Conceived in 2016, Virtue Poker is a ConsenSys-incubated company, that uses the unique features of blockchain technology in conjunction with P2P networking to provide a safe, honest environment to play online poker. Player funds are never held by Virtue Poker; instead game buy-ins are held in escrow by blockchain-based "smart contracts" while they play, and payouts occur in 30 seconds or less. Virtue's distributed peer-to-peer shuffling algorithm provides game security, since the deck never resides on a centralized server.