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Real-Time Price Feeds Meaning

Real-time price feeds are data streams that provide the most current market price of an asset with virtually no delay. In the world of finance, "real-time" usually means a latency of milliseconds.

These feeds are essential for traders making split-second decisions and for automated systems that need to respond to price movements instantly to manage risk or execute trades.In the decentralized world, these feeds are delivered through Oracles. A protocol like Chainlink pulls data from multiple off-chain sources (like Binance and Coinbase), aggregates them to remove outliers, and then pushes that single "truth" onto the blockchain.

This prevents a single exchange's glitch or a "flash crash" from affecting the price used by a lending protocol, which could otherwise lead to unfair liquidations.The accuracy and speed of these feeds are the "security perimeter" of DeFi. If a price feed is slow or manipulated-known as an Oracle Attack-a malicious actor could artificially inflate the value of their collateral to borrow more than they are entitled to.

Consequently, the industry has moved toward "Low-Latency Pull Oracles," which update the price only when a user initiates a transaction, ensuring the price is as fresh as possible.

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