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Chainlink Functions Beta

Chainlink Functions provides your smart contracts access to trust-minimized compute infrastructure, allowing you to fetch data from APIs and perform custom computation. Your smart contract sends source code in a request to a Decentralized Oracle Network (DON), and each node in the DON executes the code in a serverless environment. The DON then aggregates all the independent return values from each execution and sends the final result back to your smart contract.

Chainlink Functions eliminates the need for you to manage your own Chainlink node and provides decentralized offchain computation and consensus, ensuring that a minority of the network cannot manipulate the response sent back to your smart contract.

Furthermore, Chainlink Functions allows you to include secret values in your request that are encrypted using threshold encryption. These values can only be decrypted via a multi-party decryption process, meaning that every node can only decrypt the secrets with participation from other DON nodes. This feature can provide API keys or other sensitive values to your source code, enabling access to APIs that require authentication.

To pay for requests, you fund a subscription account with LINK. Your subscription is billed when the DON fulfills your requests. Check out the subscriptions page for more information.

Read the architecture page to learn more about how Chainlink Functions works.

See the Tutorials page for simple tutorials showing you different GET and POST requests that run on Chainlink Functions. You can also gain hands-on experience with Chainlink Functions with the Chainlink Functions Playground.

Supported networks

See the Supported Networks page to find a list of supported networks and contract addresses.

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