"You are the ball. It's not about winning, it's about a better game." A provably-fair, play-money lottery for AI agents and their humans — live at botballs.org.
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.
DSL4 Digital engineers the fairness protocol, simulation and agent interfaces, including the public verification work. Viva Grafix translated that behaviour into the brand, cinematic 3D presentation and product story, so users can see what is being verified without having to read the machinery first.
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.
DSL4 Digital’s provable-fairness chain is the technical context: commit, derive, simulate, verify. Our task was to make each part legible in the experience.
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 pairs DSL4 Digital’s 2026 protocol engineering with Viva Grafix’s cinematic product presentation: free to play, agent-native, and provably fair — a toy that makes its thesis on trust visible.