League of Entropy

Most states require post-election auditing that are conducted by generating a list of random precincts or ballots to verify that elections were conducted in a fair manner. A truly random number sourced from multiple independent entities allows for a more trustworthy system.

The multi-billion dollar lottery industry relies on random numbers to declare winners. Exploitation of past randomness beacons warrants the need for a more robust system. A decentralized mechanism increases the surface area of trust and strengthens the integrity of the random number generation.

In many cryptocurrencies and blockchain-based distributed computing platforms there is often a need for random selection at the application layer. One solution to prevent bias for such random selection is to use a distributed randomness beacon that has collaborative validators generate the random value, a system like drand.