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MagicBlock is a Layer 2 scaling solution on Solana, centered on Ephemeral Rollups. It temporarily delegates state accounts of Solana programs to off-chain validators, enabling real-time transactions, zero gas fees, and high composability while retaining Solana's security. Developers can delegate accounts via the Delegation Program, route transactions using Magic Router, and build gaming or DeFi applications with its SDK. Its mechanism supports privacy via TEE, as well as optimistic fraud proofs and ZK solutions.
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Magicblock is a real-time application engine on Solana, with its core product being Ephemeral Rollups. It creates temporary SVM execution environments by delegating Solana mainnet accounts to dedicated validators, achieving sub-50ms latency and gasless transactions while maintaining compatibility with mainnet state.
The market pain point is that Solana's 400ms block time is still too slow for real-time applications (such as fully on-chain games and high-frequency DeFi), and transaction fees remain high in high-frequency scenarios. Magicblock solves these issues through temporary execution environments, allowing applications to achieve performance close to centralized servers while retaining blockchain security and composability.
In the past six months (February to August 2026), Magicblock advanced Private Payments (TEE-based confidential transfers) to mainnet, open-sourced its validator code, and released v0.8.8. Ecosystem applications span perpetuals (Flash Trade), fully on-chain games (Supersize, Colony), decentralized communication (dTelecom), and real-time price oracles (Pyth Lazer). These developments indicate its technology has moved from experimentation to production.
Founded in September 2023 by Andrea Fortugno and Gabriele Picco, MagicBlock set out to solve the latency issues plaguing on-chain gaming. In September 2024, the company completed a $3 million pre-seed round led by a16z CSX, with participation from a16z itself, marking its first major institutional endorsement and enabling the team to bring its game engine to Solana's mainnet. The core breakthrough came with the development of Ephemeral Rollups, a technology that temporarily moves account state off the main chain for high-speed processing before settling back on Solana. This approach preserves native composability and liquidity while delivering ultra-low latency, avoiding the fragmentation seen in traditional L2s. In April 2025, MagicBlock raised a $7.5 million seed round led by Lightspeed Faction, with participation from Maven11, Delphi Digital, and notable angels including Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko. This funding validated the technology's broader applicability beyond gaming, extending into DeFi and real-time applications. The company also formed key partnerships with Pyth, Jito, and dTelecom, demonstrating its potential as a foundational infrastructure layer for Solana's high-performance ecosystem.
MagicBlock's co-founders and core executives include:
Andrea Fortugno (Co-founder & CEO): Previously Business Development at Provable Things and The Plum Guide. Based in Singapore.
Gabriele Picco (Co-founder & CTO): Research Engineer at IBM, Machine Learning Intern at Cloud4Wi, and founder of ThunderShot Games. Based in Singapore.
Additionally, Thorsten Lorenz serves as Founding Engineer, and Alexandra Thompson as Head of Marketing.