Among Friends - Bet on Anything

AmongFriends is a decentralized, customizable betting platform that empowers users to create, join, and resolve bets without the need for oracles, centralized authorities, or intermediaries. Built for trustless coordination among friends, communities, and crypto-native users, the platform redefines how people engage in prediction, wagers, and friendly challenges in a censorship-resistant and fair way.

At its core, AmongFriends enables users to launch fully on-chain, self-contained bets where outcomes are determined by participant or spectator consensus. The system uses a slashing mechanism to enforce honest voting and prevent collusion—delivering a governance-based alternative to traditional betting markets.

🔹 Key Features

• 🧠 Custom Bet Engine
  Create structured bets with custom metadata: title, description, category, subcategory, and optional sport/challenge parameters.

• 👥 Community-Based Resolution
  Outcomes are decided by participants or spectators through a decentralized voting mechanism—no price feeds, oracles, or admin override.

• 💰 ERC20 Token Staking
  Bets are powered by token staking. Users lock funds to participate and earn or lose based on the final community-approved outcome.

• ⚖️ Slashing-Based Integrity Model
  When disputes arise, voters who side with the losing outcome are slashed (e.g., 70–30 logic). This ensures strong alignment with truth and fairness.

• 🧾 Off-Chain Referral System
  Users can share referral codes to grow the platform organically, without adding complexity to on-chain storage or contracts.

• 📊 Subgraph Integration (The Graph)
  All bet data (status, participants, votes, timestamps) is indexed for frontend performance, filtering, analytics, and real-time updates.

• 🛠️ No Factories or Proxies
  Each bet is a standalone, minimal contract—gas-optimized, audit-friendly, and permissionless to deploy.

🔹 Tech Stack

• Smart Contracts: Solidity (standalone escrow, vote, and slashing logic)

• Frontend: Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Wagmi, RainbowKit

• Indexing: The Graph (deployed subgraph for all bet-related queries)

• Storage: IPFS / CID for off-chain metadata and bet category tagging

🔹 Use Cases

• 🏆 Challenge Wagers: e.g. “Who runs 10km first?”

• ⚽ Sports Predictions: e.g. “Who wins the next Man City vs. Arsenal game?”

• 🎯 Personal Bets: e.g. “Will John finish the feature by Friday?”

• 🗳️ Community Votes: e.g. “Will this DAO proposal pass?”

• 🤝 Social Experiments: e.g. “Will X trend on Twitter next week?”

🔹 Impact

AmongFriends fosters technological fairness by:

• Removing dependency on centralized systems and price feeds.

• Enabling autonomous, peer-driven governance for social bets.

• Ensuring transparent, verifiable, and immutable resolution.

• Providing open access betting tools to DAOs, communities, and individuals alike.

It’s more than just a betting app—it’s a modular protocol for trust-minimized coordination and shared truth.

🔹 Status & Roadmap

• ✅ Smart Contract MVP Complete

• ✅ Subgraph Live (Base Sepolia)

• 🔜 Mainnet Deployment (Base or Polygon)

• 🔜 NFT Badges, On-Chain Reputation Layer

• 🔜 Growth Campaign via Off-Chain Referrals + Leaderboards

🔹 Team

Shagbaor Agber – Founder & Lead Engineer
Web3 Instructor at Sandlip Oasis | Hackathon Winner (Secuda, Agorand)
Fullstack & Solidity Developer focused on decentralized trust systems.

🔹 Future Vision

AmongFriends will evolve into a full-fledged modular social prediction protocol, with:

• DAO tools for collective decision-making

• Plug-and-play components for dApps/games

• NFT-based bet collectibles

• Governance token integrations

• Native mobile app with wallet support