PBSA

Overview

The Peerplays Blockchain Standards Association (PBSA) was a non-profit dedicated to building and delivering a bespoke, provably fair gaming and gambling blockchain to the world. The goal wasn't just another chain — it was infrastructure that could settle real bets against real-world outcomes with cryptographic guarantees.

My role

I was Technical Lead. I built and led a team of 10 developers spanning design, QA, frontend, and backend. I managed multiple open-source codebases, maintained API documentation for external contributors, and ran a bug bounty program end to end.

What I built

My deepest technical work was architecting game logic and oracle systems for the flagship product, BookiePro — a provably fair sports betting platform on the Peerplays chain.

The centerpiece was what I'm most proud of: the world's first fully operational oracle system that turned real-world sports outcomes and data into on-chain "truths" that the blockchain could reason over to settle bets correctly. That meant bridging messy real-world data feeds to deterministic smart contract logic — with money on the line.

I also contributed across the broader stack in C++, TypeScript, JavaScript, and an Electron desktop client, with Jenkins powering CI/CD for the open-source repos.

The hardest problem

Oracle design. Getting external sports data to be trustworthy, timely, and dispute-resistant enough for a gambling blockchain required careful architecture around consensus, failover, and game-specific settlement rules.

Outcome

We shipped BookiePro and the oracle infrastructure that made provably fair on-chain sports betting possible — a genuinely novel piece of blockchain engineering at the time.