Audio from the September 13, 2022 installment of “Polygon Alpha” with Dave Connor, co-founder & Ashar Shahid, core protocol developer at API3.LinkTree - https://linktr.ee/polygonalphapodcastPolygon Alpha Shorts - https://tinyurl.com/PolygonAlphaShortsYouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/PolygonTVApple - Follow the show on Apple Podcast!Spotify - Follow the show on Spotify!RSS feed - https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/863588.rssAPI3 - API3 is a collaborative project to deliver traditional API services to smart contract platforms in a decentralized and trust-minimized way. - It is governed by a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), namely the API3 DAO. Therefore, its code is open source and its operations are transparent. - The vast majority of the external integrations that decentralized applications need are to commercial Web APIs that traditional businesses have built to monetize their data and services. - Therefore, what is widely known as the oracle problem is in practice an API connectivity problem. - Existing oracle solutions fall short because they fail to make this distinction, resulting in inferior solutions that depend on third-party oracles and ecosystems that exclude API providers. - By refining the definition of the problem, API3 aims to provide a much more optimal solution. - At its core, API3 brings the ability for API providers to easily run their own oracle nodes. - This allows them to provide their data on-chain, without an intermediary, to any decentralized app (dApp) interested in their services. - At the heart of this mechanism sits Airnode, an open-source oracle node. - It's designed to be easily deployed by any API provider with almost no maintenance. - Because of Airnode, dApp developers can write smart contracts to interact with the on-chain data of API providers. - Airnode is designed with mechanisms to remove the on-chain or off-chain concerns of API providers. - The set-and-forget framework of Airnode is all about ease of implementation.Host: Justin Havins aka Crypto TexanAV Engineer: Aaron PettijohnPolygon official channel:Website: polygon.technologyTwitter: twitter.com/0xPolygonTelegram Community: t.me/polygonofficialTelegram announcement: t.me/PolygonAnnouncementsReddit: www.reddit.com/r/0xPolygon/Discord: discord.com/invite/polygonFacebook: www.facebook.com/0xPolygon.Technology/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit polygonalpha.substack.com