The excitement and the excellence of smart contracts have been driving the blockchain industry towards global adoption. These self-executing protocols cut down the need for intermediaries, help build decentralized applications, and save a lot of time & money for businesses.

While the traditional way of using smart contracts to build dApps is still growing, experts have begun integrating them into a new technology called Oracles. The result? The emergence of Hybrid Smart Contracts that combine on-chain code with off-chain oracles. They are tamper-proof, provide enhanced functionality for the dApps, coordinate complex activities, and create innovative functions - scalability, confidentiality, and sequencing.

Hybrid smart contract development involves two components, and they are:

1) Smart contract: a self-executing code that runs on the blockchain

2) Decentralized oracle network: a secure chain for smart contracts

Enhancing The DeFi Market

DeFi aims to transform the traditional finance model using decentralized architecture. Parallelly, the hybrid smart contracts help the DeFi ecosystem achieve its goal.

DeFi apps are usually based on borrowing, lending, trading, saving, and creating assets. They now depend on oracles to validate, verify, and deliver the required data. This data further helps smart contracts to execute the agreements.  

Unfortunately, this also opens the door to hackers to manipulate the data and damage the DeFi apps. 

This is where the hybrid model comes into play. With the hybrid contracts, DeFi apps can avoid buying data from premium providers and make use of an existing decentralized oracle framework for their data aggregation.

Dynamic NFTs

We all know what NFTs are - blockchain-based tokens representing unique real-world items. In recent months, they have taken the world by storm, with artists, celebrities, and sports personalities entering this space.

The current nature of NFTs is static - not changing subject to real-world changes. But how about Dynamic NFTs - the content of the NFTs changing with real-world changes. Well, hybrid smartcontract development could support this popular trend.

With the application of oracle networks, smart contracts can help NFTs to be Dynamic that can automatically change when something happens in the real world. For example, game collectibles/cards that develop and change with the in-game assets augmented by the developers/gamers could make NFTs a much more meaningful experience for reward programs.