NEXTGROUND · updated 29 August 2026
Compliance.
Licensing and certification are territory by territory. Rather than publish a wall of badges we do not have, we publish the engineering that certification tests for, and confirm the exact position for your market in writing.
18+ · Simulation · Play money · No real wagering
01What we hold today
No gaming licence and no certification, in any territory. We supply under the operator’s licence, and anything you read below is a description of how the software is built, not a claim that an authority has signed it off.
- We are a B2B supplier. We licence game software to licensed operators and aggregators.
- We do not operate a casino, do not market to players, and do not accept wagers.
- We never hold player money. Funds stay in the operator’s wallet throughout; every stake and payout is a call to the operator’s wallet API.
02Engine and fairness
| Property | How it is held |
|---|---|
| Determinism | The price path is a pure function of the round seeds, the market identifier and the tick number. It never reads player state: no stake, no balance and no behaviour can influence it. |
| Randomness | One server seed per round. HMAC-SHA-256 keystream, server seed committed before each round. |
| Provable fairness | The hash of the seed is published before betting opens and the seed released at settlement. Anyone can rebuild every price of a finished round and check the collapse it ends on. |
| Authority | The server decides every price, every fill and every balance. The client renders. A crafted message cannot reach a limit. |
| Return to player | 97.04% of turnover, invariant across strategy to within two points. Measured over 120,000 simulated rounds on eight ways of playing. |
| House edge | A 3.00% spread between bid and ask, plus a 2.00% retention on drift while a position is open. Both displayed throughout the round. |
| Ledger | Double-entry, append-only, reconciled at every settlement. On drift the market halts rather than continuing. |
The scheme is executable rather than described: replay a published round and try to break it with an altered seed.
03Certification
- Status: none held. Target scope is GLI-19 interactive gaming systems, GLI-11 where applicable, RNG certification of the keystream.
- The pack in preparation contains the RNG specification, the provably-fair mechanism, the mathematical model, the game rules as displayed, and a Monte Carlo simulation reproducible from a fixed seed.
- Certificate references appear on this page as they are issued, with the issuing laboratory and the jurisdiction each one covers.
- Derivative certificates per market come from the base report. Tell us your markets and we scope them with you.
04Territory
- Permitted jurisdictions are agreed per operator and enforced in our engine, not delegated to your platform. A launch carrying a jurisdiction outside the agreed list is refused, and the refusal is logged.
- Every round records the jurisdiction it was played under.
- Supplying an unlicensed operator that targets a regulated market is a breach of our supply agreement and grounds for immediate termination.
05Security
- Server-authoritative execution, locked to the engine tick.
- Idempotent order handling: a replayed instruction produces exactly one fill.
- Rate limiting per account and per address; every input validated field by field.
- Seeds held in process memory and never serialised before settlement.
- Money is integer minor units, never floats.
06Player protection
The engine defaults, in full, are on the responsible gaming page. In short: stakes flat by default, compounding opt-in behind a warning, and no stake-progression tools of any kind.
07Contact
Compliance enquiries, certification documents and supply agreements: compliance@nextground.io.
This page describes our own practices. It is not legal advice, and it does not substitute for the obligations of your licence in your jurisdiction.