By the end of 2025, oracles suddenly became a battleground for capital competition. This shift is worth pondering.

Last year, everyone was frantically speculating on various application-layer projects, but this year, they are collectively focusing on infrastructure like oracles. Why? Because the explosion of Bitcoin's second-layer networks and native protocols has already caused hundreds of billions of dollars in assets to flow on-chain. But there is a critical bottleneck—if the price feed data is delayed by three seconds, or if it deviates during extreme market conditions, lending protocols worth hundreds of millions of dollars could collapse instantly, like skyscrapers losing their foundation.

This is not alarmist talk. In Wall Street's view, liquidity is blood, and data is the nervous system. If this signaling system is unreliable, even vast asset scales are illusory.

APROs are working to solve this problem. Early oracles were like radios that often lost signal, but the new generation is building truly high-fidelity real-time synchronization systems. Technologically, they achieve this through multi-source data aggregation, preventing single points of failure, and optimizing latency to ensure the accuracy and stability of price feeds. From a business perspective, this directly relates to the risk control capabilities of the entire DeFi ecosystem.

Capital flows never lie. When giants start paying attention to a track, it indicates that this track is finally shifting from being overlooked to becoming indispensable. Oracles may be that "seemingly unprofitable but actually most valuable" infrastructure.