How Ephemeral Rollups Will Change Blockchain Gaming with MagicBlock (feat. Andrea, co-founder)

A conversation with Andrea, co-founder of MagicBlock.

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Summary

Magic Block is a high-performance engine for fully on-chain games and applications. It aims to make it easy for developers to build entirely on-chain games and leverage the unique features that blockchain offers. The engine uses a hybrid approach between a roll-up and something that runs on Layer 1 to minimize latency and preserve composability. Fully on-chain games are games whose source of truth derives entirely from a blockchain, where state and logic run on-chain. These games offer permissionless composability and become autonomous worlds.

Magic Block provides a solution for faster and more scalable on-chain gaming experiences. Magic Block is building a solution called Ephemeral Rollups on Solana that allows for fully on-chain games with high scalability and composability. Ephemeral Rollups are a combination of Solana's high-speed blockchain and a separate execution environment that runs custom operations on specific accounts. This allows for the passage of time and other game mechanics without the need to pay for every state update.

Magic Block is also developing the Bolt framework, an entity component system built on top of Anchor, to simplify game development on Solana. The goal is to create a future where everything runs on-chain while preserving composability and a single ecosystem for users, developers, and operators.

Takeaways

• MagicBlock is a high-performance engine for fully on-chain games and applications.
• It aims to make it easy for developers to build entirely on-chain games and leverage the unique features that blockchain offers.
• Fully on-chain games have their source of truth entirely on the blockchain, offering permissionless composability and becoming autonomous worlds.
• Magic Block uses a hybrid approach between a roll-up and something that runs on Layer 1 to minimize latency and preserve composability. Magic Block is building Ephemeral Rollups on Solana, which enable fully on-chain games with high scalability and composability.
• Ephemeral Rollups combine Solana's high-speed blockchain with a separate execution environment that runs custom operations on specific accounts.
• The Bolt framework, built on top of Anchor, simplifies game development on Solana by abstracting away low-level complexity.
• The goal is to create a future where everything runs on-chain while preserving composability and a single ecosystem for users, developers, and operators.

Find Andrea and MagicBlock online

• Follow Andrea on twitter - @supermarioblock
• Follow MagicBlock on twitter - @MagicBlock
• MagicBlock's website - MagicBlock.gg