[Whitepaper Wednesday] Adding Economic Guarantees to Blockchain Oracles

This week, we’re reading about the UMA Data Verification Mechanism, an an economic approach to incentivizing oracles.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OfdCsaIf5tCDEMS0nnPjF7-QidY1h0hJ/view

We will talk about oracles. What are they for? Why do we need them? Why are they so difficult? Does this mechanism help?

Bring your lunch, questions and comments to Crypto NYC, where we'll talk through it together.

All levels of experience are welcome. No coding required. We're here to learn from each other!