The League of Entropy (LoE) is a voluntary consortium of organizations working together to implement an unpredictable, bias-resistant, fully decentralized, and publicly-verifiable threshold cryptosystem designed to deliver distributed Randomness as a Service, (RaaS) among other use cases.
[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] The open-source software that powers the League of Entropy's network is called drand, (short for decentralized randomness).
Active members of the League currently include Arbitrand, Automata Network, ChainSafe, cLabs, Cloudflare, DIA Association, Emerald Onion, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Ethereum Foundation, Filecoin Foundation; Gelato Network; IPFS Force, KEN Labs, Kudelski Security, Protocol Labs, PTisp, Quantum Resistant Ledger (QRL) Foundation, Randamu, StorSwift, Tierion, University of Chile, UCL, Tangle Network, and Zama.
[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] The League was inaugurated in 2019 with the original founding members including Cloudflare, Protocol Labs researcher Nicolas Gailly, University of Chile, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), and Kudelski Security.
Verifiable randomness has numerous applications in blockchain computing, gaming, gambling, lotteries, elections, and privacy-preserving data management systems.