Blockchain technology is revolutionizing industries such as financial markets, global trade, insurance, and gaming, with the potential to bring hundreds of trillions of dollars worth of assets onchain.
This shift is enabled by blockchains, smart contracts, and oracles, which together form the foundation of the verifiable web—a system where users maintain full control of their assets and gain transparent insights into application operations.
Oracles play a critical role in this transformation by bridging the gap between isolated blockchains and offchain data or compute resources.
They enable seamless interoperability between blockchains, which is essential for building the interconnected and trustworthy infrastructure required for the verifiable web.
We spoke to Marcin Kazmierczak, Co-founder & COO of RedStone, one of the fastest-growing oracle companies in the crypto space.
The company recently announced the mainnet launch of its new Actively Validated Service (AVS).
This service aims to enhance the security and reliability of its blockchain price feeds by leveraging EigenLayer’s $14 billion in staked assets.
We asked Kazmierczak to provide insights into the growing blockchain oracle space and the company’s plans for 2025.
Here are the excerpts from the interview:
- On RedStone’s Actively Validated Service (AVS) launch on EigenLayer. Can you explain how this will enhance the security and reliability of RedStone’s blockchain price feeds?
The launch of Actively Validated Service (AVS) on EigenLayer enhances the security and reliability of RedStone blockchain price feeds through several key factors.
Economic decentralization is achieved by sourcing security from a diverse range of crypto assets, increasing resilience while enabling rapid, secure scaling to support top DeFi protocols.
EigenLayer’s cost-effective cryptoeconomic security model, paired with its highly audited AVS framework, reduces development complexity while maintaining strong security guarantees.
Furthermore, AVS strengthens RedStone’s modular infrastructure, with core components rewritten to function seamlessly within this flexible, robust framework.
- How do you see the role of oracles evolving in DeFi, especially as the market becomes more competitive and decentralized finance grows?
The ability to securely support innovative use cases, regardless of origin chain or methodology, will be the key factor in strengthening a blockchain oracle provider’s position in the coming years.
Builders need confidence that their oracle partner can deliver exactly what they need—on any chain—while maintaining the same high-security standards as blue-chip assets.
This ensures DeFi innovation continues to thrive in its early stages. These are the very principles RedStone is built upon.
- You’ve previously described RedStone as the “oracle of choice” for several protocols, especially in liquid Bitcoin staking. How will you say RedStone has achieved this status?
Thanks to the modular design of RedStone we were the first blockchain oracle provider to deliver two types of most popular data feeds in the yield assets category: the fundamental contract rate and the market rate.
The first one is based on a smart contract or Proof of Reserve logic, ensuring that crypto users can redeem yield-bearing tokens at any point at a specified rate, i.e. wstETH to ETH on Lido.
The market rate is derived from Decentralized Exchanges liquidity and reflects better the market price for the instant sell of the asset i.e. when liquidating weETH from Etherfi.
For each Bitcoin Liquid Staking protocol, the Proof of Reserve feed is needed due to the nature of BTC being held on the Bitcoin blockchain and the Bitcoin LST tokens being minted on other chains like Ethereum or Sui.
RedStone is the only oracle providing such feeds cross-chain at scale. On top of that, we actively research the creation of Bitcoin Validated Service (BVS) on top of Babylon and SatLayer, which deepens our expertise in that sector.
- Given Chainlink’s dominance in the oracle market, what differentiates RedStone’s approach, and how do you plan to sustain your rapid growth while competing with well-established players?
RedStone has never had a mispricing or price manipulation event since its inception. We focus on the highest level of security and delivery of what projects actually need to keep expanding.
We will keep gaining market share by launching on chains developers and ecosystems are excited about like Berachain, Story Protocol, Monad, and Unichain. By delivering the price feeds they need to innovate, including yield-bearing assets and ecosystem-native tokens.
Doing so an order of magnitude faster than competitors. The modular design of RedStone allows us to be simply more efficient and scalable than other players on the market.
It also enables new use cases like the optimal Oracle Extractable Value (OEV) solution that doesn’t add delay to the process or AI Oracles use cases like CLARA.
- In 2024, you talked about the pull model’s rising adoption. How do you see it growing in 2025 and what are some of the advantages of it over the push model?
The pull model eliminates the waste of gas for pushing data on-chain when it’s not needed.
By definition of the Pull model, the user delivers a signed and fresh data feed packet together with their transaction.
Such a system is more efficient and scalable across an unlimited number of chains as it’s abstracted away from a single blockchain.
I believe in 2025 we’ll see more and more novel use cases tapping into that solution.
- Beyond price feeds, you’ve previously mentioned oracles providing GDP data or election data. Do you see such diversifications happening for oracles anytime soon?
Technically our system can deliver any integer developers need. The bigger question is where projects will be able to create sustainable and innovative solutions that users will be willing to use. With a viable business model, we can support any builder.
Having said that we take active steps in working with institutions and big organizations willing to expand into the blockchain ecosystem to ensure their bespoke blockchain oracle needs are also met with our services. It will be a big year for such use cases.
- Do you foresee expanding beyond the DeFi ecosystem to other sectors or industries, potentially even partnering with traditional finance or institutional players?
AI Agents will play a big role in 2025, be on the lookout for AI Oracles updates from RedStone that will enhance the efficiency of DeFi and on-chain finance markets.
- What’s next for RedStone in terms of its token launch?
We’re in the middle of The Final Countdown chapter of our RedStone Expedition which will soon conclude with the RedStone token launch to further decentralize the ecosystem.
- What are some of the major goals you are looking forward to in 2025?
Growing the crypto pie. We need more developers, institutional players, and traditional businesses to create solutions on the blockchain rails and it’s our job as infrastructure providers to enable the most efficient onboarding of these players. That’s our goal for this year.
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