drand is an open-source distributed randomness beacon that delivers free, publicly verifiable randomness as a core piece of Web3 infrastructure. It underpins the League of Entropy’s random beacon service and provides high-availability HTTP and gossipsub relay access used by Filecoin clients for leader election and timelock-related on-chain workflows. Funding supports ongoing protocol maintenance, resharing ceremonies, and reliable low-latency operations to preserve liveness and security across dependent ecosystems.