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About Magicblock
Magicblock is a real-time execution layer on Solana built around Ephemeral Rollups: a set of accounts is lifted into a temporary execution environment close to players, where high-frequency actions settle at tens of milliseconds, and the final state is committed back to Solana mainnet. Assets stay on mainnet throughout, with no bridge and no fragmented liquidity. The BOLT framework provides an on-chain entity-component-system that breaks game logic into reusable components, SOAR handles leaderboards, achievements and reward distribution, and a Unity SDK connects clients and wallets.
Its customers are fully on-chain game studios and teams building latency-sensitive applications, typically real-time matches, composable game worlds and consumer apps. Against a dedicated game chain it issues no separate asset and asks no user to migrate; against a general-purpose rollup it spins up an execution environment per application while settling back to mainnet. Private sessions use a trusted execution environment for access control, which places the security assumption on hardware and the operator.
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.
On 2 February 2026 MagicBlock published tokenomics for BLOCK, a fixed 10 billion supply split 35% to the community, 15% to node operators, 20% to investors, 18% to team and advisers and 12% to an ecosystem fund, with team tokens locked for three years and released against ecosystem milestones. A presale ran from 5 to 8 February in a 24-hour whitelist phase and a 48-hour public phase, offering either a bonding curve unlocked at TGE or a fixed 100 million dollar FDV allocation with a one-year lock. Ephemeral rollups deliver roughly one millisecond blocks, under 50 milliseconds end to end and zero fees, and use Intel TDX trusted execution to add privacy to any Solana state account. The ecosystem spans tap-to-trade apps such as Rush and Banana Zone, fully onchain games such as Supersize and DePIN projects such as dTelecom. A TGE originally guided for late in the first quarter or early in the second has slipped repeatedly, and the team's September monthly review still gave no new date.
Magicblock's management says it will convert its operated network into a permissionless, community-owned set of node operators that stake BLOCK and accept slashing, with full token details and mainnet timing to follow.
Andrea Fortugno — Co-founder & CEO; founded MagicBlock with Gabriele Picco in 2023, using Ephemeral Rollups to scale onchain gaming and high-frequency applications on Solana.
Gabriele Picco — Co-founder & CTO; co-architect of the Ephemeral Rollups design.
Thorsten Lorenz — Founding Engineer; builds the core real-time execution engine.