We will keep it exclusively in our Slack for now, and the bigger public announcement is coming soon. for a sneak peek!
The Keep Random Beacon is a foundational part of the Keep Network, it is essential for making sure providers are picked randomly when someone requests a keep. But it can also exist as a stand-alone component and be used by DApps and smart contracts as a source of randomness.
It’s built on top of libp2p (which we wrote about in ) and it uses threshold signatures under the covers (read about those ).
The Keep Random Beacon is the first piece of the network that will be deployed. We’re working towards that goal for early this year, starting with testnet and then a full mainnet launch. Once we have a public testnet, we can start collaborating with people and projects in need of trusted, decentralized random numbers. This is where it gets really exciting and we can start building together!
We welcome your feedback to this work-in-progress documentation. with our team!
Published at Thu, 07 Mar 2019 19:04:23 +0000
