Why a fairness badge on the homepage is not enough

Browser window showing a fairness badge with a star ribbon

The words provably fair on a homepage are a claim. A verifier you can run yourself is evidence. The distance between those two is where most sites live.

Claim versus mechanism

Plenty of pages print provably fair and stop there. No link to a verifier, no seeds before play, no history. If the mechanism is real, it has parts you can find: a hash before the round, a reveal after it, a formula you can run without asking permission. If you cannot find the parts, the badge is decoration.

Five questions that cut through

Ask of any provably fair claim

  • Where is the verifier, and does it work when I am logged out
  • Can I see the hashed seed before I stake
  • Can I set my own client seed
  • Is there a history of past rounds I can re-check
  • What happens to a round the house voids

Sites with real answers put them one click from the game. Sites with a slogan make you dig. The digging is the answer.

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If you would like to learn more about the technical workings of provably fair algorithms, you can download the whitepaper.