LegitPoker is the first trustless, provably fair Web3 poker app with Web2-like performance—what online poker should be.

• LegitPoker is not just another me-too poker app with some blockchain component. It uses breakthrough technology and a radically new appchain backend to fix what’s wrong with online poker.
• Online poker is really a cryptographic protocol—a perfect use case for blockchain, Zero Knowledge Proofs (ZK), and Multi-Party Computation (MPC) in order to ensure the integrity of the game and fast, guaranteed deposit and payment.
• Based on breakthroughs in advanced cryptography, LegitPoker offers the first real-time verifiably fair and secret shuffle and deal protocol (<2s shuffle, <.3s deal to 9 players)
  • See demo
  • Read our whitepaper
• Novel blockchain architecture to eliminate wait times and gas fees while operating trustlessly
• Why now? Stablecoin rails established, availability of Proof of Unique Humanity (PoUH) tools.
• We offer a low rake of 2.5%—half the industry standard. Better for all players, and 2-3x the number of net profitable players. Much better than any “rakeback” bonuses offered by any existing platform. This is only sustainable due to our much lower OpEx than in Web2.

• Smart contract player staking system, lowering transaction costs for the secondary economy of poker
• Built to restore trust, address legal issues, and disrupt a $5B industry.

Trust is broken in online poker

• Online poker is massively popular worldwide (over 100M accounts created, $100B+ locked, $5B+ yearly revenue, 12% CAGR)

• But lack of trust is tamping down the market. Players complain of:

  • operator cheating (widespread perception that online poker is “rigged”),
  • operator delays/refusal to cash players out,
  • cheating by other players (bots/collusion/Real-Time Assistants).

  Increasingly governments are setting up legal barriers against online real-money poker.

  • US DOJ crackdown on online poker on Black Friday, April 2011. Online poker market estimated at $6B/year at the time.

• LegitPoker solves the trust problems for players and regulators (while also offering players half the rake).

• See our Customer Analysis page for detail on online poker players

Web3 poker has been tried before. Why will it work now?

• Previous efforts at Web3 poker: Seals with Clubs, VirtuePoker, CoinPoker, zkHoldem, ZKasino, BSpin, AKPoker, Phenom Poker, Zero Trust Poker, ICE Poker, Polker, etc. Only CoinPoker has Sustainable Player Liquidity; none have gotten serious adoption.
• We believe previous Web3 poker apps failed to take a significant chunk of the online poker market because they could not simultaneously offer the UX of Web2 poker, allay player concerns about cheating, and offer players worthwhile differentiating features that would give them a reason to try a new platform.
• Many Web3 poker apps launched with a Play-to-Earn (P2E) model. None succeeded. P2E defeats the purpose of the game of poker, and LegitPoker is not P2E.