We’re excited to announce that Smol Sharks—an ecosystem of PvP NFT games—has integrated Chainlink Automation live on Arbitrum mainnet. By integrating the industry-leading decentralized oracle network, we’re able to access a reliable and secure smart contract automation service needed to trigger the epoch-settling function in a cost-efficient manner. As a result, users no longer need to settle an epoch themselves, enabling a more pleasant and seamless experience.

We decided to use Chainlink Automation to help power Smol Sharks’ epoch-settling function because it is the most reliable Web3 automation service. The Chainlink Automation Network is operated by the same pool of time-tested, provably reliable node operators that currently help secure tens of billions of dollars in DeFi, even during record levels of network congestion and extreme volatility. The proven infrastructure of Chainlink helps ensure that every epoch-settling function is executed on time in a trust-minimized manner, giving users additional guarantees that it will function exactly as intended. 

Smol Sharks is an ecosystem of  PvP NFT games with a unique lock-to-grow model. Players lock their Smol Sharks to grow them and receive a full reward the moment they lock their Smol Sharks. The goal of this model is to reward the players who have made clear their long-term commitment to the Smol Sharks ecosystem. 

Epochs are a part of the Five Oceans game, lasting for 24 hours until an external entity comes and settles the epoch by calling the epoch-settling function. Now, with Chainlink Automation, epochs are settled more reliably and securely. 

Chainlink Automation is a decentralized service purpose-built to manage tasks on behalf of smart contracts. Chainlink Automation leverages decentralized, hyper-reliable, and economically incentivized automation nodes to wake up smart contracts when they need to perform critical on-chain functions, which usually take place at regular time intervals (e.g., every day at the same time) or based on external events (e.g., when an asset hits a specific price).

Some of the notable features of Chainlink Automation include: 

• Highly reliable, performant, and decentralized automation — Chainlink Automation ensures transactions are identified and confirmed quickly even during periods of heavy network congestion by leveraging Chainlink’s battle-tested transaction manager.

• Time-tested infrastructure that helps save costs — Chainlink Automation enables us to eliminate in-house automation infrastructure costs, reduce resources spent on DevOps, and increase speed and efficiency.

• Built to enable faster scaling — Chainlink Automation enables us to scale faster and avoid the challenges that come with building and maintaining the infrastructure needed to reliably automate across multiple chains.

• Unlocks new use cases — With smart contract automation, we’re able to explore new use cases and unlock capabilities that would otherwise not have been possible.

“Chainlink Automation provided us with a world-class automation solution that gives our users higher security and reliability assurances when the service executes the epoch-settling function.” — Diodegen, creator of Smol Sharks.

About Chainlink

Chainlink is the industry-standard Web3 services platform that has enabled trillions of dollars in transaction volume across DeFi, insurance, gaming, NFTs, and other major industries. As the leading decentralized oracle network, Chainlink enables developers to build feature-rich Web3 applications with seamless access to real-world data and off-chain computation across any blockchain and provides global enterprises with a universal gateway to all blockchains.

Learn more about Chainlink by visiting chain.link or reading the developer documentation at docs.chain.link. To discuss an integration, reach out to an expert. 

About Smol Sharks

Smol Sharks is an ecosystem of PvP NFT games with a unique lock-to-grow model. Five Ocean is the first game in the Smol Sharks universe, loosely based on the “Guess ⅔ of the average” game.