24 hours ago
What is magicblock?
It's a taste of what's to come in the Solana gaming scene 🎮
A beginner's guide to the Onchain Game Engine 👇
Onchain game engines make it easier to build games with no external dependencies beyond their underlying blockchain.
To me, this is one of the most exciting areas of development in crypto today, and that’s why my curiosity was piqued when I recently came across MagicBlock Engine.
MagicBlock is a game engine that’s innovated an Ephemeral Rollups architecture for powering flexible and performant onchain games on Solana.
I think MagicBlock is an interesting look into what's to come in the Solana gaming scene, so let’s catch you up on all the basics.
What Is MagicBlock?
MagicBlock is a gaming framework built on top of Solana, designed to facilitate the development of fully onchain games and apps.
Recently, MagicBlock Engine showcased its capabilities at an a16zcrypto Demo Day event.
The demo featured a real-time, fully onchain game deployed entirely on Solana, and two clients played the game simultaneously with no lag thanks to the MagicBlock’s ability to delegate accounts into fast Solana validators.
What Are Ephemeral Rollups?
MagicBlock extends Solana's capabilities by introducing Ephemeral Rollups (ERs), which are designed to efficiently facilitate state transitions without fragmenting a game’s state.
MagicBlock’s Other Main Features
⚡️ BOLT — A framework that uses the Entity Component System (ECS) pattern to streamline the development of onchain games. It allows developers to quickly create modular, reusable, and extendable game components and logic.
🪪 SOAR — SOAR stands for Solana Onchain Achievement & Ranking. This reputation system lets developers readily define achievements based on onchain activities, track and display user rankings, and deploy rewards.
🔑 Session keys — MagicBlock recently helped add support for session keys in the Solana Unity SDK, making it easier for its game devs to eliminate the need for repeated wallet popups during frequent in-game interactions in a secure fashion.
MagicBlock’s angle is to bypass these fragmentation issues by keeping assets on mainnet Solana, thus maintaining the possibility for atomic composability, while still achieving scalability with ERs. This way you get high throughput, customizable runtimes, and the ability for games and apps to seamlessly interact without needing interoperability solutions.
What to Watch Going Forward?
1. MagicBlock is new and still rearing up. Which onchain game will be the first to officially use this engine?
2. The recent MagicBlock demo achieved 50ms latency, which is competitive with modern gaming standards. Can we expect further optimizations that bring this latency even lower for even better real-time gameplay?
3. Earlier this year, Parallel announced its AI game Colony would be based on Solana. Could the Parallel team adopt MagicBlock Engine to meet its infrastructure needs here?
4. With MagicBlock maintaining assets on the Solana mainnet, developers have the potential for atomic composability. What use cases will emerge from this capability?
5. Onchain games benefit greatly from user-generated content (UGC) and user-generated logic (UGL). Will the SOAR system be used to incentivize these sorts of creations?
The Bottom Line
While MagicBlock is still in its early stages, its potential to catalyze Solana’s fully onchain gaming scene seems considerable, as its Ephemeral Rollups architecture can help it bypass key challenges faced by other gaming engines while still ensuring high performance. Looking ahead, be sure to stay updated on the team’s progress by following them on Twitter— they’re ones to watch in my opinion!
Written by WPeaster
It's a taste of what's to come in the Solana gaming scene 🎮
A beginner's guide to the Onchain Game Engine 👇
Onchain game engines make it easier to build games with no external dependencies beyond their underlying blockchain.
To me, this is one of the most exciting areas of development in crypto today, and that’s why my curiosity was piqued when I recently came across MagicBlock Engine.
MagicBlock is a game engine that’s innovated an Ephemeral Rollups architecture for powering flexible and performant onchain games on Solana.
I think MagicBlock is an interesting look into what's to come in the Solana gaming scene, so let’s catch you up on all the basics.
What Is MagicBlock?
MagicBlock is a gaming framework built on top of Solana, designed to facilitate the development of fully onchain games and apps.
Recently, MagicBlock Engine showcased its capabilities at an a16zcrypto Demo Day event.
The demo featured a real-time, fully onchain game deployed entirely on Solana, and two clients played the game simultaneously with no lag thanks to the MagicBlock’s ability to delegate accounts into fast Solana validators.
What Are Ephemeral Rollups?
MagicBlock extends Solana's capabilities by introducing Ephemeral Rollups (ERs), which are designed to efficiently facilitate state transitions without fragmenting a game’s state.
MagicBlock’s Other Main Features
⚡️ BOLT — A framework that uses the Entity Component System (ECS) pattern to streamline the development of onchain games. It allows developers to quickly create modular, reusable, and extendable game components and logic.
🪪 SOAR — SOAR stands for Solana Onchain Achievement & Ranking. This reputation system lets developers readily define achievements based on onchain activities, track and display user rankings, and deploy rewards.
🔑 Session keys — MagicBlock recently helped add support for session keys in the Solana Unity SDK, making it easier for its game devs to eliminate the need for repeated wallet popups during frequent in-game interactions in a secure fashion.
MagicBlock’s angle is to bypass these fragmentation issues by keeping assets on mainnet Solana, thus maintaining the possibility for atomic composability, while still achieving scalability with ERs. This way you get high throughput, customizable runtimes, and the ability for games and apps to seamlessly interact without needing interoperability solutions.
What to Watch Going Forward?
1. MagicBlock is new and still rearing up. Which onchain game will be the first to officially use this engine?
2. The recent MagicBlock demo achieved 50ms latency, which is competitive with modern gaming standards. Can we expect further optimizations that bring this latency even lower for even better real-time gameplay?
3. Earlier this year, Parallel announced its AI game Colony would be based on Solana. Could the Parallel team adopt MagicBlock Engine to meet its infrastructure needs here?
4. With MagicBlock maintaining assets on the Solana mainnet, developers have the potential for atomic composability. What use cases will emerge from this capability?
5. Onchain games benefit greatly from user-generated content (UGC) and user-generated logic (UGL). Will the SOAR system be used to incentivize these sorts of creations?
The Bottom Line
While MagicBlock is still in its early stages, its potential to catalyze Solana’s fully onchain gaming scene seems considerable, as its Ephemeral Rollups architecture can help it bypass key challenges faced by other gaming engines while still ensuring high performance. Looking ahead, be sure to stay updated on the team’s progress by following them on Twitter— they’re ones to watch in my opinion!
Written by WPeaster
3 days ago
Gm Bulls,
Bullish start of the week cause the markets are green 🍀,
Share ur favourite memecoin project I should hop in 🐧
Bullish start of the week cause the markets are green 🍀,
Share ur favourite memecoin project I should hop in 🐧
4 days ago
GM Bullverse,🐧
Pengy Daily Degens new episode is here.💫
Pengy & the degens cross the Atlantic, and discover Europe.🌅
First stop is the dutch empire.🏰
Pengy Daily Degens new episode is here.💫
Pengy & the degens cross the Atlantic, and discover Europe.🌅
First stop is the dutch empire.🏰
5 days ago
✨GM Bullverse,🐧
Pengy & the degens take off with SOL Air.🚀
Ready to fly high, and in class.😎
Fly Good, Fly sol.💫
Next episode will be a Special one specially for Bullverse, stay tuned.👀💥
Pengy & the degens take off with SOL Air.🚀
Ready to fly high, and in class.😎
Fly Good, Fly sol.💫
Next episode will be a Special one specially for Bullverse, stay tuned.👀💥
6 days ago
(E)
GM Bullverse,🐧
PengyOS Services are available to all Projects now.💫
Get your App listed on our Solana HUB.✅
We offer your Project visibility on our App / Web.📳
SAGA / Android / ChromeOS 💻
Safari / Chrome / Firefox.
We also launched a series called 'Pengy Daily Degens´.🎉
Every Project that gets listed to PengyOS will be featured in a Portrait of the series.📷💎
PengyOS Services are available to all Projects now.💫
Get your App listed on our Solana HUB.✅
We offer your Project visibility on our App / Web.📳
SAGA / Android / ChromeOS 💻
Safari / Chrome / Firefox.
We also launched a series called 'Pengy Daily Degens´.🎉
Every Project that gets listed to PengyOS will be featured in a Portrait of the series.📷💎
6 days ago
gm 🦊 fam,
The Team has been hard at work behind the scenes on the Webapp and performing analytics from the first months metrics. 📈
Since the Raid Suite has gone live we have:
- 2000 unique wallets generated across 40 Telegram groups.
- Bought back >1M $KIT and airdropped >5M to the Kitsune Community.
- Received airdrop fees from 15 separate projects.
- Added three Strategic Partners in Gamba, ape.lol and @bullverse
.
Today VanEck filed the first spot ETF for Solana, this is only our first month, and Summer is only just starting....
Are you ready 🦊?
The Team has been hard at work behind the scenes on the Webapp and performing analytics from the first months metrics. 📈
Since the Raid Suite has gone live we have:
- 2000 unique wallets generated across 40 Telegram groups.
- Bought back >1M $KIT and airdropped >5M to the Kitsune Community.
- Received airdrop fees from 15 separate projects.
- Added three Strategic Partners in Gamba, ape.lol and @bullverse
.
Today VanEck filed the first spot ETF for Solana, this is only our first month, and Summer is only just starting....
Are you ready 🦊?
7 days ago
GM Bullverse,🐧
Tomorrow we will announce our latest feature.💎
You want your Project on our App?📳
PengyOS offers full customization to your liking.✅
Join Pengy & the degens while enjoying the Solana Summer season.😎💫
Tomorrow we will announce our latest feature.💎
You want your Project on our App?📳
PengyOS offers full customization to your liking.✅
Join Pengy & the degens while enjoying the Solana Summer season.😎💫
8 days ago
GM Bullverse,🐧
PengyOS is about to offer something no project has done before.💎
The last posts are a testimony to this.💫
Pengy & the Degens go for a roadtrip today.😎
PengyOS is about to offer something no project has done before.💎
The last posts are a testimony to this.💫
Pengy & the Degens go for a roadtrip today.😎
9 days ago
AUDIUS, a decentralized music streaming platform on yours truly Solana, has secured licensing agreements with all major United States Performing Rights Organizations namely:
➢ ASCAP
➢ BMI
➢ GMR
➢ SESAC.
➢ ASCAP
➢ BMI
➢ GMR
➢ SESAC.
11 days ago
gm 🦊 amics,
Development on the Kitsune Webapp is well underway, this means:
- Likes will be recorded as R2E Stats again, bypassing the "private likes" on X.
- Follows and Bookmarks are now R2E Stats with their own weightings towards rewards.
- Raids can be done entirely in Telegram, you will not even have to open Twitter/X to participate in raids.
- Botting is made close to impossible.
Have a great week!
Development on the Kitsune Webapp is well underway, this means:
- Likes will be recorded as R2E Stats again, bypassing the "private likes" on X.
- Follows and Bookmarks are now R2E Stats with their own weightings towards rewards.
- Raids can be done entirely in Telegram, you will not even have to open Twitter/X to participate in raids.
- Botting is made close to impossible.
Have a great week!
11 days ago
GM Bullverse,🐧
PengyOS keeps adding new features! ✨
To enjoy the latest quality and functionality,reinstall the PengyOS app on SAGA/Android/Chrome OS. 📱💻
For Chrome OS users, open terminal and type adb -s emulator-5554 install PengyOS.APK. ✅
For web / iOS users, just refresh/delete cache. 💫
PengyOS keeps adding new features! ✨
To enjoy the latest quality and functionality,reinstall the PengyOS app on SAGA/Android/Chrome OS. 📱💻
For Chrome OS users, open terminal and type adb -s emulator-5554 install PengyOS.APK. ✅
For web / iOS users, just refresh/delete cache. 💫
13 days ago
gm 🦊 thugz,
The Solstice is upon us and things are heating up 🔥
Check out this Summer anthem from our talented Community Member "Nobi" with the hottest bars on all of Solana!
https://www.youtube.com/wa...
The Solstice is upon us and things are heating up 🔥
Check out this Summer anthem from our talented Community Member "Nobi" with the hottest bars on all of Solana!
https://www.youtube.com/wa...
Nobi - Kitsune - YouTube
Right in time for DeFi Summer, proving Kitsune not only has the hottest community but the hottest bars on Solana!
14 days ago
16 days ago
gm 🦊 fam,
The Kitsune Dev team have released a side utility-meme project
DoggerSOL
It is a Telegram Bot that posts dogs. TheDoggerBot on TG.
Check it out and as always DYOR + NFA.
The Kitsune Dev team have released a side utility-meme project
DoggerSOL
It is a Telegram Bot that posts dogs. TheDoggerBot on TG.
Check it out and as always DYOR + NFA.
