Hi there Witnet community! Welcome to our Witnet technology preview.

Today, we are unveiling our first prototype, a preview of early features we will implement into our desktop client, Sheikah.

As you may know, up until now smart contracts were completely isolated from the rest of the internet. This is called “the oracle problem.” With Witnet, this won’t be an issue anymore.

Witnet is a decentralized oracle network that connects smart contracts to any online data source, such as sports results, stock prices, weather forecasts, other blockchains, or any type of data provided using an API.

The protocol works thanks to a distributed network of nodes — called witnesses — who earn Wit tokens as a reward for retrieving data points and delivering them directly into the smart contracts. This, along with a network reputation protocol helps Witnet ensure more consistent data fidelity and quality for requesters. Our technology will enable smart contracts to do complex, mission critical tasks that rely on external data for execution.

A video demo of Sheikah

Sheikah

Sheikah is a lightweight Electron app which will eventually serve as a full interface for the Witnet wallet, data requests, smart contracts, block explorer, and more. While the full Witnet testnet and subsequent main-net are yet-to-come on our development roadmap, we wanted to give our community a good idea of what interacting with the Witnet decentralized oracle network would feel like.

Anyone can use the Sheikah technology preview. Having yarn and git installed are prerequisites for running the client. With those ready, you only have to go to our Github repo and follow the instructions available at the Readme. Just a few simple command line prompts and you can be up and going with Sheikah.

Please note there are several views within Sheikah which are not fully developed and are not yet clickable.

1. Wallet