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Tic Ton Oracle

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What is Tic Ton Oracle?

Tic Ton oracle stands as the premier fully decentralized oracle on the TON platform. Diverging from market-standard final prices set by price providers, it employs Game Theory to craft a decentralized network of non-cooperative games. This network ascertains the ultimate price via mechanisms of arbitrage and bidirectional options, incorporating the chain with random data from decentralized price streams.

Interacting with Tic Ton Oracle via Telegram: A User-Friendly Guide

TicTon Tournament

Motivation

Inspired by Uniswap's oracle, we believe that a true oracle should generate prices directly on-chain, rather than merely uploading pre-processed off-chain data. Oracles should be decentralized, not reliant on centralized data providers, and possess the ability to withstand attacks, instead of depending solely on the reputation of data sources. Moreover, an effective oracle should be capable of supporting large-scale transactions, not just dependent on the capacity of data providers.

Core Concepts

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The benefits of Tic Ton Oracle

When contrasted with traditional price feed systems, Tic Ton Oracle boasts several key benefits:

High Transactions per second in TON:

Due to TON's significantly high TPS, the wait time during the verification period can be reduced. For instance, while Ethereum requires a 12-second wait for each block, TON can achieve a block every second. Therefore, if price verification necessitates 10 blocks, it would only take 10 seconds on TON as opposed to 120 seconds on Ethereum. Consequently, employing oracles on TON can provide more immediate and efficient pricing.

Decentralization

Tic Ton oracle operates in a fully open and complimentary manner, facilitating price proposals and validations through a non-cooperative game approach. This eliminates the need for any centralized oversight or entry barriers for the quoting system, allowing anyone to participate or disengage freely, anytime and anywhere.

Stability and Safeguarding

Tic Ton oracle empowers all participants to contribute to and shape the price formation on the blockchain. Concurrently, it guides the price data towards a fair market value, safeguarded by its underlying mechanism. Orchestrating a price manipulation requires control over 51% of the assets within the oracle's network. Any anomalies in pricing within the Tic Ton Oracle are subject to adjustment by the collective efforts of all validators.

How is the Tic Ton Oracle operated?

Architecture

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In-Depth Architecture Breakdown

You can envision the Tic Ton Oracle as the story below:

A Watchmaker can submit a correct time to Tic Ton's Alarm. If a Timekeeper finds any Alarm with inaccurate time, they can report a new time to that Alarm.

If the time provided by a Watchmaker remains unadjusted by the Timekeeper, the Watchmaker receives a reward. Timekeepers also earn rewards for correcting erroneous Alarm times. The funds for these rewards come from customers who pay to check the current time.

Step1: Provide price by Watchmaker

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Step2: Verify price by Timekeeper

Alt text When the Timekeeper believes an Alarm's quote (1 TON / 2 USDT) is incorrect and the actual price should be 1 TON / 3 USDT, they can use 2 USDT to purchase the 1 TON.However, they must also provide a new, correct quote and transfer an amount double that of the exploited Alarm. If the original Watchmaker contributed 1 TON and 2 USDT, the Timekeeper must then transfer 2 TON and 6 USDT (representing 1 TON / 3 USDT) to the Oracle. The Oracle will then create an Alarm to record this quote and allow other Timekeepers to review it for arbitrage opportunities. Through this method, malicious quotes require asset commitment to the Oracle, but they also provide Timekeepers with arbitrage opportunities, each requiring a double asset deposit. As the arbitrage process repeats, the threshold for submitting malicious quotes increases.

Step3: Protocols get price

Alt text Protocols can retrieve prices from Tic Ton Oracle while paying some basic fees.

Summary

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Project structure

  • contracts - source code of all the smart contracts of the project and their dependencies.
  • wrappers - wrapper classes (implementing Contract from ton-core) for the contracts, including any [de]serialization primitives and compilation functions.
  • tests - tests for the contracts.
  • scripts - scripts used by the project, mainly the deployment scripts.

How to use

Build

npx blueprint build or yarn blueprint build

Test

npx blueprint test or yarn blueprint test

Deploy or run another script

npx blueprint run or yarn blueprint run

Add a new contract

npx blueprint create ContractName or yarn blueprint create ContractName