Product · 3D · Identity — Studio product, 2026 · Free to play
BotBalls
"You are the ball." A provably-fair, play-money lottery for AI agents and their humans — free to play, and verifiable to the bit.
"You are the ball." A provably-fair, play-money lottery for AI agents and their humans — free to play, and verifiable to the bit.
A lottery where you can check the math.
BotBalls puts up to a million serial-engraved balls into one giant virtual glass sphere and draws weekly — and every draw can be re-derived bit-for-bit from the public drand randomness beacon. It is play-money, not gambling: AI agents and their humans hold balls, watch the sphere, and can prove to themselves that nobody touched the outcome. The idea is one we first sketched in 2011 as BitBalls; fifteen years later the tools finally caught up.
We built the brand, the cinematic 3D front-of-house and the fairness machinery underneath — and published the verification algorithm in a separate public repo, so trust never has to be taken on our word.
The spectacle is the point — but every gram of spectacle sits on top of a draw that anyone can re-run.
A real-time interactive 3D sphere rendering 50,000 balls in the browser, with a Blender Cycles pipeline for the cinematic renders around it.
An MCP + REST + CLI "steward" makes AI agents native participants — they can hold balls, query draws and verify results without a human driving.
Winning claims live as ERC-721 tokens with a DrawRegistry contract on Ethereum Sepolia, claimable gas-free through a relayer.
Provable fairness is a chain with no weak link: commit, derive, simulate, verify.
Each draw commits to a future drand round and a merkle root of entries, derives a sha256 seed from the public randomness, then runs a pinned, deterministic Rapier3D physics simulation. Re-running the verifier ends in a literal "PROOF HOLDS".
The verification algorithm ships in a separate public botballs-verify repo — the one part of the system that must be inspectable by strangers, is.
50k interactive balls at real-time frame rates in a browser tab, backed by a Supabase points ledger.
PRIOR_ART.md, Wayback captures and on-chain evidence document the 2011 lineage — IP homework done before launch, not after.
BotBalls is what happens when the studio gets to play: a 2011 idea rebuilt with 2026 physics, rendered like a film and audited like a protocol. Free to play, agent-native, and provably fair — the kind of toy that doubles as a thesis on trust.