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by matheusmoreira 1884 days ago
Ethereum may be a distributed virtual machine but currently it lacks access to data from the outside world. Naturally this places constraints on the applications that can be built: they always concern Ethereum itself.

People invented Chainlink to solve this problem: provide real world data such as "package has arrived to its destination" to smart contract software. I don't think it has delivered on its promise yet.