Polychain Monsters使用Chainlink VRF公平地分配NFT

Using a Randomized NFT Distribution to Turn Polychain Monsters into a Fair and Fun Blockchain Game

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have gained significant momentum within the gaming industry, offering a way for players to directly own in-game assets and use them to earn rewards in what’s called play-to-earn gaming. These new blockchain-based digital tokens can represent characters, weapons, equipment, or various other items, giving gamers total control over the in-game assets they’ve worked hard to earn. Since NFTs exist on blockchains instead of centralized servers, they are permissionlessly transferable, immutably stored, and easily verifiable as rare.
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Polychain Monsters is a novel cross-chain game featuring NFT-based digital collectibles that players use to interact in the Polyverse—a play-to-earn gaming ecosystem that’s home to the Polychain Islands and Polymon World, where users construct buildings, trade with other players, and compete in battles and tournaments. These worlds are inhabited by 11 different species of Polychain Monsters, which are NFTs with features of varying rarity, most notably, differences in color, horn, and glitter.
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Users earn Polychain Monsters by purchasing Booster Packs, which randomly mint a set of NFTs based on three traits with varying rarity probabilities. Since scarce NFTs can incur high valuations, as seen by the $1.2B in NFT sales in July 2021, the Polychain Monsters team wanted to ensure that each player had an equal opportunity to mint the rarest and most sought after monsters in Booster Packs. The Polychain Monsters team quickly realized they needed a random number generator (RNG) that was unexploitable, transparent, and verifiably fair.

Selecting Chainlink VRF For Transparent Randomness

The Polychain Monsters team integrated Chainlink VRF for an open-source, verifiably tamper-proof RNG solution. The Chainlink Verifiable Random Function (VRF) works by combining block data that is still unknown when the request is made with the oracle node’s pre-committed private key to generate both a random number and a cryptographic proof. The Polychain Monsters smart contract will only accept the random number input if it has valid cryptographic proof, and the cryptographic proof can only be generated if the VRF process is tamper-proof. The result is publicly verifiable integrity through an automated process proving that the RNG delivered a tamper-proof and unpredictable random number to the smart contract.
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With Chainlink VRF, Polychain Monsters gained several advantages in their gaming ecosystem. For starters, no one, not even the Polychain Monster team, can influence the process of opening Booster Packs, meaning all unpacked Polychain Monsters are chosen in a verifiably random process. Moreover, Polychain Monsters collectors have built-in cryptographic guarantees that all rare features are fairly and unbiasedly distributed, eliminating any speculation of special backdoor privileges, miner manipulation, or probabilistic tendencies. In the end, Chainlink VRF brought the highest level of integrity to the Polyverse, leading to a more exciting and competitive gaming experience based on true entropy.

Becoming a Provably Fair Gaming Ecosystem

After integrating Chainlink VRF, the Polychain Monsters team has generated 520,000+ VRF requests to facilitate the opening of Booster Packs with random NFTs—the highest number of VRF calls by any single team since the launch of Chainlink VRF. Moreover, the Polychain Monsters Marketplace on OpenSea has experienced 3400 ETH in trading volume, including offers as high as 75 ETH ($140,000+ at the time) for an Ultra Rare Bitcoin Unidragon, minted by a user from a single $30 Booster Pack.

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Chainlink VRF has become a vital component of the Polychain Monsters collectibles experience, bringing increased transparency to its gaming ecosystem and creating a level playing field for the tens of thousands of worldwide community members inhabiting the Polyverse. Leif Eric Leiser, CEO and Co-Founder of Polychain Monsters, offered some advice for development teams thinking of integrating Chainlink VRF: “The integration process is easier than you might think. Chainlink Labs sets very high development standards. Even in frantically busy times, Chainlink Labs team members are always available for assistance and support. Their reliability, paired with the high quality of the product, is unique and very much appreciated.”