# Onchain Gaming's Bot Problem

*Author: Bankless*
*Published: Jul 23, 2024*
*Source: https://www.bankless.com/de/onchain-gamings-bot-problem*

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   Onchain Gaming's Bot Problem
  

  
  Published on July 23, 2024

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    ANALYSIS

  
  
    
   
Can Onchain Games Survive Bots?
  
  
   
     
     Bankless Author: 
     
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       William M. Peaster](https://x.com/WPeaster)
     
    
 

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e4/b7/e4b77544-5a37-4f0b-8824-8440aa348476/content/images/2024/07/image---2024-07-23T123659.026-2.png)](https://www.bankless.com/onchain-games-bots)**Fully onchain games facilitate everything—their assets, logic, rules, and state—directly on their underlying blockchain. **

In this new gaming frontier, *every *action is ultimately recorded onchain. 

As such, this dynamic offers various benefits, like transparency and possibilities around novel game economics. Yet these offerings also attract a deadly efficient type of player: bots. 

*Can onchain games survive and thrive in spite of the specter of bots going forward?* 👇

[Read the full analysis](https://www.bankless.com/onchain-games-bots)
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