AccuWeather Taps Chainlink to Explore Crop Insurance and More

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AccuWeather Taps Chainlink to Explore Crop Insurance and More
Blockchain oracle services firm Chainlink has added U.S. meteorology forecasting provider AccuWeather to further bolster its suite of real-world data feeds.Back in August of this year, Chainlink, which allows data providers to port data into the digital agreements that run on top of blockchains, announced it was incorporating weather data courtesy of Google Cloud.Chainlink approached AccuWeather’s Matt Vitebsky, the firm’s director of flagship products, earlier this year. Vitebsky said he’s had a personal interest in blockchain technology since 2017.“One of the important use cases is parametric insurance, and crop insurance is definitely a big one,” Vitebsky said in an interview.…