In the Web2 world, what do you look at first when connecting to a data API? It's not sentiment, it's the SLA—
99.9% availability, maximum latency of 200ms, peak QPS, compensation terms.
But when it comes to multi-chain DeFi, RWA, and BTCFi, there are often billions of dollars hanging on the chain, and the most critical Oracle data feed is reduced to a vague promise:
“We will do our best to maintain stability,” “There are many nodes, so it’s very secure.”
In short, today, the vast majority of DeFi protocols use Oracles, relying on “good luck and no incidents,” rather than a written service level agreement.
When incidents occur, the liquidation line is drenched in blood, and afterwards, everyone on Twitter shifts blame, rarely does anyone seriously ask:
Who signed the SLA for that price feed and that PoR feed? Does it have the qualifications to support such a high TVL?
What APRO does is bind AI and Oracle together, providing an AI-Oracles network for multi-chain DeFi, RWA, BTCFi, and AI Agents:
off-chain nodes gather data from multiple sources, AI performs multi-source aggregation and anomaly detection, and on-chain verification writes data feeds into smart contracts for use by Binance, BTC L2, and protocols on various chains.
It sounds like yet another 'smarter Oracle network'.
But the real game-changer is that APRO + AT moves the data SLA originally written in Web2 contracts into tokens and on-chain mechanisms.
Under the APRO framework, an Oracle feed is no longer just 'the price of an asset', but is broken down into a set of measurable service dimensions:
Update frequency: 5 seconds, 15 seconds, 60 seconds, or event-triggered;
Delay limit: how many milliseconds during normal times, and how much fluctuation is allowed during extreme market conditions;
Multi-source depth: how many CEXs, how many chains, and how many off-chain providers are connected;
AI verification intensity: only simple anomaly detection, or combined with historical pattern recognition and PoR text analysis;
Availability target: 99% or 99.9%, is short-term service degradation allowed;
These things are written in legal contracts as 'Service Level Agreements' in the traditional world;
On the APRO side, they are written in the AT staking, rewards, and slashing rules—
The amount of AT nodes are willing to stake and the strictness of the penalties they are willing to accept correspond to the level of Oracle service they dare to promise externally.
You can imagine this as a multi-layered 'data highway':
The outermost layer consists of low-frequency, low-cost general price feeds, suitable for ordinary DeFi, long-tail assets, and strategies that are not so risk-sensitive;
The middle layer consists of medium-frequency data feeds with AI verification, such as mainstream assets, commonly used RWA, stablecoins, and regular PoR;
The innermost layer consists of high-frequency, low-latency, AI deeply involved, and multi-source cross-validated 'trading-grade Oracle channels', specifically serving perp, options, high-frequency market making, cross-chain liquidation, and AI Agents strategies.
Behind each channel corresponds to a SLA written on AT:
To enter which tier, nodes must stake how much AT and accept how much slashing risk;
Protocols must pay how much AT as data fees to enjoy what level of update frequency and verification intensity.
From the perspective of the Binance ecosystem protocol, you will suddenly realize you have a choice—
To create a conservative RWA government bond pool, you can choose an Oracle SLA with 'low latency is not important, but PoR and audit fields must be strict':
The PoR report update frequency is fixed, AI must perform field-level parsing on PDFs, multi-source comparison of SEC documents, and custodian addresses must be cross-checked on-chain; this tier is obviously more expensive than a regular price feed, but worth it.When doing perp/options on the BNB Chain or BTC L2, what you care about is: 'latency must be low, heartbeat must be stable, and extreme market conditions cannot have interruptions',
Thus, you access APRO's high-frequency feed: nodes stake more AT for this, accept more aggressive slashing conditions, and the protocol uses trading fees to cover this part of the SLA cost, embedding the risk into the product structure instead of praying 'don't happen to fall within those 5 seconds'.AI Agents want to run strategies across multiple chains, they will instinctively consume the most data feeds—
At this point, connecting to APRO's high-level Oracle means you are paying AT for the 'input quality' of these Agents, preventing them from making 'look smart but actually dumb' decisions based on manipulated prices, expired PoR reports, or single-source sentiment data.
For nodes, AT is like the deposit you place on the table when signing a data SLA;
For the protocol, AT is the premium you pay for this SLA;
For the entire APRO AI-Oracles network, AT turns 'multi-chain data service levels' into a set of priceable, arbitrable, and upgradeable economic language.
This has an essential difference from traditional 'Oracle governance tokens':
Past governance tokens were more about voting on 'what new assets to add, whether to increase fees, or whether to provide incentives',
AT is about something more hardcore: 'What kind of SLA templates are we willing to use to define the real interfaces of this industry?'
You can imagine a future point in time:
The market will clearly distinguish several types of Oracle products:
Basic feeds: low price, low frequency, used for non-critical parameters;
Institutional-grade feeds: multi-source, AI verification, stable heartbeat, used for mainstream DeFi and RWA;
Trading-grade feeds: extremely low latency, high-frequency updates, used for high leverage, multi-chain liquidation, high-frequency strategies;
Each tier has a set of parameters written on-chain + a basket of AT that is locked up.
Prices, PoR, and risk parameters are no longer 'good enough' black boxes but products with clear SLA labels.
From this perspective, the long-term value of AT does not solely come from 'how much TVS APRO has', 'how many chains are integrated', or 'how many projects are using it',
but comes from a more fundamental question:
In the next three to five years, how much budget will multi-chain DeFi / RWA / BTCFi / AI Agents be willing to spend for 'data SLA clearly written on the chain'? How much of that budget will be settled through APRO + AT?
If the industry still tends to say 'luckily, the Oracle didn't have issues this time' at critical moments, then AT is worthless;
If the industry starts to ask 'what is the SLA of this feed? Who is endorsing it with AT?' when connecting to the Oracle, then AT will no longer be an abstract DeFi token, but a data service asset attached to a complete set of SLAs.
My own judgment is: as AI, RWA, BTCFi, and multi-chain collaboration become more competitive, each Oracle incident will heighten the industry's sensitivity to 'data SLA'.
When protocol parties, node parties, and users start to discuss 'the delay, availability, multi-source depth, AI verification level, and PoR update window of this feed',
The story of AT will gradually change from 'can the token rise' to 'which service level did we buy for reality'.
The above is my personal understanding of AT and does not constitute investment advice. Every time you participate in staking, payment, or governance using AT, the responsibility is yours at the moment of signing.
If one day, connecting to Oracle is like purchasing cloud services and requires looking at SLA price quotes, where do you think AT would stand on that price quote?
