Distributed and Verifiable On-Chain Randomness
Power your gaming, NFT, prediction markets and other on-chain applications with DIA’s verifiable randomness.
What is dia multi-chain randomness
DIA’s Multi-Randomness can be easily deployed in all EVM-compatible networks served by DIA including Astar, Arbitrum, Fantom and many more.
All random values provided by DIA are verifiable off-chain, before becoming available to consuming smart contracts and hence, the oracle is not capable of manipulating the generated result.
DIA’s Multi-Randomness leverages drand, a distributed beacon generated by a network of participants named the League of Entropy — LoE. As drand is not singularly controlled by any of its members, there is no single point of failure and none of the operators themselves can bias the randomness generated by the League.
DIA’s Multi-Randomness can support a wide range of Web3 use cases including gaming, lotteries, prediction markets, NFT launches and many more.
How does it work?
1. Drand randomness generation
In every drand epoch (currently set at 30s for the existing LoE beacons, but planned to be decreased on future “unchained” beacons) each of the nodes that form the drand network generates a partial signature, which it broadcasts to the rest of the nodes. Once any node has enough, i.e., a threshold number of signatures, it computes the new randomness beacon, which is the hash of the signature aggregate.
2. Drand randomness propagation and consumption
The new beacon is propagated through the network to all other nodes. Any node can verify and accept or reject the hash of the signature (i.e., beacon) that it received. Any client or application can consume randomness out of band (i.e., without needing to be part of the drand network) either through the public HTTP APIs or through libp2p’s pubsub protocol, Gossipsub. Clients can also verify that the randomness they received is indeed the one produced by the drand network.
3. DIA on-chain distribution
The final randomness signature is shipped on-chain as an oracle smart contract. In order to effectively and securely execute these on-chain transactions, DIA has built a robust, decentralised node infrastructure — dubbed DIA xNode. DIA xNode is a network of third-party, decentralized node providers that grant DIA the blockchain infrastructure to push data on-chain ensuring high rate limits.
