drand news roundup

Summary of blog posts and news items related to the drand v1.0 announcement.

Two weeks ago, we announced the launch of drand v1.0, the League of Entropy production-level service, and this very website. Here is a roundup of related blog posts and news items from around the web:

• The League of Entropy Launches Production drand Network, Providing the First Publicly Verifiable Distributed Randomness Beacon, League of Entropy press release, Aug 10 (picked up by Yahoo! Finance and others)
• The League of Entropy launches drand v1.0 to become the Internet’s first production-grade, publicly verifiable randomness beacon!, drand, Aug 10
• How a Decentralized Randomness Beacon Could Boost Cryptographic Security, CoinDesk, Aug 10
• Tierion Joins the League of Entropy — Replaces NIST Randomness Beacon with drand in Chainpoint Proofs, Tierion, Aug 10
• Liga de la Entropía entra en etapa de producción., University of Chile, Aug 11 (in Spanish)
• A PTisp juntou-se à “League of Entropy”, PTisp, Aug 11 (in Portuguese)
• Announcing the League of Entropy Mainnet Upgrade, Protocol Labs, Aug 12
• Filecoin Features: Distributed Randomness & Leader Elections, Filecoin, Aug 12
• drand: um serviço público de números aleatórios, Pplware, Aug 26 (in Portuguese)

If you missed the Randomness Summit, stay tuned. We'll post individual talk videos soon, or you can watch the full summit now on the event website.