Chainlink rolls out OCR system upgrade, reducing gas costs tenfold
The Off-Chain Reporting upgrade changes how oracles aggregate data, easing the burden on the blockchains. Chainlink (LINK) has launched a major upgrade for its oracle network, dubbed Off-Chain Reporting, or OCR. The upgrade was announced on Wednesday, though the implementation has been live for some time already.OCR changes how data across multiple sources is joined together by the oracle network. Previously, the process of aggregating different readings of the same desired input, for example a token’s price, was done on-chain. Chainlink nodes would submit their individual readings of the....
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