Chainlink Users, Operators and Developers

The marketplace is a hub of all things Chainlink. With that in-mind, our service allows anyone to signup, submit their nodes, developed adaptors and connected data sources. We fully intend to keep on developing this service with the latest Chainlink developments, keep pushing its functionality and usability to make the ecosystem thrive for all its different actors.

Adding Nodes

To add a node onto the marketplace, you just need an account and a deployed Chainlink node with its Oracle contract. There’s no requirement for submitting any identity into the platform. Although, for a node to be searchable on the service, it has to have completed a quick on-chain validation process that is made simple within the UI.

We will also support identity verification tools like Keybase, giving an option to register a social and crypto identity to your user account. Giving a further degree of confidence and reputation to the quality of a potential providers for end-users browsing the marketplace.

Shortly after the first release we will be developing a KYC & KYB process within the marketplace. Giving a full, but private individual or business identity for any operator or developer in the ecosystem.

Submitting Adaptors

The marketplace also comes with GitHub support. Allowing you to sign-in to your GitHub account to submit one of your open source repositories and have it listed as an adaptor that other node operators can support. Giving them an easy way to discover, add it to their node and then offer that type of data. This will ultimately encourage more decentralisation of more sophisticated external requests throughout the Chainlink network.

With that, we’re proposing a simple YAML standard of how adaptors are described. The aim of this is to create a standard easy way of parsing details about adaptors for other services and end-users to both understand.

An example of an adaptor YAML file:

On adding an adaptor, you specify the path of where this file is located in your repository and then the service stores the information so it can be added to any nodes and is searchable for any end-user that’d like to request it.

Marketplace Operators

The marketplace also introduces something called operators. Operators can be an individual or a group of individuals that can be tied to a business entity on the platform. Giving ownership rights of multiple nodes and adaptors to multiple people, allowing a group to act under a common name.

In this early version, operators can be created and then users, nodes and adaptors can be assigned. Although, we’re planning to add far more in this area providing KYB services and a deeper role based access to all different types of services that an operator offers.