The decentralized oracle network Chainlink (LINK) continues to dominate crypto’s decentralized finance (DeFi) sector in terms of development activity, according to the analytics firm Santiment.

Santiment notes in a new post on the social media platform X that Chainlink registered 363.73 notable GitHub events in the past 30 days.

The figure far exceeds the second-ranked DeFi project, DeepBook Protocol (DEEP), which clocked 193.57 events. The DeepBook project is a decentralized central limit order book (CLOB), which is what exchanges use to facilitate buying and selling between traders by recording bids and offers.

Third on the list is DeFiChain (DFI), a layer-1 protocol designed specifically for decentralized finance apps. The project registered 152 notable GitHub events in the past month.

Chainlink, DeepBook and DeFiChain also occupied the top three spots on the list last month as well.

Santiment notes that it doesn’t count routine updates and uses a “better methodology” to collect data for GitHub events based on a “backtested process.”

The analytics firm has previously said that heavy development activity centered around a crypto project is a positive indication that could mean that the developers believe the protocol will be successful. It also indicates that the project is less likely to be an exit scam.

LINK is trading at $12.83 at time of writing. The 17th-ranked crypto asset by market cap is down more than 2% in the past 24 hours.

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The decentralized oracle network Chainlink (LINK) continues to dominate crypto’s real-world asset (RWA) sector in terms of development activity, according to the analytics firm Santiment.

Santiment notes in a new post on the social media platform X that Chainlink registered 532.43 notable GitHub events in the past 30 days.

The figure far exceeds the second-ranked RWA project, the layer-1 blockchain Avalanche (AVAX), which clocked 290.87 GitHub events. The peer-to-peer payments project Stellar (XLM) was third, with 240.7.

Chainlink has occupied the top spot on Santiment’s list all year, often clocking multiple times the number of GitHub events as the second-ranked project.

Santiment notes that it doesn’t count routine updates and uses a “better methodology” to collect data for GitHub events based on a “backtested process.”

The analytics firm has previously said that heavy development activity centered around a crypto project is a positive indication that could mean that the developers believe the protocol will be successful. It also indicates that the project is less likely to be an exit scam.

Chainlink’s native token, LINK, is trading at $15.58 at time of writing. The 16th-ranked crypto asset by market cap is down nearly 7% in the past 24 hours but up more than 1% in the past week.

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On Wednesday, CISA warned of heightened breach risks after the compromise of legacy Oracle Cloud servers earlier this year and highlighted the significant threat to enterprise networks.

CISA said, “the nature of the reported activity presents potential risk to organizations and individuals, particularly where credential material may be exposed, reused across separate, unaffiliated systems, or embedded (i.e., hardcoded into scripts, applications, infrastructure templates, or automation tools),” even though “the scope and impact remains unconfirmed.”

“When credential material is embedded, it is difficult to discover and can enable long-term unauthorized access if exposed. The compromise of credential material, including usernames, emails, passwords, authentication tokens, and encryption keys, can pose significant risk to enterprise environments,” it added.

The U.S. cybersecurity agency also released guidance to mitigate the risks linked to the resulting credential leak, urging network defenders to reset affected users’ passwords, replace hardcoded or embedded credentials with secure authentication methods, enforce phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication (MFA) wherever possible, and monitor authentication logs for suspicious activity.

This warning comes after Oracle confirmed in email notifications sent to customers that a threat actor leaked credentials stolen from what the company described as “two obsolete servers.”

However, Oracle added that its Oracle Cloud servers were not compromised, and the incident didn’t impact its cloud services or customer data.

​Oracle also privately acknowledged in calls with some of its clients that attackers stole old client credentials after breaching a “legacy environment” last used in 2017. However, the hacker behind the breach posted newer records from 2025 on BreachForums and shared data with BleepingComputer from the end of 2024.

BleepingComputer ​​​​​has separately confirmed with multiple Oracle customers that leaked data samples (including associated LDAP display names, email addresses, given names, and other identifying information) received from the threat actor were valid.

In late March, cybersecurity firm CybelAngel also revealed that Oracle told customers that an attacker deployed a web shell and additional malware on some of its Gen 1 (also known as Oracle Cloud Classic) servers as early as January 2025.

Until the breach was detected in late February, the attacker allegedly stole data from the Oracle Identity Manager (IDM) database, which included hashed passwords, usernames, and user emails.

Last month, BleepingComputer first reported that Oracle also issued private customer notifications regarding another January breach at Oracle Health (a SaaS company previously known as Cerner) that impacted patient data at multiple U.S. healthcare organizations and hospitals.

RedStone, a blockchain oracle provider, has introduced a push-based oracle on MegaETH to tackle latency issues that challenge the efficiency of onchain trading.

According to a spokesperson for RedStone, the new oracle can push new prices onchain every 2.4 milliseconds. Initially debuting on MegaETH, an Ethereum layer-2 network, the product may be rolled out to additional chains in the future.

RedStone said its oracle sources prices from centralized exchanges and delivers them directly to applications or smart contracts via nodes that operate natively on the MegaETH chain.

This “co-location” strategy minimizes latency by eliminating delays typically caused by the physical distance between servers. In the future, RedStone also plans to include price feeds from decentralized exchanges.

Oracles compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) are becoming more popular. According to Alchemy, there are currently 12 decentralized oracle networks operating on Ethereum.

Oracles can make money through data usage fees, licenses, staking rewards and node incentives. The current market capitalization for oracle tokens sits at $10.2 billion, according to CoinMarketCap.

Related: Trump’s World Liberty Financial taps Chainlink as oracle provider

DeFi growth spurs further rise of oracles

Decentralized finance’s total value locked onchain nears $88 billion as of April 8, after rising 116% in 2024, according to DefiLlama. Ethereum remains the top blockchain for DeFi applications, with $47.8 billion locked in the network, followed by Solana with $6.1 billion in DeFi TVL.

The rise of DeFi has intensified competition in the oracle market — an essential component for the functioning of decentralized applications. Price oracles feed real-time market data into smart contracts, acting as a bridge between blockchains and the real world.

Popular players in the oracle space include Chainlink and Pyth Network. In October 2024, Pyth flipped Chainlink in 30-day volume, reaching $36 billion in transactions. The protocol offers a pull-based model that provides data upon request, thus making it optimized for high-volume activities.

Magazine: Financial nihilism in crypto is over — It’s time to dream big again

Artificial intelligence (AI) stocks have been some of the top performers on Wall Street over the last few years. Yet, just like any other sector, they come in many different shapes and sizes.

So, let’s review two of the largest and best-known AI stocks — Oracle (ORCL 1.61%) and Amazon (AMZN 0.99%) — and see which is the best choice for investors right now.

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Oracle

As the AI revolution has gained steam, so has Oracle’s stock. After years of lagging behind the top dogs in the technology sector — and the market as a whole — the shares have sprung to life in the past three years.

Indeed, at the time of this writing, Oracle is up 79% compared to 26% for the S&P 500 over the last three years.

ORCL data by YCharts.

The reason for this surge is simple: AI data center demand. As one of the leading providers of cloud data centers, the company has risen to meet the high computing requirements brought on by the growing demand for AI training, inference, and deployment.

As a result, the business’ sluggish revenue growth has picked up. In its most recent quarter (ending on Feb. 28), total revenue jumped 6% year over year to $14.1 billion, led by 10% growth in its cloud services revenue.

While this 6% revenue growth is down from the strong double-digit gain Oracle recorded in 2023, it remains above the company’s 10-year average of 4%.

ORCL Operating Revenue (Quarterly YoY Growth) data by YCharts.

What’s more, the company continues to invest heavily in new data centers, aiming to build on its market share within the cloud services sector and perhaps with the long-term goal of challenging the big three within the cloud services space (Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet‘s Google).

At any rate, the bull case revolves around steadily increasing AI data center demand, which leads to higher revenue growth that would justify its price-to-earnings ratio (P/E) of 34 and its significant capital expenditures on new data center construction.

In a nutshell, Oracle is an excellent stock for investors who are bullish on AI demand and want to focus on data center growth.

Amazon

Whereas Oracle stock represents an almost pure play on AI-driven data center growth, Amazon is a more diversified AI stock.

First, it’s the largest cloud services company, thanks to its Amazon Web Services (AWS) division. AWS alone generates over $100 billion in annual revenue and, according to data compiled by Statista, holds a 30% share of the global cloud services market compared to only 3% for Oracle.

Yet, Amazon has even more AI fuel in the tank. In addition to its cloud services business, it is developing its own AI chips. These chips, known as Trainium, will be used for training and inference for AWS, ideally reducing costs and lowering reliance on suppliers like Nvidia.

And management has invested $8 billion in Anthropic, a start-up focused on developing AI solutions like its Claude AI assistant. Research or breakthroughs developed at Anthropic could find their way into Amazon operations, similar to the way Microsoft has integrated ChatGPT into some of its products.

Lastly, Amazon’s massive e-commerce business presents many opportunities for the company to leverage AI to generate efficiencies and cost savings that could improve its bottom line. Whether it’s improved inventory management, cheaper shipping routes, or personalized advertising, it could leverage AI to make its business more profitable.

In summary, Amazon is an AI conglomerate that is pursuing multiple pathways when it comes to the AI boom. While data center growth remains an important factor, it is far from the only way that the company will benefit from AI in the future.

Which is the better AI stock: Oracle or Amazon?

In a nutshell, this decision comes down to the individual investor. For those with a narrow focus on data-center growth driven by AI, Oracle may be the better choice. However, Amazon, with all of its diversified AI initiatives, may be the better choice for investors with a broader thesis.

While both stocks remain intriguing, I lean toward Amazon, given its more comprehensive size and scale.

Despite Oracle denying a breach of its Oracle Cloud federated SSO login servers and the theft of account data for 6 million people, BleepingComputer has confirmed with multiple companies that associated data samples shared by the threat actor are valid.

Last week, a person named ‘rose87168’ claimed to have breached Oracle Cloud servers and began selling the alleged authentication data and encrypted passwords of 6 million users. The threat actor also said that stolen SSO and LDAP passwords could be decrypted using the info in the stolen files and offered to share some of the data with anyone who could help recover them.

The threat actor released multiple text files consisting of a database, LDAP data, and a list of 140,621 domains of companies that were allegedly impacted by the breach. It should be noted that some of the company domains look like tests, and there are multiple domains per company.

In addition to the data, rose87168 shared an Archive.org URL with BleepingComputer for a text file hosted on the “login.us2.oraclecloud.com” server that contained their email address. This file indicates that the threat actor could create files on Oracle’s server, indicating an actual breach.

However, Oracle has denied that it suffered a breach of Oracle Cloud and has refused to respond to any further questions about the incident.

“There has been no breach of Oracle Cloud. The published credentials are not for the Oracle Cloud. No Oracle Cloud customers experienced a breach or lost any data,” the company told BleepingComputer last Friday.

This denial, however, contradicts findings from BleepingComputer, which received additional samples of the leaked data from the threat actor and contacted the associated companies.

Representatives from these companies, all who agreed to confirm the data under the promise of anonymity, confirmed the authenticity of the information. The companies stated that the associated LDAP display names, email addresses, given names, and other identifying information were all correct and belonged to them.

The threat actor also shared emails with BleepingComputer, claiming to be part of an exchange between them and Oracle.

One email shows the threat actor contacting Oracle’s security email (secalert_us@oracle.com) to report that they hacked the servers.

“I’ve dug into your cloud dashboard infrastructure and found a massive vulnerability that has handed me full access to info on 6 million users,” reads the email seen by BleepingComputer.

Another email thread shared with BleepingComputer shows an exchange between the threat actor and someone using a ProtonMail email address who claims to be from Oracle. BleepingComputer has redacted the email address of this other person as we could not verify their identity or the veracity of the email thread.

In this email exchange, the threat actor says someone from Oracle using a @proton.me email address told them that “We received your emails. Let’s use this email for all communications from now on. Let me know when you get this.”

Cybersecurity firm Cloudsek has also found an Archive.org URL showing that the “login.us2.oraclecloud.com” server was running Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g as of February 17, 2025. Oracle has since taken this server offline after news of the alleged breach was reported.

This version of the software was impacted by a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-35587 that allowed unauthenticated attackers to compromise Oracle Access Manager. The threat actor claimed that this vulnerability was used in the alleged breach of Oracle’s servers.

BleepingComputer has emailed Oracle numerous times about this information but has not received any response.

Binance, the largest crypto exchange by trading volume in the world, has rolled out trading support for a brand-new multichain oracle altcoin.

Traders on the top global crypto exchange can now buy and sell RED, the native asset of the modular blockchain oracle RedStone.

RedStone bills itself as “the fastest-growing blockchain oracle” with users on more than 80 chains.

“In 2024 alone RedStone user base grew by over 500%, and Total Value Secured grew by over 6,000%. Powered by novel, sustainable tokenomics, RED will accrue REAL YIELD from RedStone data users. Staked RED will receive a portion of data consumer fees as RedStone scales to secure thousands of blockchains and trillions of dollars in on-chain finance.”

Binance’s listing was postponed by three hours on Thursday “due to unexpected and last minute changes by RedStone (RED) to the allocation of their community airdrop distribution.”

RED is trading at $0.68 at time of writing. The 278th-ranked crypto asset by market cap is down more than 27% on its first day of trading.

Binance attached a seed tag to RED, a designation the exchange attaches to lower-liquidity projects that could exhibit higher volatility compared to other listed tokens. Binance requires users who want to trade assets with seed tags to pass quizzes every 90 days to ensure they’re aware of the risks.

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