Chainlink Keepers Now Live on Polygon Mainnet to Automate Smart Contract DevOps
Chainlink Keepers is now operating live on the Polygon PoS Mainnet as the recommended solution for Polygon developers who need secure smart contract automation. Chainlink Keepers are a decentralized transaction automation service powered by the same Chainlink node operators that currently secure over $75 billion dollars across other Chainlink services. As a result, developers in the Polygon ecosystem can build more advanced, feature-rich dApps that are fully automated end-to-end. If you want to start building with Chainlink Keepers, refer to the developer documentation and start submitting jobs.
What Are Keepers?
One of the lesser understood realities of smart contracts is that they are asleep by default, meaning they cannot call their own functions. Instead, they need to be woken through an on-chain transaction in order to run their embedded logic. While some protocols can rely on user transactions to trigger functions (e.g. a user buy order on an AMM triggering a swap), a large portion of smart contracts need an external entity, often called a “Keeper,” to make an on-chain transaction when various predefined conditions occur. In essence, Keepers act as automation bots that trigger smart contract execution.
One way to do this is for the development team to manually monitor these conditions in-house through a centralized server. However, this introduces a central point of failure and can consume precious development time and resources that could otherwise be used to improve the business logic of dApps. Instead, developers can outsource their transaction automation services to the decentralized Chainlink Keepers network.
The Benefits of Chainlink Keepers to Developers
Decentralized Execution — Chainlink leverages a decentralized and transparent pool of Keepers to help provide strong guarantees around secure contract automation, saving teams time and mitigating the risks around manual interventions or centralized servers.
Expandable Computation — Chainlink Keepers perform off-chain computations and generate calldata verifiable by smart contracts, allowing developers to build advanced, trust-minimized dApps at lower costs.
High Uptime — Chainlink Keepers are run by the same professional DevOps teams that have an established on-chain performance history of providing high reliability to Chainlink Price Feeds during extreme network congestion and market volatility.
Lower DevOps Costs — Chainlink Keepers have several gas-optimizing features that lower the costs of automating maintenance tasks for users, including a rotating node selection process to prevent gas price auction wars and stabilize costs.
The end result is Polygon developers being able to increase the uptime guarantees of their smart contract operations, save on development costs, shorten go-to market time, add advanced utility to existing dApps, and simplify the experience for token holders.
About Chainlink
Chainlink is the industry standard for building, accessing, and selling Chainlink oracle services needed to power hybrid smart contracts on any blockchain. Chainlink’s decentralized oracle network provide smart contracts with a way to reliably connect to any external API and leverage secure off-chain computations for enabling feature-rich applications. Chainlink currently secures tens of billions of dollars across DeFi, insurance, gaming, and other major industries, and offers global enterprises and leading data providers a universal gateway to all blockchains.
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