You got games on your Play Solana? Now you do The @playsolana Matrix Hackathon results are in Here are the winners of the MagicBlock track 🧵👇

February/Accelerate Here's everything we shipped last month 👇

just met a dev at a hackathon who seemed cool like actually smart. building "a fully onchain game" we're talking. vibes are good. he's passionate about decentralization. i'm being charming. then i ask about the architecture he walks me through it. frontend, game server, writes results to Solana. i played it cool. i said "nice, so how do players know the results are correct?" he looked confused. he said "what do you mean, it's all onchain" and that's where a normal person would have said "sick" and moved on but i am not a normal person my brain immediately went into autopilot and i said "the results are onchain. but the logic that produced them, where does that run?" he said "our server" and i said "so users just trust you" he said "yeah but we write everything to Solana" and i said "you write a result to Solana. the one you chose." the vibe was GONE his co-founder pulled him away. neither of them looked back. i was standing there alone holding a redbull i wasn't even sipping doing MENTAL MATH on how this is just a database with a Solana receipt and at any point they could write whatever they want and players would have no idea my friend walked over and said "bro he literally offered to show you the codebase what happened" i said "their users have to trust them" he said "so?" SO??? i would rather ship nothing forever than let someone who runs logic on a private server and posts the answer to a PDA think we're building in the same paradigm he had a clean demo but a DISGUSTING trust model because there IS no way to verify anything that happened and i simply cannot overlook that your final results are onchain. your leaderboard is onchain. but your logic? your logic is vibes and a promise. could've had a collab but he's asking players to trust his server while i'm losing sleep figuring out how to build everything onchain so no one ever has to trust us at all and honestly that's worth more magicblock