In Brief:
- MagicBlock said its Solana Blitz v7 hackathon starts Monday and posted five app ideas for builders entering the weekend sprint.
- Blitz is a recurring single-weekend series built around MagicBlock’s Ephemeral Rollups; the July edition, v6, carried $1,000 in prizes.
- The series crossed 200 cumulative projects in June, the same month MagicBlock reported Ephemeral Rollup sessions growing 8x.
MagicBlock said Solana Blitz v7 starts Monday, and it published five app ideas to point builders at something to ship.
“Solana Blitz v7 hackathon starts this Monday,” the company said in a post on X. “Here are 5 app ideas to help you get started.”
Solana Blitz v7 hackathon starts this Monday
Here are 5 app ideas to help you get started@MagicBlockView on X ↗
The announcement didn’t state a theme, prize pool or judging criteria for v7. Previous editions have each been organized around one, and they’ve been small.
What the format looks like
Blitz runs as a weekend hackathon. Teams build on Ephemeral Rollups, MagicBlock’s temporary, just-in-time SVM runtimes that hold sub-50 millisecond execution and gasless transactions while keeping state settled to Solana mainnet.
Version 6 ran July 10 to 12 with Solana Mobile and Blueshift. It was mobile-themed, carried $1,000 in prizes and shipped templates for teams building Seeker apps.
Earlier rounds followed the same shape with different subject matter. Version 4 was agentic and produced 32 projects across a single weekend. Version 5, announced in June, focused on trading.
The numbers per event have stayed consistent since the series began. Solana Blitz v0 wrapped in late February with winners picked from 30 projects, and v1 also drew 30.
Where the series stands
MagicBlock had run four Blitz editions in 2026 as of mid-May, and it seeded a separate 47-project track inside the Solana Privacy Hackathon, backed by $5,000 in bounties for real-time private applications.
By June the cumulative count passed 200 Blitz projects. The company reported the same month that its VRF usage hit an all-time high, Ephemeral Rollup sessions grew 8x and FlashTrade V2 went live on public mainnet.
Blitz sits at the cheap end of MagicBlock’s developer funnel. Its Real-Time Hackathon offered a $10,000 grant and a path into Solana’s Colosseum accelerator. Blitz offers four figures and a deadline.
The company behind it
Andrea Fortugno and Gabriele Picco founded MagicBlock in September 2023 and run it out of Singapore. The pair moved to building Ephemeral Rollups after hitting latency limits on a fully onchain game they were prototyping.
The company raised $3 million in pre-seed funding from a16z’s crypto startup accelerator, which it joined in the Spring 2024 cohort. A $7.5 million seed round led by Lightspeed Faction followed in April 2025, with Maven11, Delphi Digital, Robot Ventures, Mechanism Capital, Equilibrium and Pivot Global participating. Anatoly Yakovenko, Mert Mumtaz and Tristan Yver invested as angels. Total funding stands at $10.5 million.
MagicBlock open-sourced its validator under BSL 1.1 and released v0.8.8 on April 17. Halborn audited the Delegation Program and Zenith audited the Solana VRF program.
On the privacy side, the company unveiled TEE-secured Ephemeral Rollups in September 2025 and shipped a Private Payments API to Solana mainnet in March, handling confidential SPL transfers through Intel TDX enclaves.
The $BLOCK token generation event was still undated as of May, following a February presale.
What builders have made with it
Flash Trade, Supersize, dTelecom, Pyth Lazer and Jito all integrate the stack. MagicBlock counts more than 44,000 Discord members and over 45,000 followers on X.
Blitz output is smaller in scope but specific. Veil, built for v5, is a private DEX frontend running on Private Ephemeral Rollups. Users shield SPL tokens into a private rollup, stream live swap quotes, execute with private visibility, then unshield back to Solana L1.
