[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  Sneak O' Wulf | 🧙‍♂️,🧙‍♂️ | 🔟/🔟| (✧ᴗ✧) [@buangcaaad](/creator/twitter/buangcaaad) on x XXX followers Created: 2025-07-25 17:35:59 UTC Can You Have a Truly Fair On-Chain Game? @tenprotocol Says Yes. A Look at Poker with No Centralized Servers. Let’s talk about the great paradox of Web3 gaming. Blockchains were sold to us on the promise of a trustless, decentralized future. An immutable ledger, they said, would eliminate the need for powerful intermediaries. It would make things fair. Yet, for years, this promise has remained largely unfulfilled in one of the most obvious use cases: gaming. The very feature that makes a blockchain secure—its radical transparency—is what makes most compelling games impossible to build on it. Think about it. How can you play a game of Poker when every player’s hand is visible on a public ledger? How do you build a strategy game with a "fog of war" when the entire map state is open for anyone to inspect? You can’t. This has left Web3 gaming in a stunted state of development. We’re left with simplistic mechanics, games that are just DeFi protocols with a flashy user interface, or—worst of all—games that quietly rely on centralized, off-chain servers to manage the secrets. That’s not decentralization; it’s just a database with extra steps and a token attached. It breaks the entire premise. So, the question remains: Can you build a truly fair, high-stakes game like Poker entirely on-chain? A game with no central server that can be shut down or manipulate the outcome? A game where the shuffle is provably random and no player, not even the network operators, can peek at the cards? For years, the answer was no. But a Layer X network on Ethereum, @tenprotocol , claims to have finally cracked the code.  XX engagements  **Related Topics** [ledger](/topic/ledger) [decentralized](/topic/decentralized) [gaming](/topic/gaming) [web3](/topic/web3) [onchain](/topic/onchain) [Post Link](https://x.com/buangcaaad/status/1948799402828857478)
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Created: 2025-07-25 17:35:59 UTC
Can You Have a Truly Fair On-Chain Game? @tenprotocol Says Yes. A Look at Poker with No Centralized Servers.
Let’s talk about the great paradox of Web3 gaming. Blockchains were sold to us on the promise of a trustless, decentralized future. An immutable ledger, they said, would eliminate the need for powerful intermediaries. It would make things fair. Yet, for years, this promise has remained largely unfulfilled in one of the most obvious use cases: gaming.
The very feature that makes a blockchain secure—its radical transparency—is what makes most compelling games impossible to build on it. Think about it. How can you play a game of Poker when every player’s hand is visible on a public ledger? How do you build a strategy game with a "fog of war" when the entire map state is open for anyone to inspect? You can’t.
This has left Web3 gaming in a stunted state of development. We’re left with simplistic mechanics, games that are just DeFi protocols with a flashy user interface, or—worst of all—games that quietly rely on centralized, off-chain servers to manage the secrets. That’s not decentralization; it’s just a database with extra steps and a token attached. It breaks the entire premise.
So, the question remains: Can you build a truly fair, high-stakes game like Poker entirely on-chain? A game with no central server that can be shut down or manipulate the outcome? A game where the shuffle is provably random and no player, not even the network operators, can peek at the cards?
For years, the answer was no. But a Layer X network on Ethereum, @tenprotocol , claims to have finally cracked the code.
XX engagements
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