Accuweather Node goes live on Chainlink

Chainlink plays an important role in the smart contract platform ecosystem. The Chainlink protocol enables smart contracts to receive real data. A partner of Chainlink, Accuweather, announced today that their own node has now gone live on Chainlink.

Both parties had already announced the partnership in August 2021. Accuweather will now be able to provide weather data for blockchain applications. According to Accuweather, you can Developers can create new products such as weather forecasts, hedging markets, and dynamic NFT graphics and games based on current weather conditions.

“From our perspective, it’s about making our data more accessible,” said Matthew Vitebsky, director of flagship products at Accuweather Decrypt. “That’s why we wanted to ensure that applications that can speed up warning services or the like can use our data and are accessible to them.”

The node sends data via blockchains and signs it cryptographically. This means that users always know that the data is from Accuweather.

Information on temperature, precipitation, wind speed and natural disasters will be available through the Accuweather API. Developers can then create smart contracts that query Accuweather’s Chainlink node for weather data.

The type of financial products that can benefit from blockchain smart contracts combined with weather data are offerings like parametric insurance, where a payout could be triggered by events like floods or droughts.

Accuweather charges a fixed fee to access its weather data APIs, which is paid in LINK, Chainlink’s native token. The data is provided via the Ethereum blockchain or the second-layer solution Polygon.

Chainlink has many other large partnerships. Google is also already using the Chainlink protocol. Google has been working with Chainlink since 2019 to improve the use of Oracles to investigate for his data. In August of this year, Chainlink announced plans to push Google weather data to blockchains via an API that queries the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) database.

“Accuweather API actually gets more API hits than Google searches every day,” says Vitebsky. “We are dealing with enormous proportions on a global scale every day, emanating from websites, apps, vehicles and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices.”