Web3 game Game of Silks happily announced yesterday, Jan. 17, that it had integrated Chainlink Verifiable Random Function (VRF) on the Ethereum mainnet to help power racehorse NFT reveals.
Related: Silks Game Review – Horse Racing Metaverse
Silks is the first-ever derivative play-to-earn (P2E) metaverse. Silks is based on the Ethereum Mainnet with layer-2 solutions and is under development by Tropical Racing, a public company that runs 200-acre horse farms that breed, syndicate, and race horses.
A game where everything is cloned and tokenized, plus the horse’s real-time performance is tracked by unique NFT tokens. Silks is a game for horse racing and play-to-earn enthusiasts.
By integrating the industry-leading Web3 oracle network, Game of Silks now has access to randomness needed to help power the reveal process for NFT horses.
Based on The U.S. Thoroughbred Horse Racing Economy
Silks’ gameplay is mainly based on the real-life thoroughbred horse racing economy.
For example, each year, 20,000 foals are registered as thoroughbred racehorses in the U.S., and many of these are sold between August and October at auctions when they turn one year old.
These things are worth mentioning as Silks will have many of these facts integrated into its gameplay and ecosystem. All the information about the U.S. thoroughbred horse racing economy is here.
Chainlink VRF
Chainlink VRF is a highly secure and provably fair source of on-chain randomness for all kinds of blockchain-based applications, NFTs, and games. Random Number Generation (RNG) is a mechanism for unpredictability.
RNG secures the outcome against reverse engineering. However, it’s vulnerable to miner attacks, and it requires complete trust in the data provider when it comes to off-chain implementation.
Chainlink VRF is explicitly designed to support smart contracts’ needs, providing them with an open-source and easily integrated RNG solution directly auditable on-chain by any user via cryptographic proofs. With this technology, even the oracle provider or the project developers can’t tamper the outcome.