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How Does a Decentralized Oracle Achieve “Trust-Minimization”?

Trust-minimization is achieved by distributing the responsibility of data provision and validation across a large, economically incentivized network of independent nodes. Instead of trusting a single party, users only need to trust the protocol's cryptography and the economic incentives that align node behavior.

This makes it prohibitively expensive and difficult for any single entity to corrupt the data feed.

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