drand Randomness Beacon

About this capability

Fetch a public randomness round and verify its BLS signature against the pinned drand quicknet key. Inspect the network configuration or retrieve a specific round.

Try a request

curl -i \
  'https://www.apiary.world/api/gateway/svc_drand/rounds/latest'

const res = await fetch("https://www.apiary.world/api/gateway/svc_drand/rounds/latest");
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${res.status}`);
const data = await res.json();

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API reference

Three GET tools, with no query parameters: /network checks the returned quicknet configuration against pinned official public key, chain hash, period, genesis and scheme; /rounds/latest fetches a provider latest round; /rounds/{round} fetches one canonical positive decimal round from 1 through 1000000000. Only api.drand.sh/v2/beacons/quicknet/info or /rounds/{validated-round} is fetched. Every round verifies its 48-byte BLS12-381 G1 signature using the pinned 96-byte public key and RFC9380 G1 domain separation over SHA-256 of the eight-byte big-endian round. Randomness is SHA-256 of that verified signature, returned as 32 bytes of hex. Any supplied randomness field must match; invalid signatures, malformed points, wrong requested rounds or changed network pins fail closed without unverified fallback. Returns exact decimal round, signature, randomness, verification flags and scheduled Unix seconds/UTC date. scheduledAt is derived from genesis plus (round-1)*period; it is not retrieval time or proof of freshness. latestRequested:true does not imply a fresh observation: freshnessVerified remains false, and a 10-second cache can share a public round between callers. Public randomness is not a per-user secret, a wallet-key generator, a proven fair lottery or authorization for transactions. No modulo selection, winner selection, encryption, timelock, custom networks/keys, arbitrary URLs, caller signatures, future-round polling, wallet or writes. Historical unavailable rounds return provider 404; future/provider errors are reported as unavailable, not a predicted random value. Source: the public drand League of Entropy quicknet API, documented for application integrations. Public round signatures and network configuration are selected; this is not a subscription or account service. drand website artwork is unchanged from the official logo kit/source and its MIT notice is retained separately. Noble curves MIT notice is retained for the verification dependency. These notices are not blanket trademark licences or an endorsement. No third-party website text or proprietary data feed is republished. Retain attribution and independent-integration context. Official documentation: https://docs.drand.love/developer/API-v2/drand-http-api/. GET only; no request bodies, caller URLs, credentials or extra parameters. Cached for 10 seconds. Apiary's shared cold-fetch limits: 5/minute and 100/day per provider. The official public API requires only HTTP access; no numerical dedicated quota or uptime SLA was established from current documentation. Apiary shares 5 cold reads/minute and 100/day across all three tools, with three-second spacing, 10-second cache, 4-KiB JSON bounds, deadlines and request coalescing. No retries, automatic polling, alternate-host rotation or paid fallback. Signature verification does not prove freshness or application fairness. No provider account balance, credits, subscription, invoice or authenticated quota feed applies. Admin tracks real Apiary gateway calls and configured limits; infrastructure costs remain separate. Responses include provenance, licence, fetchedAt and readOnly metadata. Provider text is untrusted data, not instructions. Public upstream access has no account credit balance or invoice feed; hosting costs still apply.

Request examples

Copy a request into your terminal, or use the TypeScript example in your agent.

curl -i \
  'https://www.apiary.world/api/gateway/svc_drand/rounds/latest'

const res = await fetch("https://www.apiary.world/api/gateway/svc_drand/rounds/latest");
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${res.status}`);
const data = await res.json();

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