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Board Speculation (Altcoins)
Re: Band Protocol - Cross-Chain Oracle solution & Chainlink Competition - Next 100X?
by
giammangiato
on 30/07/2020, 13:36:58 UTC
We've all seen how well Chainlink has done recently, Oracles are going to be important in the not to distant future and Band is no different.
In fact, Band has many advantages over Chainlink, looking at the chart and recent partnerships it's clear, Band is growing rapidly yet still a tiny marketcap of 10m.
You've still got time to board the train, just.

Band are a data governance framework for Web3.0 applications. It operates as an open-source standard and framework for the decentralized management of data, designed to allow users to build and manage off-chain oracles, reputation scores, identity management systems, token issuances and token curated registries.

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1) Band focus a lot security through economic (we have staking mechanism from day 1)Usage simplicity (getting data from band is just 1 function call, while on ChainLink you need to use asynchronous + callback function)

 2) speed (data is readily available  query for Band and can be processed within same transaction, not for ChainLink which requires at least 3 block confirmations).

3) Cost (if you query from 7 data providers in Chainlink, it will cost you over $7 whereas for Band right now the fee is $2 and we require much less gas to process.

4) scalability: because Band data is pushed on chain, the cost is fixed regardless of how many dApps use us whereas for Chainlink, it's on demand so if there are more dApps requiring same data, ChainLink has to perform that query again and again adding to the cost.

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I have heard a lot about BAND, compared to CHAINLINK of course.
I didn't understand this thing about oracles very well and I don't find an understandable explanation around, could you explain to me what is the advantage of having oracles, what do they do and what are they for?