Tellor

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Tellor is an oracle that provides censorship resistant data that is secured by simple crypto-economic incentives. Data can be provided by anyone and checked by everyone. Tellor’s flexible structure can provide any data at any time interval to allow for easy experimentation/innovation.

(Soft) prerequisites

We’re assuming the following about your coding skill-level to focus on the oracle aspect.

Assumptions:

• You can navigate a terminal.
• You have npm installed.
• You know how to use npm to manage dependencies.

Tellor is a live and open-sourced oracle ready for implementation. This beginner’s guide is here to showcase the ease with which one can get up and running with Tellor, providing your project with a fully decentralized and censorship-resistant oracle.

Overview

Tellor is an oracle system where parties can request the value of an off-chain data point (e.g. BTC/USD) and reporters compete to add this value to an on-chain data-bank, accessible by all Polygon smart contracts. The inputs to this data-bank are secured by a network of staked reporters. Tellor utilizes crypto-economic incentive mechanisms. Honest data submissions by reporters are rewarded by the issuance of Tellor’s token. Any bad actors are quickly punished and removed from the network by a dispute mechanism.

In this tutorial we’ll go over:

• Setting up the initial toolkit you’ll need to get up and running.
• Walk through a simple example.
• List out testnet addresses of networks you currently can test Tellor on.

Using Tellor

The first thing you’ll want to do is install the basic tools necessary for using Tellor as your oracle. Use this package to install the Tellor User Contracts:

npm install usingtellor

Once installed this will allow your contracts to inherit the functions from the contract ‘UsingTellor’.

Great! Now that you’ve got the tools ready, let’s go through a simple exercise where we retrieve the bitcoin price:

BTC/USD example

Inherit the UsingTellor contract, passing the Tellor address as a constructor argument:

Here’s an example:

import "usingtellor/contracts/UsingTellor.sol";

contract PriceContract is UsingTellor {

  uint256 public btcPrice;

  //This Contract now has access to all functions in UsingTellor

  constructor(address payable _tellorAddress) UsingTellor(_tellorAddress) public {}

  function setBtcPrice() public {

    bytes memory _b = abi.encode("SpotPrice",abi.encode("btc","usd"));
    bytes32 _queryID = keccak256(_b);

    uint256 _timestamp;
    bytes _value;

    (_value, _timestamp) = getDataBefore(_queryId, block.timestamp - 15 minutes);

    btcPrice = abi.decode(_value,(uint256));
  }
}

Addresses

Tellor Tributes: 0xe3322702bedaaed36cddab233360b939775ae5f1

Oracle: 0xD9157453E2668B2fc45b7A803D3FEF3642430cC0

Testing

Polygon Mumbai Testnet: 0xD9157453E2668B2fc45b7A803D3FEF3642430cC0

Test Tributes: 0xCE4e32fE9D894f8185271Aa990D2dB425DF3E6bE

Need some test tokens? Tweet us at ‘@trbfaucet’

For ease of use, the UsingTellor repo comes with a version of the Tellor Playground contract for easier integration. See here for a list of helpful functions.

Info

For a more robust implementation of the Tellor oracle, check out the full list of available functions here.

Info

Still have questions? Join the community here!

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Last update: January 17, 2024

Authors: avenbreaks