StakeNow joins the growing list of data transmitters on Acurast
January 19th 2022: Munich-Zug: StakeNow is thrilled to join the growing list of data transmitters on Acurast. This is an exciting step forward in our mission to provide high-quality, secure delivery of data.
The possibilities on Acurast are excitingly endless, as it seeks to solve the problem of interoperability in the Web3 Space. With Acurast, developers can easily add price feeds, reliable randomness, or any other off-chain data or computation to their decentralized applications on Polkadot, Tezos, and NEAR networks.
Acurast has revolutionized the way of connecting external data to the blockchain, giving developers the ability to access genuine information and specialist computing from Data Transmitters.
Data Transmitters offer their computation to developers and process Acurast Jobs in the Acurast Trusted Virtual Machine that utilizes Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) such as the Android TEE, available in consumer Android devices, to ensure the trustlessness of Acurast’s system. Acurast is not dependent on one Android devices and can support others such as the one from StakeNow in the future.
Developers have been offered a breath of fresh air when it comes to accessing off-chain data or computation. Acurast offers unrestricted access to its wide selection of TEEs, encompassing both current and emerging technologies, so developers can easily build amazing projects without needing to obtain authorization from the central governing body.
Acurast will help developers experience limitless freedom and make whatever decisions that will scale up their projects.
Roy Scheeren, CTO of StakeNow:
“Access to reliable and verifiable off-chain data is absolutely paramount to accelerate mainstream adoption of blockchain technology. Democratizing data and specialized computation will allow Non-Profits, For-Profits, and individuals to build unimaginable applications. A true game-changer. We are proud to work with Acurast to do our part and become an Acurast Data Transmitter.”
Alessandro DeCarli, Acurast co-founder:
“We are happy to welcome StakeNow as a Data Transmitter to Acurast. Due to their expert engineering, they are at the forefront of blockchain technology and have made it accessible to organizations all over the world. We are grateful to StakeNow for their confidence in our strong security methodology, and we are thrilled and proud to work together.”
About StakeNow
StakeNow is a staking infrastructure provider on the Tezos blockchain. Their flagship product, StakeNow.fi, is a companion for your web3 journey, providing users with a seamless UI and valuable insights into NFTs and DeFi. Recently, the team has been recognized for their innovative work in the field, having won a renowned hackathon with the development of Sign-in-with-Tezos (SIWT), which is a library that supports the development of dApps by proving the user’s ownership of the private key to the address the user signs in with and adding permissions to use an API based on an access-control-mechanism (i.e., owning a specific NFT).
About Acurast
The Next Wave of Web3 is here. A real-world data source built with innovation, ingenuity, and integrity. Acurast transforms data delivery with a multi-chain first application ecosystem where communication is easy, effortless, and accessible. Let’s build… together.
For more information, read Acurast’s documentation here.
