RedStone is a cross-chain oracle that uses Arweave technology, focusing on liquid staking, re-staking, and providing pricing and support on the Bitcoin ecosystem chain. The RedStone team was founded by Ethereum veteran developer Jakub, with Coinbase and Kraken as its main investors. RedStone's market share: RedStone currently holds 90% of the re-staking market share, making it the fastest-growing project in the same track this year. RedStone's partners: Strategic partners of RedStone include EigenLayer, EtherFi, Renzo, Puffer, etc., and it is also the only on-chain pricing partner for Babylon. RedStone's future outlook: The token issuance is expected in early 2025, and the team has submitted a listing application to exchanges, with the last round of valuation around one hundred million dollars and an expected opening market value of over two billion dollars.
After LINK in 2017 and PYTH in 2023, the market finally has an oracle project about to issue a token, led by Ethereum veteran developer Jakub, supported by investments from Coinbase and Kraken, and Babylon's only on-chain pricing partner.
After three years, what is the potential of RedStone? This article summarizes it, and below is the thread.
RedStone is a cross-chain oracle using Arweave technology and is the fastest-growing project in the same track this year. It mainly focuses on liquid staking LST, re-staking ReStaking, and providing pricing and support for the Bitcoin ecosystem BTCFi on-chain. Strategic partners include EigenLayer, EtherFi, Renzo, Puffer, etc. RedStone currently holds 90% of the re-staking market share.
In simple terms, any on-chain contract that requires off-chain data, such as weather, stock prices, election results, etc., needs pricing support from oracles, which serve as data transporters and verify the authenticity of the data.
If project parties want to obtain data, they need to pay the corresponding tokens or money to access the oracle's pricing, which provides a revenue and token buyback incentive for the oracle project.
Recently, in the Bitcoin ecosystem, the relatively popular Babylon is creating its own Layer1 public chain, which requires continuous external pricing services on-chain so that DeFi, lending, or prediction projects on the chain can have a reference for pricing. Therefore, RedStone became the first oracle project in the Bitcoin ecosystem to provide pricing services for public chains, enabling Babylon to successfully launch the Bitcoin staking mainnet.
Currently, in addition to supporting the ReStaking and BTCFi fields, RedStone is also providing pricing oracle support for Monad and Berachain, which will be available after the mainnets of these two public chains are launched.
The team is about to launch on Sui to support pricing on the Move layer and may expand to public chains like Solana and Aptos.
On the team side, RedStone was founded by Ethereum veteran developer Jakub, who was previously the CTO of the Ethereum public welfare project Alice, which started in 2016 and lasted for four years, during which it received community support. Major investors include Coinbase, 1kx, Kraken, The Graph with token GRT, and Arweave with AR.
In terms of market capitalization estimation, according to news from VC peers, the token issuance is expected in early 2025. The team has submitted a listing application to exchanges, and the last round of valuation is around one hundred million dollars. Referring to the 2023 competitor Pyth, the opening market value is expected to be over two billion dollars.
Coinbase, Kraken, Upbit, or Bithumb have relatively certain first issuance opportunities.
From the team's movements over the past six months, due to the oracle track, the long-standing leader Chainlink has always been ahead, while RedStone mainly focuses on emerging tracks, such as being the first to support BTCFi and timely collaborating with various Move public chains and re-staking protocols. Considering the upcoming token issuance and the future main rhythm affected by policy easing and the return to DeFi, RedStone has significant market potential.