The drand team has been hard at work the last couple of months to develop and integrate new and extremely valuable features into the drand codebase! We have worked together with Zondax, a research and software development company, and we are extremely excited to announce the completion of a very important project for the future of drand. The project focused on two important features that have the potential to unlock new capabilities for the drand randomness service, enable new application scenarios and make drand able to support many more applications and platforms.

This blog post covers the second set of responses we received from League of Entropy members on our question: “What’s the value of drand for your organization and why do you support it”? We hope you enjoyed the first part as much as we did.

"We asked the League of Entropy members: “what’s the value of drand for you, and why do you support it?” Check out what they said!"

drand, the distributed randomness beacon that aims to serve as a foundational randomness service for the Internet, surpassed 1M rounds on July 7, 2021! The drand mainnet was launched in July 2020 and received a significant update on August 10, 2020. This update included a number of key features, such as its 3-layer network architecture, client implementations in Go, and JavaScript, round to timestamp guarantees, deployment monitoring, and many other improvements.

On Wednesday, December 16, 2020, The League of Entropy, running an upgraded version of drand, proudly welcomed The [Quantum Resistant Ledger][QUANTUM] (QRL) to its list of esteemed members. QRL is an enterprise-grade blockchain platform that is secure from the quantum computing advances of tomorrow, as verified by external audits. The QRL Foundation, a not-for-profit organization, supports the research and development of open-source post-quantum blockchain solutions.

Are you passionate about randomness, dependable public services, and collaborative endeavors? Protocol Labs is on the lookout for talented individuals to join the drand team. If you thrive in innovative environments and want to shape the future of decentralized randomness, check out these exciting opportunities:

Two weeks ago, we announced the launch of drand v1.0, the League of Entropy production-level service, and this very website. Here is a roundup of related blog posts and news items from around the web:

Welcome to the brand-new website for the drand project! We are thrilled to announce that drand is now in production, offering publicly verifiable randomness as a foundational internet service.