qinbafrank|Dec 08, 2025 07:29
What if the oracle goes wrong? The value of AI oracle lies in the manipulation case of Polymarket oracle. On March 25, 2025, a news about PolyMarket being attacked by oracle manipulation received widespread attention. Previously, the betting pool on whether Ukraine will sign a mineral agreement with Trump before April on the platform attracted about $7 million in bets. As of the eve of March 25th, the so-called mineral agreement has not been signed. However, a whale manipulated the UMA oracle connected to PolyMarket, causing the contract to determine that the mineral agreement has been signed, causing many people to suffer losses.
In this typical oracle manipulation attack, due to UMA oracle allowing holders to vote on the outcome of real events, if more tokens are voted for "Yes", the oracle will determine that this has happened. Whales holding a huge amount of UMA tokens invested a total of about 5 million UMA tokens through multiple addresses on March 25th, in order to force the "Yes" result to pass the judgment, which can be described as reversing black and white.
Blockchain is like an isolated and highly secure 'digital court', where the rules (i.e. smart contracts) are absolutely fair and automatically enforced. Unfortunately, this' court 'is blind and deaf, unaware of what is happening outside. The oracle is its messenger sent to the outside world. No matter how fair a judge is, if the evidence provided by the plaintiff and defendant is false, he cannot make a fair judgment. In this scenario, the oracle is like a lawyer or prosecutor, responsible for bringing information to the judge.
So theoretically, oracle machines may indeed be attacked, especially when the data sources are not sufficiently dispersed, the update frequency is too low, nodes are hacked, or the data is not authentic. If the data of the oracle is wrong, the data on the blockchain will also be scrambled, posing a definite risk of black swan.
The machine economy must be built on verifiable and verifiable evidence.
The solution provided by Swarm Network here is to use AI Agent Swarm+ZK to transform arbitrary and private data into verifiable on chain intelligence. It's like having a group of decentralized AI agents act as miners, grabbing data online, having meetings and arguments with each other, reaching consensus, and then casting the results into an on chain claim. It's like doing a "truth rollup" on the information, and using ZK to package the reasoning process, only outputting true or false verification results. By leveraging AI agents, blockchain, and community collaboration, large-scale information verification can become a shared endeavor for the general public. In other words, the ability to combat false information can be returned to AI clusters and communities, making "obtaining the truth" as convenient and ubiquitous as using water and electricity networks.
The problems with traditional oracle machines are that they cannot be stored in private data, have a single point of failure risk, and have slow expansion speed. The user owned agent cluster of Swarm Network can securely, verifiably, and in real-time upload any private data to the chain. Equivalent to integrating privacy, AI verification, and oracle into a unified level. TRUTH is the economic foundation for the operation of the entire Swarm network ecosystem, designed as a single token architecture to achieve collaborative incentives and value exchange within the network.
In the market built by Swarm, "trustworthiness" itself will become a commodity: whether it is news facts, social media content, enterprise data, or IoT information, their authenticity can be verified and supplied to users or smart contracts in need. This positioning enables Swarm Network to not only serve within the encryption industry, but also target a wider range of fields, including media, social platforms, finance, supply chain, IoT, artificial intelligence applications, and all markets with a demand for trusted data. Rollup News is the first landing application launched by Swarm Network, as an AI driven fact checking tool integrated into the social media X (formerly Twitter) platform. So far, over 128000 validators have completed 3 million verifications.
From this perspective, Swarm Network is a truly AI driven, privacy preserving oracle protocol layer.
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