We heard you all like random cats, so here's our random cat of the day. Chosen uniformly at random with verifiable randomness from our quicknet VRF round 20993439 among all the 1 available cat to draw from.

New blog post just dropped! "No Peeking! How to Build a Sealed-Bid Auction with On-Chain Timelock Encryption", powered by threshold-cryptography like everything we do. drand.love/blog/2025/0...

With the latest NVIDIA RTX 5090 having just been released, we wondered: how many do you need in order to find a SHA-1 collision, or worse, perform a chosen-prefix attack on SHA-1 in 2025? The answer to that question and many more can be found in our blog: drand.love/blog/2025/0...

A heartfelt thanks to the incredible team at F6 for recognizing @RandamuInc as one of the leading new security startups in the vibrant tech hub of Seattle! We're honored to join such an innovative community. Discover more about our journey and cutting-edge solutions: www.f6s.com/companies/c...

In our latest blog post, our very own smart contract engineer is telling you all about how to avoid on-chain gotchas when it comes to on-chain randomness usage! Check it out since randomness is too important to be left out to chance: drand.love/blog/2025/0...

Join us on Wednesday 19th of July at Infra Gardens hosted by DIA data in Paris. Sign up on luma: https://lu.ma/Infra-Gardens

Reminder that there is a drand code walkthrough session today at 1400UTC (in 2 hours!) Sign up on luma: https://lu.ma/drand-code-walkthroughs Today's session: ‘What is a drand beacon? How is it created?’

📢 important blog post announcement about our plan to sunset fastnet: https://drand.love/blog/2023/07/03/fastnet-sunset-quicknet-new/

Join us tomorrow at 1430UTC to walkthrough the drand CLI! https://lu.ma/drand-code-walkthroughs

the drand team is organising a series of Code Walkthroughs, split into 8 sessions, starting on Tuesday June 20th at 1430 UTC and running every other Tuesday. Register at: https://lu.ma/drand-code-walkthroughs

Announcing our code walkthrough series: https://drand.love/blog/2023/06/06/announcing-the-drand-code-walkthroughs/ 🎲 Do you want to contribute to drand but don't know what it's all about? Sign up now: https://lu.ma/drand-code-walkthroughs

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