Authored by Noa & Maxime Today we're excited to introduce Calf, the first fully open-source implementation of the Narwhal DAG protocol. While DAGs represent a powerful advancement in blockchain technology, educational resources and practical implementations remain scarce. We've created Calf not just as a working implementation,
Today marks a major milestone for Pragma with the release of version 2 of our protocol on private testnet, ahead of the mainnet launch scheduled for year-end. At Pragma, our mission has always been to provide developers with the highest quality data, beginning with financial data. This release is a
We're thrilled to announce the release of version 1 of our optimistic oracle on Starknet. This new service is accessible at https://pragma.build/optimistic and is available for permissionless use on testnet, with a private alpha on mainnet. If you're interested in early access to
We're thrilled to announce that we've developed a fully open-source liquidation bot for Vesu, the Starknet modular lending protocol. You can check it out and use it on GitHub. The Short Story With the volatility observed in the market at the beginning of August 2024, a
In collaboration with DOPP, Pragma is excited to introduce our new product: Merkle Feeds. To understand the value of Merkle Feeds, it helps to first look at Merkle Trees, a foundational element of blockchain. Merkle Trees play a key role in securing data and maintaining order. They work by organising
Pragma Oracle is excited to announce its integration with Vesu, a key addition to our ecosystem, as we join forces to advance transparency and the trustless in the StarkNet DeFi landscape. Introduction Vesu is a novel DeFi money market protocol designed to push the boundaries of open and permissionless financial
We're thrilled to announce a new addition to our product suite – the Pragma API, with Starknet as its first user. Context For over a year and a half, Pragma has been a driving force on Starknet, contributing to the ever-growing DeFi landscape. Powering cutting-edge products like Nostra, ZkLend,
We are thrilled to announce the first phase of Pragma VRF, leveraging verifiable random functions to generate onchain verifiable randomness. Pragma VRF will greatly help numerous smart contracts on Starknet, particularly those that need to prove they use an external, unalterable random source. The first phase involves publishing the randomness
We're thrilled to (officially) announce our bounty program on Immunefi, offering up to $50,000 for discovering vulnerabilities in our smart contracts. If you're proficient in Cairo and keen on assisting us in securing our Oracle, and the broader DeFi landscape, get started here This announcement
Pragma is the leading oracle on Starknet. It provides off-chain data to all DeFi happening on Starknet. Pragma is built from the ground up to remove any trust assumptions in current oracles' design. There isn't any off-chain infrastructure, raw-data is directly pushed on-chain by whitelisted data providers.
Introduction For as long as blockchains have been programmable, developers have attempted to bring data on-chain. Blockchains offer amazing properties, especially in terms of transparency, immutability, and openness. While we focused on building and enhancing the capacities of those blockchains, we inadvertently created a completely separate world, governed by decentralization