Frequently Asked Questions

DIA (Decentralised Information Asset) is a trustless oracle network for Web3. Through a unique approach to data sourcing, DIA enables verifiable sourcing and delivery of transparent data feeds of any type to any blockchain. Its modular, rollup-based design powers institutional-grade data feeds which cover asset prices, metaverse data, lending rates, RWA data feeds and more.

DIA’s data is sourced directly from a broad array of on-chain and off-chain sources at individual trade level. This allows DIA feeds to be 100% customised with regards to the mix of sources and methodologies, resulting in tailor-made, high resilience feeds, setting a new paradigm for oracles.

DIA’s network is permissionless, allowing anyone to deploy oracles, operate nodes, and participate as stakers in the distributed data sourcing process. Its native Layer-2, Lasernet, computes and executes all critical oracle operations on-chain, providing unmatched trustless execution and full verifiability, secured by both crypto-economic and cryptographic mechanisms.

Blockchain oracles are essential third-party entities that act as bridges between blockchains and the external world, enabling smart contracts to access data from external sources in order to execute based on real-world inputs.

Oracles query, verify, and authenticate these external data sources and then relay that information back to the blockchain, where it can be used by smart contracts. Importantly, the oracle itself is not the data source but rather the mechanism that connects the blockchain to these external data sources. These include DeFi, NFTfi, Stablecoins, Indexes, prediction markets and many more.

Our mission is to become the DAO to drive and grow a new financial paradigm. Financial data is guarded by large organisations, which lack transparency and restrict access. DIA's mission is to create a trusted, transparent and accessible data infrastructure, by enabling public participation in its creation. A Wikipedia for financial data, built for and by the web3 community. Our purpose is to empower a new, level economy with accurate and transparent financial data, accessible to anyone via robust and reliable infrastructure.

DIA’s first-party data sourcing capabilities is one of its core benefits as it enables and supplies dApps with unlimited asset coverage i.e any asset type from any chain. This uniquely positions DIA to utilise the broadest possible set of sources and ensure maximum coverage of asset price data. Any data feed that is publicly accessible can be sourced, regardless of whether it is listed on exchanges and what its trading volume is. No dependency on third-party data providers.

Specifically, DIA provides oracles across every major Web3 vertical. These include accurate price feeds for DeFi tokens, from blue chips to microcaps. DIA also brings other types of data on-chain such as Liquid Staked Derivatives (LSDs), verifiable randomness for blockchain gaming (RNG), FX rates, lending rates, price feeds for RWAs — tokenized stocks, bond yields, and many more.

DIA oracle network is composed of the highest quality, independent, tamper-resistant nodes, powered by leading security and infrastructure teams such as Chainbase. Unlike traditional oracles that rely on opaque third-party data, DIA is the only oracle fetching data directly from the source, eliminating third-party reliance, ensuring full transparency, and supporting niche assets.

These nodes fetch raw data directly from centralized and decentralized exchanges, aggregate, and publish on-chain, ensuring full verifiability for every data point. This fully trustless framework removes centralized control over price formation, setting a new standard for oracle transparency and security.

DIA also employs the hybrid approach of configurable security mechanisms, used to create a two-layer defense system to bolster oracle network robustness and reliability. DIA combines cryptography (ZK proofs, fraud proofs) with crypto-economics (staking and slashing), unifying the precision of math with the incentives of markets to deliver an oracle security that does not rely on trust, but verification.

DIA’s oracle solutions are accessible to any individual or enterprise-level protocol that needs real-world data of any category to power and secure the execution of their smart contracts. Today, DIA is powering hundreds of dApps and supporting an array of assets covering 20,000+ assets and data needs across all chains and major Web3 verticals—DeFi, RWAs, LSDs, GameFi, and more.

Yes. Find DIA’s open-source code repository on Github. https://github.com/diadata-org/

DIA oracles are currently live on 60+ chains. DIA oracles are VM-agnostic such that they operate on EVM and non-EVM chains, enabling seamless multi-chain deployment.

DIA has become the next-gen oracle solution in the industry, powering 200+ dApps across DeFi, GameFi, BTCfi, LSTfi, and more with robust oracle solutions.

DIA brings the broadest collection of price feed oracles to the DeFi ecosystem, supporting 3,000+ tokens including blue chips, microcaps, long-tail assets and more. DIA token price feeds provide smart contracts with real-time price information of cryptocurrencies. DIA’s direct and granular data sourcing from high-volume DEXs and CEXs enables the most unparalleled customization to build high-confidence oracles for any token.

DIA oracles expand the capabilities of any DeFi application by unlocking oracle-dependent use cases such as lending and borrowing, options and futures, asset management, perpetual DEXs, synthetic assets, prediction markets, algo stablecoins, and many more.

DIA has become the go-to oracle solution for the DeFi space, supporting top assets like AAVE, ADA, ARB, BNB, BTC, DOGE, ETH, SEI, SUI and thousands more.

DIA boasts the broadest library of price feeds in the market including tokenized real-world assets, by enabling secure, transparent, and verifiable on-chain data for financial markets. DIA provides price feeds for RWA-backed stablecoins, tokenized stock trading, bond derivatives, on-chain index funds, and many more.
Real-World assets are reshaping the future of finance, and we have mapped out a comprehensive directory of projects leading the charge about everything RWA from DeFi to tokenization, lending, stablecoins & more. To explore the fast-growing ecosystem of 70+ RWA innovators, access the Ultimate RWA Map here: https://www.diadata.org/rwa-real-world-asset-map/

DIA powers a new wave of DeFi applications on Bitcoin Layer-2s by supporting BRC-20 tokens. DIA already supports popular BRC-20 assets such as ORDI, SATS and many more. Despite the great variation in trading volume and liquidity of these long-tail assets, DIA oracles break away from the one-size-fits-all model with fully customizable oracle solutions.
With DIA’s oracle services, developers can now create stablecoins pegged to real-world assets or cryptocurrencies, collateralized by BRC-20 tokens. DIA also enables the creation of lending platforms using BRC-20 tokens as collateral, opening up new liquidity opportunities for user capital that were idle until now.
The Bitcoin ecosystem is expanding beyond store-of-value, and we have built a comprehensive map that showcases top Bitcoin Layer-2 projects, use cases, and benefits they bring to the Bitcoin network. Explore the Ultimate Bitcoin Ecosystem Map here: https://www.diadata.org/bitcoin-ecosystem-map/

As the liquid (re)staking market significantly grows and is adopted on almost every Proof-of-Stake chain, DIA oracles also scaled to bring fair-value price oracles to the liquid staking/restaking ecosystem. DIA xProof plays a vital role as it is composed of fair prices determined by filtering market outliers and applying transparent pricing mechanisms, bringing full transparency. Some use cases include Proof-of-Collateral, on-chain derivatives, lending and borrowing, and more.
We also mapped out two useful, public good resources. These resources outline the entire liquid staking and restaking market, from different issuers of LSTs/LRTs across all relevant ecosystems, AVSs, Operators, and Liquid Staking/Restaking Tokens provided as well as showing which DeFi protocols and dApps are supporting their usage.

Explore the Ultimate Liquid Staking Map here: https://www.diadata.org/liquid-staking/

Explore the Ultimate Restaking Map here: https://www.diadata.org/defi-restaking-map/

DIA xMarket is a broad library of price feeds, designed to bring unprecedented oracle solutions to the DeFi ecosystem by expanding the capabilities of any DeFi application and unlocking oracle-dependent use cases such as price feeds for lending and borrowing, options and futures, asset management, perpetual DEXs, synthetic assets, prediction markets, algo stablecoins, and many more. DIA xMarket operates across multiple blockchains and offers customizable oracles to meet specific dApp needs.

DIA xRandom provides dApps with a verifiable, distributed random number generation. An oracle product fully decentralized and powered by a distributed beacon with no single controller, eliminating single points of failure, ensuring unbiased randomness.
DIA xRandom can be deployed on all networks served by DIA as well as new chain integrations, both EVM and non-EVM compatible ones. DIA’s randomness can also support a wide range of Web3 use cases including gaming, lotteries, prediction markets, NFT launches and many more.

DIA's xProof feeds enable DeFi protocols to support Liquid Staking Derivative tokens through a pricing approach which accounts for the collateral ratio. DIA xProof powers DeFi protocols with fair-value pricing, better risk management, and fully customizable oracles.
Instead of leveraging exchange data to price asset, DIA leverages on-chain information to create “fair-value” price oracles. Additionally, DIA xProof oracles evaluate the asset’s collateral ratio, to improve transparency and reduce the risk of market price manipulation. xProof feeds can be deployed on any of DIA’s 55+ integrated L1 and L2 networks, allowing users can customize oracle parameters such as update mechanism and frequency.

DIA xReal is DIA’s RWA oracle product, designed to bring real-world asset (RWA) data on-chain. It provides price feeds for stocks, exchange rates, bonds, commodities, inflation rates, and more, enabling DeFi applications such as tokenized stock trading, bond derivatives, stablecoins backed by RWAs, and on-chain index funds. DIA xREAL operates across multiple blockchains and offers customizable oracles to meet specific RWA use cases in DeFi.

DIA Lumina is a rollup-powered, trustless oracle network that provides data feeds for tokens, LSTs, RWAs, random numbers, and more across any blockchain. The network operates permissionlessly, allowing nodes and stakers to contribute to decentralized data sourcing, secured by crypto-economic incentives and cryptographic mechanisms like zero-knowledge proofs. DIA’s native Ethereum Layer 2 rollup, Lasernet, handles all key oracle operations, enabling trustless computation and full verifiability.

DIA Lumina is a combination of data sourcing, verification, storage, processing and delivery modules that together produce a final price output. The oracle stack is composed of state-of-the-art components that incentivize data sourcing and enhance security using crypto-economic primitives:

- Feeders: Several nodes that fetch trade ticks directly from DEXs and CEXs, create a price per source, and push them to Pods on DIA Lasernet in configurable intervals.

- Pods: Smart contracts on DIA Lasernet that store asset price data on-chain. There is a dedicated Pod for each Feeder.

- Aggregator: A smart contract that trustlessly selects data from Pods using customizable rules and produces a median value. Multiple Aggregators can be deployed, each with different parameters to meet different needs. It also offers the option to benchmark against external sources for added security.

- Spectra: Powered by Hyperlane, Spectra transmits oracle updates to any chain, eliminating the need for chain-specific integrations.

DIA Distributed Feeder Network (DFN) comprises an open, permissionless network of independent nodes that fetch, aggregate, and publish computed data points directly onto DIA’s Lasernet rollup.

The network is composed of independent Feeder nodes run by infrastructure providers, data specialists, and validators. Each Feeder acts as a coprocessor—an off-chain computation layer that enhances blockchain capabilities by handling complex or resource-intensive operations off-chain while ensuring verifiability and trustlessness.

These Feeder nodes execute essential functions such as data fetching, computation, and on-chain submission, enabling public accessibility, therefore allowing users to permissionlessly deploy Aggregator smart contracts to create fully custom price feeds using data from these Feeders and apply custom computational logics.

Lasernet is DIA’s native proprietary layer-2 rollup leveraging the security of Ethereum. It provides a fully trustless, decentralized, and verifiable environment for all oracle operations such as data aggregation, filtering, computation, and more. By leveraging optimistic rollup architecture and a modular design, Lasernet enables these operations to happen on-chain in a cost-efficient manner.
Lasernet is optimized for high throughput with tens of thousands of TPS with low gas fees, significantly surpassing the limitations of Ethereum’s current TPS capabilities. This strengthens scalability and enables continuous innovation without compromising security. Lasernet inherits Ethereum’s robust security model—consensus mechanisms and finality for transaction validation.
Lasernet comprises a modular, future-proof design that accommodates infinite scalability, flexibility, and seamless integration of future upgrades. Lasernet does not take the day off. Currently sitting at 7M+ total transactions, averaging 98.5k daily transactions with fast block times and 100% uptime.

The lifecycle of data within Lasernet involves several key stages, and it all starts with the feeders.

Each feeder in the Decentralized Feeder Network runs scrapers that collect real-time trade data from CEXes and DEXes for specific trading pairs (e.g., BTC-USDT) that are then forwarded to the Collector which bundles them into atomic tradeblocks (grouped by market and exchange). The Processor then performs a two-step aggregation: first aggregating trades within each atomic tradeblock into a single value, then combining these values into a final price, which is submitted to the designated Pod (feeder contract) on-chain.

During computation, Lumina employs a flexible and trustless system for processing data into final outputs. After the Feeders collect and aggregate data, and store them in their assigned contract (Pods) on the Lasernet rollup. The final aggregation happens on the meta-contract which collects data from Pods using customizable rules and produces a final value to deliver cross-chain.

The final step in the data journey is delivery. Lumina achieves full interoperability, delivering oracle data to any blockchain with minimal friction through the Spectra protocol, a message passing layer powering both the push and pull oracle models.

As a builder or developer, you can start integrating DIA Lumina permissionless oracles into your dApp. Deploy your own oracle or use an existing one.

Yes. The DIA token was launched in 2020. Its purpose is to empower the community to govern over the DIA platform. Any community member can open a discussion through the DIA Forum to propose optimisations to the DIA platform. DIA token is an ERC-20 token with a max supply of 200,000,000 tokens.

The DIA token has expanded from being a governance token to becoming an integral, utility-driven model of DIA Lumina, securing the network, incentivizing participation, and driving the growth of the DIA ecosystem.
The DIA token is integral to Lasernet’s functionality, as it runs as the native gas token that powers the rollup, processing transactions and embedding real economic utility into the token and aligning incentives across the network. Also, the $DIA token is used to incentivize node operators and delegators who stake $DIA to support the network’s security and performance.

The DIA token can be purchased on a variety of centralized and decentralized exchanges, such as Binance, Coinbase, Huobi Global, Crypto.com, OKX, Kucoin, Uniswap, PancakeSwap, SushiSwap and many more.

Head over to the DIA Staking page in the DIA App: https://www.diadata.org/app/staking/

A decentralized community of diversely skilled members who support the growth, development, and governance of DIA. Work guilds include Growth, Business Development, Copywriting, Design, Operations, Tech and more. Moreso, DIA DAO rewards every valuable contribution to DIA’s mission.

To build a formal framework to enable the DIA community to support the growth and development of DIA and to earn rewards while doing so.

Any individual willing to contribute to the growth of the DIA community is welcome. Joining the DIA DAO Discord and submitting your onboarding application are the first steps. Once submitted, one of the core contributors will contact you with the next steps. It is also highly recommended to create a DIA DAO Forum account for governance-related topics.