The Associated Printing news bureau announced it would be launching its own Chainlink oracle node to ensure whatsoever data from its U.S. newspaper and broadcaster members would exist cryptographically verified.

In an Oct. 21 announcement, the Associated Press, or AP, said smart contract developers would take access to the agency's "economic, sports and race telephone call data" once the node was operational. Co-ordinate to the AP, information technology will be publishing data on-concatenation for developers to access and reference in whatsoever relevant applications, in addition to providing information on upcoming elections and serving artists working with nonfungible tokens.

"Chainlink technology is the ideal way to provide smart contract developers anywhere in the world with directly, on-demand access to AP'southward trusted economic, sports and race call information," said AP director of blockchain and information licensing Dwayne Desaulniers. "Working with Chainlink allows this information to be compatible with whatsoever blockchain."

The AP said its primary reason for the shift to blockchain was "trust," in that the on-concatenation information it provided would exist "a publicly accessible, safe and secure record of verified information." The news agency added it would be open to shifting its approach based on the response from developers every bit information technology kept "a finger on the pulse of the blockchain economy."

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This is not the news bureau'southward first foray into blockchain technology. The AP was reportedly interested in exploring ways to secure intellectual property rights, support ethical journalism and track content usage when it partnered with blockchain-based journalism startup Civil in 2022. In addition, the AP published the results of contentious 2022 U.South. presidential election onto the Ethereum and EOS blockchains.