Public randomness is essential for the blockchain ecosystem.

21 Oct 2022, 18:58
Public randomness is essential for the blockchain ecosystem. Our in-development product Randcast can generate distributed verifiable random numbers utilizing threshold BLS signature service provided by the new #ARPA Network. With @josephbonneau I’ve explored the topic of randomness beacon protocols. In the post, we highlight the most recent developments, constructions in deployment, and dive deeper into the common design patterns: commit-reveal, VRF-based and VDF-based ones: