The World Economic Forum — the international non-governmental organization that hosts an annual meeting of global leaders at Davos — has partnered with Chainlink co-founder and CEO Sergey Nazarov to publish a whitepaper called “Bridging the Governance Gap: Interoperability for blockchain and legacy systems,” and a shorter, “TL;DR” blog post “The missing link between blockchains and enterprises” on their website:
The whitepaper and blog post explain the importance of blockchain oracles such as Chainlink to bring trusted, reliable off-chain data into the realm of blockchains and smart contracts, and so help usher in the “Fourth Industrial Revolution,” as first coined by WEF Chairman Klaus Schwab.