Platform Design
Neutral Matchmaking Model
Jackson.io is strategically positioned as a decentralized technology platform and financial matchmaking service provider, ensuring impartiality and neutrality in facilitating game interactions within its ecosystem.
Operational Mechanism
Role of the Platform: Jackson.io provides a secure and efficient infrastructure, underpinned by smart contracts, to enable seamless interactions between Players and the Jackson Liquidity Pool (JacksonLP), which serves as the unified counterparty for all games.
Smart Contract Execution: All game interactions are governed by predefined rules encoded in audited smart contracts deployed on the Sui blockchain. These contracts automatically match and settle player bets against the liquidity provided by JacksonLP, ensuring transparency and eliminating manual intervention.
Revenue Model: The platform generates revenue through a 3% Fairness Fee applied to game interactions, which supports the technological infrastructure and fairness mechanisms. Importantly, Jackson.io does not profit directly from game outcomes, thereby avoiding any conflicts of interest with users.
Key Benefits
Neutrality in Operations: Jackson.io does not participate in games or derive profits from player wins or losses, ensuring an unbiased environment for all participants.
Transparency of Transactions: All game-related transactions and outcomes are recorded on the Sui blockchain, making them publicly verifiable and fostering trust among users.
Commitment to Fairness: By remaining a neutral intermediary, the platform eliminates the potential biases inherent in traditional centralized gaming systems, promoting a balanced and equitable ecosystem.
Fairness and Transparency Mechanisms
Fairness and transparency are foundational principles of the Jackson.io platform, achieved through a combination of blockchain technology and robust verification mechanisms:
Transparency via the Sui Blockchain
On-Chain Record Keeping: Critical operational data, including inputs and outputs for random number generation, staking and unstaking activities by Liquidity Providers, and user fund deposits and withdrawals, are recorded on the publicly transparent Sui blockchain. This ensures the immutability and traceability of all core transactions.
Independent Verification: Users have the ability to independently verify these records using blockchain explorers, providing assurance of the platform’s operational integrity.
Mechanisms for Verifiable Fairness
Automated Smart Contract Execution: The core logic for games, fund settlements, and reward distributions is executed automatically by audited smart contracts, eliminating the possibility of human intervention or manipulation.
Random Number Generation (RNG) Methods:
Decentralized RNG Implementation: The platform utilizes on-chain technologies, such as verifiable random functions (VRFs) or integrated oracles, to produce random numbers that are verifiable by users.
Provably Fair System: For certain scenarios, a server-side random number generator is employed, supplemented by a “Provably Fair” system that allows users to verify the impartiality of game outcomes post-interaction using user-provided seeds.
Selection of Fairness Method: Jackson.io selects the most appropriate fairness mechanism for each game scenario, ensuring optimal performance and transparency. Detailed information on these mechanisms is provided in the Terms and Conditions.
Benefits of Fairness and Transparency
Establishment of a Trustless Environment: User confidence is built upon open, verifiable technology and code, rather than reliance on the platform operator’s discretion.
Guarantee of Impartiality: As a neutral technology provider, Jackson.io has neither the motive nor the capability to manipulate game outcomes, ensuring fairness for all participants.
Key Considerations
Security Through Technology: The use of smart contracts and the Sui blockchain provides a robust foundation for secure and transparent operations.
User Autonomy and Control: Players and Liquidity Providers interact directly with smart contracts, retaining full control over their assets and transactions.
Enhanced Auditability: The public nature of blockchain records enhances accountability, allowing users to audit platform activities independently.