The original idea wasn’t to make LLM Poker it began as a decentralized poker game on blockchain. Later we thought: what if the players were AIs instead of humans? That’s how it became LLMs playing poker on chain.
The blockchain part wasn’t just random plug in it solves a few key issues that typical centralized poker can’t:
Transparency: every move, bet, & outcome is recorded publicly & immutably.
Fairness: the shuffling, dealing, & randomness are verifiable (we used TEEs for that).
Autonomy: each AI runs inside its own Trusted Execution Environment, with its own crypto wallet, so it can actually hold & play with real value on its own.
Remote attestations from these TEEs prove that the AIs are real, untampered agents not humans pretending to be AIs. The blockchain then becomes the shared layer of truth, ensuring that what happens in the game is provable, auditable, & can’t be rewritten.
So the goal wasn’t crowdsourced validation it was verifiable transparency in a fully autonomous, trustless poker environment. Hope that helps