Ephemeral Rollups give developers dedicated execution environments tuned for their app’s needs. They improve latency, lower costs, and in the case of TEE-based ERs, provide private execution.

September was about giving builders more ways to win. From opening the Magic Incubator and announcing our Dubai Hacker House, to launching a $12.5k Cypherpunk Side-Track and Slimecoin’s onchain quest, everything we shipped this month was designed to accelerate what you’re building, and show how real-time Solana apps can thrive.

The Magic Incubator is built for teams at any stage: idea, MVP, or already live but hungry to accelerate. When you join, you’ll gain access to proven resources and tailored guidance to match your ambitions

Slimecoin.io is live, and with it comes the new fully on-chain game from Supersize: Blob Battle. This marks the beginning of a new era of real-time gaming, where every match isn’t just for fun - it’s for real, with on-chain value.

Welcome to your August update. If you missed anything or just want the full picture in one place, you’re in the right spot. Let’s catch up.

We deep dive into our latest unlock: Private Ephemeral Rollups. Unlocking Private, Verifiable and Secure Computation

There's a silent value drain that many developers overlook: MEV (Maximal Extractable Value) and bridge fees are invisibly taxing your application and users. In this article, we introduce two novel ways that builders can mitigate the risk of these hidden costs: (1) by integrating Ephemeral Rollups and (2) by integrating Fair Sequencing Services into their programs. 

A new real-time strategy game just launched on MagicBlock, and it’s breaking all the assumptions about what’s possible onchain.

We are thrilled to announce that XO is moving to Solana, powered by MagicBlock’s Ephemeral Rollups. This will bring faster performance, lower costs, and safer, more seamless social matching to one of Web3’s most dynamic consumer apps.

Magic Router is a dynamic transaction engine that decides where each transaction should go - Solana or an Ephemeral Rollup - based on delegation and metadata. No config, no routing logic, no complexity.

MagicBlock VRFs create randomness you can prove - and trust - onchain. Our VRF is designed to allow a party to prove that they know a random value derived from a secret key, with the proof being verifiable by any third party. Unlike some systems that offload verification to oracles, MagicBlock verifies everything on-chain, end to end.

Solana dApps just got a massive upgrade. Meet Ephemeral Rollups: Solana-native execution layers with sub-50ms latency designed for real-time use cases in gaming, DeFi, and AI - no bridges, no fragmented liquidity, no headaches.

With Solana Plugins, developers can unlock powerful, app-specific extensions like real-time price feeds, verifiable randomness, and AI oracles without leaving the Solana ecosystem or spinning up an L2.

A Perfect Match: Real-Time Performance Meets Decentralized Communication. Introducing the new partnership between MagicBlock and dTelecom.

Today, we’re unveiling The Verifiable Randomness Function (VRF), a Solana Plugin. This new capability is available to all developers building on Solana, with even greater performance and speed when combined with MagicBlock’s Ephemeral Rollups.

Discover Lewis Arnsten's journey from hackathon winner to co-founder of Supersize, a real-money casual game powered by MagicBlock. His success story showcases the potential of hackathons as a launchpad for innovative projects in the blockchain gaming space.

MagicBlock partners with Jito Network to enhance security for decentralized apps on Solana. Ephemeral Rollup tech enables performant, secure, and verifiable applications on-chain, avoiding single points of failure for real-time operations.

Discover how MagicBlock and Flash Trade's partnership on Solana is revolutionizing DeFi with lightning-fast trading experiences and decentralized principles, paving the way for a high-performance exchange on Solana.

Exciting partnership alert: MagicBlock and Pyth team up to offer 1ms price feeds for Solana dApps, enhancing speed and accuracy for DeFi applications. High-performance infrastructure meets real-time financial data for institutional-grade DeFi experiences.

Discover Zeebit, a platform offering transparent and fair games of chance. Despite facing challenges with Solana's congestion, Zeebit aims to provide a fast and user-friendly experience without traditional blockchain transaction hurdles.

"Discover Supersize, a cutting-edge PvP game on Solana blending financial markets with .io gaming. Dive into real-time multiplayer battles for resources in a fully onchain experience, offering innovative dynamics and seamless user interaction."

MagicBlock secures $3M funding for real-time onchain games and apps on Solana with Ephemeral Rollups tech, aiming to enhance performance and scalability. Founded to address limitations of current onchain applications, MagicBlock offers a solution that functions seamlessly with Solana's architecture.

Discover Luzid, a game-changing tool for Solana developers, offering a lightning-fast test validator and advanced transaction insights. Boost productivity with 16x speed improvement in test suites, seamless program and account cloning, and efficient state management.

Explore creating a customizable Tic-Tac-Toe game with reusable components using Bolt ECS. Simplify Solana development and enhance game logic flexibility.

Discover the unstoppable BOLT engine for creating composable games on the blockchain. Dive into the V0.1 release featuring an acceleration layer for enhanced performance and Solana integration. Explore ECS design for modular, extendible game development.

Exciting news! Session Keys now integrated into Solana Unity SDK, thanks to partnership with Gum. Enhance game development with simplified tools and seamless session implementation for Solana games created with Unity.

The blog post announces a partnership between Sec3 and Magicblock to enhance security for on-chain games and autonomous worlds. The collaboration offers discounted access to X-ray for automated smart contract vulnerability scanning and manual Launch Audits, with free access to WatchTower for real-time on-chain monitoring.

Magicblock and Datawisp partner to offer no-code analytics for on-chain games, enhancing data analytics for Solana developers. The collaboration aims to simplify data tracking and analysis, providing discounted access post-beta.

The blog post introduces the Solana SDK for Unity, now available on the Unity Asset Store as a Verified Solution. This SDK simplifies integrating Solana-based NFTs, tokens, and on-chain programs into Unity games, enabling game developers to enter the world of decentralized gaming easily.