With the advent of app chains and restaking, the design space for chains is taking off and the idea of having your validators do more is back on the table. One of the ideas that continues to resurface is the concept that your validator/sequencer could be an oracle. This article aims to describe the option and lay out the pros and cons of going with this approach, finishing with some potential best practices you can follow to ensure a secure chain as well as a robust oracle. wait, what are we ...