# openOracle use cases — lending, swaps, derivatives

> How openOracle applies to lending liquidations, on-chain swaps and derivatives settlement.

Source: https://www.openoracle.org/use-cases

Use cases

# WHERE A SETTLED PRICE BEATS A STREAMED ONE.

Most applications don't need a price every block. They need one correct price at one moment — expiry, liquidation, redemption, settlement.

Index

Each page: what breaks with today's oracles, what a per-instance game changes, and which parameters to reach for.

[/01 Lending Liquidations priced by the market at the moment they matter, not by a committee. Read ⟶](https://www.openoracle.org/use-cases/lending) [/02 On-chain swaps Swaps settled at the oracle price, not at whatever a pool happens to quote. Read ⟶](https://www.openoracle.org/use-cases/swaps) [/03 Derivatives Opens, closes and liquidations priced by a game sized to the position. Read ⟶](https://www.openoracle.org/use-cases/derivatives)

When not to use this

openOracle trades liveness for price safety. If you need a continuously updating price every block, this is the wrong mechanism — no parameter choice fixes that.

Reach out to the openOracle team for guidance

[info@openoracle.org](mailto:info@openoracle.org)