Maven 101: Oracles Smart contracts can move millions of dollars without a middleman. But they have a blind spot: they can’t see anything outside the blockchain. A smart contract has no idea what BTC is trading at right now. Or the price of gold. Or what a commercial building is worth. That’s where oracles come in. An oracle is a service that sources real-world data, verifies it, and delivers it onchain so smart contracts can act on it. For a lending protocol, the most important data point is price. Here’s why that matters: → Loans: how much you can borrow depends on what your collateral is worth. → Rates: pricing risk requires knowing the value of the assets involved. → Liquidations: when collateral drops below a threshold, the protocol acts. If the price is wrong, it acts at the wrong time. Bad data has real consequences. In 2022, Mango Markets lost over $100M after a trader inflated the price of a thinly traded token and borrowed against it. The code worked exactly as written. The price feed was the weak point. That’s why strong oracle design focuses on: → Aggregating data from multiple independent sources → Decentralized networks, so no single party controls the feed → Frequent updates, plus safeguards against stale or outlier prices Real-world assets raise the bar further. BTC trades around the clock. A building might be appraised a few times a year. Bringing those assets onchain means oracles need to deliver valuations that are reliable, verifiable, and current enough to lend against. The takeaway: a lending protocol is only as trustworthy as the data it runs on.

Three weeks ago, nobody had filed under the SEC's tokenized-stock exemption. Now two venues have. @Securitize is live with real votes and dividends. Tokenized stocks are the fastest-growing RWA category. And $90M left hardware wallets. Today, 2 PM UTC | 6 PM GST: - The race to the first legal stock-token venue - Is RWA money rotating or getting wider? - Self-custody after @Ledger 🎙 @mv1_Davis with @micobz (@ShiftRWA), Matthew Blom (@Tokinvest_Cap), and @ijhammer (@dltlaw_)

Mavryk mainnet turns one this week 🎂 A year in, we're doing an X Space with the people who built it and a few friends from across the RWA world. What we've been up to, what comes next, and what's brewing in the tokenization space. Joining us: @davehendricks of @Vertalo_, @micobz of @ShiftRWA, @FFennia from @vs1_finance, and @alenka_on_x. @mv1_Davis and @theSamMorrow repping Mavryk 🎙️ Thursday 17 Sept, 2:00 PM UTC / 6:00 PM GST