Do you really think that DeFi oracles are fair and transparent? Think again.

Smart contracts themselves are blind; they cannot see off-chain data. Want to know the real market conditions? You have to buy it from an oracle. This raises a painful question: are you getting genuine data or manipulated false information?

Many people equate "decentralization" with "honesty." This is a fatal misconception. Decentralization only answers "who can participate," but it doesn't answer "why should participants be honest." No matter how many nodes there are, if the incentive mechanism encourages cheating, it only creates more cheaters.

From this perspective, the most intense competition in the oracle space is not on the technical level but on the level of incentive design.

The idea behind the APRO project is quite interesting—it clearly understands human nature. Relying solely on moral persuasion is useless; honesty must become the most profitable choice. How to do that? Through economic means.

The core strategy is to separate data provision from data verification. Many oracle systems combine these two roles, which gives bad actors too much room. But if you design incentives to separate data provision and verification, and motivate verifiers to expose lies… the situation changes completely.

This way, the cost of cheating is infinitely increased, and honesty becomes the optimal strategy. This is not technological innovation; it is economic innovation.