Paper 2025/2106
SoK: Blockchain Oracles Between Theory and Practice
Abstract
Oracle services enable dApps to access real-world data and respond to events happening outside the blockchain ecosystem. A large number of academic and industrial oracles have emerged, capturing various designs, capabilities, and security assumptions/guarantees. This rapid development makes it challenging to comprehend existing solutions, understand their trade-offs, and build on them. In this paper, we introduce a systematization of knowledge for blockchain oracles. We develop a multi-dimensional systematization framework assessing existing solutions based on their capabilities, trust and security assumptions/guarantees, and their design architectures. To further aid in this assessment, we go on to distill a number of insights and gaps, and provide a guide for practitioners (on the use of these oracles) and researchers (by highlighting future research avenues).
Metadata
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PDF
- Category
- Applications
- Publication info
- Preprint.
- Keywords
- Blockchain oraclesWeb 3.0dApps
- Contact author(s)
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colin finkbeiner @ uconn edu
ghada @ uconn edu - History
- 2026-09-21: last of 2 revisions
- 2025-11-16: received
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- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2025/2106
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2025/2106,
author = {Colin Finkbeiner and Ghada Almashaqbeh},
title = {{SoK}: Blockchain Oracles Between Theory and Practice},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2025/2106},
year = {2025},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/2106}
}
