# The First Global Lottery

*Author: Bankless*
*Published: Apr 4, 2026*
*Source: https://www.bankless.com/fr/first-global-lottery-1*

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The First Global Lottery

  
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A billion people play the lottery every year, and the house always wins. In today's essay, David Hoffman makes the case for Megapot, an onchain lottery built on Base that finally lets *you *be the house.

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OPINION

  
  
The World's First Global Lottery

  
  
   
     
     Bankless Author: 
     
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David Hoffman](https://www.bankless.com/author/david-hoffman)
     
    
 

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e4/b7/e4b77544-5a37-4f0b-8824-8440aa348476/content/images/2026/04/image---2026-04-03T122027.423-2.png)](https://www.bankless.com/read/the-worlds-first-global-lottery)A billion people play the lottery every year. Half of American adults buy a ticket annually. Eighty percent of UK adults do the same. It's the most universally played game on the planet - and yet, despite the fact that the internet reshaped virtually every other industry on Earth, lotteries have barely changed in fifty years.

That’s the motivating force behind [Megapot](https://t.co/1I5HZZSqyP) - a startup building a lottery at internet scale. 

I think Megapot is pretty cool, and the vision behind Megapot has a lot of microcosms of so many reasons why Ethereum is cool: disintermediation, democratization, and coordination, all made possible via smart contracts. 

Patrick Lung, Megapot Founder, understands the potential scale of what he’s building, while also simply being an all-around nice dude with a sharp sense of what it takes to find product market fit. 

So, naturally...

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