DIA Oracles on Kadena

To accelerate DeFi growth on Kadena, Protofire integrated DIA’s decentralized oracles, bringing real-time price feeds for 15 major tokens and fiat currencies, including BTC, ETH, USDT, and KDA. This upgrade unlocked a >30% increase in TVL across Kadena’s DeFi protocols and cut asset integration time from weeks to days. By porting DIA’s infrastructure to Pact, Protofire enabled faster protocol launches and expanded asset support, empowering projects like KDSwap and Hypercent to go live in under two months.

About the Project

We partnered with DIA to port and deploy their oracle smart contracts to the Kadena blockchain, expanding the availability of reliable price feeds for Kadena-based projects.

The Problem

Before the integration, projects on Kadena were limited in the range of assets they could support due to the lack of reliable price feeds on the network. This constraint hindered the growth and diversity of the DeFi ecosystem on Kadena.

The Solution

Protofire onboarded DIA as an oracle provider by using the DIA GraphQL API and porting its smart contracts to Kadena’s Pact language. The solution included:

Porting DIA’s existing smart contracts to Pact
Implementing data update feeders (for prices and randomness)
Creating deployment scripts and Docker configurations
Developing a TypeScript library for internal monitoring
Providing comprehensive deployment and usage documentation

This integration not only expanded access to data on Kadena but also laid the groundwork for future oracle implementations on the network.

KPIs Influenced

Integrating DIA oracles into Kadena produced clear, measurable improvements in several key areas:

Number of available assets for DeFi products:
Expanded from just a few to 15 supported tokens and fiat currencies, including KDA, BTC, ETH, USDT, and USDC.
Speed of launching new DeFi protocols:
Enabled DeFi teams to move from concept to mainnet launch in under two months, compared to significantly longer timelines before DIA integration.
Total Value Locked (TVL):
Contributed to a >30% increase in TVL across Kadena’s DeFi protocols within the first few months post-integration, as more projects and users trusted the new data infrastructure.
Time required to integrate new assets:
Reduced integration time for new assets from several weeks to just a few days, thanks to DIA’s standardized and transparent data feeds.
Number of external projects utilizing DIA oracles:
Saw immediate adoption by notable projects such as KDSwap and Hypercent, which integrated DIA price feeds into their platforms.

Additional Feature

Beyond the core integration, Protofire also delivered internal monitoring tools and user-friendly deployment assets (Docker, scripts, libraries), significantly lowering the barrier for new developers and projects joining the Kadena ecosystem.

Partner Description

Kadena is a scalable blockchain platform built with a unique multi-chain architecture called Chainweb and a developer-friendly smart contract language called Pact. Founded by former JPMorgan blockchain experts, Kadena serves both enterprise and public blockchain use cases across DeFi, NFTs, and gaming. With high throughput and low transaction costs, Kadena offers a secure and efficient infrastructure for innovative blockchain applications.