I am sitting at the lobby of a hotel in Gulshan, Dhaka. Beyond the window the city is vibrating to its usual, unchecked, rhythms, the glare of Headlights, the chimes of rickshaw bells, and the ceaseless torrent of people. My coffee is slowly growing cold on the table, and I do not seem to pay much attention to it. I have focused my eyes on the Binance charts which are beating on the laptop screen like a heartbeat.
The market is volatile today. Bitcoin has gained a gravitational momentum, and altcoins are having a hard time keeping in with the beat. There is something odd about these red and green candlesticks flickering back and forth. We look at billions of dollars being transported across the screens but what is the basis of it all? The blockchain is, but then a closed room--how does it even know what is going on in the world outside?
That is why I came across APRO Oracle ($AT) in search of this answer.
When we mention Oracle, we typically refer to systems such as Chainlink or Pyth which merely feed price feeds into the blockchain. However, by digging through the whitepaper and architecture of APRO, I did notice that they are attempting to reinvent the game completely. They call it "Oracle 3.0."
To know the shift, I turned my head to the back of the screen and in the direction of the hotel reception. Suppose that this hotel owner would tokenize this property on the blockchain to-day (Real-World Assets or RWA). The valuation reports, the legal deeds and the audit papers, they are in PDF files or hard copies. These cannot be read in the old systems of Oracle 2.0, they have no idea what the language of real numbers is like.
At this point, APRO is differentiated. They use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to process this unstructured, messy data, scanned deeds, PDF reports, and legal opinions and authenticate it before taking it on-chain. APRO does not merely carry data, it thinks about it.
Two of the strategies that APRO employed in the marketplace sounded particularly incisive to me in light of the market noise:
The Bitcoin Pivot (BTCFi): Ethereum: Since it is full of oracles, the Bitcoin ecosystem (Runes, Lightning Network, RGB++) has lacked trustworthy smart contract infrastructure. APRO has moved to occupy this gap making it the eyes of the Bitcoin economy.
The Push and Pull Mechanism: Not all projects require data on a second by second basis. APRO lets developers decide on which model to use: either real-time needs using the Push model, or requesting data only when needed is needed using Pull model, and the companies save colossal sums in money expenditures.
I gulped the remaining coffee I had and closed the laptop. The road traffic had a little diluted. It struck me that within the death-like clatter of the crypto market the business ventures to emerge are those that keep near the ground the ones that can create a sound bridge between the physical world and its digital vision.
APRO ($AT) appears to be the construction of that bridge, which will be capable of converting the disorganized, unstructured reality of the world into the coherent, unchangeable pages of the blockchain. I am not sure about the price action, but this is a radical change on the technological front.
