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What Is the “Last Mile Problem” in Oracle Data Delivery?

The last mile problem refers to the final, crucial step of securely submitting the aggregated, off-chain price data onto the blockchain. This step is vulnerable to manipulation, such as a single node going rogue or a transaction being censored or front-run in the mempool.

Decentralized oracle networks mitigate this with threshold signatures and robust transaction submission strategies.

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