External Data Avoidance

Definition

External Data Avoidance refers to the architectural design choice in decentralized finance and automated trading systems to rely exclusively on on-chain state transitions rather than external oracle inputs. This approach mitigates the inherent counterparty risk and latency issues associated with fetching off-chain information for derivative pricing or liquidation triggers. By internalizing all necessary variables, the system eliminates the reliance on potentially fallible or manipulatable external data feeds.