Afterwards only over 2 years of evolution, on Sunday a new grade of gambling will be released to the Ethereum world on mainnet: hamster-powered marble races.

Powered past Mia, a female djungarian or "wintertime white dwarf" hamster and her trusty hamster wheel, the project, dubbed "Mia & the Marbles," is an automated marble-racing and gambling platform from a group of independent developers.

While the concept behind the projection may seem… whimsical, in an interview with Cointelegraph the development team for 'M&M' revealed how carefully the racing platform has been thought out.

"We guarantee races that are provably fair, provably live and hands-verifiable," the devs said. "Nosotros tin can guarantee that the races are taking place in real-time and are not pre-recorded. We do this with our provably live video stream that shows the first 8 $.25 of the current Ethereum blockhash physically on the race runway with 8 movable pegs. A high peg stands for a 1, a depression peg for a 0."

The team says that there is besides a refund function in place for races that don't deliver a valid outcome after two days.

While Mia & the Marbles may strike some as a thought experiment or hackathon moonshot come up to life, the developers say M&Thousand is inspired by a passion for provably fair gambling.

"Nosotros always loved the idea of blockchain gambling projects. Just unfortunately, scams are not uncommon in the low-regulated crypto infinite," the team said. "So we were brainstorming ideas with the goal to make the provable fairness component easy to sympathize for anyone, while also being fun at the same time!"

As a coworker, the developers written report that Mia is stellar. In that location was a crude patch in the get-go — when she was a pup, Mia enjoyed nibbling on devs' fingers — only these days she's e'er set to produce. While many protocols governed by DAOs need to worry about incentive structures and the possibility that another protocol might poach their talent via merger, Mia happily runs in her cycle upwardly to 8 kilometers per solar day.

"Hamsters are very active naturally and embrace broad distances at nighttime to gather food," the dev team explained.

In the time to come, in that location will be more than well-developed tracks and possible "championship" brackets for the marbles, and the developers ultimately intend to go on building towards fun, fair games on Ethereum.

"We strongly believe that adding real-world randomness into crypto gambling solutions tin can dramatically increase the trust that players have into these products. We desire to contribute to a fair world."