Hybrid [Refer to profile for meaning] “Trade the price of gold without buying gold — @StorkOracle behind @risextrade.” Checking the price of Bitcoin on a cryptocurrency exchange is straightforward. Bitcoin is continuously traded across multiple exchanges, and related data is easily accessible on the blockchain. But gold and silver are different. Gold prices are set not on cryptocurrency exchanges, but in traditional financial markets such as London and New York. The blockchain cannot autonomously determine the current price of gold or silver. To trade gold and silver on RISEx, the real-world price must first be brought on-chain. This is the role of Stork. On July 17, 2026, Stork announced the addition of perpetual futures for gold and silver to RISEx. Users can trade price movements in the XAU and XAG markets with up to 20x leverage. XAU and XAG are internationally recognized symbols for gold and silver, respectively. [You are not buying physical gold] The XAU and XAG instruments on RISEx are not tokens representing physical gold or silver. They are not assets issued by a custodian holding physical gold, where token holders can redeem gold under certain conditions. What users trade are perpetual futures that track the price of gold and silver. Perpetual futures are derivative contracts with no expiration date. If you expect the gold price to rise, you open a long position; if you expect it to fall, you open a short position. Settlement is not made in physical bullion or silver bars, but calculated based on the collateral held in your account. For example, if you open a long position when XAU is priced at $3,500 and the price rises to $3,550, you earn a profit proportional to the increase. Conversely, if the price drops, you incur a loss. Throughout this process, you do not own any physical gold. There is no need to locate a custodian or receive physical delivery — you simply trade the price movements of gold using only your wallet and collateral. [How does the blockchain know the price of gold?] Even if orders are executed on RISEx, the platform cannot accurately calculate position values without access to the real-world gold price. Services that deliver off-chain data to smart contracts are called oracles. Oracles retrieve prices from external markets and deliver them in a format readable by smart contracts. RISEx’s gold and silver perpetual futures use price indices provided by Stork. Multiple data providers sign their submitted prices. Stork aggregates these values using a predefined method, signs the result, and allows services to verify the signature’s validity. The price delivery process consists of three main steps: First, multiple data providers sign their collected prices and send them to Stork. Stork’s aggregation system collects these prices, consolidates them into a single value, and signs the result. RISEx receives this signed price data and uses it for its gold and silver markets. Once the price data is delivered on-chain, the Stork contract verifies the signature and timestamp. If the signature is invalid or the data is older than the current value, it is not stored as the new price. Stork’s EVM contract is designed to reject new price updates if signatures are invalid or timestamps are outdated. This differs from a system where RISEx blindly trusts a single entity’s single number. You can verify who sent the data, and signatures ensure that the value transmitted by Stork has not been tampered with during transit. [Order book prices and oracle prices serve different roles] Just because the oracle delivers the gold price does not mean Stork determines your trading price. Actual trading prices on RISEx are determined by the order book. Buyers place orders at prices they wish to purchase, and sellers list prices at which they wish to sell. When matching conditions are met, trades are executed. The actual execution price on RISEx is determined by the order book. Stork’s index price is used to calculate the mark price and funding rate; the mark price determines margin requirements and liquidation thresholds. In simple terms: RISEx’s order book shows what users are actually trading at, while Stork tells you what the external gold and silver markets are currently trading at. The two prices are not always identical. If buy orders dominate on RISEx, the order book price may rise above the external benchmark; if sell orders dominate, it may fall below it.When a discrepancy arises between the reference price and the trading price, market participants execute trades by buying at the lower price and selling at the higher price. As this activity repeats, RISEx’s price remains aligned with external market levels. The oracle does not act as a counterparty. It serves solely as a reference point, delivering external market prices regardless of how many orders are placed within RISEx. [Why Stork Uses a Pull Oracle] Stork employs a pull oracle model. A typical push oracle continuously uploads data to the blockchain at fixed intervals or when price thresholds are met. In contrast, a pull oracle swiftly delivers the latest price data off-chain and retrieves a signed value on-chain only when requested by an application or user. This eliminates the need to record every price update continuously, reducing unnecessary on-chain costs. At the moment a trade is executed, the most recent price is fetched, minimizing the risk of outdated data being used. Stork’s data providers continuously transmit prices via WebSocket. WebSocket is a communication protocol that maintains an open connection between server and client to instantly exchange new information—making it far more efficient than repeatedly requesting data with page refreshes. Stork aggregates incoming values at the millisecond level and delivers them to users as signed data. Stork’s price data can be delivered at intervals shorter than one second and is accessible to both on-chain and off-chain services. This speed is critical for perpetual futures exchanges. When prices move rapidly, delayed external market data can cause significant divergence between the order book and the reference price. Gold and silver, in particular, can experience sharp price fluctuations within short timeframes due to U.S. inflation reports, interest rate decisions, exchange rates, and geopolitical news. Even if RISEx operates a fast on-chain order book, delayed external price feeds will slow the overall market’s responsiveness to gold and silver movements. This is why both RISE Chain’s high processing speed and Stork’s real-time price feeds are essential. [Why Gold and Silver Are Suitable as Initial Markets] Gold and silver are familiar physical assets to cryptocurrency users. Gold’s price moves in response to currency value, interest rates, and demand for safe-haven assets. Silver functions both as a precious metal and as an industrial commodity used in electronics, solar panels, and other sectors. Users who previously traded only Bitcoin and Ethereum can now access price movements in other markets using the same wallet and collateral. For example, while cryptocurrency markets may be quiet, significant movements in gold or silver can still occur. Users can shift their trading targets within RISEx without transferring funds to other brokerages or commodity accounts. While holding gold or silver through RISEx does not equate to owning the physical assets, it offers users a much simpler way to trade their price movements. Since these are perpetual futures, there is no need to roll contracts over at fixed expiration dates. [The Launch of Gold and Silver Deviates from the Roadmap] This is not the first time RISEx has mentioned physical asset markets. RISEx has publicly outlined plans to expand its trading scope from cryptocurrency perpetuals to stocks, forex, and commodities. Even in its July 2026 announcement, native physical asset trading was cited among key implemented features, with further additions of stock, forex, and commodity markets planned. XAU and XAG represent concrete examples of RISEx offering non-cryptocurrency assets as actual perpetual futures markets. This is distinct from merely listing future markets that have not yet been launched. Users can directly open gold and silver positions on the RISEx order book, and Stork has publicly confirmed it provides pricing data for both assets. This confirms RISEx’s transition from a purely cryptocurrency-focused perpetual exchange into a broader asset marketplace. [Connecting with Stork Enables Faster Preparation of New Markets] When adding new physical asset perpetuals, RISEx does not need to build its price data system from scratch. Stork currently provides data for over 500 assets across more than 70 blockchains—including cryptocurrencies, gold, silver, stocks, and more. This does not mean all assets offered by Stork are listed on RISEx. However, it clearly expands the range of price data RISEx can jointly evaluate with Stork when preparing new markets. To introduce stock perpetuals, for instance, the price data must account for market open/close times, holidays, corporate dividends, and stock splits.Forex requires attention to country-specific trading hours and liquidity fluctuations, while oil and metals each have different pricing benchmarks used by their respective markets. Stork is currently developing data solutions that reflect distinct trading hours and pricing characteristics for each asset class. For perpetual stock futures, data must seamlessly connect a single asset price across both intra-day and after-hours periods; in physical asset markets, establishing market-appropriate benchmarks is more critical than simply transmitting numbers quickly. Gold and silver are the starting points where RISEx has applied Stork’s preparedness to real-world markets. As additional assets such as equities, forex, and other commodities are added in the future, integration with Stork will likely continue serving as the channel for on-chain verification of new market prices. This interpretation is based on aligning RISEx’s publicly disclosed expansion plans with the breadth of data supported by Stork. [Why This Partnership Matters] On exchanges, oracles are not features users directly interact with. They are not as visible as order buttons or charts. Yet they play an essential role in enabling RISEx to access markets beyond cryptocurrency. Gold and silver are not assets whose prices are generated within the blockchain. They require rapid ingestion of external market prices, verification of data provenance, and the ability for smart contracts to reliably consume those values. Stork connects these three elements. Multiple data providers submit prices; Stork aggregates and signs them; RISEx then uses verifiable values for gold and silver markets. Users can trade XAU without physically holding gold, and open positions on XAG price movements without converting silver into tokens. For RISEx, this reduces the need to restrict tradable assets solely to cryptocurrencies. What matters most in RISEx’s gold and silver markets is not merely leverage levels— it is that Stork has brought off-chain prices onto the blockchain, enabling RISEx’s order book to now operate across both crypto and real-world markets. #RiseX #Oracle #Stork