SPORTEMON GO INTEGRATES CHAINLINK VRF
Sportemon Go is excited to announce our integration of Chainlink VRF on Binance Smart Chain to access Provably Fair Randomness within our blockchain-based sports gaming platform. Chainlink VRF will be leveraged within all Sportemon Go games and competitions to ensure that outcomes reliant on randomness are unbiased and tamper-proof. Additionally, Chainlink VRF will be used as part of our NFT sports trading cards and augmented reality metaverse to facilitate transparent distribution models and generate unpredictable traits and experiences.
Sportemon Go and Chainlink have already started working on the first product collaboration offerings using Chainlink VRF. This involves the SGO Graffiti Mansion promotion on the 4th of July — in the coming days, we will provide details on how you can enter, and win tickets to the biggest Independance Day party in America. For more details at www.sportemongo.com on 26/06/2021
We selected Chainlink’s industry-standard VRF solution because it’s built according to leading academic research and supported by a time-tested oracle network that currently secures tens of billions of dollars throughout DeFi. Importantly, Chainlink VRF is an auditable source of RNG, meaning users can independently verify its integrity. The result is all users having an equal chance of winning virtual games and rare collectibles.
We plan to expand our integration in the future, connecting with other Chainlink data feeds to empower new user experiences like minting NFT trading cards based on individual player stats and generating fan rewards when certain match outcomes occur
EXPANDING THE UTILITY OF SPORTEMON GO
Founded by Ricky and Corey Jackson, Sportemon Go is an all-encompassing ecosystem for interactive gaming, prediction markets, and NFT/physical collectibles revolving around sports, esports, virtual sports, fantasy sports, and much more. With illustrious backgrounds in sports media, marketing, iGaming, and sporting software, we have created a world premiere platform for launching sports-based NFTs with gamified elements such as interacting within augmented reality and changing in response to real-world events.
Sportemon Go enables users to hunt, find, buy, collect, and trade dynamic NFTs in real-time representing their favourite sporting heroes, both in the physical and virtual world. Sportemon Go creates the perfect synergy between the current world and the metaverse, allowing participants to interact with digital NFTs at physical stadiums, sporting events, and virtually anywhere in the world like never before.
Sportemon Go will use Chainlink VRF (Verifiable Random Function) for on-chain randomness to settle instant win, collect to win, and lucky draw blockchain games. Sportemon Go will also leverage Chainlink VRF to distribute trading card NFTs that gamers can then find while exploring our AR metaverse or by winning competitions. NFT and AR experiences can become even more dynamic by injecting sports data from Chainlink to alter these environments like triggering the issuance of new rewards or upgrading existing rewards.
With randomness being a key element to fairness, we wanted to make sure our source of randomness was tamper-proof and auditable so users trust the platform. However, on-chain randomness solutions like blockhashes introduce vulnerabilities where miners can manipulate the outcomes. Alternatively, off-chain randomness solutions are opaque and provide no proof of integrity. Both solutions become increasingly concerning as the amount of value being secured by the randomness solution goes up. For these reasons, we selected Chainlink VRF for generating randomness and making it accessible on-chain.
On a technical level, Chainlink VRF works by combining block data that is unknown when the VRF request is initiated with a user-supplied seed and the oracle node’s pre-committed private key to generate both a random number and a cryptographic proof. The smart contract will only accept the random number input if it has valid cryptographic proof, and a valid cryptographic proof can only be generated if the VRF process is tamper-proof. This provides users with automated and publicly verifiable assurances that Sportemon Go applications using Chainlink VRF are provably fair and cannot be tampered with or predicted by the oracle, outside entities, or the Sportemon Go team.
“Chainlink VRF is the best RNG solution in the blockchain industry, as it’s both easy to integrate and independently verifiable to be fair,” stated Ricky Jackson, Co-Founder of Sportemon Go. “By using Chainlink VRF, Sportemon Go can create truly unbiased and unpredictable gaming experiences for users with high integrity guarantees, revolutionizing how sports players, teams, and fans interact with another and exchange value.”
We’re excited to onboard Chainlink VRF to develop cutting-edge sports markets and NFTs, as well as continuing to expand the integration into the future.
ABOUT CHAINLINK
Chainlink is the industry standard oracle network for powering hybrid smart contracts. Chainlink Decentralised Oracle Networks provide developers with the largest collection of high-quality data sources and secure off-chain computations to expand the capabilities of smart contracts on any blockchain. Managed by a global, decentralised community, Chainlink currently secures billions of dollars in value for smart contracts across decentralised finance (DeFi), insurance, gaming, and other major industries.
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