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Oracles feed the smart contract with external information that can trigger predefined actions of the smart contract. This external data stems either from so ware ( Big-data application ) or hardware (Internet-of-Things) . Such a condition could be any data, like weather temperature, successful payment, or price fluctuations. However , it is important to note that a smart contract does not wait for the data from an outside source to flow into the system . The contract has to be invoked, which means that one has to spend network resources for calling data from the outside world. This induces network transaction costs. In the case of Ethereum, this would be “gas.” There are different types of oracles: Software Oracles handle information data that originates from online sources, like temperature, prices of commodities and goods, flight or train delays, etc. The so ware oracle extracts the needed information and pushes it into the smart contract. Hardware Oracles Some sm...