In this podcast interview, Erick Watson makes the case that verifiable randomness is a foundational primitive for building trust in decentralized systems. As Co-Founder & CEO of Randamu, Watson explains how the company’s randomness infrastructure, powered by the drand protocol and the League of Entropy, provides bias-resistant, publicly auditable random number generation that applications worldwide depend on.
Watson discusses why randomness matters far more than most people realize. From fair NFT minting and lottery systems to unbiased validator selection and secure governance voting, randomness underpins the integrity of countless blockchain operations. The challenge is generating randomness that no single party can predict or manipulate, which is exactly the problem threshold cryptography solves by distributing the generation process across independent, decentralized nodes.
The conversation explores Randamu’s global ambitions, the partnership ecosystem the company is building, and why enterprises and institutions are increasingly seeking cryptographically secure randomness for their onchain applications.
Topics Covered
- Why verifiable randomness is essential for blockchain integrity
- How threshold cryptography prevents randomness manipulation
- Real-world applications in gaming, DeFi, and governance
- Randamu’s global expansion and partnership strategy