As a journalist, I get hundreds of requests for interviews and articles every week. When I came across information on Randcast, I was intrigued. Most pitches for web3 gaming stories are related to new drops, updates, or partnership announcements for games I’ve never heard of. However, the academic curiosity in me perked up when I started reading about ARPA’s approach to randomness.

My first thought was to pray to ‘RNGesus,’ then I considered whether random number generation (RNG) was more important in web3 than in web2. I reached back out to ARPA, and I wanted to dig into some tough questions.

Why so random?

Randcast is an on-chain verifiable random number generator that offers a suite of APIs designed for diverse applications, including NFT allocation, game attribute generation, and …