Cratos Integrates Chainlink Keepers to Help Decentralize the Automation of Token Vesting
We’re excited to announce that Cratos — a V2E (Vote To Earn) cryptocurrency designed to facilitate citizen participation in the CRATOS app, a real-time voting platform — has integrated Chainlink Keepers on Ethereum mainnet. We are leveraging Chainlink Keepers to help securely and cost-efficiently automate token vesting. As a result, Cratos token vesting is now fully automated and more decentralized.
We decided to decentralize Cratos’ token vesting function using Chainlink Keepers because it is operated by the same pool of time-tested, provably reliable node operators that currently help secure tens of billions of dollars in DeFi through Chainlink Price Feeds. The proven infrastructure of Chainlink helps ensure that token vesting is executed on time in a trust-minimized manner, giving users stronger guarantees that it will function exactly as intended.
With CRATOS app, users can generate a topic and invite others to participate in the voting process. This can be for a wide range of issues, including economics, politics, cryptocurrency, etc. Users can earn CRTS tokens by signing up, creating a vote, leaving a comment, and participating in votes on a daily basis. As of April 16, 2022, the Cratos Korean & Global app has over 300K registered users and 600K downloads.
Smart contracts are inherently immutable — when a smart contract on Ethereum is live, there’s little that the project can do to make fundamental alterations to it. Chainlink Keepers enable us to simplify the process of vesting tokens on a monthly basis, a task that previously required a manual trigger. The Cratos team has been looking for this kind of transaction automation solution to help fully automate and decentralize token vesting.
Chainlink Keepers is a decentralized service offered purpose-built to manage tasks on behalf of smart contracts. Chainlink Keepers serve as a decentralized, hyper-reliable, and economically incentivized automation bot that wakes up smart contracts when they need to perform critical on-chain functions, which usually take place at regular time intervals (e.g., every day at the same time) or based on external events (e.g., when an asset hits a specific price).
Some of the notable features of Chainlink Keepers include:
- Decentralized Execution — Chainlink Keepers provide reliable, trust-minimized automation with no single point of failure, mitigating risks around manual processes and centralized servers.
- Increased Efficiency — Projects that use Chainlink Keepers are able to reduce time spent on DevOps, minimize operational overhead, and streamline development workflows.
- Enhanced Security — Chainlink Keepers sign on-chain transactions themselves, enabling automated smart contract execution without exposing private keys.
- Reduced Costs — Chainlink Keepers perform efficient off-chain computation for smart contracts, allowing developers to build feature-rich dApps at lower costs.
“Chainlink Keepers is the best solution for Cratos to automate and decentralize the token vesting process. Thanks to the time-tested infrastructure of Chainlink, we can have stronger assurances that vesting happens in a timely manner. ” — David Kang, CEO
About Chainlink
Chainlink is the industry standard for building, accessing, and selling oracle services needed to power hybrid smart contracts on any blockchain. Chainlink oracle networks provide smart contracts with a way to reliably connect to any external API and leverage secure off-chain computations for enabling feature-rich applications. Chainlink currently secures tens of billions of dollars across DeFi, insurance, gaming, and other major industries, and offers global enterprises and leading data providers a universal gateway to all blockchains.
Learn more about Chainlink by visiting chain.link or reading the developer documentation at docs.chain.link. To discuss an integration, reach out to an expert.
About Cratos
Cratos is a leading V2E (Vote To Earn) cryptocurrency designed to facilitate citizen participation in the Cratos app, a real-time live vote platform where anyone can generate a vote and users can participate in the vote immediately, and the statistics of the results by gender and age are displayed to users to enhance the transparency of public opinion. Users can earn CRTS tokens by registration, creating a vote, leaving a comment, and participating in a vote.
Learn more about Cratos by visiting cratostoken.com or downloading the Cratos app on Playstore and Appstore.
