If you think storing your passwords and seed phrases in your notes on your computer is safe, think again. Your computer’s clipboard keeps this information and leaves you open to hackers who can intercept it. It’s called the “clipboard hack”.
The Clipboard Hack: How It Works
If you click on the wrong thing, or visit the wrong site, you can accidentally install a malware bug that can access your computer’s clipboard. Some malware is specifically designed to target crypto users.
When dealing in crypto, users are often copying and pasting addresses and passwords to exchange tokens from one wallet or exchange to another. Some malware bugs are designed to swap out the copied text – a wallet address, say – and replace it with their own, meaning if you aren’t careful you can accidentally send your crypto straight to a hacker instead of where you intended it to go.
To avoid falling victim to this, make sure to always double-check a pasted wallet address to ensure it matches the code you originally copied. Secondly, ensure you have an updated anti-malware solution to protect your digital assets from malicious actors. If you’re on a Mac, for example, you can use an anti-malware software such as MalwareBytes. Another way to protect yourself is to clear or disable your computer’s clipboard feature.
Here are some extra precautions you can take to keep safe when doing crypto transactions:
Always lock your wallet when you are not using it. This will prevent other websites that you visit (that could be potentially dangerous) from connecting to it. Here’s how to do that in MetaMask:
Click on Accounts, top right corner, then select Lock
Lock your wallet with MetaMask
Your MetaMask Wallet is now locked until you login in again by entering your password
Unlock and back in business
2. Use a different browser for crypto; this way you avoid forgetting to lock your wallet and minimise your exposure to other insecurities. For example, you could use Chrome for day-to-day stuff and Brave specifically for crypto.
3. For extra peace of mind, close all other tabs except the one via which you connect your wallet. This way you avoid malicious pop-ups from other possibly dodgy website pages open on other tabs, which could intercept your wallet and steal your crypto. See below – this fake MetaMask pop-up, which looks almost identical to the real thing, tricks users into entering their password and giving full control of their wallet to the hacker.
Lastly, never store your seed phrases or passwords digitally on your computer or online; keep them safe as hard copies instead. Always be careful you are accessing the legitimate sites, apps and contract addresses. Double and triple-check everything. To be paranoid is to be aware.
The Dutch family who sold all their worldly possessions to go all-in on bitcoin are now happily living in Portugal (among other exotic places), sitting pretty on their fortune of digital gold which is being kept safely offline on multiple cold storage wallets.
Didi Taihuttu and family
Selling It All for the Bitcoin Dream
Didi Taihuttu, his wife and three children liquidated all their assets to buy as much bitcoin as they could in 2017 when the BTC price was just US$900. They won’t say exactly how much they have, but let’s do some rough maths. Say they invested just US$50,000 at $900/BTC. That’s 55.56 bitcoins multiplied by US$50,000 (approximate worth of bitcoin today), equating to about $2.8 million.
Decentralised Hidden Treasure vs Centralised Storage
The family stores almost three-quarters of its crypto fortune in secret vaults across four continents. The remaining wealth is kept liquid for more precarious bets, day trading, and risky GIGO (go-in-go-out) shorter-term investments. Taihuttu says he has two hiding spots in Europe, another two in Asia, one in South America and a sixth in Australia. The goal for the near future is to have a stash on each continent across the world. Taihuttu aims to do this so it is easier to access his holdings when and if he needs to.
There are, of course, other options for storing your cryptocurrency safely offline. Centralised vaults like Coinbase-owned Xapo offer high levels of security, but Taihuttu says it feels too centralised to him: “I prefer to live in a decentralised world where I have the responsibility to protect my capital.”
To learn more about what’s been dubbed the “Bitcoin Family”, follow them on their YouTube channel and Instagram page.
VISA, the largest payment processor in the world, bought an Ethereum token. But why? Are they really interested in NFTs, or is it all just a big PR stunt?
The Punk bought by VISA
VISA bought CryptoPunk 7610 for 49.50 ETH (approximately US$149,939). The interesting thing about the transaction was that in order to purchase the CryptoPunk, Visa actually had to buy ETH to make the transaction. This is very bullish news for Ethereum, that companies as big as VISA are buying ETH to make transactional purchases.
Cuy Sheffield, VISA’s head of crypto, said in a company blog post that VISA wanted to “signal our support” for people involved in the NFT market.
Visa Enters a New Era of NFT-Commerce
VISA announced via Twitter: “We enter a new era of NFT-commerce, VISA welcomes CryptoPunk #7610 to our collection.”
Over the last 60 years, Visa has built a collection of historic commerce artifacts – from early paper credit cards to the zip-zap machine. Today, as we enter a new era of NFT-commerce, Visa welcomes CryptoPunk #7610 to our collection. https://t.co/XoPFfwxUiu
We think NFTs will play an important role in the future of retail, social media, entertainment and commerce.
Cuy Sheffield, VISA’s head of crypto
Essentially what this means is that VISA is open to cryptocurrency. Crypto trader and YouTuber That Martini Guy says that by participating in the space, VISA is showing massive support for blockchain as a whole and adds: “This is one of the reasons why I’m so bullish and so confident on cryptocurrency in the long term. These companies know that they don’t have a choice. If everybody continues to use all of these systems, they have no choice but to adopt these systems.”
Since purchasing CryptoPunk #7610, the official VISA Twitter account has changed its profile pic to an Ethereum-based CryptoPunk NFT:
VISA Twitter profile – archive.is
It is no secret that VISA has major plans for cryptocurrency adoption. By getting on the NFT bandwagon and buying a Punk, this not only gets it some free press but also helps crypto reach the mainstream media. For more, read Crypto News Australia‘s recent story on the first Aussie VISA crypto debit card.
Bragg is advocating for a crypto-friendly country by implementing better regulation in order to provide incentives for new investors and create more job opportunities for Australians.
It might surprise you that the loudest voices calling for appropriate regulation are market participants. I have never heard so many people cry out for regulation.
Andrew Bragg, NSW Senator
Bragg is chair of the Senate committee on Australia as a technology and finance centre. “The Senate is developing policy options as we speak,” he says. “I cannot pre-empt what an appropriate framework will look like – that will be outlined in our final report, due to be released in October.”
The report will address important topics on Blockchain and how cryptocurrencies can promote investment in Australia and improve economic growth.
Crypto is Here to Stay and Needs Custom Regulation
ASIC regulates digital assets to the extent that they are financial products which by definition causes confusion among investors. The ATO is attempting to apply existing tax standards to cryptocurrency, which simply don’t fit. According to Senator Bragg, “All dimensions of this system have to be worked out: market arrangements, custodial rules, anti-money laundering laws, tax settings, and what to do with tokens, if anything.”
The problem is this: we cannot have an unregulated financial sector competing with a regulated one. Consumers are exposed to scams and fraud. Market participants run their operations flying blind. Australia misses out on investment due to the uncertainty. Unnecessary risk threatens the stability of the financial system.
Andrew Bragg, NSW Senator
Australia is Falling Behind Compared to Other Countries
The Australian government says it wants to establish Australia as a crypto-friendly economy, though compared to other countries it is fast falling behind and missing out on golden opportunities. Australia is simply not acting quickly enough to keep up the pace. If the country doesn’t get regulation right, it will be at a big disadvantage compared to the rest of the world and will miss out on a piece of the pie.
Other countries have adopted blockchain and established crypto regulations which have boosted their economies. The US, EU, Canada, the UK and Singapore are all in the process of implementing a comprehensive framework for regulation of digital assets and the crypto market.
Cryptocurrency is a Technology Revolution
Cryptocurrency adoption is still just getting started but it is growing faster than the revolution that was the internet. Prior to crypto, it was the fastest adoption of network technology in human history. Crypto has the same number of users as the internet had in 1997, and is growing at a rate of 113 percent each year. Crypto has around 140 million users, double the fastest adoption of any technology in history. Even if you lower an estimated rate of growth to around 80 percent, crypto will reach around 1 billion people by 2024.
According to Metcalf’s Law, the value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of its users. At this rate, crypto is the biggest thing we have ever seen. It is changing the world as we know it.
Bragg says “crypto-assets have been allowed to flourish in an unregulated market. Now they are an indelible element of the financial system.” He adds that “by circumventing the gatekeepers of modern finance, cryptocurrency became a brand-new system and asset. Its development has given rise to more consumer choice and new jobs.”
Victoria Police have seized what they claim is the largest ever cryptocurrency amount in connection with an Australian crime after busting online drug traffickers.
Detectives impounded nearly A$8.5 million in cryptocurrency after an investigation over several months culminated in the arrest of three Melbourne residents.
The arrests and currency are linked to a joint investigation by the Cyber Crime Squad and the Criminal Proceeds Squad into drug trafficking on dark web platform Silk Road, said to have been shut down by the FBI in 2012.
Money Laundering an Increasing Trend in Cyber Crime
Victoria Police commander Mick Frewen warned money laundering via cryptocurrency is an expanding criminal trend.
“People go on [Silk Road] with the buyer confidence of a mainstream internet site and purchase drugs that are delivered to their door,” Frewen told The Australian newspaper.
“Not only is the user not needing to leave their lounge chair, neither is the offender.”
People are looking to hide their wealth through … real estate or cryptocurrency by virtue of its anonymity and to some extent its security; money can go offshore or to an offshore entity really quickly.
Victoria Police commander Mick Frewen
‘We Follow The Money’
Detectives picked up the offenders’ money trail after they spotted records of it on the distributed ledger blockchain, Frewen said.
He cautioned other would-be offenders they were far from anonymous, despite the common perception that dealing in cryptocurrency effectively conceals the identity of its traders.
[Organised criminals] will seek to hide their wealth any way they can. We follow the money. [Tackling organised crime] now isn’t just about identifying offenders or seizing drugs – it’s about the money. We seek to cripple their activities in any way we can where we make the most impact, and that is [through the] seizure of money – whether it be cash or cryptocurrency, real estate or shares.
Victoria Police commander Mick Frewen
Police arrested a 31-year-old woman from Melbourne’s northeast and two men, aged 30 and 33, from the city’s north. All were conditionally released pending further inquiries. Drugs including cannabis, magic mushrooms and MDMA were impounded along with two properties valued at about $2 million and vehicles worth about $100,000, taking the total value of seized assets to about $13.1 million.
Drugs Ordered Online, Imported by Mail
In June, Crypto News Australia reported on a Queensland IT student who was charged with possession of methamphetamine after ordering the drug online and paying for it with A$300 worth of bitcoin. In that case, the student was arrested after Australia Post intercepted a parcel bound for his parents’ address.
And exactly a year ago, Australian Federal Police confiscated crypto, designer goods, luxury cars and homes in a concerted campaign against the ill-gotten gains of organised crime.
Dallas2626 posted a sad but not uncommon story on Reddit this week about how he lost US$10,000 from his MetaMask wallet from a scammer in Discord using the fake WalletConnect app.
Rule#1 in crypto: Never ever give out your private key or seed phrase or enter it to connect to a website or App that you don’t recognise.
Rule #2 in crypto: If someone messages you directly offering to “help” you, be warned – they are more than likely a scammer.
Rule #3 in crypto: Always double- and triple-check that the website (or app) you are on is legitimate by cross-checking the URL (or any addresses you are importing) and compare it to the project’s official channels – website, Medium, Twitter, or Telegram.
If you need a #4: Don’t trade crypto on your phone!
For poor Dallas2626 it is too late, but sharing his story will hopefully help others dodge a bullet next time a scammer strikes.
Here’s a common scenario: you’re a crypto noob who invests in a project that you don’t fully understand. Looking for help, you go to the official group chat on Discord or Telegram to ask some questions. You might post something like: “Hey, can anyone please help me, I am new at this, how can I unstake my XYZ Tokens so they appear back in my MetaMask wallet?” A scammer who is trawling through these group chats all day every day, looking for victims, sees the perfect opportunity ripe for the taking.
The scammer sends you a message, which appears to be legit because they have even gone to the trouble of adding Admin or Help Desk to their name, details that help your brain overlook the first red-flag warning sign – they have direct-messaged you first.
Because you are so focused on fixing your problem, you thank them for helping you and let them lead you step-by-step down the path where you send them all your crypto. This usually involves you visiting some URL link they have sent you and/or entering your seed phrase or private key into a dodgy app or website that looks similar to the real thing (often with the same logos and graphic design, etc) except it’s not the official project, it’s a scam. It’s over so fast that before you realise what’s happened your wallet is empty and your crypto is gone.
Screenshot posted on Reddit: Dallas2626 and The Scammer
Do Not Give Anyone Your Private Keys
Scammers like the one who ensnared Dallas2026 often use the fake WalletConnect app. WalletConnect scams are everywhere. There is even a fake app in the Google Play store using the real WalletConnect logo. Some scam sites even have big red warnings, as the real WalletConnect site does.
WalletConnect Scam Warning
WalletConnect does not have a support team, so anyone contacting you purporting to be from WalletConnect is by definition a scammer. If you need to report a scammer site, WalletConnect has a Report Phishing Page where you can report a scam site URL to be blacklisted.
Watch the Crypto Wallet Scams – Fake WalletConnect Scam video below to further educate yourself.
If you have been scammed, you can try contacting Reclaim Crypto from the official WalletConnect website. With all the scams around WalletConnect though, honestly it could be better to just use MetaMask, which is quite a popular choice for crypto. Stay safe crypto kids!
For more on other types of crypto attacks, Crypto News Australia recently reported on “The Dusting Attack”.
A bold scam has been foiled with the arrest of two shysters who ran a dodgy website and managed to con millions of dollars from victims around the world before trying to run off with the money in classic rug-pull style.
Thanks to the Economic Crime Unit of the Greater Manchester Police in the UK, a 23-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman were tracked down and arrested for fraud and money laundering. Police also confiscated a USB stick containing US$9.5 million worth of Ethereum. A few days later policed located a cryptograph safety deposit box and the code to access it, confiscating a further $12.7 million. In total, $22.25 million was seized from the scammers.
Some Victims Lost Their Life Savings
The scam fooled investors to believe that they were depositing their money into an online saving and trading service using Binance Smart Chain. The criminals targeted people from the UK, US, Europe, China, Australia and Hong Kong. After collecting a small fortune, which included the life savings of some victims, the scammers swiftly shut down the website and transferred the money to their own accounts. Police are now attempting to contact victims and return the stolen funds.
Scams are ever-present in the crypto landscape and opportunistic criminals are rife. Buyers beware: always do your homework when investing online and make sure to minimise the risk of being scammed by only investing in projects that are safe and reputable. For more, read the Crypto News Australiaguide on how to avoid crypto scams.
Afghanistan is under siege by the Taliban and with the president fleeing the capital, the state has fallen to the self-proclaimed Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
With many trying to flee the country, the frantic search for cash has led to banks and ATMs running empty.
According to reports by Al Jazeera and other news services, Taliban forces started capturing cities inside Afghanistan over the past week and have since taken Kabul, the nation’s capital.
Taliban fighters take control of the Afghan presidential palace after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country last week. Source: Zabi Karimi/AP/ Al Jazeera
More recent reports indicate that flights to Kabul have been re-routed and those to nearby provinces, Herat and Kandahar, have been cancelled.
This is, perhaps, one of the saddest images I've seen from #Afghanistan. A people who are desperate and abandoned. No aid agencies, no UN, no government. Nothing. pic.twitter.com/LCeDEOR3lR
When the news broke, Afghans and foreigners alike flocked to the airport seeking a way out, trying desperately to get their hands on money for supplies and flight tickets.
“The ATMs were all out of money, [and] the banks were full of hundreds of people lining up trying to take out as much money as they could,” said Afghani citizen Abdul Wahab, who was in Mazar on a business trip. The liquidity crisis has had serious repercussions for people who need some form of money to survive.
A similar situation occurred in Lebanon in 2019 where ATMs ran out of cash and banks capped withdrawals.
Blockchain Solutions to Broken Infrastructure
During crises like these, the internet can be suspended in a country cut off from the rest of the world, or provided solely to critical institutions. In a case such as that unfolding in Afghanistan, the military can stop routing traffic outside the country, making it nearly impossible to enact a bank transfer or any kind of transaction.
Even without internet access, however, people inside the country can still use peer-to-peer infrastructure or other bandwidths to transact if they have wallets on their phones containing crypto. The actual bitcoin balances are stored on the blockchain “public ledger”, which is constantly being updated by the bitcoin network even when holders are offline.
According to Richard Myers, a decentralised applications engineer at Global Mesh Labs, “In many parts of the rural and developing world, internet connectivity is both expensive and intermittent. Bitcoin transactions can be made over alternative low-bandwidth transport layers like mesh radios and SMS.”
The deployment of mesh networks and long-range radios can act as a substitute for internet connectivity. Using SMS bridges or meshnets, users can broadcast transactions throughout the network, without requiring an internet connection.
As in the current situation in Afghanistan and other countries in the world with infrastructure problems, blockchain and cryptocurrency are a solution to transact when the internet goes down, but when the power goes out that’s a different story.
A few days ago, the US Senate introduced a US$1.2 trillion bipartisan bill designed to update and regulate the country’s infrastructure. Unexpectedly, within the bill, there were provisions relating to the crypto industry.
These provisions relating to crypto sought to alter the definition of “broker” to include anyone who is “responsible for and regularly providing any service effectuating transfers of digital assets”.
This means that smart contracts, software developers or node validators are considered “brokers” as well – something that makes no sense to the crypto community.
Crypto Amendment Battle Over Legal Language
The bill sparked a battle among Democratic senators trying to narrow down the language in which the bill was written, and subsequently getting White House approval.
Crypto advocates Senators Cynthia Lummis, Pat Toomey and Ron Wyden proposed an amendment that redefines intermediaries and would exclude node validators, miners, wallet providers and open-source developers from the umbrella term “broker” and prevent them from reporting transaction data to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
The Wyden-Lummis-Toomey amendment is simple. It clarifies in law what most of us already believe—that validators of distributed ledger data like miners & stakers, hardware wallet providers & software developers should NOT be required to report transaction data to the IRS. pic.twitter.com/cMtoHMehiU
However, the White House appears to back Senator Mark Warner’s amendment, which imposes tighter crypto rules and decides which technologies are legal and which are not in the crypto space. Warner proposed that Proof of Stake validators comply with US tax laws, excluding Proof of Work miners without explanation.
This means US regulators will decide which cryptocurrencies and technologies are valid and which are not, something many in the industry such as Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, Elon Musk, the Winklevoss twins, politicians including Ted Cruz, and even celebrities like Gene Simmons have criticised on Twitter.
Agreed, this is not the time to pick technology winners or losers in cryptocurrency technology. There is no crisis that compels hasty legislation.
A Poorly Crafted Bill, Says the Crypto and Fintech Community
The crypto and fintech community has classified this bill as a “poorly written proposal” that would force crypto exchanges to establish surveillance mechanisms on their platforms as they would be required to collect user data, including names and addresses.
Armstrong was one of the first to denounce the bill’s flaws, such as defining those who deal with digital assets as brokers, or establishing Orwellian reporting requirements to surveil customers’ transactions.
4/ This makes no sense. Smart contracts, for instance, are not companies, and cannot be modified to collect KYC info or issue 1099s. They are simply software running on the blockchain that anyone can use.
Right now there’s a fight brewing in the US that could decide the future of innovation and financial freedom in the country. Industry leaders have warned that if the Warner amendment is approved, it will have a profoundly negative impact on the crypto industry, including pushing innovation offshore.
12/ The Wyden-Lummis-Toomey Amendment is win-win for lawmakers and our industry. It will provide tax revenue from crypto and ensure suitability and clarity for crypto innovators who want to build in America.
Here are the top 10 coins showing percentage increases, including infamous coins like DOGE, which has surged 14,000%+ since 2017.
1- Bitcoin
Bitcoin (BTC) is the founding father of cryptocurrencies – a decentralised P2P online token launched in 2009 by a possibly fictitious person who goes by the name of Satoshi Nakamoto. Bitcoin has gained over 1400% since its previous all-time high in 2017.
Bitcoin’s rise was mostly due to May’s 2020 halving, amplified by the institutional capital that came to the market in October last year. The first quarter of 2021 saw a massive influx of institutional investors, payment companies, hedge funds and asset managers embracing crypto and blockchain, which further accelerated BTC’s price surge.
2- Ethereum
Ethereum is an open-source platform for decentralised applications (dApps) that adds smart contract functionality to developers. Users don’t need to worry about third parties as smart contracts allow peer-to-peer agreements that execute themselves through a code that runs on the Ethereum blockchain.
Ethereum is the platform that most DeFi developers seek to build their dApps without downtimes, fraud or interference from a third party. It has raised 1200%+ since 2017.
Altcoin seasons are always contributors to Ethereum’s price rally. Another boom for Ethereum is largely thanks to institutional capital coming to crypto. It’s worth noting that some of these institutions have also taken interest in opening job positions for Ethereum developers such as JP Morgan or Amazon.
The Ethereum 2.0 upgrade and the London Hard Fork are two primary forces driving up ETH’s price. Just recently, Ethereum notched a 12-day winning streak, a new record for the token.
3- Binance Coin (BNB)
Binance Coin (BNB) is the native token of the centralised exchange Binance, used primarily as the utility token to pay for transactions and trading fees on the platform. BNB’s price soared over 60% in the past 30 days, and has gained a total 40,000%+ since its 2017 launch.
The more people come to Binance, the more people will use BNB. During the institutional bull run in the first quarter of 2021, Binance registered a massive influx of newcomers as crypto became mainstream. This further pushed BNB’s price to higher levels.
However, BNB’s price has been affected negatively by the number of rugpulls in the Binance Smart Chain – Binance’s decentralised exchange that adds smart contracts programmability for dApps.
4- Cardano (ADA)
Cardano (ADA) is an open-source Proof of Stake (PoS) blockchain with very ambitious ideas. The project is overseen by the Cardano foundation, founded by Charles Hoskinson in 2015.
Cardano has performed well during the first half of this year as the foundation announced the launch of “Alonzo”, an upgrade that would allow the platform to host smart contract compatibility for developers.
ADA has gained over 800% at ATH since 2017. Last week it gained 6% on a single day after trading in an uptrend last month. However, it has struggled to keep above levels of $1.40/1.50.
5- Ripple (XRP)
Ripple is an open-source money transfer network released in 2012 along with its native currency, XRP.
While XRP had performed steadily in the market during most of 2020, it fell sharply when the SEC announced on December 21, 2020 it was filing a lawsuit against Ripple, which traded in a downtrend during Q1 2021.
However, XRP managed to gain some ground after the company rallied in its fight against the SEC. A price boost for XRP came shortly after the judge denied SEC access to Ripple’s legal advice.
6- DOGE
DOGE, a cryptocurrency created by IBM software engineer Billy Markus that started as a joke, has skyrocketed 17,500% since 2017.
The coin debuted in the market in 2013. It only met popular demand when Elon Musk decided to talk about the memecoin, which massively boosted its popularity in the first months of 2021. Another boost for the token came after Coinbase decided to list DOGE on its trading platform.
Some people in and outside of the crypto community have claimed that Musk’s actions amounted to market manipulation as the price of DOGE is sensitive to whatever Musk says, good or bad. However, it appears that Musk’s recent efforts to pump DOGE are failing.
7- Polkadot (DOT)
Polkadot is a shared multi-chain platform that allows blockchain interoperability. DOT is Polkadot’s native currency, used for transactions and trading fees.
DOT started trading in 2020, which is why it looks different to the other charts, which started earlier.
DOT has managed to record a 1400%+ rise starting in the first months of 2021, turning it into one of the currencies with the best return on investments (ROI).
It peaked at US$373.19 after Facebook announced it was making an ecosystem for creators on the Polkadot Blockchain.
8- Uniswap (UNI)
Uniswap (UNI) is a decentralised exchange (DEX) that facilitates automated swaps between tokens on the Ethereum network. It was built by the company going by the same name on November 2, 2018.
Uniswap has had an overall solid market performance during the first half of 2021. The token seems to be gaining traction after trading negatively during May, but it seems the company is the subject of rumours about working with centralised institutions. A recent video emerged showing Uniswap’s growth lead, suggesting possible tie-ups with PayPal, E*Trade and Stripe.
9- Bitcoin Cash (BCH)
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is a cryptocurrency product of a fork of Bitcoin, created in 2017. It has surged above 600% of its 2017 ATH, in a similar move to other high-market cap currencies.
BCH resulted from a disagreement between two groups over scaling issues. It offers lower transaction fees and greater throughput. While BCH was recovering from losses in previous sessions, it’s now trading in a downtrend as fear takes over the market.
10- Chainlink (LINK)
Chainlink is the leading decentralised oracle service built on Ethereum. Its native token, LINK, has surged over 10,000% at ATH since 2017.
LINK has become an efficient data provider from off-chain sources to on-chain smart contracts through oracles. It has been trading largely in an uptrend as many companies have embraced the oracle solution to rely on trustworthy real-time information.
