CryptoGuardzIndependent crypto register
Read the binding document, check it against the issuing register, publish the disagreement18+ · Gambling carries risk of loss

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The register is published in these languages. If this page has no version in one of them, you go to that language’s home page.

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Verify a bet yourself

Paste the seeds the operator gave you and recompute the outcome here. Every intermediate value the operator’s own documentation names is printed, so you can check the working rather than trade one verdict for another.

Where this runs

The arithmetic happens in your browser, on your own machine. Nothing you type is sent to CryptoGuardz or to anybody else, there is no request behind the button, and the page works with the network disconnected. That is not a courtesy. A server seed you have not yet rotated is a live secret: anyone holding it can predict your next bets, so pasting one into a remote form hands away the thing the scheme exists to protect. It is also the reason this page says where it runs at all, which is a sentence 7 of the 9 operators that offer a verifier have never written.

Runs in your browser. Nothing is sent anywhere, and an unrotated server seed should never be pasted into a page that does.

Only available once you have rotated the seed pair. Before that the operator holds it.
The commitment. Leave blank to skip the commitment check and only reproduce the outcome.
The bet's position in this seed pair
Zero for dice, limbo and roulette

What a match proves

A match proves two separate things, and it is worth keeping them apart. If the hash you were shown before playing equals SHA-256 of the server seed you were given afterwards, the operator did not swap the seed once it saw how you were betting. If the outcome recomputes from those seeds, the operator applied the algorithm it documents. Together they close the one attack this scheme was designed to close: choosing the result after seeing the bet.

What a match does not prove

It says nothing about the house edge, the paytable, or whether the game was worth playing. A dice game can be perfectly verifiable and still take eleven percent of every wager. It says nothing about the games outside the scheme, which at every operator we read includes all the third-party slots and all the live dealer tables. And it says nothing at all about whether you will be paid: an operator can run flawless provably fair originals and still close your account and keep the balance. What the contract lets them do is a different document and a different question.

What a mismatch proves

Less than people expect, and this is the part a verifier that only prints a red cross gets wrong. A mismatch has four common causes and only the last is misconduct.

So a mismatch is a question, not a verdict. Check which scheme the operator documents before concluding anything: the implementations register records that for all 14, with the documentation URL and the date we read it.

How to get the seeds

Before you play, the operator shows a hashed server seed. That hash is the commitment, and it is the number to write down, because it is worthless to you afterwards if you did not keep it. You play under it with a client seed you chose, and each bet increments a nonce. When you rotate the seed pair the operator reveals the unhashed original, and only then can the bets made under it be checked. 8 of 14 operators state that the hashed seed is published before play. 6 of 14 state that the old seed is revealed afterwards. If your operator does neither, there is nothing here for you to verify, and that is the finding.

Why this implementation can be trusted more than most

A verifier nobody has tested is worse than no verifier, because it lends the operator’s number a confirmation it has not earned. The arithmetic here lives in one module that is run both by this page and by a test script that asserts it against vectors published by other people, 32 checks in all, and the build fails if any of them stops passing. The scheme, the vectors and the conversions are the ones the operators publish, cited on the implementations register. If you would rather not trust this page either, that is the correct instinct: Sportsbet.io and Gamdom publish verifiers you can run without us.

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