Randomness is an instrument for fun and fairness on the web3. We need it to assign random traits to NFTs during the minting process, to ensure that each token is unique and is distributed unpredictably. From selecting winners in decentralised lotteries and raffles, to selecting leaders/assign roles in DAOs, and to maximise the entertainment on blockchain gaming — in all things, randomness is indispensable.Elements like loot drops, critical hits, and random encounters elevate the suspense and ...

Randomness is an instrument for fun and fairness on the web3. We need it to assign random traits to NFTs during the minting process, to ensure that each token is unique and is distributed unpredictably. From selecting winners in decentralised lotteries and raffles, to selecting leaders/assign roles in DAOs, and to maximise the entertainment on blockchain gaming — in all things, randomness is indispensable.Elements like loot drops, critical hits, and random encounters elevate the suspense and ...

Written for LexDAO. The nature of trust in our society has grown from varying levels parallel to socioeconomic development. Beginning with informal contracts built on mutual aid (the human nature to insure one another), to trust being placed on governmental systems today (in exchange for civic behaviour), and perhaps in the future, on an open-source code of absolute neutrality (decentralised bitcoin and altcoin networks) — cryptocurrency laws. Hitherto, the nature of trusts has evolved from s...

Written for LexDAO. The nature of trust in our society has grown from varying levels parallel to socioeconomic development. Beginning with informal contracts built on mutual aid (the human nature to insure one another), to trust being placed on governmental systems today (in exchange for civic behaviour), and perhaps in the future, on an open-source code of absolute neutrality (decentralised bitcoin and altcoin networks) — cryptocurrency laws. Hitherto, the nature of trusts has evolved from s...

You’ve kickstarted your DeFi journey, and you want immediate acceleration in the market. Perhaps you started a coin and you want to see its true valuations against other alt-coins. Or, you need real-time data to supplement your trading ventures. In either or other circumstances, as a web3 techie, you will need to depend on oracles to access real-world, updated (off-chain) data on the blockchain. For those unfamiliar:What are Oracles?Oracles are third-party services that provide external data ...

You’ve kickstarted your DeFi journey, and you want immediate acceleration in the market. Perhaps you started a coin and you want to see its true valuations against other alt-coins. Or, you need real-time data to supplement your trading ventures. In either or other circumstances, as a web3 techie, you will need to depend on oracles to access real-world, updated (off-chain) data on the blockchain. For those unfamiliar:What are Oracles?Oracles are third-party services that provide external data ...