Ethereum powered DAO.Casino announced today the release of a minimum viable product (MVP) for its blockchain-based gambling protocol, featuring several games for early adopters. The protocol enables cooperation between trustless parties within the gambling market such as game developers, casino operators, players, and referrals.

The team has built their protocol on the Ethereum blockchain, through which it is able to eliminate the need for trust between industry participants and bring increased transparency to the gambling ecosystem as a consequence of blockchain technology.

The decentralized nature of the platform eliminates the need for third-party verification and empowers industry participants to interact and exchange value peer-to-peer.

In the DAO.Casino white paper they show how applying crypto economics and implementing such system on Ethereum can solve some common issues in the traditional online gambling industry through removing the need of trust ( i.e. automating crucial elements of online gambling industry that usually require trust reduce a risk of fraud and enable a new more sustainable business model to evolve), and also can minimise overheads for casino operators which allows higher payouts for the players and game developers to monetize their work.

Key Features

All the transactions between stakeholders are happening within the DAO.Casino native token BET. It’s a standard ERC20 token and it will be distributed through a public crowdfunding campaign on June 29th.

The wallet allows a bankroll backing feature. Bankroll backer account is rewarded with BET for taking part in PRNG using the signidice algorithm.

Signidice algorithm allows the player to receive game results much faster before a new block is mined (1–3 seconds).

The application is available on all platforms — thanks to the framework Electron.js.

Referral system keeps track of registered users. Game revenue is distributed according to how active the players brought by the referrals are.

The referral system is integrated with Google Analytics, so the referrer can establish where the player comes from. Optionally the referrer can connect their wallet with a Google account.

The referral system also includes data about registered users, referral links and the amount of BET received. BET arrives in the referrers balance immediately after each game without delays.

For Game Developers

Full documentation for developers will be published on June 26th. Meanwhile, those interested can look at the bounty program and subscribe to the game developers list.

For Casino Operators (White Label)

Casino operators can customize their frontend platform according to their needs. It is possible to integrate Shapeshift if required. All necessary information is at this link on Github.

Future Plans

Signidice based on Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm with custom initial point. This Algorithm supported in Ethereum by default, but bankroller can cheat. We must check initial point on elliptic curve in smart contract or use RSA (EIP-74) or another deterministic algorithm.

Another problem all transactions burn ~5$ tx fee every time (for every “hit” in blackjack or “roll” in dice). DAO.Casino says it’s necessary to implement technology like Lightning in the system.