:19 - Sergey Nazarov and Emin Gün Sirer on the importance of blockchain oracles, trusted execution, and SGX technologies
7:00 - What makes Avalanche consensus protocol unique compared to Proof-of-Work and Proof-of-Stake protocols
16:30 - Need for scalability, flexibility, and privacy for different use cases of blockchain consensus protocols
20:35 - How decentralized oracles fit into Avalanche’s blockchain consensus to connecting blockchains to the real-world
23:50 - Perpetual swaps using Chainlink oracles on Avalanche
25:05 - Ability to scale the security of the oracle mechanism with the security of the subnet with Chainlink and Avalanche
32:20 - The importance of security at Layer 1 of blockchains and understanding the value at the application layer
38:45 - What is coming next for the Avalanche network and Avax
43:00 - Defining success in blockchain and decentralized consensus
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Chainlink is a decentralized oracle network that enables smart contracts to securely access off-chain data feeds, web APIs, and traditional bank payments.

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Avalanche is an open-source platform for launching highly decentralized applications, new financial primitives, and new interoperable blockchains.

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