SHFL Lottery
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Shuffle has launched an innovative new product that changes how lotteries work forever.
Shuffle has launched the SHFL Lottery, powered by SHFL. By staking SHFL, you perpetually have a chance to win prizes week to week in the most exciting lottery to date. Lotteries have consistently underperformed in crypto for a multitude of reasons:
Small jackpots with small payouts
Built on unsustainable yield
And most importantly, not exciting.
Despite being the most popular gaming product in the world, lotteries have completely missed the mark in crypto and online gaming. The Lottery will be powered by SHFL, the best wager asset in the world. The lottery changes how the tokenomics work for SHFL and adapts SHFL from a wager asset to a wager and staking asset.
SHFL will become the golden ticket to winning big.
SHFL will be the cornerstone of the Lottery. Each week that SHFL is staked in the Lottery, it will be entered automatically with the same numbers. By staking SHFL, you are entered into the lottery draw each week for free. Once you stake your SHFL, you are entered into all future lottos in perpetuity, until you unstake.
The SHFL Lottery is a 5 ball, 1 Powerball lottery that has 3 ways of playing, all with different odds and options.
Staking is available at anytime. This means you can stake up until 1 second before the lotto closes if you get your numbers in quick enough. Those tickets will be entered into the lotto until you unstake them. If you choose to unstake, your tickets in the upcoming lottery will be forfeited and the SHFL staked in the lottery will be returned to you after the conclusion of the weekly lottery. You will not be able to receive your SHFL until after the conclusion of the current lotto if you choose to unstake.
Single tickets are tickets that only last one draw and can be purchased with any non-SHFL assets. Single tickets come in two forms:
Standard: A standard entry. Users pick 5 balls and 1 powerball for a chance to win prizes.
Powerplay: A more expensive ticket that guarantees the powerball.
Ticket prices are subject to change week to week.
Both staking SHFL and single tickets work hand and hand to make the SHFL staking model work. Single tickets opens up the lottery to increased user participation, and SHFL staking reaps the rewards from an ever growing prize pool fueled by single ticket growth.
Enter the number of tickets
Enter the amount of tickets you want to stake in the lottery, each ticket is 50 SHFL, and the minimum you can stake is 1 ticket. If you don't have SHFL, you have the option of either purchasing it or converting to it onsite.
Stake SHFL
Confirm your staked amount and get locked into the weekly lottery.
Claim your winnings
Come back after each draw conclusion to see if you’ve won!
Choose your ticket type
Choose between a standard and boosted ticket.
Enter the number of tickets
Choose how many tickets you would like in the upcoming draw.
Choose your numbers
Choose your lucky numbers.
Claim your winnings!
Claim your winning tickets by navigating to winning tickets tab of the lottery. Claiming is instant!
Each week, 15% of the platform's NGR is added to the the prize pool. That NGR is added to specific tiers of the lottery set each week. Single ticket sales are also added to the same specific tiers, as tickets are sold. Prior to the upcoming draw users will be informed of the updated split to the tickets through official channels.
You can win by matching your ticket numbers with the pulled numbers week to week. Depending on the number of matching numbers, you can win different prizes. If multiple users win the same prize, that prize is split amongst them. If no user wins a prize, that prize is jackpotted to the next week and added to that prize pool.
The SHFL Lottery is provably fair. The lottery draw is determined by Block Number, BTC hash and the server seed. To ensure that the lottery has not been cheated by ticket stuffing, we supply a downloadable CSV prior to draw concluding and a CSV hash to ensure that the number of tickets did not change from the time entries closed to the time the winner is picked.
To see how to verify the lottery, please see our provably fair docs.
The Block Number refers to a specific block in the Bitcoin blockchain. Each block in the blockchain is sequentially numbered, starting from zero (the genesis block).
We use the Bitcoin Block number and Bitcoin Hash as a source of randomness for the lottery. By providing both the Block Number and the Hash we can have an unbiased source of randomness
The Bitcoin Hash is the cryptographic hash (specifically, the SHA-256 hash) of the Bitcoin block specified by the Block Number. It is a 64-character hexadecimal string that uniquely identifies the block.
The Bitcoin Hash is combined with the Server Seed to create a final seed used for the random number generator. Because the hash cannot be known before the block is mined, it ensures that the lottery results cannot be predicted or influenced in advance.
The CSV Hash is the SHA-256 cryptographic hash of the CSV file containing all the lottery participants or entries. It is a digital fingerprint of the file’s contents.
The CSV Hash ensures that the list of participants is not altered after the hash is published. Any change in the CSV file would result in a different hash. Users can download the CSV file, compute its SHA-256 hash, and compare it with the provided CSV Hash to ensure the participant list hasn’t been tampered with.
The Server Seed is a secret random value generated by the lottery provider before the lottery draw. It is typically a long hexadecimal string.
Users can use the Server Seed along with the Bitcoin Hash to independently generate the lottery results.
The Server Seed (hashed) is the SHA-256 hash of the Server Seed. It is published before the lottery draw takes place. Publishing the hashed Server Seed before the draw acts as a commitment to a specific Server Seed without revealing it. After the draw, users can hash the revealed Server Seed and compare it to the pre-published hashed Server Seed to confirm they match.
