OpenFront x EigenCloud: How a game night turned into Verifiable Tournaments

OpenFront and EigenCloud ran the first verifiable tournament on the game, using EigenCompute to compute match results that anyone can verify, with payouts settling onchain automatically when a match ends. The collaboration aimed to enable real-money tournaments without changing gameplay, which runs offchain with the same latency and player experience. OpenFront, which has over 800,000 monthly active users, ran a live Winter Championship Finals with 5 teams and 30+ players, where players bought in with USDC and received payouts automatically. OpenFront founder Evan Pellegrini said that paid tournaments were previously impossible because payment processors froze accounts, international transfers took weeks, and manual payouts took hours.