LAUNCHING AUGUR TURBO: FAST-RESOLVING DAILY MARKETS USING CHAINLINK ON POLYGON.
Chainlink is thrilled to announce Augur Turbo—the world’s only fast-resolving, easy-to-use, decentralized betting platform with daily markets for sports, crypto, politics, and current events. Betting and trading cost hundredths of a penny most days while creating a market could be a few cents. Augur Turbo is now live at Augur.net.
Augur Turbo is an extension of the Augur protocol, which is a human-based decentralized oracle that incentivizes truth-seeking for predictions. Augur v2 will continue to live on layer 1 as Augur Pro.To bring secure, cost-efficient data feeds and settlement to Augur’s global sports betting markets, we’re officially integrating Chainlink’s widely adopted oracle network into the Augur Turbo platform, now live on Polygon’s layer 2 scaling solution. With Chainlink integrated, anyone in the world will be able to create their own betting markets on Augur Turbo for a wide range of different sports events in the NBA, MLB, MMA, and Olympics, with additional support for NFL, college football, soccer, tennis, golf, and e-sports following soon. Chainlink’s highly secure and reliable oracle networks will then be used to deliver schedules and post-game scores, team, and player stats on-chain, ensuring each sports betting market on Augur Turbo is settled in an accurate, transparent, and timely manner. The combination of Augur, Chainlink, and Polygon offers full stack infrastructure for supporting secure, low-cost betting markets that settle in near real-time and according to an aggregation of premium data sources. As the Augur ecosystem grows, we can easily launch new Chainlink Data Feeds so market creators can quickly bootstrap new betting markets for more sporting events and other verticals.
About Augur
Augur is the world’s most accessible, low-fee, no-limit betting platform. It allows you to buy and sell real-money stakes in world outcomes including sports, crypto, politics, and current events.
Augur is a set of audited and secure smart contracts.
About Chainlink
Chainlink is the most widely used and secure way to power universally connected smart contracts. With Chainlink, developers can connect any blockchain with high-quality data sources from other blockchains as well as real-world data. Managed by a global, decentralized community of hundreds of thousands of people, Chainlink is introducing a fairer model for contracts. Its network currently secures billions of dollars in value for smart contracts across the decentralized finance (DeFi), insurance and gaming ecosystems, among others.
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