Bitcoin (BTC) sidechain RSK will soon be equipped with Chainlink (LINK) oracles, enabling developers on the smart contract-enabled blockchain to tap into market toll feeds and other off-chain data to build their applications.

The integration is being developed past IOVLabs, the visitor behind the RSK sidechain. It is currently live on testnet and expected to be launched on mainnet in less than a calendar month, an IOVLabs spokesman said.

Chainlink data will be ported to RSK via RIF Gateways, an interoperability framework that is designed to allow developers access a wide assortment of data from other blockchains and the external earth. The framework connects to Chainlink nodes and relays data between them and the RSK blockchain. The organisation likewise makes use of the RSK to Ethereum bridge that enables LINK token transfers between the two ecosystems.

Julian Rodriguez, head of RIF Gateways, told Cointelegraph that this allows Chainlink Node Operators to exist compensated with "whatever token in the Eth blockchain." If they wish to be compensated in LINK, "they tin can, they merely demand to become through the bridge to become those redeemed," he added.

Rodriguez said that with this integration, "developers can capitalize on a smart contract network that's anchored to the strongest Proof of Piece of work blockchain."

RSK is a Bitcoin sidechain that uses a pegged version of BTC equally its native currency. While the peg process is facilitated past a federation that maintains custody, similar to solutions adopted past WBTC or Liquid, its blockchain piggy-backs off Bitcoin existing mining capacity through merge mining.

The company has recently been pursuing the goal of "Bitcoin DeFi" to capitalize on the boom of lending DApps and decentralized exchanges that occurred primarily on Ethereum. It features its own lending protocol that generates a stablecoin, called Coin On Chain, which uses RSK's BTC for collateral.

While Chainlink oracles are widely used in DeFi, many projects still prefer to scroll their own. The RSK integration could simplify development on the platform with an off-the-shelf solution, with Rodriguez saying that "it made a lot of sense for [RSK] to include Chainlink equally ane of the oracle technologies."

RSK'south security and functionality relies on Bitcoin, merely it is however a separate network with a different architecture that heavily focuses on smart contracts.

Seeking to capitalize on its generalized scripting capabilities, the project recently started branching out into wider interoperability and enterprise-focused solutions. In August, RSK was featured in an energy trading pilot in Los Angeles, powering a circular energy economic system experiment.

Some other enterprise airplane pilot involved a group of Argentinian banks that tapped into RSK engineering science to ameliorate the efficiency of direct debit transactions.