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Price (feed) oracles are probably the most used and in-demand oracle type and tend to have a significant impact on the success and profitability of DeFi and related on- and off-chain operations. In this example, we demonstrate how to create a decentralized, off-chain price (feed) oracle on the Fluence peer-to-peer network from a set of distributed, re-usable Marine services composed by Aqua.
Figure 1: Stylized Price Oracle Network And Service Process
![price oracle process](images/figure_1.png =500x)
<p>
<img src="./images/figure_1.png" width="400" />
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As outlined in Figure 1, we use one or more services distributed across the Fluence peer-to-peer network to obtain price quotes from sources. For example, we could have one service capable of querying one or more sources such as DEX contracts deployed on multiple network peers allowing us to poll price sources in parallel. We then join these results and submit them to a processing service also deployed on the peer-to-peer network to establish, for example, an oracle point-estimate. Once we've obtained our oracle, we return it to the peer-client, e.g., a browser.
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% npm start
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opens a browser tab allowing you to enter the coin name and currency to price it in. In return, you get the oracle from the processed individual price quotes.
opens a browser tab allowing you to enter the coin name and currency to price it in. In return, you get the oracle from the processed individual price quotes. See Figure 2.
Figure 3: Browser Peer Client For Price Oracle Application
Figure 2: Browser Peer Client For Price Oracle Application
![browser demo](images/browser_demo.png =600x)
<img src="images/browser_demo.png " width="600" />
Please note that the coin name must the full name, e.g., ethereum or bitcoin instead of eth or btc, whereas currency is specified in the traditional ISO 4217 Alpha-3 codes.
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For implementation details, see [price_getter_service]("./../price_getter_service/src/main.rs), which compiles to our desired wasm32-wasi target. Since Wasm modules don't have sockets but we need to use cUrl, which is provided by the host node. In order to do that, we fist need to write an adapter that allows us to access the cUrl service from a Wasm module and then link that service to our price_getter service. See [cUrl adapter example](./marine-scripts/curl_adapter) for more details on the implementation of our [curl adapter service](./curl_adapter/src/main.rs).
Figure 2: Stylized Service Creation By Marine Module Linking
Figure 3: Stylized Service Creation By Marine Module Linking
![module linking to service](images/figure_2.png =400x)
<img src="images/figure_2.png " width="400" />
As see in Figure 2, we link the price_getter module and curl adapter module into a price_getter service ready for deployment to the Fluence peer-to-peer network. Before we proceed, we have one more service to consider: the price quote processing service which yields the oracle. Again, we simplified what could be an extensive processing algorithm into a simple mean calculation, see [mean_service]("./../mean_service/src/main.rs") for implementation details. Unlike the price getter service, mean service is a simple, FaaS compute module that deploys on any number of network peers.
As seen in Figure 3, we link the price_getter module and curl adapter module into a price_getter service ready for deployment to the Fluence peer-to-peer network. Before we proceed, we have one more service to consider: the price quote processing service which yields the oracle. Again, we simplified what could be an extensive processing algorithm into a simple mean calculation, see [mean_service]("./../mean_service/src/main.rs") for implementation details. Unlike the price getter service, mean service is a simple, FaaS compute module that deploys on any number of network peers.
We now have our code in place and area ready to compile and our compilation instructions are contain in the `scripts/build.sh` script, which basically instructs the the code is compiled with `marine` and that the resulting Wasm modules are copied to the `artifacts` directory. In the project directory:
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## Application Composition with Aqua
Whether you compiled and deployed services, it's time to use deployed service to create our oracle application. And we do just that with Aqua.
Aqua allows us to compose distributed services into decentralized applications such as our price oracle app. However, Aqua permits a great degree of freedom of *how* to compose services. As Aqua combines [Layer 3 and Layer 7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model) programming, i.e., network and application programming, respectively, Aqua allows us to specify parallel or sequential workflows in response to service availability and deployment.
For example, the `get_price` function in `aqua-scripts/get_crypto_prices.aqua` makes two sequential calls to the price_getter service on one node before calling the mean service and finally, return the result to the peer client.
```aqua
-- aqua-scripts/get_crypto_prices.aqua
func get_price(coin: string, currency: string, node: string, pg_sid: string, mean_sid: string) -> Result:
prices: *f64
on node: --< On this peer
k <- Op.string_to_b58(node)
PriceGetterService pg_sid --< Init service binding with service_id
MeanService mean_sid --< Init service binding with mean service_id
ts_ms0 <- Peer.timestamp_ms()
res0 <- PriceGetterService.price_getter(coin, currency, ts_ms0) --< First call to service
prices <- F64Op.identity(res0.result)
ts_ms1 <- Peer.timestamp_ms()
res1 <- PriceGetterService.price_getter(coin, currency, ts_ms1) --< Second call to service, in sequence
prices <- F64Op.identity(res1.result)
result <- MeanService.mean(prices) --< Process price quotes with mean service
<- result --< Return result to client peer
```
With just a few lines of code, we can program the network and application layers to compose hose peer-topeer services into powerful decentralized applications. However, with a little more preparation, i.e., more deployed services, we can vastly improve and scale our solution. How? By parallelizing our workflow. In the file, `aqua-scripts/get_crypto_prices.aqua`, look at the `get_price_par` function:
```aqua
-- aqua-scripts/get_crypto_prices.aqua
data NodeServicePair:
node: string
service_id: string
func get_price_par(coin: string, currency: string, getter_topo: []NodeServicePair, mean_topo: NodeServicePair) -> Result:
prices: *f64
for topo <- getter_topo par: --< For each instance of the getter topology in parallel
on topo.node: --< On each specified node
k <- Op.string_to_b58(topo.node)
PriceGetterService topo.service_id --< And service id
ts_ms <- Peer.timestamp_ms()
res <- PriceGetterService.price_getter(coin, currency, ts_ms) --< Run the price getter service to obtain a quote
prices <- F64Op.identity(res.result)
on mean_topo.node: --< After the parallel loop, create the Mean service binding on the specified node
MeanService mean_topo.service_id
result <- MeanService.mean(prices) --< Process the price quote array
<- result --< Return the result to the client peer
```
In this invocation of our application workflow, we process price quote acquisition in parallel over price_getter services deployed to many nodes. This allows us to scale our workflow and take sull advantage of the network size and service deployment commitments.
To compile our Aqua script, we use the `aqua-cli` tool and either compile our code to raw Air:
```text
% aqua-cli -i aqua-scripts -o air-scripts -a
```
or to a ready-made typescript stub:
```text
% aqua-cli -i aqua-scripts -o air-scripts
```