Verifiable Random pick — string selection with or without replacement bound to a
Verifiable Random pick — string selection with or without replacement bound to a future drand round the server waits for (typically 3-6s) and verifies locally, with a reproducible proof transcript.
Answeringour last check, 2026-09-24
1 of 1checks answered this week
595 msmedian answer time
$0.005listed price per call
$0.005price it asked us
Paid test badge: not yet. The checks above are free: we call the tool without paying and read the payment request it sends back. The Verified badge needs paid calls whose answers match the promised output, and nobody can buy a badge.
Endpoint
POST https://verifiable-random.use.x402atlas.com/pick
| Category | Everything else |
|---|---|
| Provider host | verifiable-random.use.x402atlas.com |
| Networks | eip155:137, eip155:42161, eip155:8453 |
| Payment schemes | exact |
| Self-reported calls, 30 days | 3 from 2 payers (the provider's figure, not ours) |
Our checks, last 30 days
| Day | Result | HTTP | Asked | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-24 | valid payment request | 402 | $0.005 | 595 ms |
Example input (from the provider)
{
"body": {
"algorithm_version": "drand-hkdf-sha256-v1",
"client_seed": "example",
"count": 2,
"items": [
"red",
"green",
"blue"
],
"replacement": false,
"target_round": 0
},
"bodyType": "json",
"method": "POST",
"type": "http"
}
Promised output schema (from the provider)
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"input": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"body": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"description": "String selection request bound to a future drand round.",
"properties": {
"algorithm_version": {
"default": "drand-hkdf-sha256-v1",
"description": "Optional version guard; when supplied it must match the server's pinned derivation algorithm.",
"enum": [
"drand-hkdf-sha256-v1"
],
"type": "string"
},
"client_seed": {
"default": "",
"description": "Optional public domain-separation label, not secret entropy.",
"maxLength": 256,
"type": "string"
},
"count": {
"description": "Number of values to select.",
"maximum": 1000,
"minimum": 1,
"type": "integer"
},
"items": {
"description": "Candidate strings to select from, at most 131072 UTF-8 bytes combined; duplicate values are allowed and remain distinguishable by original_indices.",
"items": {
"maxLength": 256,
"type": "string"
},
"maxItems": 1000,
"minItems": 1,
"type": "array"
},
"replacement": {
"default": false,
"description": "False selects each input position at most once; true makes independent draws and permits repeated positions.",
"type": "boolean"
},
"target_round": {
"default": 0,
"description": "0 asks the server to choose the next safe unpublished round; a positive value makes a client_fixed commitment and must still be safely in the future.",
"minimum": 0,
"type": "integer"
}
},
"required": [
"items",
"count"
],
"type": "object"
},
"bodyType": {
"enum": [
"json",
"form-data",
"text"
],
"type": "string"
},
"method": {
"enum": [
"POST"
],
"type": "string"
},
"type": {
"const": "http",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"method",
"bodyType",
"body"
],
"type": "object"
},
"output": {
"properties": {
"example": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"description": "Verifiable Random result and complete drand derivation transcript.",
"properties": {
"algorithm_version": {
"description": "Pinned canonicalization, derivation, and sampling algorithm version required to reproduce the result.",
"enum": [
"drand-hkdf-sha256-v1"
],
"type": "string"
},
"beacon": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"description": "Locally verified drand Quicknet proof used as the public randomness source.",
"properties": {
"chain_hash": {
"description": "Pinned Quicknet chain hash used to fetch and verify the round.",
"enum": [
"52db9ba70e0cc0f6eaf7803dd07447a1f5477735fd3f661792ba94600c84e971"
],
"type": "string"
},
"network": {
"description": "Pinned drand network name.",
"enum": [
"quicknet"
],
"type": "string"
},
"randomness": {
"description": "Lowercase hexadecimal randomness derived from the verified signature.",
"pattern": "^[0-9a-f]{64}$",
"type": "string"
},
"round": {
"description": "Exact verified Quicknet round used for this result.",
"minimum": 1,
"type": "integer"
},
"scheduled_time": {
"description": "Scheduled UTC publication time of the selected round.",
"format": "date-time",
"type": "string"
},
"scheme": {
"description": "Pinned drand signature scheme.",
"enum": [
"bls-unchained-g1-rfc9380"
],
"type": "string"
},
"signature": {
"description": "Lowercase hexadecimal BLS signature verified against the pinned Quicknet public key.",
"pattern": "^[0-9a-f]{96}$",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"network",
"chain_hash",
"scheme",
"round",
"scheduled_time",
"randomness",
"signature"
],
"type": "object"
},
"example_only": {
"description": "True only in compiled catalog/keepalive examples; live paid results are false.",
"type": "boolean"
},
"operation": {
"description": "Random operation performed by this route.",
"enum": [
"pick"
],
"type": "string"
},
"processed_at": {
"description": "UTC time when the service accepted the request and committed to the round-selection decision.",
"format": "date-time