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Leaderboards where scores are recorded on-chain, making them publicly auditable and resistant to tampering.
Traditional game leaderboards live on publisher servers and get wiped, exploited, or lost. Onchain leaderboards record runs as verifiable transactions, letting anyone audit the full history. They work best for deterministic games or games with verifiable-compute proofs. The speedrun scene in particular has experimented with onchain verification to sidestep scandals around fake runs.
Example
Agent Arcade uses onchain leaderboards tied to tournament payouts. Punk.Town records high scores on-chain. ZKGaming projects use zero-knowledge proofs to verify runs trustlessly. Cartridge and various Base-chain arcades use onchain score infrastructure.
Why it matters
Onchain leaderboards solve a genuine problem — centralized leaderboards get wiped or gamed — while creating new UX challenges around gas and latency. They are one of the clearest legitimate use cases for onchain gaming.
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