Blockchain Smart Contracts for Provably Fair Online Gaming Challenges
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Solution Overview
Problem
Online gaming platforms lack a reliable mechanism to ensure provable fairness in user-initiated challenges, as existing systems may be susceptible to cheating and lack transparency in determining winners and distributing stakes.
Innovation Solution
A system utilizing decentralized ledgers and smart contracts to record and execute challenge results, ensuring that challenge outcomes and stake distributions are transparent, impartial, and tamper-proof, using a blockchain to provide an immutable record of challenge transactions and ownership changes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a centralized system is used to manage challenges and distribute stakes, then the system is easier to operate and implement, but the system lacks transparency and is susceptible to cheating
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a blockchain-based intermediary layer that mediates between players and the challenge system. Smart contracts act as automated intermediaries that objectively evaluate challenge results and distribute stakes without human intervention, eliminating bias and cheating while maintaining system transparency through immutable ledger recording of all transactions.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the challenge management functionality into separate modular components: challenge initiation, result submission, smart contract execution, and stake distribution. Each component operates independently and is recorded as a separate transaction on the blockchain, allowing for verified fairness while keeping the overall system architecture manageable through clear separation of concerns.
2Productivity
If manual verification of challenge results is used, then the system is simpler to implement, but the process is time-consuming and prone to human error
Solution Approach 1:
The smart contracts are programmed to automatically evaluate challenge results based on pre-defined criteria and distribute stakes without requiring manual verification. The system serves itself by using automated algorithms embedded in the smart contracts to determine winners and execute payments, eliminating human error and significantly speeding up the challenge resolution process while maintaining high reliability through cryptographic verification.
3Reliability
If traditional digital ledgers are used to record transactions, then the system is easier to manage, but the records can be tampered with and lack immutability
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs a blockchain network as an intermediary distributed ledger infrastructure that provides cryptographic immutability. Rather than using a traditional centralized database, the system leverages the blockchain's inherent properties of decentralization and cryptographic hashing to ensure that once challenge transactions and stake distributions are recorded, they cannot be altered or tampered with, providing verifiable integrity while distributing the storage burden across multiple nodes.
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AI summary
Systems and methods to provide provable fairness for challenges among users in an online gaming platform are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: effectuate presentations of challenge interfaces that enable users to define objectives for challenges, define stakes for challenges, specify users to partake in the challenges, and initiate transmissions pertaining to the challenges to client computing platforms of other users as defined and specified; effectuate presentations of offers (to partake in a challenge) to other users; receive indications of acceptances of these offers; generate sets of instructions that form smart contracts that obtain determined results of challenges and distribute stakes based on the determined results; transfer generated sets of instructions to one or more decentralized ledger servers for execution; and determine the results of the challenges and distribute the stakes based on the results.