How we prove our draws are fair

The problem with "watch the video"

The usual answer in this market is a livestreamed draw. It beats nothing. But it still asks you to trust that the list being drawn from is the real one, that nothing was quietly re-run off camera, and that the randomiser was left alone.

None of that can be checked after the fact. You're trusting the operator, which is the one thing a fairness guarantee is supposed to remove.

What we do instead

Three steps, and each one closes off a way to cheat:

• Commit. Before entries close, we publish a cryptographic fingerprint of the entry list. Change a single entry afterwards and the fingerprint no longer matches.
• Name the round in advance. We state which future beacon round will decide the result, and this is the load-bearing part. Picking a round that had already published would let someone choose a number they liked, so naming it beforehand is what makes the guarantee real.
• Reveal and recompute. When the round publishes, its random value combines with the entry list to produce the winning ticket. The maths is deterministic, so anyone who runs it lands on the same result.

Why we cannot rig it

The randomness comes from a public beacon run by an independent network, which puts out a fresh, unpredictable value on a fixed schedule. We don't operate it, we can't influence it, and we can't know the value ahead of time any more than you can.

That's the whole point. The guarantee doesn't rest on our honesty. It rests on the arithmetic.

Check one yourself

Our draw checker takes a competition's commitment, its beacon round and its entry count, fetches the beacon value live, and recomputes the winner in front of you. You don't have to take our word for a single step of it.

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