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A Cornell Tech professor and blockchain luminary has written a cautionary novel about smart contracts gone rogue.

Where do we draw the line between life and fiction? 

Ari Juels is a chaired professor at Cornell Tech, a computer science faculty member at Cornell University and chief scientist at Chainlink Labs, a leader in decentralized oracle networks. He’s also just written a crypto thriller novel, The Oracle, published by Talos Press.

The novel’s protagonist is, like Juels, an expert on blockchain oracles, which are entities that connect blockchains to external systems. Juels co-authored Chainlink Labs’ 2021 white paper.

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