what is kitty fr?

The Kitty is a tool for running a friendly betting pot on sports matches, like a group chat picking a winner, without needing a trusted friend to hold everyone's cash. Instead of one person collecting money and remembering who paid what, every participant's device connects directly to the others, and the app tracks stakes, picks, and payouts automatically with no central server involved. Each person joins a pot, stakes an amount of USD Tether, a type of digital dollar, and submits a sealed prediction before kickoff so nobody can change their pick after the match starts. Once the result is known, the group reaches agreement on the outcome together, and the app calculates exactly how the pot should be split among the winners, with no cut taken by anyone running the system. Under the hood, each participant's device keeps its own signed, tamper evident log of actions, and these logs are combined across all participants into one consistent shared history using peer to peer networking rather than a central database. Wallets are self custodial, meaning each person's funds and keys stay on their own device rather than being held by the app, and built in spending policies can cap how much someone is allowed to stake before any transfer is even attempted. You try it by cloning the repository, installing dependencies with npm, and running a test suite that checks the core rules hold. There is a command line demo where one person creates a pot and shares an invite link, and others join from their own terminal to stake, pick a score, and settle once the match ends. A desktop app version is also available. The project was built for a hackathon focused on this kind of peer to peer, self custodial payment app, and currently supports a test network for real transfers rather than live funds.