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Story: Chainlink Price (LINK) Feeds High-quality References and Improved Adoption

By Steven Anderson

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While Chainlink price feeds are commonly used for getting the latest asset prices, you can also use Chainlink oracles to build dApps that fetch reliable historical price data.

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Latest asset prices and historical price data are important in the asset pricing process, particularly for price discovery.

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Asset pricing has been decided based on different models of prediction for different situations.

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There have been many models developed for different situations – all of these pricing models evolve from these two principles.

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When making an investment decision, we need a body of knowledge in the decision making process.

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In General Equilibrium Theory, price is decided by market pricing and by supply and demand. 

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In Rational pricing the derivative pricing is calculated in such a way that they are arbitrage free. This approach creates a unique price risk for each asset.

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Also, "in the absence of arbitrage, the market imposes a probability distribution, called a risk-neutral or equilibrium measure, on the set of possible market scenarios, and this…

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Every investor is looking to work in a risk neutral manner.  So, they keep observing the prices to make their decisions.  Some follow pricing models.

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Also, Chainlink’s decentralized oracle networks are critical infrastructure which augment DeFi smart contracts by connecting them to secure and reliable real-world market data.

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People are in and out of DeFi Liquidity Pools for short and long time period, for which accuracy is crucial.

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Meanwhile, Request Network are using Chainlink Price Feeds to enable “crypto payment for fiat-denominated invoices.

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Crypto payment for fiat-denominated invoices is a breakthrough because with crypto being highly volatile, merchants are concerned about the exact pricing for the different cryptos.

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ChainLink Oracle accuracy makes it possible to have high-quality price references for forex-based AMM.

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